robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
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Sounds delightful. I've did a 2.5-mile walk at 7 this morning. Equally lovely! The Sixteen at Peterborough Cathedral tonight too! Even makes having to work today (on a paper for Leeds IMC) worthwhile! There's still lovely stuff in the world.
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You look really content in that picture! 🙂
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Any time! Often wish I was younger. That way I could join the fight with so much more energy!
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So pleased people like you can find the strength day after day to fight back. I'm sure it's hard, and white middle-aged men like me can do much more to help, but thank you. You'll always have my support (fwtw)!
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As a teacher, I can’t help but see ignoring the screaming of educators about the impact of AI on critical thinking as connected with all the other devaluing of education and devaluing educators. Which is all connected to so many more things.
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NOBODY would issue guidance to say “people must expect to feel shocked and offended in the workplace”. It just simply is not a sentiment people would express, it would seem entirely toxic. What is this pretence that university students live in a weird bubble and their lives are one big experiment?
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I don't know if you're a fan, or have even heard of them, but the Peatbog Faeries have a wonderful track with precisely those sounds on their album Faerie Stories!
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That's what we used to call drivel.
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The weird thing is that it was Kathleen Stock who was unwilling to tolerate divergent views; and no one mentions the 'chilling' effect of the Prevent policy.
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something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.
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Nice to know this happens to someone else too!
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I certainly wouldn't want to be in an SLT. But you are right. The complexity can sometimes be at the root. I wouldn't pretend to understand anything where I didn't have a PhD. or 10 years' experience. Some (no names or institutions identified ofc) would do well to adopt a practice somewhat similar!
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It always comes down to the point that people who live in a world dominated by finance and accounting practices become completely isolated from the idea that something's purpose and true value cannot & should not always be counted in pounds and pence.
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H/t @lillieg.bsky.social for pointing out that Kristi Noem literally called for deadly force to liberate states from politicians we don’t agree with and their burdensome leadership”
She should be in the defendant’s dock with the shooter.
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