Alex Harvey

My questions:

1) who earns the most money out of AI?
2) what does the average person gain from it?
3) who loses as a result of its success?
4) what will the consequences of these losses be?

Stop this nonsense

I’m going to live in a cave

Dystopian to the point of absurdity

Sounds about right

Why we should care about ChatGPT's accuracy gap I tested ChatGPT on my area of expertise. The results are a problem for future knowledge

If you teach please show your students this. If you're a student, please read this.

The answers LLMs generate are not all alike. They are more likely to hallucinate on topics we don't already know a lot about. Even answers with "sources" shouldn't be trusted.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

comic cover for the Hogback Saga a Viking wears a helmet reflecting swords and flames

Norse warriors assembling into ranks for battle

Two feuding Norse men cease their conflict due to the presence of the Oath ring of Dublin, a sacred object associated with Thor

Hello to my new followers! On top of posting round Robins I also draw a Viking-Age comic called the Hogback Saga. Its about groups of Norse settlers that have been ousted from Dublin trying to form a new community as part of Strathclyde, the last kingdom of the North Britons.

This is cool as hell

A very interesting period of northern history to frame a narrative about community around, given Strathclyde itself basically rebranded as if it went through a PR crisis at this same time (Twitter could never)

Similar to as suggested for Sutton Hoo and other ‘princely burials’ in England: North Sea mercenaries serving farther afield than previously thought

(Gittos 2025)

A documentary film on @artede.bsky.social @artefr.bsky.social about the analysis of remedies from medieval Arabic #manuscripts in modern laboratories.
An interdisciplinary project involving historians, physicians, and biologists.
@cnrs.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social
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#histmed #medievalsky

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Went to a gig last night and (again) threw myself willingly into the moshpit for 2 or so hours, which is basically the closest thing you can get to an early medieval shield wall

I wrote about this parallel (+ others) for @epoch-history.bsky.social last year: www.epoch-magazine.com/post/what-ar...

medievalmusings.substack.com/p/before-eng...

Great review of LITTLE KINGDOMS by Uni of Oxford’s Holly A. Brown

‘It’s a remarkable achievement by Harvey […] perfect combination of detail and generality’

‘[…] already one of the highlights of my reading year!’

A display of the grave goods, featuring a he chainmail shirt, a helmet on a stand, a long sword, small gold ornaments, and various metal, glass, and ceramic objects, all arranged against a dark background.

The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD.
The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!

📷Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Went to a gig last night and (again) threw myself willingly into the moshpit for 2 or so hours, which is basically the closest thing you can get to an early medieval shield wall

I wrote about this parallel (+ others) for @epoch-history.bsky.social last year: www.epoch-magazine.com/post/what-ar...

The Mercian Chronicles

Yet another Max Adams book I wish I wrote

The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa & the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State (2025) is an authoritative interdisciplinary work that unpicks the true power of everyone’s favourite Midlands kingdom, revealing key insights. As usual, Adams inspires me to write

Have we ever seen them in the same room? I don't think so... very suspicious indeed... plus they both have hair... very interesting

Made the mistake of rewatching The Thick Of It

Whilst funny, it's made me sad thinking that we used to consider all this pretty abnormal for politics

Enhanced image of palimpsested page, original writing in red; a large illuminated 'E' can be seen in bottom right quadrant.

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

a man in a red shirt holds a soccer ball and talks to two other men ALT: a man in a red shirt holds a soccer ball and talks to two other men

Keep an eye out for kestrels

medievalmusings.substack.com/p/before-eng...

Great review of LITTLE KINGDOMS by Uni of Oxford’s Holly A. Brown

‘It’s a remarkable achievement by Harvey […] perfect combination of detail and generality’

‘[…] already one of the highlights of my reading year!’

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

Riddles of the Isle 2023

Little Kingdoms 2025

Would be interested in fellow authors chipping in here, but there's a special joy I think in somebody else noticing how you've approach research without being explicitly told

As one reader correctly assumes, it was the work on my first book that convinced me to take the same approach across the UK

Quotes: Monarchs, warriors and whales bled together in Heathfelðland, turning this place into a forever borderland, a nowhere between realities and yet, despite this, the place where it all happened, the place where England’s future was decided in a few key battles and loud, bloody moments.’ I am loving Alex Harvey’s Little Kingdoms, not least because this morning I read the chapter on my own little kingdom, Heathfelðland. Full review to come soon! Thanks again to Rebecca Batley for the recommendation. Quote from Harvey (2025: 147). Catherine Hyland 22 Jan I’m reading it too. The way he describes the inbetween places is wonderful Holly A Brown 22 Jan Doesn’t he just do them so much justice?! I am constantly delighted by new and interesting places I have never heard of being discussed in an early medieval context, where the emphasis is so often on the same big polities. It’s so refreshing! Catherine Hyland 22 Jan Yes! Think a lot of it stems from fact he comes from Axeholme so he’s unearthed the history of that area and then gone on to think, deeply, about other little kingdoms.. I want to get his Riddles of the Isle too

Delighted with this find of two readers discussing my new book LITTLE KINGDOMS out in the wild

(I say random find, but I do occasionally look for reviews of my own work, and it is like finding gold when a reader completely gets what you were aiming for! happy!) substack.com/@hollyabrown...

Every February without fail the UK is treated to a kind of 'False Spring', where you might even see folk in shorts out setting bbqs up ahead of an immediate return to the grey normality; a testament to the relentless despair of January/early Feb, and a harbinger of the good times ahead

So did I, and here I was thinking we'd seen a bit of sun recently...

#RomanSiteSaturday & a very frosty morning at the Roman Town house in Dorchester
This was several years ago but i've only just got the feeling in my fingers back 🥶

Check out our episode exploring some of Dorsets Cosiest Pubs >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...

really good piece and I want to highlight this theme here, something I’ve become obsessed with: LLMs simply cannot evaluate the objective truth of any claim or the relative value of any information

Alright, we’ve had enough of the rain now

Was a huge pleasure to chat about this stuff once again with @jasonkingsleyobe.bsky.social

It quite literally never gets old!