Dr Andrew McInnes
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
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ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules
ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on popular songs without permission
A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling.
The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Looks directly into the camera. COME ON.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Looks directly into the camera. COME ON.
Oh my god this is excellent 🖤
Wuthering Heights might be (sound) good, actually?
Wuthering Heights might be (sound) good, actually?
You'd *never* see Taylor Swift do a collaboration with Cale and that's why Charlie xcx is a treasure to be protected at all costs.
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh my god this is excellent 🖤
Wuthering Heights might be (sound) good, actually?
Wuthering Heights might be (sound) good, actually?
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Austen in the streets, Shelley in the sheets
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Austen in the streets, Shelley in the sheets
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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I’m excited to return to Aberdeen University, where I studied for my PhD a long time ago. I’ll be discussing Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho before the library’s wonderful exhibition Fear and Fascination closes.
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/whats-on/22931
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/whats-on/22931
TALK: Lifting the Veil on Ann Radcliffe's 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' - Professor Angela Wright
We are delighted to welcome Professor Angela Wright for the final event as part of the Fear and Fascination Gothic Exhibition programme. This talk is a collaboration with the Centre for the Novel and ...
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I’m excited to return to Aberdeen University, where I studied for my PhD a long time ago. I’ll be discussing Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho before the library’s wonderful exhibition Fear and Fascination closes.
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/whats-on/22931
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/whats-on/22931
They should 100% start the film with him waking up in the shower!
Then he should fight some guys.
Maybe later he gets buried alive and busts out of a grave reading James Bond with the year of No Time to Die as his death year.
Then he should fight some guys.
Maybe later he gets buried alive and busts out of a grave reading James Bond with the year of No Time to Die as his death year.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They should 100% start the film with him waking up in the shower!
Then he should fight some guys.
Maybe later he gets buried alive and busts out of a grave reading James Bond with the year of No Time to Die as his death year.
Then he should fight some guys.
Maybe later he gets buried alive and busts out of a grave reading James Bond with the year of No Time to Die as his death year.
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings |
Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
Nobody would a-miss an Amis!
both Amises can just disappear, never to be heard of again, IMO
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Nobody would a-miss an Amis!
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Surely it’s time for the mashup we’ve all been waiting for? Emma as Dr Frankenstein.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Surely it’s time for the mashup we’ve all been waiting for? Emma as Dr Frankenstein.
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The answer is Austen cos Austen could write a novel about an unhinged creator playing god with her creation’s lives (Emma) whereas Shelley could not write Pride & Prejudice (I mean, Lodore? Falkner?)
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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New and restocked sticker designs!
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New and restocked sticker designs!
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What the fuck do you mean they‘re already shoving this down our throats…
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
Universities risk irrelevance by failing to engage fully with AI
It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What the fuck do you mean they‘re already shoving this down our throats…
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.
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Miss Piggy is still the leading choice for Rosamond. No other Muppet actors appear.
I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Miss Piggy is still the leading choice for Rosamond. No other Muppet actors appear.
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Now now. This could descend into ribaldry and get us into a public spat, and we left all that behind on twitter. (Will Self?)
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Now now. This could descend into ribaldry and get us into a public spat, and we left all that behind on twitter. (Will Self?)
Great quote on Del Toro’s Mexican Frankenstein from this interview: www.gq.com/story/oscar-...
![Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein with quote:
"[Frankenstein is] an emotional Mexican melodrama that we made. This is a very European story told in an extremely Latin point of view. At one point I was like,
"That is a lot, man. Is this too much?" And [Guillermo del Toro] is like, "Look, cabrón, it is not an accident that my Victor's real name is Oscar Isaac Hernández."
— Oscar Isaac on making 'Frankenstein' with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (via GQ)
The interview also describes Victor as punk and his Red gloves as like Prince](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreiatcbx7e3f2pnq6jdytez6bo4rvkdd2mhe462eyjazc2lyulzkuny@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Great quote on Del Toro’s Mexican Frankenstein from this interview: www.gq.com/story/oscar-...
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I refuse to discard one. They spent their lives being squashed into taking up less space and I have room. I'll take both and ditch some enormous male literary ego *picks name almost at random*
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I refuse to discard one. They spent their lives being squashed into taking up less space and I have room. I'll take both and ditch some enormous male literary ego *picks name almost at random*
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guillermo del toro's movies r all primarily cute and sort of sad/melancholy. like. people r always trying to call him stuff like "master of horror" but it's not true. he's master of cute monsters. cutie sympathetic little guys.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
guillermo del toro's movies r all primarily cute and sort of sad/melancholy. like. people r always trying to call him stuff like "master of horror" but it's not true. he's master of cute monsters. cutie sympathetic little guys.
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For #MosaicMonday a charming duck.
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For #MosaicMonday a charming duck.
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD
📷 me
On display at Museum am Dom, Trier
🏺 #archaeology
The answer is Austen cos Austen could write a novel about an unhinged creator playing god with her creation’s lives (Emma) whereas Shelley could not write Pride & Prejudice (I mean, Lodore? Falkner?)
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The answer is Austen cos Austen could write a novel about an unhinged creator playing god with her creation’s lives (Emma) whereas Shelley could not write Pride & Prejudice (I mean, Lodore? Falkner?)
This is it - the tweet that broke me! 🤯😢💀
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is it - the tweet that broke me! 🤯😢💀