Samantha Thompson

Brit-Canadian archivist-librarian, trad-classical musician, post-academic philosophy PhD, and other hyphenated things. Can't help it: so much to learn.

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@MetamateDaz Amen

[Annie Crawford @annielcrawford]

We have always been heart-damaged but now we are quite clearly a brain-damaged people.

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@MrDanielBuck Thry will claim a disability makes them unable to work in that manner.

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@umairjav The upshot seems to be that people are rendering themselves into research assistants gathering physical material in readable form for the bots who get to do the fun stuff with it.

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@thewillmetcalfe Brain already affected...

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@omgsidewalks I'd do more than that

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@LlewelynLawton I'll dig it out in the next while. It's in a primary source in one of our collections.

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@LlewelynLawton The band is in some of Hardy's short stories too.
If interested I came across a reference to a band in an Indigenous church here.

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@LlewelynLawton You could ask someone at https://t.co/47ADyzfDDJ. Some of his papers are Yale (bah!) and others held by Dorset https://t.co/PX6CIaoFs1. They might be able to refer you? I swear I read something about his interest in gallery bands.

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@lugubrious_lad @_motherslug And that's why dysfunction keeps going...and going...and going.

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@lauramatsue The problem is that good writing used to be a proxy for intelligence. No one wants to say this however.

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@Tyler_A_Harper I noticed Christians were the best thinkers about technology before I even became one. The list is long.

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@B_Strawbridge Fascinating

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@PAHoyeck Huh, yeah that's alien to me. That's a weird thing for them to try to do, as any historical account involves interpretation (these thinkers are mostly saying quite complicated things!), which can always be disputed.

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@elainesim28 I have "work" ibuprofen and "home" ibuprofen.

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The bulk of the human work involved here was gathering the sources so AI could "read" them. Presumably this could have included fetching and transcribing original primary sources from archives. So this chap was essentially a good old-fashioned research assistant for a machine.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

🚨Claude Code just gave me a complete research paper with a single prompt.

The paper has a strong argument and even beats AI-detection app, Pangram.

With a little editing, it can pass for 100% human, and can be easily submitted for peer review.

Here's the workflow I used:

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@johnmilbank3 This is all machines. Why we've all been especially fried since the invention of the microprocessor.

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@muheediva01 All of them