Devastating election results

Annika Brockschmidt@ardenthistorian.bsky.social · yesterday

Was für ein niederschmetternder Abend. Eine Schande.

Structure, structure, structure was very much the first thing that jumped at me when I first encountered image and language models. Great discussion here ⬇️

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · last wk.

This may be considered spicy but as someone who wrote a paper in 2022 that put this idea into the world (re: image models) the LLM is not merely reflecting what people say on the Internet anymore; it's been steered to reflect structures of argument from what we said on the internet and apply them.

And that’s me behind the mic (out of shot, ongoing series)

‘You’ll recognise me by the cut of my clothes and the carapace on my back’ <My Life as a Turtle>

heatwave reading (ft. Lidl ice cream)

eclipse, submerged

evening walk, steep hill included

Cannot be unseen (FT headline: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down to become chair)

Tbh this explains everything

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

admin and its uses

Ruth Martin@dances-with-voles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This morning I translated one word ("because"), remembered why I gave up halfway through that sentence yesterday, and am now doing all my admin instead. #amnottranslating

LRB abolishes word spacing

Great public health comms in Brazil after Fonseca’s victory against Djokovic — the vaccination mascot is saying ‘our vaxxed guy won’

Makes good point that despite the far-right MO of catastrophizing—that the nation is irredeemably divided, headed for disaster, & far-right is the only savior—“the UK is generally very comfortable being a multi-ethnic society.” In 2020, 93% rejected the idea that you have to be White to be British

accidentally pink (an exorcism)

Absolutely heartbroken. She had the most intelligent, animated eyes. RIP VALIE EXPORT

Vote counted in the early hours — a v good local result 💚

Vania Schiff@vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Postal vote hand delivered ✅💚🍀

We have loaned a remarkable object to the V&A’s exhibition The Music Is Black - an African thumb piano made using a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. This early 20th century instrument transforms an iconic Reading export into a living piece of African musical heritage. 🎹 1992.162.18 #FridayFinds

Postal vote hand delivered ✅💚🍀

close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 2/2)

close reading (studies in white, iris ‘white city’, 1/2)

🚨 ‘Clear your diaries!’ PSA 🚨 Frank Bourke as Man Ray in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Weds 29th, Channel 4 and elsewhere, not to be missed 🍿

As seen by bees and butterflies — Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s tapestries from the Pollinator Pathmaker series, based on garden designs that respond to the pollinators’ needs @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

horizon, with added bunting

laughing his head off

incandescent

The worst radioactive accident outside of a nuclear power plant happened in Goiânia (Brazil) one year after Chernobyl. Radioactive Emergency (miniseries now on Netflix, essential viewing) shows the efforts to contain contamination & help the victims + the institutional errors leading to the tragedy

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On April 20 Craig Mazin and Johan Renck’s TV masterpiece Chernobyl is being shown for free across five nights on Sky Mix and Sky Atlantic. Thought I'd rewatch a little bit, see how it's aged in the past seven years... 1/2

I started thinking about the Windham-Campbell Prize and anxiety when the poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico was selected in 2021. She’s always been open about the weight of this feeling on her creative and professional life 1/5

Time

Shaw House

Happy Rabbit Season