Seth Giddings
@sethgiddings
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Professor of Ludic Technologies, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (he/him). Getting by with motor neurone disease (MND / ALS)
Bournemouth & Winchester, UK
Joined February 2009
Our thoughts are with @LewisMoody7 and his family following his MND diagnosis. His courage in sharing his story shines a vital light on MND and the need for awareness, support & research. At ChallengingMND, we stand with the whole MND community. 💪 https://t.co/mZctQl2c7A
bbc.com
Former England captain Lewis Moody says in an exclusive BBC interview he has "a reluctance to look the future in the face".
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No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me: Members of the Jewish community have been grieving for three days now over the killing of two innocent people in last week’s attack on a Manchester synagogue. Politicians and the media keep telling us how
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1. No you can't. 2. That's why you can't 'make it make sense', because it isn't true.
’You can access £60,000 of benefits for a medical condition without a diagnosis.' ‘Make that make sense.’ @TomSwarbrick1 believes ‘something’s gone wrong’ with the UK’s welfare system.
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Today marks 4yrs since diagnosis & 5 yrs/4mnth since 1st symptom. This past yr I’ve experienced a winter of back to back viruses, 1 failed drug trial, 1 withdrawal from a drug trial due to adverse reaction & shedding of 1.5 stone in weight 1/ of many (see comments for full post)
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I’ve joined. As Gramsci put it, pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
🚨MEMBERSHIP NOW OPEN!🚨 This is Your Party - it's time to take it into your hands. Join as a member now ⬇️⬇️
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⏰ Just 1 week left to join our Fun Family Walk! 👟💙 ✅ Pick your distance (2km or 5km) ✅ Walk anywhere, anytime this week ✅ Donate here 👉 https://t.co/Mt3Foq5EW5 ✨ For every £100 raised, an extra £30 goes to our cause! #FunFamilyWalk #StepUpForMND #challengingMND
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Huge thank you to Clare & her amazing group of ladies who hosted a quiz night in memory of their dad – raising an incredible £3,200 for Challenging MND! 🌟 A wonderful tribute & fantastic support for the MND community. #MND #FundraisingHeroes #StrongerTogether
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I'm a supporter of flags. I'm an admirer of plug sockets. I'm a lover of whisks. I'm a respecter of doorbells.
Keir Starmer tells @MattChorley on 5Live that he has a St George's Cross flag in his flat. "I'm a supporter of flags," he says.
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I know people have been rolling their eyes at this all day, but would love to know more about negotiation between Mussolini and that lamp-post.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
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‘Motor neurone disease robbed me of my voice – now I can finally speak again thanks to AI and an old videotape’ #MND
https://t.co/2MT5JBC86a
independent.co.uk
Sarah Ezekiel lost the ability to speak before the creation of smartphones, so all she had was an old VHS recording which has helped her regain her voice
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Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
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I'm working on a media/ludic archaeology of synthetic voices, in part because of motor neurone disease. Here Sarah's voice has been brought back using 8 seconds of VHS tape...
Sarah Ezekiel, who has been living with #MND for 25 years, has had her voice recreated using AI and audio from a VHS tape from the 1990s. Here, she talks to BBC All Access about what this technology, and being able to sound like herself again, means to her and her family.
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Sharing and helping others makes life more fun.
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ICYMI: Ryan Bishop, 'The Eames Office, the Cold War and the Avant-Garde: Making the Lab of Tomorrow' - bringing together design, technology and experimental multiscreen projections, the Eames Office operated as a humanities/IT/arts lab. (Open Access)
journals.sagepub.com
The design office of Charles and Ray Eames was a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multimedia affair linking Hollywood, the State Department, universities, the ...
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Bluntly: the Thatcherite Consensus went Kaboom in 2008; our leaders and their sycophants refuse to admit it; they’e spent all the time since trying to force the square shape of their dumb ideology up the round hole of reality. They’ll continue forcing it, until something breaks.
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Dear @wesstreeting, Tofersen is life-saving, and free, yet around 20 people with SOD1 MND are being denied access to it. They do not have time to wait. You’ve got the power. Please use it. #PrescribeLife
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@ArutzSheva_En Murderous liars. He was the best of men, the IDF the worst. You are not fit to have his name in your mouth. The whole world sees your crimes and curses you for them.
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