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In my one day back at work between two weeks of annual leave, on top of firefighting my inbox with a backdrop of four tweens playing upstairs, I have accepted a manuscript for publication subject to minor amendments, and *had* a manuscript accepted following minor amendments 🎉

Going to uninstall bsky for a while because spending time with my face directly in the torment nexus firehose, is, it turns out, too much rage and grief for one body to hold

Wellllll this is upsetting and disappointing but of course absolutely predictable

I see there's an alarmist press release being uncritically reproduced by media outlets about the scary autonomous capabilities of AI tools just a day after reporting about the huge financial losses of the companies that own these tools again it is almost as if this a pattern that repeats itself

Pub quiz winners once more, a margin of one point which @roadstersuntan.bsky.social finds dissatisfying and which @danny.scot will absolutely take

Would've been quite the 'digital experience' for that kid

I'm sorry but "humans make mistakes too" is such a weaksauce justification for AI/LLMs being an acceptable part of an academic workflow that I use it as a proxy for whether or not to take the speaker seriously on the topic. Same as "no ethical consumerism..." when applied the wrong way

It scares me how quiet academics and support service workers are on the risks of AI deprofessionalising and undermining labour etc. Even in national union meetings. People are far too chilled/resigned/checked out/distracted by other crises imo

Back on my bullshit (spent the weekend beachcombing)

Also though: two things can be true at once