Rosalind Brown

I totally understand the disadvantage of being outside a university system with library subscriptions etc. But did you know you can read 100 articles a month for free on JSTOR, which collects a huge number of academic journals? I discovered this recently and it's a godsend

Aside from the environmental/plagiarism issues of LLMs, I honestly think you may do your ideas a disservice by putting them into an LLM, since they are proven to distort and even totally invent references to other people's work

I saw a particularly optimistic (/foolhardy) brimstone butterfly today!

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

1Died (alas!) on this day in 1455, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Friar. Here, Annunciation from the 1440s on the stair landing at the convent of San Marco, Florence.

Amazon supervisor told delivery driver to keep driving across the muddy tidal flats; denied they were an employee when they got marooned

I cannot emphasise enough how easy it is to boycott Amazon ✊

Thank you both! These messages have made my day

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These parodies almost make it worth CGPT existing. More please

it really is this easy

BRILLIANT (and goodbye the entire English canon)

Ruin a film by changing one letter:
Shakespeare in Hove

(or, somewhat more disturbingly: Shakespeare in Gove)

In Norwich a lot of side streets have their lights off between (I think) about midnight and 5am, which is very nice. I also saw recently in a local Bude newspaper that they're thinking of (or possibly going ahead with) this, but the article did not seem very approving.

I have managed to boycott Amazon completely for years now – I go to companies' websites and order from them directly, or I used eBay – and I swear to god I've saved money this way as well as karma

There's still time to respond to the consultation on the awful proposed changes to settlement rules

A link to this would be great if you still have it!

This just sounds like pure delight.

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How exciting!! I would love to read this if you're willing to share it

So is tantra the plural of tantrum or what

The first bar of the first movement of Bach's Cantata BWV1, showing a low F as the first note in the piece

Opening of first movement of BWV1, the first piece in the Bach catalogue (though not the first he wrote) shown below.
And ...
The first note is an F.
I think I need to lie down.

Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue

“This is an overwhelming show of support for the commonsense position that AI companies should pay for the resources they use'.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Agree in theory, although I imagine that if licences are introduced these will be agreed at publisher/record label level rather than at author/artist level. So authors would be forced into a position of e.g. boycotting publishers who licence work to AI companies.

this is a great website!

2/2 Narrative into icon: Giovanni Bellini's amazing Presentation in the Temple. So intense and claustrophobic. Love this one.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.

and either they assume 'ordinary people' have no interest in these things too, which is unbelievably insulting to pretty much everyone,
OR (/and)
they believe any 'good' art (= already canonical) will be able to make a profit and therefore doesn't need funding, which is ignorant and wrongheaded