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okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Last call for this - it's in THREE HOURS so make haste

erm, okay

I would not say it does.

Can you just accept that some of us *don't want to use it*? I don't know if you're meaning to sound quite so patronising (✋️ 14 years experience working and publishing in the humanities).

Err, YES.

See my reply to a previous response though - imagining that all we have to do when dealing with written archives is 'read them' is very reductive.

Final point on this before I actually do some work: there seems to be an easy assumption that all Humanities research is text-based (and that all that text is digitised) - no, many people also work with objects, images, artefacts, oral testimonies.

And for the avoidance of doubt: I have literally no desire to outsource any of my work to AI should it become "better". Historical research, and the creative process of writing and crafting something, are *enjoyable things*!

I (genuinely) don't understand.

Are we supposed to feel sympathy, or something?

But will it corectly capture the nuances of abbreviations specific to context, drawings or other artefacts on the page, the significance of blanks and spacing...

Show me AI that can visit an archive, then sit in the searchroom and interpret 19th-century handwriting, and you might - almost - have a point. I'm seeing an awful lot of evidence that people just don't know what humanities scholars actually do.

These people are fucking morons. The idea that something that LOOKS LIKE academic research IS academic research is so stupid, it's impossible to know where to begin, other than by suspecting their whole careers have been motivated by "Will this do?"

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This is a really weird fantasia of Edinburgh (and its geography) as it never was and is *full* to the brim of the sorts of simple yet glaring errors and anachronisms you would never have gotten if you hadn't left it to a computer to just barf out an averagised slop answer.

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Image of an album cover with a black background and stylized wood-like illustration of a little girl in a broomstick; below her is a small boy and a cat sits in the broomstick. The album title is Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word 2.

Picked a used copy of this up this week and have fallen utterly in love with the work of Susan Christie. Not much chance of finding her album on vinyl for a decent price, it seems!

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He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
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My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since mended more than 3,000 hearts For one heart surgeon, seeing the Renaissance artist’s anatomical drawings gave him a natural understanding of the body that was often overlooked in modern medical science

'I’ve always believed that art and science can nourish each other. At Papworth, I’ve invited several artists in residence to work alongside me, and I encourage students to think in a broad, almost artistic way. I think both fields will make more progress by learning from each other.'

In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.

Nearby at a haunted theatre..
The Robot Vs the Aztec Mummy #1950s #scifi #horror #movies

This is a new approach from the spam journals: "Dear Dr Wallis, hope everything is good as bright as smile your face", from 'Taylor Swift' of the American Journal of Biomedical Science.

Andrew MBW in the backseat of the car of that famous old black and white ghost car photo.

YouTube video by OwdLarrd YouTube Rather Good Videos - Laibach

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‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

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I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.

The Laibach Kitties did it for me.

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Photograph of 4 A4 sized collages in black frames. The collages are mostly black and white images and text from vintage magazines and newspapers.

Please join me in telling my husband @jasonbbernard.bsky.social that he needs to start making his brilliant collages available for sale 👇

Finished #SmallProphets and I want to watch it all over again. Just so, so wonderful ❤️