"We're designing a system for older, often less able, people. Let's make it so complex that they require help to complete it. In fact, let's make it so complex that the helper needs training to complete it."
It's 10am on a Saturday and I've already received 3 messages from my GP surgery about getting a flu jab. I've got one booked for today already anyway!
Oxbridge's focus on debate and debating culture has done untold damage to this country.
So @ritaraley.bsky.social and I pulled out the stops on this, and it’s what we’ve both been wanting to say about “AI” and the macro-institutional changes it is activating and accelerating. First page teaser here, out in PMLA at end of the month as part of a cluster featuring some very smart people.
Really pleased to announce the launch of a thoroughly updated version of Locating London's Past: locatinglondon.org@ihr.bsky.social@long18thsem.bsky.social@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
This is a great essay about the precipice on which British universities now stand. Two points: (1) it's mainly STEM provision that is being or will be destroyed; (2) it singles out the mid-ranking unis (e.g. Hull, Essex, Kent) as those in the most trouble. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As a new academic year dawns, international competition, government policies and inflationary pressures could be pushing some universities to the brink of bankruptcy.
I've long used eXtract ze files (-xzf) as the mnemonic for extraction!
