(They put it in their eyes to make them beautiful but it caused blindness) but aye, Asbestos is a good corollary here - new wonder thing that isn’t…!
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(They put it in their eyes to make them beautiful but it caused blindness) but aye, Asbestos is a good corollary here - new wonder thing that isn’t…!
It’ll be like lead in paint in the 1970s. We’ll get rid eventually but there will be a legacy of madness… GenAI is our belladonna. Or something.
Thank you, I know, I use it a lot for research. Word count here meant I couldn’t specify commercial use/exception but I hoped that was implicit given context 😊
But the UK will be in the right, and that’s all that matters! Erm… yeah… shuffles papers… my hope is some massive recalibration of the market which makes all “this” less pervasive, but we’ll see…
Well yeah. Folks who don’t care are gonna crack on until class actions take them out. But I hope our legislative does the right thing…
This gives me hope that even if all those MPs - with dollars in their eyes from what they can personally gain from US Big Tech’s ravaging of human creativity - vote for a data mining exception to copyright, the Lords ain’t having it - and the boom will be over by the time any dust settles?
Congratulations to the wonderful @newsprof1.bsky.social (& @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social) for winning ISA Award for Best Book. A fascinating use of FOI requests & records to demonstrate democratic backsliding in public media in the USA. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
It's now an annual ritual for me. Waiting for the ALCS statement to see what I've earned in secondary and residual royalties from photocopies, libraries, etc.
Lowest amount: £18. Largest amount: £1900.
If you've got stuff published in the UK and aren't a member of ALCS, you're a chump.
We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #TEI encoding, #OCR / #HTR, and #IIIF (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]
Most anticipated new museums… given access to the world is shrinking, I may make it to Brussels out of these, if I’m lucky. And I’m not sure if I’m ready for entirely AI based collections, or talking about that as if it’s normal. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
I loved it. Currently I am enjoying Industry (bbc) and the pottery throw down (c4).
The original French version of Call My Agent was so good I had to ration it one episode a week - a total highlight for me. Gave me something smart and funny and light hearted to look forward to for months…
I am so proud to be part of this team, and this full-stack cooperative. And proud that the library, archive, & historical community are showing how you can build useful, ethical AI that responds to the needs of a community: together. Half a million users, baby! 🤩
Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close.
But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse.
I’ve been feeding them daily round about here since the pandemic, so I think I’ve a few generations of good will going. It does get odd when you are walking down the street with someone else and crows start cawing their hello to you!
Cool, thanks! Love a crow fam 🙏
Crow on gravestone with rainbow
Just me, hanging out with my crow fam in the graveyard. (I take them peanuts, they know me, we chat). 🌈
(I'm not using actual holiday to work, though - as I get older I need my holidays!)
Oh yes, I've always treated social media as pickled ginger, to cleanse the palate between bites...
And indeed. I need to block out time in my diary months in advance to get the stretch needed - or even pretend I'm on "holiday" in the work calendar to have time to Actually Do My Job.
Oh I love it. I recently realised I am repeating the PhD process over and over again. 4 years to write a book on a topic I know nothing about when I start? lets go! 🙀😆
So. Much. This... !
I love concentrating and writing. But it’s becoming harder and harder to shut off notifications and carve out the time. I think that’s deliberate - if we are kept small and fretful we comply more easily… meaningful concentration is becoming some weird luxury and even I have to remind myself to do it
At the start of the year I took 4 days to concentrate deeply and solely on a new piece of writing. It was invigorating and exhausting: I slept peacefully. I am a pack-horse designed for this “academic labor”, and my life would be small and fretful without intentional and meaningful academic “flow”.
Edinburgh castle
Then like
Milne court Edinburgh
Short cuts between meetings in #Edinburgh be like
Swatch vs Guggenheim and it’s 4 male artists
While I do like the Swatch vs @guggenheim.bsky.social collaboration, would it have killed them to include at least one woman artist? And yes I did go into the shop and ask. Oh, she said. You are right…
Want projects led by women, non-binary folks and people of colour rightly recognised as #DH?
Then consider nominating them for one of the DH Awards 2025. Nominations closing soon.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025/nominations/
(Or direct to form if lack of SSL puts you off forms.gle/zRbPaw8hoBEo...)
Verify you are a human
I see the current internet is now just about verifying you are a human over and over and over again... until you can't stand it and transmogrify into some sentient broken puppet, reverse-pinnochio style... Look ma! I have strings! 🫠
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