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So he's eventually going to start charging people to access all his digitized stolen 'intelligence' (because no one will regulate this extractive behaviour)? I mean, yeah, that's clearly the end-game here, but I'm surprised they're admitting it now.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Amen to this.

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications.

Deadline: 1st April 2026

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Great news! Been thinking a lot about this guy in light of the discourse surrounding the Epstein files release. The nineteenth century has so much to teach us, if we'll only pay attention.

Congrats! Did the same & found it so crushing to realize that all those PE teachers were right all along about exercise (little and often, you can do it, improves your mental health, etc.).

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oops sorry i stole your identity and by extension your whole life's work for my proprietary cheating software

Oxford people! Join us! This event will explore the remarkable links between an Oxfordshire village and the history of nineteenth-century slavery. Led by my excellent colleague Dr Niall Munro. Free and open to everyone. 👇

Unsplash.com, Steve Houghton Burnett. Bench with 'polling station' sign on it

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Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violence

“The research concluded that chatbots had become an ‘accelerant for harm’”.

"The bigger problem, though, is the one that’s still invisible: all the ways my work — and the work of every other writer — is being used, right now, by systems that are smart enough not to tell us about it."

A4 proofs of The Disraeli Myth

In case you were wondering if there was a time when people across the political spectrum used the past to think creatively and constructively about present-day problems, may I present the incontrovertible proof(s)!

‘Stackable’ courses planned across University of London Federation launches new online learning system to allow students to dip in and out of modules at their own pace

'Students from around the world will be able to start the self-guided modules whenever they wish at a cost of £495 each, taking assessments when they feel ready, with no application processes.'

Some might have questions re quality control.

"Expensive pensions scheme". Nice framing. I'm going back to bed. 😡

Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Music

This is a wonderful opportunity. I should know: I've done this job for over two decades! www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/vaca...

Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation Photo by Henrik L. on Unsplash Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” This term refers to references of academic publications that do not ex…

Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...

'If you use ChatGPT, you are using a system shaped by Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board. If you use Gemini, you are encountering decisions made inside Google under Demis Hassabis and Sundar Pichai. If you use Claude, it reflects choices made by Dario Amodei and Anthropic'. 2/3

Yeah, this is some cognitive dissonance right here. Humans are the world's 'deadliest animals'. No contest.

Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant Guidelines – RSVP The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant each year to a single researcher or a team of researchers pursuing a project that…

Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.

Some brilliantly useful advice here about caring for family papers (and for yourself during this archival practice). Brava!

The early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, 1836-1918 - call for participants deadline 8 May 2026 We are inviting participants to attend and contribute to a workshop day at the Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, on 2 June 2026, organised by Edge Hill University, in collaboration with Lincoln Bishop University. The intention is to orient most of the day around workshop sessions that contain introductory (c.8-10 minutes) presentations which enable us to collectively discuss and progress particular research questions relating to the early history of teacher training colleges across Britain. Further aims of the day are to establish a national network to research the history of teacher training, unlock underused archival collections related to this field and to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities for the future. Please provide a 250-word (max) overview of your interest and background in this area to enable the organisers to construct a thematic and coherent programme. Please email to Professor Alyson Brown (browna@edgehill.ac.uk) • If you have any suggestions or ideas for the best way to present/share your knowledge and research, please do indicate this. We are open to whatever works to advance collaboration and research and make the day as productive as possible

Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

Thought for one second that Wired was talking about another kind of VC.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses Discover a major new Rossetti exhibition in Wolverhampton as The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses opens at Wightwick Manor and Gardens.

Just started @nationaltrust.org.uk Wightwick Manor exhibition about extended Rossetti family including newly acquired portrait of Christina. Wightwick's a beautiful house anyway and has permanent @demorganfoundation.bsky.social display www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...