Polly Pallister-Wilkins

On Ready Steady Cook tonight I have…

In the fridge: onions, some mince, khubz

Usual staples: garlic, spices, some parsley in the herb garden

Other bits in cupboard: pomegranate molasses

Well arayes it is then.

Pastors pray with Donald Trump in the Oval Office YouTube video by Guardian News

Whiteness really is supreme. Only white folks could have such fundamentalist theocratic politics not be seen as such.

Sylvia Wynter was right when she said that the secularism of western modernity was simply the secularisation of Christianity. youtu.be/NYYzrGbM52U

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

They’re calling this a reverse Chotiner.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

It’s also horrendous considering Iran’s already terrible water shortages

There’s been a murder…

Get her Zack!

So am I reading this right, the US-Israeli plan for Iran is to foment a civil war using Iran's ethnic minority groups? Yeah that divide and rule colonial bullshit will sure go well for the (transnational) minority groups when they're seen as being aligned with US and Zionist imperialism.

The lazy person, genAI’s best mark.

All the best work is rooted in annoyance.

It’s like every new generation that thinks they discovered sex.

All the AI boosters saying LLMs are uniquely positioned to help with academic research never went to their library orientations at university.

90% of what they praise AI as being able to do with wide eyed wonder are things jstor, Scopus and LexisNexis etc have been doing for decades already.

This x1000

Why do you need AI to summarise the papers. That's what abstracts are for.

Also AI is rubbish at summarising papers. This is how we catch students using AI, when they argue an article argues something it abolsutely doesn't.

Why would I care if they raise the price of something I'm never going to use?

That's like me complaining about the prices of super yachts.

Tyler The Wise doesn't know the difference between a preliminary bibliography and a lit review.

That's just a keyowrd search on JStor my dude.

GenAI is an irrelevant tool here.

We've had academic platforms that will compile a reference list for you from a keyword search for decades now. That's what you've just described.

This compilation however is not the same as reviewing the literature that is a necessary step for the positioning of your research objectives and claims.

My work here is done.

This is so accurate in many ways, but I would add that the true animating core of the american volk is both shopping and an unwarranted feeling of superiority (towards racialised people at home and abroad) arising from a deep sense of inferiority.

Social science research absent the social is anti-social

Elmo- Rocco’s just a rock!! Rocco’s not alive!! YouTube video by Bradley Browne Productions

Bibliography:

Elmo (2004) ‘Elmo feels he's treated unfairly by Rocco,’ Sesame Street Episode 4077, New York: Sesame Workshop

youtu.be/q7bi8UywGFI?...

The social world is an embodied world and therefore genAI can never do social science because it doesn’t have a body. Like Rocco the Rock genAI is not alive (Elmo, 2004), and as such it is an anti-human project.

It cannot observe what landscape and societal features have been omitted from a map because it doesn’t have eyes.

It cannot walk around a refugee camp and experience the distance between sleeping places and peeing places because it doesn’t have legs. It cannot judge the inadequacy of those peeing places because it doesn’t have a nose.

GenAI will never be better at my research than me. It can’t have a drink with research partners and thus generate the rapport necessary for long term data sharing and deep interviews because it doesn’t have hands or a mouth.

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Seeing as she’s also posting pro-Pahlavi protest footage then I’d say her plan is to fellate the little-Shah-who-could-in-waiting and hope he’s less of a despot than his dad.

It’s total bollocks.