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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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So here's something I'm really impressed by: I put this preprint out just about a year ago. Three or four others came out about the same time, saying a) we know authors are using LLMs a lot, b) it's really obvious from word choice; c) no, really obvious. What happened next? Well...

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So here's something I'm really impressed by: I put this preprint out just about a year ago. Three or four others came out about the same time, saying a) we know authors are using LLMs a lot, b) it's really obvious from word choice; c) no, really obvious. What happened next? Well...

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I’m on @bbclondonnews.bsky.social talking about the 4000 litres of diesel that were spilled into the Wandle on Tuesday, and what this means for the local environment and the people who love this precious chalk stream

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NEW ESSAY — “The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London” — As cats evolved from feral ratters into beloved Victorian companions, a nascent pet-food economy arose on the carts of so-called “cat’s meat men”. Kathryn Hughes explores... publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ca... #cats

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i just typed in yellow jacket (local bar) to the parish (local venue) in on google, because i wanted to know how far apart those two places are, and instead google decided that was an aphorism and gave me an entirely fake definition of it i actually felt secondhand embarrassment for the computer

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Content warnings 1954 style: the BBC's introduction to their TV play of '1984'. "You may not wish some members of your family circle to watch this piece..."

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So for a few reasons I drifted offline for a lot of last year, but one of them was that I was in New Zealand for a chunk of it. Which was great. And three months on, I've finally sorted some of the photos! Here's a helicopter trip up Fox Glacier.

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not dangerous like an evil genius. dangerous like a dog driving a train

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This is excellent. Yes.

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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane. Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff, sat on the heather a hanlawhile… —Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus” 👀 An animation of the poem, read by Garioch, via @natlibscot.bsky.social movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912

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Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. I wrote about it here: kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gae... #Scotland #Gaelic #Writing #Gàidhlig #Place #Language

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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

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Inspired detective work to catch only the most hardened of criminals (Daily Mirror, February 1940)

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The eleventh-highest grossing film of all time was released ... three weeks ago? Wow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_2

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A biography of Arthur Ransome (2009) was titled "The Last Englishman". He has competition: so were the biographies of four other people (plus two more with that as a chapter heading). Of those, Isiah Berlin died in 1997 - was he the Last Last Englishman?

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1/ The Media Research Center (MRC) is pushing a new attack on Wikipedia, claiming it "blacklists" conservative media. In reality, right-wing groups have been escalating their war on Wikipedia for over a year—because they can’t control it. 🧵👇 www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing...

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absolutely delighted to learn that the Lichtenstein general election: a) had approximately five times as many votes counted as there are Liechtensteiners (for proportional-representation reasons), b) in two constituencies called "Oberland" & "Unterland" (for geographic reasons)

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the cutting edge of small language models

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A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields, Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem. —Jim Alison, “Ingaunees” originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

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Stumbled across the Domesday entry for the local area today. Nine households, two ploughs, and forty shillings a year. It's grown a little since then.

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One MP has left their party or been kicked out every 20 days this parliament. It was one every 22 days ... two days ago. At this rate we're going to have an entirely independent house by the autumn.

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

So here's something I'm really impressed by: I put this preprint out just about a year ago. Three or four others came out about the same time, saying a) we know authors are using LLMs a lot, b) it's really obvious from word choice; c) no, really obvious. What happened next? Well...

So here's something I'm really impressed by: I put this preprint out just about a year ago. Three or four others came out about the same time, saying a) we know authors are using LLMs a lot, b) it's really obvious from word choice; c) no, really obvious. What happened next? Well...

I’m on @bbclondonnews.bsky.social talking about the 4000 litres of diesel that were spilled into the Wandle on Tuesday, and what this means for the local environment and the people who love this precious chalk stream

i just typed in yellow jacket (local bar) to the parish (local venue) in on google, because i wanted to know how far apart those two places are, and instead google decided that was an aphorism and gave me an entirely fake definition of it i actually felt secondhand embarrassment for the computer

Content warnings 1954 style: the BBC's introduction to their TV play of '1984'. "You may not wish some members of your family circle to watch this piece..."

So for a few reasons I drifted offline for a lot of last year, but one of them was that I was in New Zealand for a chunk of it. Which was great. And three months on, I've finally sorted some of the photos! Here's a helicopter trip up Fox Glacier.

not dangerous like an evil genius. dangerous like a dog driving a train

This is excellent. Yes.

Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. I wrote about it here: kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gae... #Scotland #Gaelic #Writing #Gàidhlig #Place #Language

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

Inspired detective work to catch only the most hardened of criminals (Daily Mirror, February 1940)

The eleventh-highest grossing film of all time was released ... three weeks ago? Wow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_2

A biography of Arthur Ransome (2009) was titled "The Last Englishman". He has competition: so were the biographies of four other people (plus two more with that as a chapter heading). Of those, Isiah Berlin died in 1997 - was he the Last Last Englishman?

1/ The Media Research Center (MRC) is pushing a new attack on Wikipedia, claiming it "blacklists" conservative media. In reality, right-wing groups have been escalating their war on Wikipedia for over a year—because they can’t control it. 🧵👇 www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing...

absolutely delighted to learn that the Lichtenstein general election: a) had approximately five times as many votes counted as there are Liechtensteiners (for proportional-representation reasons), b) in two constituencies called "Oberland" & "Unterland" (for geographic reasons)

the cutting edge of small language models

A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields, Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem. —Jim Alison, “Ingaunees” originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

Stumbled across the Domesday entry for the local area today. Nine households, two ploughs, and forty shillings a year. It's grown a little since then.

One MP has left their party or been kicked out every 20 days this parliament. It was one every 22 days ... two days ago. At this rate we're going to have an entirely independent house by the autumn.

the bincoin story rumbles on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ah, the bincoin story rumbles on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...