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Fantastic memories of them filming A Very Peculiar Practice in my halls of residence at Birmingham uni, being allowed to stay in our room while Peter Davison (in pjs) filmed in the corridor - and being told to be quiet as we made too much noise - and chatting to the nuns in a stairwell!
This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?
Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
My latest Dr Who story is in this set: @nicolabryant.bsky.social goes undercover at a 1960s computer dating agency run by Annette Badland; the Doctor and Turlough go to the disco and meet Ginger Rogers. It's *very* serious. www.bigfinish.com/news/v/turlo...
Come and fly in our beautiful balloon - and see who/what gets chucked out.
There’s something truly Dickensian about Johann Hari’s ability to defy the gravity of his long history of incompetence and malpractice. Worthy of a Pecksniff or a Uriah Heep.
Goodbye Michael Keating. The Vila of all our hearts. He was in the first thing I ever wrote, playing a mutant piglet who thought he was Hercule Poirot. In quiet patches he did the odd ushering shift at ENO. I never saw tickets torn with such panache.
Barbara at the BL! @shahidhabari.bsky.social will share the chaise longue. events.bl.uk/events/the-l...
We love you: that’s why we’re here. My celebration of 40 years of A Very Peculiar Practice - with contributions from Peter Davison, Andrew Davies, Barbara Flynn and Davids Tucker and Troughton. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/71b8b80...
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School of Advanced Study, University of London
Andrew Davies’s defining TV series was a surreal parable starring Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn and David Troughton
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents.
I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
