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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 7h

If they mix up Lord of the Rings and Lord of the Flies, whilst understanding neither, they get to run a school.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Just occurred to me that genAI companies are a bit like that "can we have your liver?" scene in The Meaning of Life.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece, as one would expect from Mansell. Can't help feeling the horse has bolted though. These people have already taken so much without 'permission, recognition or compensation' and have neither contrition or any sense of stopping and governments don't seem to want to stop them either.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 3d

In a new article in the Journal of the British Academy, FBA Robin Mansell explores the tensions between AI industry developers of LLMs and creative industries rightsholders, as well as considering the broader implications for the future of our datafied world.

Find out more ⬇️

https://bit.ly/47i4drz

A stylized depiction of a human hand reaching towards a robotic hand against a bright blue background, reminiscent of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam." The image uses vivid pink and green hues.

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 1d

Last week I posted a thread on how people are using generative AI - bsky.app/profile/rich...

This thread is on how people use gen AI for news, specifically.

Though getting information is emerging as the key use of gen AI, only 6%on average across 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 use it for news weekly, doubling since 2024.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed. I teach about propaganda within political communication. I don't have to make students make propaganda to enable them to understand, analyse and critique it. Students doing criminal law don't need to commit crimes and so on.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 3d

I never understood the satellite campus rationale- just seems like an extra cost centre to me.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 3d

A virtue of few TV channels back in the dark ages was the serendipity of seeing loads of movies that aren't really visible these days (e.g., 40s film noir, 50s sci-fi b movies etc.) because they were a regular part of the schedule.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 4d

Successive UK governments have explicitly attacked media and journalism HE courses whilst being amongst- forgive the technical term here- the most diabolically horseshit at Comms, possibly ever. I live in constant bemusement at this.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 4d

All my comics have happy endings!

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed but what qualifies him for that matter either? Fed up with media moral panics being driven by people with no relevant expertise under the cover of misperceived authority.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure whether someone close to them should call Prevent or their local social services.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these people need prison, some need sectioning.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

These people are truly appalling. I am bewildered by them.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Ask him if his double-seat, double-seat routine would still work today. I don't imagine he's been on a train since he did it mind you.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

They could not give a flying fuck for things belonging to people could they?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 6d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 6d

The poison they put into HE is being added to by the current government, whose leaders are cut from the same cloth, and are actively trying to kill parts of HE. If the Tories ever got back into power they'd find about 5 universities left, teaching only medicine, law and business.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 7d

For many places, if they don't change the rules sufficiently, it will be like the armies of the dead in Lord of the Rings for many places. Submissions full of long departed souls. How on earth PCE can work like that, who knows.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

It does not give a flying fuck about copyright. It's all just training data that it will take without consent, attribution or remuneration.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

This is why Comms scholars are so unfairly neglected. We were doing conference sessions involving beer tasting in IAMCR a decade ago.

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