To assuage my guilt after seeing a disturbing AI-generated image of battery farmed chickens, I bought these 'happy eggs' which allow you to look up what farm they came from.

But this paltry poultry provenance has gone fowl.

My egg will not authenticate.

Someone is leaving poststructuralist theory in amongst the computer science textbooks strewn around the print room in my department.

But with titles like 'Dissemination', 'Ontology of Communication' and 'The Order of Things', it's hard to tell which is which.

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.

I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

"ChatGPT to help peer review scientific studies"

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

Reviewer 2 suggests including more cross sectional diagrams of giant rat penises

This great piece from @stokel.bsky.social looks into ChatGPT's efforts to censor results about certain people, and features a little quote and anecdote from me

Oooh, niche, a google scholar scam! I wonder what the long term attack is here?

The amount of time that will be wasted by students, and even apparently their grandparents, chasing after fake AI-generated citations is thoroughly depressing

It is warmer below, in the fiery depths of h̶e̶l̶l̶ The Victoria Line

The English department's IT team trying to explain the password policy to faculty in language they understand

So no one told you wildlife was gonna be this wayyyy. Hedgehog's a joke, Beaver's broke, Owl just flew awayyyyy

There are many types of men,
But some we do not want again,
He's the kind we do not need,

Twitter is showing me multiple ads for various woodchopping gadgets.