Adrian Short
זײַן אַ פֿרעמדער איז מײַן שטאַנד. פּראָנאָמען: ער/אים. 🕎
- Reposted by Adrian ShortDude, your genAI can crack Enigma because it's literally built on the hardware and software painstakingly developed to crack Enigma. Like, that's its origin story. This is like an adult who can read saying "I can say my ABC faster than a 2 year old." FFS.
- Reposted by Adrian ShortTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by Adrian Shortone of the world’s biggest and most powerful tech companies doing a reverse black mirror propaganda arm is very black mirror
- mashable.com/article/goog... excited to see which artists at the intersection of art and technology will leap at this opportunity to make propaganda for big tech
- Reposted by Adrian ShortPM’s spoken lads, it’s all good.
- Adult politicians: Consider not dressing in your party colours as if you were playing in a football team. Goes double for Labour who don't deserve to wear the colour of socialism.
- The purpose of a system is what it does.
- NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Adrian ShortAfter watching the AI video of the deceased victim, the judge told the family, "I loved that AI, thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness...I feel that that was genuine.” I am speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Adrian ShortAfter the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
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View full threadReposted by Adrian Short4. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: in every course I teach, I now make sure to incorporate at least two moments in which I launch into a diatribe about the evils of AI. It gives me an opportunity to vent and the students love it because deep down, they know it's wrong and need to hear that.
- Reposted by Adrian ShortIt’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.
