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robskinner.bsky.social
Historian: food, activism, transnational solidarity
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The authors conclude that we need ‘community-wide coordination to ensure that different parties involved in LLM creation and deployment share the information needed to resolve questions of provenance.’ That sounds to me like … archivists, right?
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The doomy title speaks, though, to the maths at work here rather than apocalyptic visions of digital mould. In short, I think this strengthens the argument that we need to teach about (and with) AI in order to properly prepare our students for the work beyond the historiographical essay.
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Couldn’t access the Medium piece, but I think it’s worth reading the article in Nature that it cites: rdcu.be/d2E2F
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‘From Gygax Goblins to the Elves of Dunsinore’ - that will, dear friends be my no. 1 submission to REF202x
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Also happy to share an annotated version of the lyrics, including discussion of references to Moorcock and Shakespeare
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As ever, I think that this is a scholarship that would benefit from a large dose of Mark E Smith … youtu.be/m8Bg7_7P84I?...
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You know the original location, where all the falling down and breaking stuff happened, is in Somerset south of Bath?
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Have to admit, am slightly disappointed that it didn’t involve knitwear.
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Ideals that at times challenge standard views of peace mvts, e.g. the January 1959 celebration of Fidel Castro, ‘Cuba’s Robin Hood’