Our Stories and Our Selves
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Podcast about how our minds make stories and stories make us. By https://bsky.app/profile/kirsty-sara-writes.bsky.social
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@hivefleethodag.bsky.social is back, for the proto-football games of English fancy-boy schools: one renowned for how badly the ball sucks, one whose name ("Winkies") is the most normal part of its terminology, and one whose headmaster had to excise "a bizarre sexual ritual."

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CIAS #19.2: Dribbling and Busting From the Hot-men's Behinds
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Cities develop unique cultures and this is an important part of the story of protests in Portland at the moment
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
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The whole bit about guys who were objectively doing fine but still felt slighted by a world that didn't flatter them enough was depressingly familiar
The story that leave voters/ the leave campaign and reform tell themselves and each other is based on a misunderstanding of British history
1/3 There’s a strong relationship between Reform / far right support and the Brexit Leave constituency. A continuation of the refusal to accept that Britain is poorer and more unequal not due to immigration but because it is no longer subsidised by an Empire. theconversation.com/brexit-how-t...
Brexit: how the end of Britain’s empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
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When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
I managed to mispronounce sarcastic despite it being fairly intuitive 😅
Hey 👋
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
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Definitely Amazon should bear the blunt of the blame here rather than the format (still think there should be a Bandcamp for ebooks)
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Huge thanks to the Irish Independent for covering this, (I've just seen a BBC article about a musician this has happened to). For readers, the solution is to buy real books in independent bookshops, a win win for everyone and a lose for the scammers. If you prefer ebooks, be very careful out there 🤯
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can't agree more.
more print, local print, traditional publishers, self-made, all of it.
Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
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Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
I stand corrected- guess i should have done some googling first! In this case absolutely should be required
Huh… well today I learned and i retract my previous comment

We absolutely should be doing this!
I’m not sure that the logistics would make it possible. A transmitter on every street broadcasting the speed limit so the cars can pick it up? Or a limiter linked to gps? Plausible but tricky and with many possible failure points

If we’re talking limiting cars to the max in the country absolutely!
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I really really really hope that’s it
A great example of how stories can change in the telling, how misinformation spreads and careless or malicious reporting can make it even worse.

A tall woman who was perceived as trans asks a customer in the middle of a shop if they needed help, and this got twisted into a very different story
On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

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The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...
Who needs proof when you got vibes?
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