To be fair I've spent an inordinate amount of time looking at stuff on the Internet that doesn't interest me. Especially since my workplace moved their employee training online.

To be fair the more imaginative ones have entire educational models built around teaching the societally transformative power of bitcoin.

As a silver lining, I imagine all of us in education will retain out jobs and just be unburdened of marking. Thus automation will bring us more freedom and time to develop thoughtful and engaging educational experiences.

Just as automation has always done. Right? RIGHT?!

I remember one time in a research project I switched out the tokeniser to see what impact it might have on my output. Spent about a day re-running and the difference was minimal. I imagine it's wholly the same thing.

*Disclaimer: I don't actually imagine it is wholly the same thing.

If they can somehow shoehorn in Blair's favourite ID card scheme into it they might win some sort of internal Labour bingo game.

Funnily enough that was the bit I wrote last just before hitting post on Substack. A kind of "what am I actually trying to say here?" moment. Sometimes I have to switch off the academic bit of my brain and just let myself say what I think to get to clarity. Glad it hit home.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to read that piece and have a look though the ensuing discussion.

Oh god it's real? I saw pictures and there was a lot of "it's AI" claims which I kind of hoped were true.

Oh no, the dangers of having people read your work!

It is coming, potentially in the next week. I was on leave for a couple of weeks and since back I've been finishing up a paper with my colleague on Neoreaction and ideological alignment between disparate groups. We should be submitting to the journal very soon so then I can get back to finishing off this series.

Ah OK, so it's sending the email draft in process not sending off the content of incoming messages or your final sent messages. Now I understand. Also, that's still bad....

I don't really understand how it's possible to both not store data in plaintext, but also be able to siphon off some of it in plaintext. Like is this technically possible in the way they suggest it? We shoot off the plaintext before it gets to our storage servers?

Like at some point that means the communication is not encrypted right? But if you're using https and all good normal security standards that should never be the case from the moment it departs your terminal?

I have a small amount of knowledge about this but it's the dangerously small type so any illumination would be appreciated.

Thanks for the positive feedback! I have a tendency to over explain things (so much cut text already) partly because I'm never too sure of how far down the rabbit hole I've gotten and if a general audience would be lost without it. Glad I was able to pull it together with a flourish though!

Thanks for the welcome, and yes please watch first!