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dr joshua phillips

@woolfianjosh.bsky.social

Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 5d ago

ooo membas getting a free restaurant meal every week at the low cost of spending the evening in a cauldron of super-spreader soup? Not me cos I'm immunosuppressed & had to stay in my flat from March to the end of August, which was months longer than people on the same drugs but living in England

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 6d ago

Tried to explain to my kid what travelling abroad was like in the pandemic and it started “well there was this guy called Grant Shapps,.. every Thursday before your holiday he would post on… this thing called Twitter… his personal account… then you’d cancel your flight”. And you just sound MENTAL.

Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6d ago

things are kinda dour today, so let’s get a singalong going! repeat after me: KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQA

dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · last wk.

One drum I will bang until the end of time is that we need to shift our thinking around citations. They're not a task that we do lest we're punished; they're a form of conversation and thinking-in-public that are foundational to what we do as scholars.

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · last wk.

I can’t quote @helenbarrett.bsky.social’s original post, but have borrowed the image from it. Now, I’ve never written a book, nor had to do attributions and citations for one. I’m sure it’s tortuous, but this is something *everyone did* until like last year.

Earlier this year, author Steven Rosenbaum took a phone call that turned his world upside down. The book he had spent three years researching and writing, he was informed, contained quotations fabricated by Al tools. "When I learnt there were factual inaccuracies in The Future of Truth, my first reaction was: that's impossible," Rosenbaum tells the FT two months after the discovery. "It had gone through a traditional publishing process with multiple rounds of editing and review." Rosenbaum had been clear about the use of AI tools in his nonfiction book - ironically, a study of the future of truth and technology - but had used them only to research and organise material, including summarising source documents and interviews. "What I failed to recognise was that, in some cases, it transformed those summaries into what appeared to be direct quotations," he says. "The danger isn't that AI writes bad prose. The danger is that it writes persuasive prose attached to facts that never existed."
dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · last wk.

TIL that when Atlantic Monthly serialised Flush, Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, its first instalment was followed by 'The Big Pepper and Brine Man', a mock-biography of Peter Piper of Piper's Pickled Peppers.

dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2w ago

James Joyce was replaced by a colony of termites stuffed into a trench-coat in 1926, which explains why Finnegans Wake is Like That.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

dr joshua phillips@woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Say what you will about an English degree, books aren't a financial shell game played by Nvidia and Softbank and there isn't a books bubble waiting to be pricked.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Research from the British Academy shows that graduates in the arts, humanities and social sciences are just as likely to be employed as their STEM counterparts. They are equally resilient during economic downturns and more likely to move between sectors without wage penalties.' 1/3