Reminder: Everyone is welcome to a seminar on Computational Methods & Intellectual History at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24 A, 3rd floor) this Thursday 23 April at 16:15-19:00 (no online option). Background paper: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10.... (ch 12)
It makes the 2010s look like paradise
87m(!!)
US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
NHS claims 'it's raining cats and dogs'is culturally insensitive Doctors and nurses in Lancashire told some idioms risk offending 'international colleagues or patients' Doctors and nurses have been ordered not to say "it's raining cats and dogs" and "the early bird catches the worm" to avoid offending foreign patients. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust instructed staff against using the phrases in its diversity and inclusion training, claiming that the terms were not culturally sensitive. It warned that the terms "may not translate well across other cultures" and may need to be explained to international colleagues or patients.
No, the NHS didn’t do anything of the sort.
The evidence the NHS didn’t do that is the third paragraph in the hit piece.
Any decent paper would have trashed the piece during the pitch phase, but the Telegraph runs dozens of these articles every single day. The Telegraph must be destroyed
These words will sound hollow, but: I am very sorry to hear this. It's absolutely appalling.
15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.
🚨Tomorrow, @JudiciaryGOP & @HouseJudiciary hold a hearing on the PRO CODES Act.
As SCOTUS has already ruled: “No one can own the law.”
This bill threatens that precedent by extending copyright to public laws and standards, restricting your right to access the rules we live by. ⚖️🏛️
We absolutely have to move to a position where university workers on repeat contracts at the same institution are understood as working for the university and not the funder.
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Interesting! I will take a look when I am able - contending with health issues and, also, I am unsure why the layout engine is doing this. Thank you for testing!
Blogging is painful but essential for preserving my work beyond my lifetime. I discuss the steps I take, from metadata to digital preservation, and why it's worth it.
eve.gd/2026/04/19/the-necessary...
With apologies, I am in hospital and have had to withdraw from this event. I am extremely sad to miss this. I was honoured to be speaking in such company.
Oh yes - that is a good and interesting idea!
‘Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf. That reality ought to weigh heavily on a world that has largely understood this war through the narrow lens of oil-price instability’
www.ft.com/content/3634...
Tech billionaires saying UBI is coming is hilarious because c’mon, how have they acted the last 5 years in response to the prospect of higher taxes on the rich and corporations to fund social programs?
Good readings! I will have to revisit NLMG - it is many years since I read, and was deeply disturbed, by it.
This is a good idea, even if the archive is very "dark" right now. Will try to hunt down the best email address tomorrow.
Pssst. DH Awards 2025 results are out.
We really should change the timing of all this so it finishes much earlier in the year, but well, I'm busy.
Blurb will do the ISBN part if needed, but their output is pricey (and their system cannot handle footnotes). This is do-able but think the work of it all is beyond me!
Interesting. Although the domain name is eve.gd, which is not a UK domain, I know there are various criteria that they use, but I wonder whether this might have slipped under the radar.
Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.
"it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet."
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It’s a complicated picture, and my moral judgments about it are also frankly colored by strong disapproval of existing IP laws, which make academic research on the past century of cultural production extraordinarily difficult.
Century-long copyright terms are imo an abomination.
If your blog is scholarly, then you can definitely apply to Rogue Scholar; they just don't take, for example, totally nonscholarly items.
Thanks so much for the book idea. Will consider. Might be too onerous to select!
Oh - that is a good idea! Thank you
... than AWS. Unsure what CDL/CDN they have... 🧵2/2
With reference to my last post: I just remembered that Reclaim Hosting, with whom I used to have an account and who are excellent, offer the option to pay triannually. This would mean that my blog would be available until the end of the three-year period, which is a darn sight better ... 🧵1/2
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