Thank you, Martin - not a good time
10.03.2026 10:52
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Thank you, Martin - not a good time
Public Books is a cool project, and I have written for them before, but I wish they had better embedded metadata. The "author" field is never the actual author (this one says Morgan Barry) and it would be good to assign DOIs, too.
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Today is not much improvement on yesterday, health-wise. Apologies if I am overdue getting back to you on anything.
NEW REVENUE MODEL - I admire the creativity shown here.
"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing
Came here to request this. PLEEEAASE!
Just so people on bluesky are aware…I was very early bluesky and I very much actively followed every dog account I could find that signed up and now when I open bluesky I basically am given pure dog content straight to the brain stream every time. I am proposing everyone else do this. The end.
@JDfromscrubslol Had a dream there was an emoji like 💯 except it was only 60. Some post said "popeyes fries be tasting so good (60)" and I laughed so hard I woke myself up
Thinking about the 60 emoji again
Yes, it seems so. Remarkable to see it laid so bare.
Perhaps the biggest indication of how stupid markets are - how irrational and gullible - is that Trump says "the war is almost over" and the markets rally. As though he has a great track record of truthful statements.
Who will stand up for the Iranian people as death rains on them from the skies?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org
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I just don’t think people realize what accepting the dehumanization of other people does to you. It’s like a soul sickness. You may get everything you want in life and you’d still be better off dead than being alive and approving of the violent suffocation of a people’s lives.
I no longer have access to the data from when I was at NEH, but we did a deep comparison of the UK and the US across several agencies and we found the UK spends about 10x more per person on the humanities specifically. But both countries underspend quite a bit compared to other wealthier nations.
Yes, also rheumatoid arthritis sufferer here with hip replacement, so sending empathy on this. Was so worried about damaging the hip.
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love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
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It is, apparently, rare to see such a break with Khomeini's thought, which has been the guiding light of clerical rule in Iran since '79.
I should also say that much of "Islamic Government" does not make sense or appeal to me, at all. I lack much context to comprehend it.
At the weekend, I was reading "Islamic Government", an influential work by Ruhollah Khomeini. I was trying to understand better the Iranian revolution.
An interesting passage: "Islam proclaims monarchy and hereditary succession wrong and invalid".
The recent choice of leader breaks with this.
Ugh, yes - I had these before, but now am not allowed the extra fluid
Thank you - much appreciated
That sounds like a very fortunate accident! Thank you for the kind words.
There are, and have always been, smart, critical people at Jisc.
A picture of a Nutricrem chocolate orange protein pudding. OK at first, but when eating 3x per day, it's grim.
Desperately trying to eat and to keep stuff down. Or up. These renal clinic protein puddings are recommended. They are "nutritionally complete" apparently, so you could live off them alone. I would seriously not recommend it. They're fine at first, but sickening at 3 per day.
Apart from my fall at the weekend - which has left me very bruised and, I think, with a rib fracture - I am still experiencing terrible bowel problems (up all night) and dangerously losing weight. I have been told to go to A&E if it drops even slightly further. I'm 58kg at 6' 2".
The pet I’ll never forget: Luke, the blind dog whose unconditional love made me live again
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Yes, you are probably right. I posted a second discussion of this in the thread that I found much more persuasive.
This is a more nuanced take that has me a little more concerned antirez.com/news/162
But it's exactly the same as in the creative space: LLMs undermining the fields they were trained upon.