The authors conclude that we need ‘community-wide coordination to ensure that different parties involved in LLM creation and deployment share the information needed to resolve questions of provenance.’ That sounds to me like … archivists, right?

The doomy title speaks, though, to the maths at work here rather than apocalyptic visions of digital mould. In short, I think this strengthens the argument that we need to teach about (and with) AI in order to properly prepare our students for the work beyond the historiographical essay.

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data Nature - Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in...

Couldn’t access the Medium piece, but I think it’s worth reading the article in Nature that it cites: rdcu.be/d2E2F

Alice Kinghorn holding Bristol id card

Dr Alice Kinghorn recently defended their PhD at Bristol on the role of Anglican missionary societies in transatlantic enslavement.

Congratulations Alice 🎉

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‘From Gygax Goblins to the Elves of Dunsinore’ - that will, dear friends be my no. 1 submission to REF202x

This is the embodiment of Bluesky

Also happy to share an annotated version of the lyrics, including discussion of references to Moorcock and Shakespeare

As ever, I think that this is a scholarship that would benefit from a large dose of Mark E Smith …

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You know the original location, where all the falling down and breaking stuff happened, is in Somerset south of Bath?

Have to admit, am slightly disappointed that it didn’t involve knitwear.

Ideals that at times challenge standard views of peace mvts, e.g. the January 1959 celebration of Fidel Castro, ‘Cuba’s Robin Hood’

Peace News is an excellent source for historians of anti-colonial movements in the 50s/60s - the interconnected sentiments of pacifism and anti-racism captured in images such as this …

The China Firm | Columbia University Press What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard &amp... | CUP

Excited to share it over here as well that the cover is in, the page is live, and the preorder button works! The China Firm is coming out as part of the "Tucker and Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations" Series with Columbia University Press, February 2024!

Have been looking back at some of the material that didn’t get into the book. This Peace News piece from 1959 is proof that nothing changes …

Out Now!