South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automationhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3m5qr5aeszs2sAll of these things, deeply underpinned by the most ridiculously spun misnomer. We should stop calling it artificial intelligence and describe it as IA or ‘Intelligent’ Automation at best. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2025 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5qr5aeszs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lznfm7ypws2dJust an occasional note that … the less you use social media, the less you need to use social media. 🕯️25 Sep 2025 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lznfm7ypws2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lyztmuhmsc2lit’s funny* when i consider that the wars and mass deaths nobody really gives a shit about are also in the regions that will be most adversely affected by climate change and how much that plays into our doing fuck all to reduce emissions. *not actually funny [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyztmuhmsc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lyztasnvd22lmy teacher brain is exploding. so now in addition to marking i must generate an anonymised summary of work to prepare it for the AI so the AI can synthesise constructive feedback … based on the summary??? and then I still have to customise the AI feedback. and yes on the turnaround window thing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2025 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyztasnvd22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lywn4vuyvs2kI see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2025 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lywn4vuyvs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3ly6roabgs22gThere is so much real news, in so many countries, that there really is never any need to repost AI generated fakery (even if it hooks in to your personal rhetoric). Repost journalism not algorithm.06 Sep 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly6roabgs22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3ly3bvlzq2s2isome foreign western person in a faraway land (with, at best, a social media-based activism and education) telling other people in their own countries that what they are doing is ‘not good enough’ is … well, a far too common feature of this landscape.05 Sep 2025 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3bvlzq2s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lwgerukbj22zIn South Africa: Remembering Marikana, 13 years on - still no justice for the massacre victims. (An older article exploring the media’s failures at the time: https://theconversation.com/marikana-massacre-how-south-african-journalism-failed-the-test-51130)15 Aug 2025 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwgerukbj22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lunzoaun2225GIVE THE MONEY TO TEACHERS NOT SAM ALTMAN [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2025 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunzoaun2225https://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lunha43fm226Really this is one of the reasons it’s so hard to write contemporary dystopian fiction. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2025 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunha43fm226https://bsky.app/profile/brodiegal.bsky.social/post/3lucebds66c2wSupport independent media, support local media - you can also do this in countries where you don’t live but follow the news. Particularly countries where you complain about ‘the media’ not covering stories. The stories often are being covered - just not in the media you know about. 🌍19 Jul 2025 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:fyehr2tzsdqgn7ssfl2veemb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lucebds66c2w