AlanFricker
@alanfricker.bsky.social
Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen.
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Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Inside the Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland is an intriguing remnant from life on the home front during the Second World War.
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Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Disappointed in Stamford Council not having an open metadata policy. Another duffer from Google AI
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Disappointed in Stamford Council not having an open metadata policy. Another duffer from Google AI
The pain of having a screen grab of your website shared in some ones talk and it showing that the formatting has broken again
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The pain of having a screen grab of your website shared in some ones talk and it showing that the formatting has broken again
I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Thanks for that Google AI - very helpful.
(I was checking the spelling of dephlogisticated air)
(I was checking the spelling of dephlogisticated air)
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Thanks for that Google AI - very helpful.
(I was checking the spelling of dephlogisticated air)
(I was checking the spelling of dephlogisticated air)
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Back on checking transcripts - fave this morning Chachi PT
a man in a leather jacket is standing in a doorway with the words `` correct-a-mondo '' written on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in a doorway with the words `` correct-a-mondo '' written on it .
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Back on checking transcripts - fave this morning Chachi PT
Got both the monitors working on my hot desk for the first time in weeks #SmallWins (from neither of them working when I arrived)
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Got both the monitors working on my hot desk for the first time in weeks #SmallWins (from neither of them working when I arrived)
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Perfect. No notes.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Perfect. No notes.
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Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it's a plugin I'd encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a…
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it's a plugin I'd encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a…
Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it's a plugin I'd encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable archived version. It also works proactively by archiving your own posts every time they’re updated, creating a consistent backup of your content’s history. I've been doing this manually on my old archives, fixing broken links and tending the garden. But we can make it all automatic. 🙂
ma.tt
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it's a plugin I'd encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a…
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it's a plugin I'd encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a…
Looked up my town on the grok encyclopedia. Mixture of random inaccuracies with the odd bit of political editorialising. Won't be rushing back
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looked up my town on the grok encyclopedia. Mixture of random inaccuracies with the odd bit of political editorialising. Won't be rushing back
Lovely coincidence - talking about triggers broom and reading an interview with Jimmy Wales today
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lovely coincidence - talking about triggers broom and reading an interview with Jimmy Wales today
Back looking at the transcriptions and interested that the AI has uncovered my brummie secret
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Back looking at the transcriptions and interested that the AI has uncovered my brummie secret
Had already been listening to this version regularly of late - another reason. RIP Dave Ball
The already heart-rending Say Hello, Wave Goodbye takes on cinematic reach here. They were one of the few, pre-house era English groups (outside of hip hop remixers) to fully grasp the artistic liberation offered by the extended mix: i.e. not just mere extension:
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
soft cell - say hello wave goodbye - 12 inch version - 1982 original vinyl
YouTube video by TheBuslisormi
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Had already been listening to this version regularly of late - another reason. RIP Dave Ball
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The already heart-rending Say Hello, Wave Goodbye takes on cinematic reach here. They were one of the few, pre-house era English groups (outside of hip hop remixers) to fully grasp the artistic liberation offered by the extended mix: i.e. not just mere extension:
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
soft cell - say hello wave goodbye - 12 inch version - 1982 original vinyl
YouTube video by TheBuslisormi
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The already heart-rending Say Hello, Wave Goodbye takes on cinematic reach here. They were one of the few, pre-house era English groups (outside of hip hop remixers) to fully grasp the artistic liberation offered by the extended mix: i.e. not just mere extension:
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
youtu.be/vdH_xOIlbbk?...
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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This is a big issue in Medicine, but its also a big issue elsewhere. The shove all the Internet just into a box approach to training data just allows AI to exaggerate existing biases 😟
New blog post (never a paywall): "The Default Body: AI, biased health data, and the illusion of objectivity." Medicine's idea of a “universal body” was never universal. It was male, and now AI is learning from that legacy. Bias doesn’t disappear in data; it scales. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is a big issue in Medicine, but its also a big issue elsewhere. The shove all the Internet just into a box approach to training data just allows AI to exaggerate existing biases 😟
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This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
Probably a nice example for a critical appraisal discussion about sample bias
Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.
Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)
Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Probably a nice example for a critical appraisal discussion about sample bias
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Whilst I'm always looking to buy record collections, at the moment it's a priority!
Do you know anyone looking to shift their collection, or perhaps are you embracing a different format... or moving, whatever the reason.
DM
WhatsApp - 07455680866
Email - brighterdayviny@gmail.com
Let's chat! 🌞
Do you know anyone looking to shift their collection, or perhaps are you embracing a different format... or moving, whatever the reason.
DM
WhatsApp - 07455680866
Email - brighterdayviny@gmail.com
Let's chat! 🌞
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Whilst I'm always looking to buy record collections, at the moment it's a priority!
Do you know anyone looking to shift their collection, or perhaps are you embracing a different format... or moving, whatever the reason.
DM
WhatsApp - 07455680866
Email - brighterdayviny@gmail.com
Let's chat! 🌞
Do you know anyone looking to shift their collection, or perhaps are you embracing a different format... or moving, whatever the reason.
DM
WhatsApp - 07455680866
Email - brighterdayviny@gmail.com
Let's chat! 🌞
Transcription glitch of the day. Keeps adding the words "Play song". No idea where they are coming from
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Transcription glitch of the day. Keeps adding the words "Play song". No idea where they are coming from
Can any @cilip.bsky.social Health Libraries Group friends help me access the following article?
Atkinson, J. Getting the evidence... and using it? NLH/NHS England LibQUAL + Pilot Library Survey 2006: the RCN experience. Libraries for Nursing Bulletin 2006, 26, 3–11.
The #Cilip archive is down.
Atkinson, J. Getting the evidence... and using it? NLH/NHS England LibQUAL + Pilot Library Survey 2006: the RCN experience. Libraries for Nursing Bulletin 2006, 26, 3–11.
The #Cilip archive is down.
October 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New transcription joy - every time I cough (regular at present) it adds the word "None"
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New transcription joy - every time I cough (regular at present) it adds the word "None"