|
Serena Jones@serenaj1642.bsky.social |
134 followers 127 following 827 posts
Author, publisher | British Civil Wars: biographer of Col Sir George Lisle | transcribing & publishing the 1640s English newsbooks | DMs re above topics very welcome, @ me first to initiate
|
Olga Patlyuk
@olgapatluyk.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Most of the time there is no light than there is. But each of us continues to work, plans a work schedule in relation to the light.
www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJe...
I need a little your 🫂
1 replies 4 reposts 8 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Then there was information given against one captaine Thomas for that he should say he would get twenty miles to see Mr. Pym hanged, and would then cut off a piece of Mr. Pyms flesh to weare about him in remembrance of him: upon which he was committed." 👀
E.201[6] Jan 1642 #newsbooks
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
<< Thing is, he's not going to be able to avoid this shit, because thanks to 3/party commercial interests & the technical ineptitude we must always expect from gov education depts, schools will be ramming AI down pupils' throats regardless of problems. All we can do is course-correct when we can.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
My 13-yr nephew suggested he would write something, then for some reason run it through an AI to revise it and make it look like something else. After our cries of horror subsided, we had to explain the problem of low quality AI work, and also the ethics around distinguishing it from human work.
1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
*cries professional editor tears*
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This was my thought when Elmo said he was walling it off: he cut it off from any organic growth potential from outside. How does he expect it to grow when only existing users can see it? Noone wants to be on Tw now, & no news is important or unavailable enough elsewhere to need to create a Tw acct.
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A narrow escape for Westminster Abbey in late December 1641.
E.201[5] #newsbooks #history #17thC #earlymodern
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Would you mind sharing if you find it, if it's allowable (or source details)? I have limited sources at that level, and some militia names would be really useful for identification in newsbooks. Mil officers are often mentioned, but I rarely know whether they're LTB or outside. Thanks if you can!
3 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Clarendon has the answer (1888 edition, vol. 1, book IV, p.451, para 109). Dorset was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex and this incident happened outside the door of the House of Lords at Westminster, so I presume the militia were county (Middlesex) trained bands.
2 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Sci-fi fans ahoy! Are you subscribed/resubscribed? The magazine needs your support.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
< Apologies, 1641, not 1642.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And apologies, it's Nov 1641, not 1642.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Probably not, I don't know what the circumstances were viz. him commanding them/attempting to. Moreover I wonder how many of those TB had ever actually fired on a person. Probably not many, and some of the mob could be their family, neighbours etc.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
London, Nov 1642.
"There was a peticion preferred against the Earle of Dorset, for bidding the Court of guard the night before, when the clamours was against Bishops, shoot at them or to their apprehension, words to the like effect,"
It seems the trained bands did not obey.
#newsbooks E.201[2]
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
will pooley
@willpooley.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Great roundup of short online pieces about doing archival research via @stuartelden.bsky.social
progressivegeographies.com/2024/07/05/w...
🗃️
2 replies 10 reposts 12 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Welcome to Bluesky! There's no algorithm pushing material at you here, you choose your own feeds to follow, and there's also a "mute words" function and other ways to control what you see on your feed. We also have hashtags, DMs and a good search function. Explore and enjoy! 🌞
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
*Brit does double-take about lack of "pants", before realising this is an American conversation*
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Well that's a mute & block in the bag. And if I see anyone else endorsing that certain parts of UK electorate should stay home & not vote, I'll happily block again. Suggesting fellow citizens should be deprived of their view b/c it doesn't match yours is disgusting, & I will not have it on my feed.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I hear you. In UK we have the identical issue on Nov 5. Any idiot over 18 allowed to buy large quantities of papery things filled with gunpowder, then set them off wherever and whenever they like. We hated late Oct/early Nov, our dogs were wrecked for days afterwards. Neighbours didn't give a damn.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
[ View ] |
Found yet another site with AI-created summaries for my books; those summaries are both inaccurate and hopelessly bland. Please, folks, if you have kids of book report age, tell them from me that these summary sites are just complete bullshit. Don't trust them and don't copy their blandness.
16 replies 101 reposts 484 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
-- I should also add that if anyone needs pages or info from the site for research meanwhile, the admin has kindly offered to pass copies on. Mostly the old pages are available on Wayback Machine, though, if you can find them, although not every page was captured and many page links do not work.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I will, when I have one. To be clear, I'm not directly involved but I'm acquainted with the admin and in the loop re resurrecting the site (and had his permission to post the rescue news here). There's a lot to do, though, so I wouldn't expect anything for a number of months yet.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
GOOD NEWS! (For those interested in the British Civil Wars)
The BCW Project, which last year was feared defunct after the website vanished, has been rescued thanks to the efforts of the administrator and several supporters.
The data is safe, and the site will be resurrected as time allows.
#17thC
2 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
Daniel Bellingradt
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hello #calligram print of the 1620s, what a nice deer made out of printed words it is, isn't it?
This shape poem, in German Figurengedicht, was printed in #Augsburg and was dealing with the contested hunting rights of the aristocracy. #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians
2 replies 15 reposts 48 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Oh my word, Tricolores! These were most interesting for the graffiti that would send you on a deliberate Easter egg hunt back and forth through various pages, until you reached the previous pupil's scandalous opinion about the French teacher 👀
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
2 replies 23 reposts 71 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Thank god I'm not this author's editor.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Nottingham, 1646: "Joseph Richards, a poore boy that was pinde, and eaten to death with Lice, was Buried the 25th day of June".
"pinde", I presume "pinned"; the only explanation I can think of is that perhaps a medical condition made his behaviour difficult to manage, and he was tied up.
#history
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Precisely why I refuse to use generational labels such as Millennial and Boomer. They actively foster inter-generational division.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A gentle Sunday reminder to BACK UP last week's work. Keep multiple copies in different places. Keep one off site & at least one in your "grab bag", if potential evacuation is part of your life. Always eject/unmount a data stick properly, don't just pull it from the USB port. Have a fabulous day 🌞
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
-- I mean you'd think it was obvious. "My gg-something granddaughter in 380yrs will need to know what happened at Cropredy and where our tercio commander was positioned, so I'll spend half an hour in the pub tonight writing it all down for posterity." But no! Henry, I'm disappointed.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Like the IOI wage slaves in Ready Player One. Once again, fiction threatens to predict reality.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
2/2 "In 1644 the King in Oxford town did dwell / Though we'd heard that Cromwell's* army was nearby / It did not occur to me that little Cropredy / Could be witness to the meeting of both sides" [*WALLER'S!] My ancestor was at Cropredy & failed to leave me an acct telling me where Col Lisle was 🤨
1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"On June the 29th that year I was about my work / cutting hedges in a meadow by the stream / my blade slipped, I cut my hand / my own dear blood did flow, upon the brown earth, and the corn still green." 1/2
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Clueless _and_ lazy for sure! But increasingly encouraged to be so, because of greed and FOMO on the part of business and academia desperate not to miss a bandwagon.
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yep. Even down to MS removing the user's ability to place the toolbar up the side of the screen rather than across the bottom, their paper-thin excuse being "it's too difficult to include that now". They are steadily removing every user choice. I'm moving to Linux.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hurrah! Starter Packs have now appeared for me on both app and desktop. Thanks for doing whatever it was you did 😊👍
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Ooh, thanks for sharing this! I've added it to my vast "Wanted" book list 😊
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Ooof! 😖 How annoying and disappointing. What will you do now? Health is not my field, is the author a crucial voice that you need to use regardless, or did Porter simply make it look interesting?
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Nup, I only have posts, replies, media, likes, feeds, lists. Screenshot attached with the tab bar swiped as far left as poss - I only have the usual stuff, no packs 😥
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm the party pooper! 🙈 I updated to 1.87 (Android) but don't have the new starter pack tab on my profile. I even restarted the phone and then rechecked the app store in case I missed another update, but still nothing. Do I need to wait for it to roll out? Fab feature tho - gold stars to all! ⭐
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So do I. Watching. 🧐
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
-- It's ludicrous. It's circular. You're attributing to LLMs a subject matter authority they don't (cannot!) have, and using that false authority to authenticate the BS about that subject matter that they created! This teetering edifice of nonsense must be pulled down, smashed & erased.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
-- Cited sources lead you backwards, in a chain, to previous data and conclusions, to trace the origin of a concept or argument. By citing ChatGPT all you're saying is "this particular bunch of code gave me this particular bullshit answer". It proves zero. Both answer and citation are worthless.
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Cite ChatGPT? CITE?
The point of citations is to provide authority. ChatGPT is not an authority. On ANYTHING. It's been fed with words & data scraped from god knows where, & mashes answers together based on probabilities. It's just a guessing engine.
Jesus wept 😖
www.lifewire.com/how-to-cite-...
2 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Agree, I ditched Insta a couple of years back. Annoyingly I have to keep a FB acct because I occasionally need to reach someone, but it's empty and I deactivate it in between. Even brief forays on there feel like walking into that grubby pub you don't want to be seen dead in. Ugh!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You're welcome! Starve the beast.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If you're in Europe, today is last chance to opt out of Meta (FB and Insta) stealing your data to train AI. You opt out through the app settings, only takes a few minutes though you will need to check email for a passcode.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
2 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
-- I was very positive about the idea of bridging, until 1) Meta decided to jump into the federated party and pee in the pool, 2) bridging to Threads from Bluesky was achieved experimentally a few days ago. So I'm out. And don't @ me with but, but, but; I'm not going within a mile of a Threads acct.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Serena Jones
@serenaj1642.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Have turned off brid.gy: whilst I'm happy to link to the Fediverse per se, there's no way I want to interact with anyone on Threads, because Meta.
Meta is an amoral, data-hoarding monster, and I don't want it to even know I exist.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes