Honestly they’ve always seemed pretty bad to me. Oddly the Times Higher Ed is too, that whole market seems to be cornered by tech bros/business school types and there’s no publication for higher ed that reflects the views of anyone except senior management.

“So I’m sitting in church praying, like I do a lot which the fake news will never tell you, & this angel, an archangel actually, walks up to me, Michael is his name, like Michael Jackson, who I liked very much but they won’t tell you that because they say I’m a racist, can you believe it!?! Anyway…”

Concrete Mixer by Man Ray, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137472

I don’t mean to quibble cos he went to a lot of trouble with that placard, but I zoomed in and only one person on there is British. And she’s dead 🤷‍♀️

Look, I’ve been saying this about literary critics for years.

OCmachete.gaySep 29, 2024 5:17pm

He's wearing that one blue and red suit, of course. "Stories are through which we look at the value structure of the world" as he blames literary critics for attacking society.

I see lots of people talking about this so there must be people saying it I guess? But it’s a bananas thing to say even in practical terms - to move you need to sell your house, find another one, find a new job near that house (and probably one for your partner too, also near that new house) etc etc

Maybe. I’m more inclined to think it’s either incompetence or plain old access journalism. They print the press release or don’t ask real questions in interviews because if they do they won’t get another interview or be invited to the launch parties in future. It’s the Kara Swisher syndrome.

Mannertee is a manatee who teaches driving manners in East Japan.

This is where the tech-booster journalists have a LOT to answer for. I work in Irish Studies/Cultural Studies but even *I* understand the ways in which LLMs learn well enough to see that they're absolutely breaching copyright of most training data. Why can't journalists explain this to readers?