Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.
where’s wally?
With my lovely new friend Shraddha at the Char Minar
Someone called me a Luddite because I think LLMs are shit for the humanities, and do everything I need in Excel.
“She does everything in Excep spreadsheets” is not the flex you think it is, mate.
Reminder: Putting them through the process IS the punishment.
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On Karp and that awful Palantir manifesto: Karp is such a fan of Oswald Mosley, the 1930s British Fascist leader, that he has memorised his speeches.
When it talks, walks, and salutes like a duck, it’s a duck.
#Palantir #NHS
I’m going to stop using any online retailer that does not provide a clearly visible email address and phone number through which you can contact an actual human being if there’s a problem with your order. See also helplines.
Chatbots absolutely suck.
God this is good.
There used to be a great handle on twitter something like "bad evopsych" giggling at all this nonsense. I don't think it's made it over here sadly
As well as not true. Most men I know are, actually, nice.
Yes, actually. Exactly the same rules apply to trans and trans-inclusive speakers as to gender critical ones. And people are free to protest.
What you can’t do is heckle and disrupt a speech so much that the speech is not heard or the speaker endangered.
They never did.
This is a war based on lies
Dreadful. I’m so sorry.
God am so sorry.
This is cool!
I am assuming you mean “interesting”, British-style? 😉
Thanks so much Erik! It will be my first time in Denmark too and I am very much looking forward to being with you all.
Happy that my colleagues organizing the conference “Global Music History and Northern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries” has been able to convince @katherineschof8.bsky.social to give the keynote lecture. That should be so great!
Just in case - it’s possible I may lose access to my bluesky account if I log out. Cross fingers this does not happen.
I unceremoniously dumped the travel agent who booked me on a flight to Chiang Mai in Thailand instead of Singapore (Changi Airport).
Take that in. A travel agent.
Yikes that’s bad. That’s literally the PM’s one job: to make judgements and decisions
Peter Broelman n Canberra Times
Though Trump absolutely does fit the bill as AN Antichrist…
Take the wrong lesson from a movie:
La La Land: Artists, musicians, actors – work hard and all your dreams will come true!
(I despise everyone and everything in the dream-selling business)
#NothingNew - this has been going on for decades if not centuries. Has the Economist of all publications never heard of sex tourism and mail-order brides before?
We all known A*azon tends to sell books bellow list prices, but I've recently found them selling books at below WHOLESALE prices. I know this because I own a store. That's fucked up.
Anyways, support your local book stores. Shit's tough.
What will it take for @safety.bsky.app to realise that for the past week there’s been a horde of gay gym-bunny thirst-trap accounts popping up totally unwanted on uninterested people’s feeds – some of it CLEARLY unlabelled adult content?
You go guys! but it’s so not for me and I’m sick of muting.
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Mine is in my bio:
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8)
though in my experience as a humanities professor, noone knows the Greek & Roman myths, nor the Bible, anymore.
