@MainAngus

Tutor @rcaied PhD candidate @UAL_CCi. Personal account.

 Cambridge & London
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Joined May 2010
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Just to say I’m not really here anymore. I’m over on Bluesky with the other geeks and writers and academics. Maybe see you there.
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I once gave a lecture where I used Tetris as metaphor to make a point about narrative and information processing. I regret to tell you, fellow kids, that none of the 100 or so students had heard of Tetris.
Peter Raleigh@PetreRaleigh15 Mar 2024
I make a Matrix reference in one of my lectures and it's simply now a fact of life that not one single student in any of my classes will ever have seen the Matrix. Zero, every time, no exceptions. Obviously I'm old and washed but damn
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Weird and depressing article in the Guardian about ChatGPT therapists, which soft pedals the dangers of using AI for mental health care, and puffs up a load of tech company marketing.
Photo of Guardian Saturday magazine article - THE CHATBOT WILL SEE YOU NOW It's cheap, quick and convenient, but is Al therapy really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs? Alice Robb reports

ALT Photo of Guardian Saturday magazine article - THE CHATBOT WILL SEE YOU NOW It's cheap, quick and convenient, but is Al therapy really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs? Alice Robb reports

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What’s otherwise quite a cautionary article about the dangers of AI gets reframed as a debate because the tech companies are given permission to present marketing material as academic insight. ☹️
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Now online: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

‘I can cry without feeling stigma’: meet the people turning to AI chatbots for therapy

It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?

theguardian.com
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On about the fifth name you can see that I look up and I choke as I go on to read the next name because what I saw when I looked up was the families of killed women standing up in the gallery as a mark of respect. It took everything I had to not just break down in tears.
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics29 Feb 2024
"I am tired of fighting for systematic change and being given table scraps" Labour MP Jess Phillips reads the names of the women killed as a result of violence over the past year bbc.in/3TgEPvm
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Elton John Carpool meme. Taron Egerton as Elton dressed flamboyantly in colourful outfit, with label “mardi gras” and Richard madden dressed in sober black with the label “pancake day”

ALT Elton John Carpool meme. Taron Egerton as Elton dressed flamboyantly in colourful outfit, with label “mardi gras” and Richard madden dressed in sober black with the label “pancake day”

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I’ve worked out what this guy is playing on his Vision Pro
Image of a cover of a video game called “Subway Simulator”

ALT Image of a cover of a video game called “Subway Simulator”

Aviral Bhatnagar
@aviralbhat4 Feb 2024
I think my biggest takeaway from all the Vision Pro videos of people walking or sitting "oddly" in public is other people in America do not judge you and mind their own business This openness is possibly what makes America so strong at business and innovation
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🚨 Our Call for Participation is now open 🚨 If you'd like to give a talk, workshop, performance, or build a giant robot laser harp orchestra in a dome, we want to hear from you! Every accepted proposal is guaranteed tickets to EMF 2024 🎟️ emfcamp.org/cfp
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FINALLY worked out what the boris photos remind me of.
Ian Dunt
@IanDunt26 Jan 2024
He hid in a fridge from a breakfast TV interview.
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Communication Designers! Humour is sometimes overlooked as a model for communication, but there’s lots to learn from jokes. This video takes 2 mins of The Simpsons, and shows how each joke expertly anticipates, subverts, and rewards audience expectation. Well worth a watch.
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Information sheet made to invite children to participate in our study about their notions of Digital Good/Bad @digitalgoodnet @JohnPP @MainAngus @ellieracheldare & Steve Love
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Now Steamboat Willie is Public Domain, you’re free to put Mickey Mouse in your own work as long as he’s acting like a complete prick.
Mickey Mouse throttling a bird and smiling in Steamboat Willie

ALT Mickey Mouse throttling a bird and smiling in Steamboat Willie

Mickey Mouse yoinking a cat’s tail and having a good old laugh about it in Steamboat Willie

ALT Mickey Mouse yoinking a cat’s tail and having a good old laugh about it in Steamboat Willie

Mickey Mouse lifting Minnie Mouse up with a big hook stuck in her underpants. He’s probably laughing about it but we can’t see because he’s out of shot.

ALT Mickey Mouse lifting Minnie Mouse up with a big hook stuck in her underpants. He’s probably laughing about it but we can’t see because he’s out of shot.

Mickey Mouse has kicked 6 piglets off their mother’s teats, and is now holding the mother pig in the air and honking her nipples whilst squeezing her body like some kind of porcine accordion, all whilst grinning his head off. Again, this is all genuinely from Steamboat Willie

ALT Mickey Mouse has kicked 6 piglets off their mother’s teats, and is now holding the mother pig in the air and honking her nipples whilst squeezing her body like some kind of porcine accordion, all whilst grinning his head off. Again, this is all genuinely from Steamboat Willie

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I have Bluesky codes if anyone still needs them (bots need not apply)
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I’m wrapping. youtu.be/FGUjkvqkmQI?si=0Dw_…
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Ahh the Ghost of Christmas Past
Positive Covid test

ALT Positive Covid test

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Back in October, Tim O'Reilly joined us for a talk on #AI and the attention economy. He discussed how #BigTech companies manage and profit from our attention online - and asked what data they ought to disclose in the future Watch it here⬇️ mctd.ac.uk/watch-ai-and-the-…

Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy

Watch: Tim O’Reilly’s presentation at Pembroke College Cambridge, October 2023, exploring how to make AI more accountable. Display "AI and the attention economy - Tim O'Reilly talk" from Vimeo Click...

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Golan Levin@golan7 Dec 2023
Grand dame of generative art, Vera Molnar has passed away at 99. One of the first dozen or so people to make art with a computer, and active until the very end, she was committed lifelong to the poetics of geometry, a massive inspiration and role model.
michael spalter@michaelspalter7 Dec 2023
With the heaviest of heart I am profoundly and deeply heart stricken to share that Vera Molnar passed away last night peacefully in her sleep. Please retweet and share with the world that this legend lived and lived in a way that we can all aspire to live with grace. 😢
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