'Dead zoo' refurbishment a 'huge amount' of work The Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland has said that the refurbishment of the museum's site in Dublin city centre will be slow going.

The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History (figured) is now an building empty of exhibits but there’s a new temporary exhibition www.rte.ie/news/dublin/... 'Dead zoo' refurbishment a 'huge amount' of work @nmireland.bsky.social

That's precisely why primary resources are now so important - AI is blurring those lines so rapidly (ironically, because digitisation projects have offered up such a rich source of data to AI scrapers). Protect the archive, the object, and the type specimen. It is more vital than ever.

There is always the need to go back to the physical object, now more than ever. As AI grows so will our distrust - at least in our professional sphere - and we will inevitably need to rely on the original archive.

I think there is in general much lack of knowledge about the time, expertise, and digital framework required to make information accessible to begin with - so this won't have been a consideration.

I'm sure LLMs are great for revision and making connections in large data sets - but they're not very good at Understanding. This is the main duty of reading history and telling stories, in effect the job is to see the story between the words, but the machine only reads the words.

Everyone thinks they can be a historian

I know I am not saying anything new with this, but this is a massive misunderstanding of what historians do.

I am sure we are simply not wired well enough to tell the difference.

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The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

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You couldn’t turn on basic cable without a deluge of Girls Gone Wild commercials.

A quick scan of women’s music from the 90s would be revelatory. TLC’s music was a counternarrative. Lilith Fair existed for a reason. What was Riot Grrl was rioting against? Queen Latifah gave us a whole anthem.

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My two sleeping in the winter sun. We are lucky to have such company.

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Australian science magazine publishes AI-generated articles after laying off half its staff Cosmos Magazine's use of a Walkley Foundation-administered grant to publish AI-created content has drawn the ire of contributors and former editors, including its co-founders.

Looks like it's not the first time: www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Thank you! I have been thinking a lot about gravel and grits.

Don't know myself. I had the idea that many thought he was funny and clever about a decade or more ago - I just had a different comedy ideal and it passed me by. I think many have now reassessed their feelings

White wine in the sun? A nice song that got the travellers deep in our feelings. I didn't know much about him beyond this.

Hello hello I wish to know about your grit and also weed control (pls help)

Give quiche

WTF NYT

Yes! I pretty much never have jelly. It's always jam.

First I do the internal jelly = jam formula and it always converts to RED which to me means strawberry - our default red jam.

My main memory of picking blueberries at a farm consists of getting crawled on by leeches. The waterlogging was pretty impressive and the blueberry trees were very happy. Also my weirdo suggestion is a tree fern - Dicksonia antarctica - (I'm obsessed) no fruits tho

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I've always admired him for deciding it's enough and he's proud of the work he's done. May I ever have such instincts.

Some men are afraid of hot women and it shows

I do love the NMI Sunfish!

Excellent catalogue insight and telling of the story of the detained Sunfish

Can't have a farm without a dog