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This online event takes place on Tuesday 23 (next week).
Phil Crockett Thomas @stirunicriminology.bsky.social will explore utopian temporalities and abolitionist world-building in her presentation.
Just bring your lunch and your curiosity and we will see you there!
There is a LOT to think about in this thread.
Thanks for helping push this up the charts - a modest achievement but we've done this with relatively little mainstream media coverage. That's something we expected, so we came up with a plan to circumvent, which is why all your recommendations, shares, feedback etc matter a huge amount.
An excellent thread on museums and AI.
Lovely, thoughtful article in the Bell on Glasgow's characteristic sandstone and the challenges of maintaining it:
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-sand...
'Even the Alps will end up in the sea'. The same forces are at work in Glasgow
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
Daniel Trilling
Benjamin Thomas White
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Benjamin Thomas White
Benjamin Thomas White
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research
One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n
📍@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social will explore themes from her article 'Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination' at our next Justice Futures Seminar.
Tues 23 June, 12-1pm, Online.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990402334...
New: Compliance flashes red for universities — by Nick Gore
