Genertive text LLM is super annoying and the latest fad in data agergation and analysis. There fixed it

Students have started having AI write an answer to essay questions and then memorizing those answers. Oh what fresh hell

I think my policy on AI is very reasonable. If we hang a couple of them upside down on the quad, it will serve as a very effective deterrent

Admin: Use AI here is your subscription Department: Maybe dont Teacher: No really dont Me: Here is your F

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

My 5 year old daughter is a phenomenal singer. No it is you who is crying 😭

There is a certain set of people who live in abject terror of ever seeing someone who is different outside of a menial service role

Ah London hail and thunder and half an hour later blue skies and sunshine

So the Labor solution for an unpopular right wing PM may well be a even more right wing PM 😑

I increasingly sound like a radical arguing for meritocracy dignity in labor and respect for honorable professions like nursing. It is a troubling sign of the times

I think we need to get @atrupar.com a nice gift basket when all of this is over.

I could swear there is something in those books they keep bashing us with about prophets and worshiping idols

@coldwarhost.bsky.social wrote an excellent article you should all read

till by turning turning we come round round

Lib Dems are also gaining btw

I’m mildly cheesed off about this my neighbors get rob police can’t be bothered to turn up but Morgan Reform gets his phone nicked and it’s all hands on deck www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I got to discuss my research on this podcast. Lots of fun. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQGT...

I highly recommend my dear colleagues substack which is informative and snarky in equal measure www.bitchyhistory.com

@davidveevers.bsky.social you working on colonialism and slavery you might know

So many people think that they’re an exception until it’s too late 😣“His mother came from Brazil. Does it bother him that people in his party have been accused of racism? “It’s not Brazilians people are talking about.” www.londoncentric.media/p/reform-uk-...

The argument that she’s black and therefore must be unqualified fills me with a rage of 1000 suns. For this we fought a war!?!?

Blocking people who are obsessed with fighting with a mild mannered liberal lawyer from Minneapolis is a great way to tidy up your feed

Is there something to be said how plea bargain culture in the American legal system created a mindset that has driven many institutions to accommodate the Trump administration. Plea bargains aren’t about justice. They’re about finding a resolution 90% of cases are decided by plea bargain.

Cannon ball fired by English at Boulogne in 1544 returned to England in 1976 now on display at Folkestone as proof the French do have a sense of humor

Well London is very rarely boring

Being repressed by a bunch of surely blokes who are overly fond of their horses

@bencollins.bsky.social hey mate do us all a favor when you finally get ahold of Info Wars make it the most vicious and unending mockery of Jones et al for ever more.

Is it just me or does Jones seem terrified of The Onion taking over Info Wars because The Onion will fully dedicate itself to mocking him every hour of every day for the rest of his life

What a sad, sausage party of losers, con men and dupes. Bye bye!

Weird morning thoughts. Poisonous snakes are not common in the UK Ælla of Northumbria must have imported many for his snake pit. Implying there was a market in 9th century Europe for dangerous and poisonous beasties

But isn’t this what you want UK? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well some good news

Oh I like this mentality

Okay about 3,000 words added to the Book. Productive Day.

So….its 1453 again huh 😶

“a worldview in which AI is viewed not only as a normal technology, but an elite political project to be resisted … a thing manufactured by out-of-touch billionaires and pushed onto an unwilling public.” newrepublic.com/article/2091...

Never heard of the guy until a few weeks ago had to ask my terminally online friend. I am officially old. Hooray

Now that’s how you do patriotism

I think people, understandably, did not read the details of the abuse, but it's quite clear that Maxwell *participated* rather than 'just' supplying victims

My patience for anti vax bleach drinking flat earthers is officially at an end.

The Pitt is fantastic in that it makes me want to scream at how absolutely stupid people are

Are you f***ing kidding me. This and the f***ing Turner Diaries are two of the books I found most cited in Neo-Nazi literature and manifestos

My 8 year old is of the opinion anti vaxers and science deniers should go to jail…I’m so proud 🥹

So I’m guessing someone may not be read up on the whole Martin Luther thing huh

Stammer forgot the natural order of things. One does not go to war with the Civil Service

The extremely manly men Firemen who just fawned over my adorable toddler and let him drive the truck certainly dont seem like a outlier. I suspect Ms Morgan is trolling.

Each book store has a section of party ideology which is fairly fascinating. Chinese academic studies of the US are expansive. Sci-fi and current events on par with any Waterstones.

Chinese book stores were interesting. Nothing is really banned anymore, as one person told me because not enough people read. I also think interestingly the decline of western soft power has made Chinas soft power more appealing.

Well back from China. It’s interesting while China is certainly not a free society it doesn’t feel like a repressive one. People seem to more or less get on. There is a great deal of pride, but also little interest it seems to go abroad in search of monsters to slay.