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Hazel Oct 29, 2023

New home! My old server (artisan.chat) was unexpectedly closing. Fingers crossed that I've followed the processes correctly and I'm now following the same people as before and everyone's been automatically updated to follow me here!
Anyway - to make up for all of that - here's a photo of a gel print I made yesterday (aka playing with paint and ink)

Hazel May 14, 2023

So the blog is back up. I had to do a little bodging in the end and a decision on the whether the last 5% was worth more effort (it wasn't - so most of my posts are missing their original featured/banner photo).

My "Recent Posts" list doesn't really hint that this is a mostly textiles blog. My latest post (and first proper post in nearly a year) is entitled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" I think this one has been brewing for a while: https://blogging.hazelpurls.co.uk/2023/05/14/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Hazel Purls

Hazel May 11, 2023

Dan Gillmor May 10, 2023

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

The Guardian

Hazel Mar 21, 2023

Kit Yates Mar 21, 2023

This is schoolboy stuff.

This argument basically amounts to “but it wasn’t just me”.

Pathetic.

Hazel Mar 15, 2023

Ruth Salter Mar 15, 2023

Solidarity with the UCU and all striking today ✊

#SongForTheStrike – Bread and Roses, sung by Bronwen Lewis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiiKgST_G2Q

This song is often associated with the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence, MA. The strike among textile mill workers ended 111 years ago yesterday with a pay-rise of up to 20%.

Although its associated with the strike the song/poem by James Oppenheim predates it, inspired by a 1911 speech by suffragist Helen Todd.

#ucuRising #Strike #Strikes #FolkMusic

Bronwen Lewis - Bread and Roses

YouTube

Hazel Mar 15, 2023

Chris Douce Dec 1, 2022

In March 2020, the pension that I pay into was revalued, at the same point when the markets crashed due to Covid. To cover an apparent defecit, everyone has been asked to pay in more.Two things: (1) why is there a private company running a scheme for public employees? (2) why in the space of a year are 18 employees now earning over 100k, when members are have to pay in more? The below picture is from page 52 of the scheme annual report. #ucuRISING

Hazel Mar 15, 2023

#ucuRISING Never Cross a Picket Line (with a couple of word changes).

Hazel Feb 19, 2023

Ah, it must be spring. I've just heard my first ice-cream van of the year.

Hazel Jan 27, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/26/covid-roulette-clean-air-ventilation-long-covid

We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you

As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

Hazel Jan 22, 2023

A Cambridge Diary Jan 22, 2023

A lone Fen Skater this morning at Upware. This is the first time in many winters when temperatures have provided a second opportunity to hit the ice.

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4684) Sunday 22nd January 2023.

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