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Neil Stewart
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admonishing Babylon while you have a nice cup of tea
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Head of Library & Digital at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.
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Neil Stewart
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admonishing Babylon while you have a nice cup of tea
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Neil Stewart
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All his stuff is great, Under Heavy Manners is all-time
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Neil Stewart
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why is even-more-melted Mark E Smith dressed as a vaudeville cowboy?
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Neil Stewart
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Maybe a little bit of Deep Purple?
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COUGH…. COUGH… COUGH… COUGH
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haha I'd forgotten about Uxbridge, Starmer probably has other things to think about today but it would be good to get Sadiq's take on that!
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weird that the Tory vote held up so much here in London and in Scotland, of all places, despite totally collapsing pretty much everywhere else. Both areas where Reform have less purchase maybe?
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Neil Stewart
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Checkmate liberals
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Interested to know what the Projections represent, presumably a range of pollsters declaring which way each seat is going to go?
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The Acid House is a dog’s breakfast and actively repulsive rather than hate-able but it’s one of the very few films I’ve considered walking out of
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Neil Stewart
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Easy targets perhaps but that’s part of the fun!
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Baggini probably needs to join the proposed MK book group reading session before he can reach any conclusions
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Sounds like a case for Mulder & Scully
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There’s often good stuff in there, I got an LP copy of REM’s Dead Letter Office for £8
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Neil Stewart
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We enjoyed this one too!
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Onion headline on the passing of Gerry Garcia: “Head Deadhead Dead”
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Neil Stewart
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Jiminy Jillikers!
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Neil Stewart
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A “Rishi Reverse Beachhead” or RRB for short
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Neil Stewart
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I like the logarithmic scale along the bottom!
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Neil Stewart
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Why does the humongous Taylor Swift simply not eat her pop star competitors?
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Neil Stewart
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Our rating: 937!
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Neil Stewart
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If open access has in some sense "failed" it's a failure of collective action, and to some extent a question of path dependency. I would also say that accusations of failure ignore the millions of green open access papers that are now out there in the world #OpenRepos24
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Neil Stewart
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"Capture of academic workflows" is a neat summation of the way large academic publishers have essentially become data clearing-houses and data analytics companies, tracking every interaction with the scientific literature to repackage and sell on these datasets. #OpenRepos2024
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A lack of systematic review of associated data in journal articles results in undocumented, partial or otherwise broken datasets. It's no one's job to check these, and hence the systems in place just don't work #OpenRepos2024
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Neil Stewart
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I'll be doing a bit of posting about this conference (Open Repositories 2024, taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden) over the next few days, look away if you're not interested!
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Neil Stewart
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"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed"- William Gibson. Open repositories and open access to information help to better distribute the future. #OpenRepos2024
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The Onion
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Take sides: the whale-flensing sections of Moby Dick v. Mozza banging on about his legal woes
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The relentless, bitter focus on the failings of his record label and sundry others is the hallmark of a true Penguin Classic
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Interesting, thanks!
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Not saying the current situation is good, it will always be bad and always stealing copyrighted stuff
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IMO copyright is (should be?) the major hurdle for LLMs to overcome/destroy themselves upon
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There’s already an almost infinite pool of website data for AI to draw upon, and not all of those websites depend on traffic, though of course nearly all of that material will be subject to copyright law
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“Killing Yourself to Live” is up there with the best Sabbath tracks
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, the least explored of the first six Sabbath records, for me at least. Definitely a decline was occurring, only to be reversed by the Dio years at the the end of the 70s. But there are some killer riffs and the artwork is great
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Yeah it seemed like he had a lot still left to do, but on the other hand he packed a lot into the time he had!
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Neil Stewart
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Not forgetting, and particularly poignant, if you can call Big Black poignant
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Pouring one out
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Neil Stewart
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Here’s a great quote from Albini about poker- on top of everything else he was an excellent poker player!
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I met Albini briefly at a later ATP, which Shellac curated. We were in the chalet next door to theirs and they came round to give us their beer as they could tell we were enjoying ourselves and they had a rider they weren’t going to drink. That showed their spirit of equality, no rock star BS!
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And of course the early edgelord-isms that he later reevaluated and tried to learn from. I just today read the Shellac interview in The Wire and he retained that questioning spirit right until what turned out to be the end
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Then there’s the production work (Jesus Lizard, Sloy and High on Fire personal faves along with the more well known stuff) and the DIY ethos, calling out the “music biz” without being preachy
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RIP Steve Albini, “At Action Park” is a top ten all time album for me and Shellac are the band I’ve seen most live, the first time at ATP in 2000 when they blew my mind. Last time was at a festival in Portugal in 2018 and they were no less great then
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Gutted
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This might be useful, a digital humanities approach to the history of women in 19th and 20th century archaeology beyondnotability.org
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Neil Stewart
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Reminding us all never to get doused in toxic sludge
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Institute of Historical Research
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Announcing three paid internships aimed at new researchers, who will work on specially tailored projects which are specifically intended to enhance their professional and intellectual development. buff.ly/3wk3x5m Deadline 31/05/24 at 11.59PM #Internship #DigitalHumanities
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Neil Stewart
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Holding members of the public to ludicrously high levels of account, it’s journalism 101 babey
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A thought arises from discussions around e-resource licening: Many of the existential-level problems that librarians face (e.g. big deals, the shift to open access) are to do with collective action and the difficulties thereof. This in turn makes me think library schools should teach game theory!
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