Gemma Milne
@gemmamilne
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I guess I’m a sociologist of tech and science now • Lecturer @UofGlasgow • @radicalscipod
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Joined July 2011
🤯 TODAY IS THE DAY 🤯 Smoke & Mirrors is out in the world! This 2 year labour of love isn’t just this thing in my head any more; it’s not just mine now..! I can’t wait to hear what you all think of it 💙 https://t.co/lmM8L8YhrZ
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To be clear this is a major AI company pitching the Times’ owner on automating striking workers
Hey AG Sulzberger @nytimes - sorry to see this. Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. DM me anytime here.
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Totally out of my area of expertise but found this paper so fascinating! Congrats @BaptistBrossard 👏😳
My last paper 'Eloquent Blood: A Historical Microsociology of Blushing' is out in @sociologyjnl! With the example of blushing from the 18th century until today (Australia, France, USA), I introduce a broader agenda: historicising the 'interaction order'.
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So I am looking for Glasgow pubs with a connection to radical history so we can put together a Radical Glasgow Tours Pub Crawl. Truly in everyone's interest. What Glasgow pubs have got a good political story!
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/r/London is currently love-bombing Angus Steakhouse in the hope that AI google scrapers start recommending it in listicles so influencers and tourists stay away from actual nice places 🤞
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for context: the parents of a child who died by suicide after using Character AI are suing the company this week
We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of one of our users and want to express our deepest condolences to the family. As a company, we take the safety of our users very seriously and we are continuing to add new safety features that you can read about here:
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If you happen to be in New York on Friday … featuring Darran Anderson, Lana Swartz, Sharon Zukin, Koray Caliskan, Suzanne Ewing, Dan Neyland, @ShannonVallor @sbayne @gemmamilne @addiemcgowan @NasarMeer &&&
Clear your calendar! Special Pre-release Film Screening Opens and Closes: The Future of Edinburgh’s Histories #ThewNewSchoolBlockLibrary
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Bellingcat’s Financial Investigations team explores the bizarre streams of online gambling company 1xBet, that allow gamblers to bet on tournaments organised on an industrial scale from amateur sports separated by curtains to strange arcade-like games.
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Bellingcat has identified a series of locations across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that host amateur games streamed to controversial gambling website.
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Silicon Valley is actively engaged in reinventing the medieval Italian walled city in the same way that Uber is reinventing the bus
I've been quietly working on something for a while, so I'm excited to finally be able to share it with you... We are creating a new town called Esmeralda! Our team has an exclusive option on a beautiful piece of land 90 mins north of SF, in California wine country
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This Channel 4 looksmaxxing documentary is shocking - had never come across the term before, making me so so sad and angry to watch. Great work by @zandlandfilms 👏 https://t.co/zJuiA9ssSd
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i've been thinking about this metaphor i used in 2021. tourists who show up, steal some cultural material, maybe learn a few words, leave a bunch of garbage, and leave. it's always distressing to see the AI/ML community arrive - in this case at safety engineering - and ransack.
The "AI Safety" folks not only have coopted the term safety itself, but are now attempting to weaken what safety cases are, and the intention they fit to serve, to safety-wash abysmal and unverifiable models and make them appear as if they're fit for purpose in critical systems.
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This is insane. In the past week alone Israel attacked the UN, bombed central Beirut, attacked aid convoys , burned people alive, threatened collective punishment against Lebanon unless it starts a civil war, and is starving Gaza And Lammy sanctions Iran for “escalating”!!!
Despite repeated warnings, the dangerous actions of Iran and its proxies are driving further escalation in the Middle East. Following its ballistic missile attack on Israel, we are holding Iran to account and exposing those who facilitated these acts.
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How to think about finance and nature via one of the more messed up examples of a financial product I’ve ever seen: water futures. 1/
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I love this piece so much!! Glasgow as a rainforest - yeah I’ll take that; what a generative metaphor for imagining the future of our beautiful, wet, city ☔️
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In a heroic move, Gisele Pelicot fought to make public the videos of her unconscious rapes at the hands of over 50 men and won. She wanted the public “to look rape straight in the eyes.” Shame, she said, must change sides —from the victims to the perpetrators. Police found more
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the inventors of Microsoft Word's "Track Changes" and "Comment" functions, for their work championing the literature that "takes place in the margins," celebrating the hidden iceberg that dwells below the tip of life
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We are looking for someone to come and join our new subject group @UofGSociology Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society (LTS Track) at University of Glasgow
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Felt like there had been *some* progress with folk recognising and calling out AI hype in the main...feel like the last 2 days, however 'deserved', are going to set us back hugely in terms of how the credibility of claims around AI will be formed ('TWO Nobel's were awarded!!')
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