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Do you make them in rings? The one time I tried to make them I didn't have rings and they turned out tasty but very thin

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Recent Publication: "Data Born in Literature: The @biodivlibrary.bsky.social – A Global Digital Library Serving the Planet" (2025) / Learn more at bit.ly/4bmezYD

TITAA #76: The Seen and the Unseen SVG Generation - Gemini 3.1 Pro - Beyond Slop - Art Maps - Agentic Patterns - Read in VR

Latest newsletter - SVG is getting good out there, some good stuff in Gemini 3.1 Pro, my project to read in VR, a bunch of rando fun links, a handful of intriguing narrative gen finds. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

New AI infrastructure poses a “serious threat to efforts to decarbonise the electricity grid”

The Price of initiative just collapsed From libraries to large models: why the next divide is between people who try things and people who don’t.

Lots of good in this by Martha Lane Fox: 'The impact [of AI] won’t arrive as one big shock. It will seep in through a thousand local compressions ...the entry-level rung thinning out' but OTOH 'When the cost of trying falls, the number of attempts rises' martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/the-price-...

Culture in a changing climate - Museums Association Emma Howard Boyd on why organisations need to act urgently to adapt to the reality of the climate crisis

Museums Association: 'organisations need to act urgently to adapt to the reality of the climate crisis' www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

'Smart kid accused of plagiarism' shocker!

And thinking about the original question, I think dad tried to help with a maths assignment once, but assessment changes so much over the decades that it was sweet but not helpful

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Well-meaning bafflement

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

FT: 'The top AI mod­els can be promp­ted to gen­er­ate near-verbatim cop­ies of best­selling nov­els ... [this] could also have ser­i­ous implic­a­tions in other sec­tors where leak­age of any train­ing data could lead to pri­vacy and con­fid­en­ti­al­ity issues.'
ft.pressreader.com/article/2818...

War is hell, mash meme

Culture in a changing climate - Museums Association Emma Howard Boyd on why organisations need to act urgently to adapt to the reality of the climate crisis

Culture in a changing climate - @emmahowardboyd.bsky.social in this piece from the @museumsassociation.org highlights some of the steps cultural organisations are already taking to adapt to the changing climate, but there's so much more to do. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Did parkrun in the drizzle and now I get to cosy up at home in the warm and dry for a few hours with nothing more demanding than coffee, the newspaper and a sleepy dog

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

BACKLASH: A Queer Cultural State of The Nation | Cambridge Junction Book tickets for BACKLASH: A Queer Cultural State of The Nation at J1 at Cambridge Junction. Buy tickets here Presented by Curious Arts, Marlborough Productions & Fatt Projects A day of research, shar...

A day of research, sharing & conversation for the UK cultural sector launching new research findings into experiences of anti-LGBTQ+ backlash.
18 March, 10.30am - 4pm, Cambridge Junction www.junction.co.uk/events/backl... @cambridgejunction.bsky.social

Get in touch to tell us how your heritage sector organisation is already using, or would like to use, AI. We’re seeking contributions of 300-500 words.

Express interest to our Newsletter Editors, Katherine (k.a.krick@gmail.com) and Jane (j.m.gallagher@leeds.ac.uk) by 6th March.

You can play with their interactive dashboard hal.cs.princeton.edu/reliability/ for a sense of how closely models are clustered on different aspects of reliability and accuracy. I'd love to see some of those numbers go up!

‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries New Art UK chair Ben Terrett appointed as charity marks 10 years of building online database

‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries - congratulations ArtUK! An incredible milestone

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

A nice piece of work: Towards a science of AI agent reliability

AI 'reliability lags capability, and that reliability will remain a barrier to deployment unless researchers and developers focus effort on improving reliability as a separate dimension from accuracy'

www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-...

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

Nominations for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History are now open ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... (closing date 31 May). You can submit your own work or recommend a book or article by someone else that you’ve loved reading.

New Research: PSG Consulting partnered with Innovating for the Public Good and Dewey Square Group to release original research on how LLM training data is at risk of political manipulation. www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Well done @britishlibrary.bsky.social on digitising P.R. Harris's A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 (1998), the essential study. Background story here: www.bl.uk/stories/blog... and copy on the BL's Research Repository here: bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/book...

Want projects led by women, non-binary folks and people of colour rightly recognised as #DH?

Then consider nominating them for one of the DH Awards 2025. Nominations closing soon.

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

A very necessary amenity was provided in 1832. Smirke was instructed to build a sufficient number of water-closets for the readers. His first plans did not win approval: several objections were made regarding their situation and the access to them. His amended plans were acceptable and an expenditure of £250 was approved. The cleanliness and ventilation of the Reading Rooms themselves gave cause for concern. J. Winter Jones, writing in 1859, had unhappy memories of the smell which pervaded them. Ellis requested permission to remove the matting which harboured dirt and thus make it possible to sweep the Rooms each evening. Together with constant ventilation, this would ease the minds of those who used the Rooms and were concerned about the poor hygiene. He was authorised to do what was necessary.

pleased to see that PR Harris's monumental A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 is now digitised. Everything within... bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/book...

A cosy dining room with a table set for tea, featuring cakes, pastries and teacups on a floral tablecloth.

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday

On our birthday we have reached a huge one million artworks on Art UK!

Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/

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