what a list to be part of! 🩷

I am just so unsurprised by this

I can't believe he describes NOT using AI to write as "retrograde and fearful". Does he even ... like ... enjoy writing?

🤦‍♀️ Thanks John! My only defence for such an undergrad-level oversight ("undergrad oversight" is a weird phrase) is that I've been moving house.

A photograph of a bookshelf holding a lot of vintage Penguin paperbacks, a shelf of Penguin Classics poetry, and then a shelf of miscellaneous poetry from other publishers

Have just moved house and I'm very pleased with my new 'Penguins and Poetry' bookshelf

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@jntod.bsky.social any idea on this?

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Clippy popping up asking "are you not entertained?"

I saw an advert for Copilot recently and it literally showed someone using it in a business negotiation 🤔

The review is paywalled but I'm so excited about this book – Gwendoline Riley is absolutely amazing

The perfect tote bag doesn’t exis—

People Who Use AI To Write Emails YouTube video by Ryan George

"It's not creepy. It's INNOVATIVE" 😂

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"this new AI" anything at all ...

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The Grand Union Canal also has a lovely series (Midlands I suppose rather than the south, but closer)

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Keats question: in the final lines of 'Ode on Melancholy' –

"His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might
And be among her cloudy trophies hung."

– why are the trophies "cloudy"? My edition glosses only the hanging of trophies (in temples, cathedrals etc.) and not the adjective.

oh thank you! hope you enjoy 😌

"If AI handles the gruntwork, the learning pathway disappears"

along with, potentially, the self-esteem pathway, the deep and lasting reward pathway, the ability to create anything worth someone else's attention pathway (&c. &c.)

*chef's kiss*

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Quite a while ago now (and yes I know almost no female birds sing) but ...

My books bring to light the alienation that was already present in my readers

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

link pls asking for a friend

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I totally understand the disadvantage of being outside a university system with library subscriptions etc. But did you know you can read 100 articles a month for free on JSTOR, which collects a huge number of academic journals? I discovered this recently and it's a godsend

Aside from the environmental/plagiarism issues of LLMs, I honestly think you may do your ideas a disservice by putting them into an LLM, since they are proven to distort and even totally invent references to other people's work

I saw a particularly optimistic (/foolhardy) brimstone butterfly today!

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

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1Died (alas!) on this day in 1455, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Friar. Here, Annunciation from the 1440s on the stair landing at the convent of San Marco, Florence.