Callan Davies

(Self-driven) French writing retreat #CurtainBook

May already be aware of @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social ‘s recent SB piece: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... ?

Cordelia Now for something a little different

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Great piece!

Once upon a time I had a newsletter about Shakespeare and performance, and I felt the sudden urge to pick it back up. New post, check it out!

This was just a private group but you could contact the developers perhaps (and soon to open oublicly as the Museum with any luck!)

Wonderful!

A privilege to stand on/over the Curtain playhouse stage again, and in its adjoining yard (thanks to an architect tour). Feeling very close to all those figures I’m writing about for the #CurtainBook, who were, naturally, so often to be found at these very spots too.

Haha yes quite—talk about drawing it into being!

As per Ogilby 1676

Ooh, interesting--and he's on the money; these tenter grounds creep ever north and eastwards (how part of the Curtain ends up!) through the century! Guessing this is somewhere adjoining easterly the recreational walkways of then newly redesigned Moorfields ?

Thanks Liz (and a lovely question about personal connection—we were talking about that afterwards!). Sorry not to catch you to chat—next time!

A euphemism for imposing tariffs?

Readying to say a brief word about bears in the south west tomorrow @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so perfect to be greeted by this lad on way to Cotham Hill by the uni… #RenSA25

Another bright sunny Bristol for the first full day of @srsrensoc.bsky.social #RenSA25 after a lovely reception and first keynote yesterday!

I have PIP and a full-time job. I would not have a full-time job without PIP

I'm so sorry to hear this, Liz. Sending all strength and solidarity.

Map c/o @thelondonarchives.bsky.social Picture Archive.

Corkboard wirh map, documents, a photo of a manuscript with seal, and coloured groundplans

Early modern Shoreditch moodboard for writing inspiration #CurtainBook

Pamphlet with title reading Macbeth the quotation bank

The Quotation Bank and shoal of time

#Shakespeare #Macbeth

Been teaching a bit of Tommy Pico’s phenomenal Nature Poem this year.

Congratulations Ellie!!!

El scorchio on campus @unisouthampton.bsky.social for afternoon of schools outreach… (shoehorning in an imagined trip back to the Curtain playhouse…).

AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England Datacentres, which do not have to report amount of water used to cool servers, leave Environment Agency with no idea of shortfalls

'The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.' Maybe the policy of 'turbocharging' AI everywhere & all the time needs thought?

Paging @notrockyhorror.bsky.social

Reading list for summer travels to South East Asia…

My one weird tip for nonfiction writers to avoid this is *don’t write about* a subject whose source-base and secondary literature you don’t have the capacity to master sufficiently

The author of this piece advocates getting AI to read for you because “the internet-era explosion of digitized text now mocks nonfiction writers with access to more voluminous sources on any given subject than we can possibly process” 🙄

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Eagerly awaited!