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Gareth Millward
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Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
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Milliband's position always seemed to me - and I agreed at the time - "something must be done, but we've seen the damage caused by going in and having no plan for what to do. What is the plan?" No answer came. Given what had just happened in Libya too, this seemed reasonable to me.

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A couple of you have genuine expertise and are able to draw attention to, and explain the problems with, these Other Place posts from high-profile people. But most of you really don't.

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IMimhartshorn.bsky.social

Lemme tell you when a billion people get displaced by climate change this whole 'who deserves it and who doesn't' is going to get even darker. Unless the flood was literally at Exxon Mobil headquarters, nobody deserves it.

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GMmillieqed.bsky.social

A lot of my colleagues where English isn't their first language find it helpful too. Doesn't undo all the ethical issues of it, obviously, but the idea that such things are *completely* useless is also nonsense.

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GMmillieqed.bsky.social

There *is* a possibility that a glorified predictive text will help people who can't write brilliantly to translate their ideas onto paper better. And this might help *within* a business. But it's not going to produce the prose needed for writing jobs. People who think this don't understand writing.

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Ronnie Corbett, patience of a saint.
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GMmillieqed.bsky.social

I know all reform now is based on cutting costs rather than quality, democratic accountability, and other woke commie nonsense, but would more regionalism be the worst thing in the world? Or am I misreading the post?

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IVido.bsky.social

Publishers (and indeed anyone else) are going to have to learn that in an internet increasingly filled with AI slop, their value proposition is offering high-quality, distinctive writing and art, not… more slop

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GMmillieqed.bsky.social

Our IT system has a cloud computer on-site with access to a range of LLM models if you want to do this sort of thing (including with Chat functionality) without giving away data. But that requires actually engaging with what LLMs are and the limits of what they can do...

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GMmillieqed.bsky.social

No, no, no. Much like comic books, they were completely unknown until 1985.

a man dressed as batman is talking on a red phone
a man dressed as batman is talking on a red phone

Alt: BATMAN (Adam West version)

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Gareth Millward
@millieqed.bsky.social
Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
495 followers380 following856 posts