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And look at iTunes now?

Just me that thinks the permission structure test allowing the non-consensual imposition of AI on all our lives was U2 installing Songs of Innocence on everyone's ITunes in 2014? Team, I've found a way to blame it all Bono. @spinal-bap.bsky.social - grounds for your Bononaissance critique?

A colleague I spoke with in engineering who works on data models that literally keep trains on the tracks was horrified at the idea that this is how LLMs might be used.

I also refuse to use Royal Mail. Bring back Consignia.

Are you though?

Don't hate me - I know all the good work being done. But... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...

Wonder if anyone is having a little think about the need for historians to credentialize themselves via the crown today?

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

How charity helped shape Britain after empire

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Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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My brilliant friend and colleague @kateesthersmith.bsky.social s book is out on Thursday. Read and become wiser! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Sun Ra springs to mind. Lot to analyze there.

Uni VLE's increasingly in partnership with businesses like OpenAI. It's easy to see what is provided (AI chat features, design assistants, etc.. ) but does anyone know what is extracted? I am thinking stuff like class exercises, readings, Uni IP, the academic labour etc.. that goes into these?

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

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There are also lots of copy cat crimes that come out of it, so the producers shift approaches.

Yup

You also owe me a book review. Ha ha ha.

Once again, M*tt G**dwin owes me/ghosted me on a book review from c. 2011 (fully appreciate everyone misses these/they get put to one side given all our priorities) but, you know, I was sending him grumpy emails before you knew he existed.

So now I need to think about worst....

They had closed the relevant floor.

Stayed in a hotel in Northern England. Was basically empty and staff completely frazzled. Couldn't work out why. Day later read in the local paper about the knarly murder there two days before.

I guess this is just vexatious use of the courts by a hobbyist...

I think Ross McWhirter trying to block the Treaty of Rome through the courts on grounds of Treason citing the Act of Union (I think - something like that) is... err... something of a move. I mean, he didn't win that particularly legal fight.

Looking forward to @sethrockman.bsky.social public lecture on Plantation Goods tomorrow. 6pm at BRIG cafe. @johnmunro.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/publi...

A quick 'no' plus 'suggest alternatives' with more the one suggestion - much appreciated.