Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Oh good heavens. What could possibly go wrong?
ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Oh good heavens. What could possibly go wrong?
ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Academic study of the BBC consistently shows a right-wing bias but it is only ever news when it is accused of left-wing bias…which is very characteristic of the general miserable sordid reactionary British media in general theconversation.com/bbc-question...
BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Academic study of the BBC consistently shows a right-wing bias but it is only ever news when it is accused of left-wing bias…which is very characteristic of the general miserable sordid reactionary British media in general theconversation.com/bbc-question...
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
That Keir Starmer’s government foundered in its attempt to cut £5bn from welfare earlier this year was “a red flag from the perspective of the gilt market”
These people are ghouls who think it's all a game.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
These people are ghouls who think it's all a game.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The bond market is wrong. Reeves should not cut welfare to placate the City | Richard Partington
Keeping the markets on side is the chancellor’s priority but it’s not an easy task given their simplistic, misplaced views on welfare cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That Keir Starmer’s government foundered in its attempt to cut £5bn from welfare earlier this year was “a red flag from the perspective of the gilt market”
These people are ghouls who think it's all a game.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
These people are ghouls who think it's all a game.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Data is not available upon request https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4008
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Data is not available upon request https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4008
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Magnifique.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Magnifique.
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Hearing great things about the new novel (checks notes) Middlemarch
I got an email from Audible and am thrilled to share the news that George Eliot has released a brand new title
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hearing great things about the new novel (checks notes) Middlemarch
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Just had two really positive reader reports on my next book (proposal and sample chapter). Some constructive-critical ideas put forward, but it's put a metaphorical bounce in my step.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just had two really positive reader reports on my next book (proposal and sample chapter). Some constructive-critical ideas put forward, but it's put a metaphorical bounce in my step.
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
www.thebookseller.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
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we’re doing a frankenstein double bill tonight and i’ve gone down the adaptations rabbit hole
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
we’re doing a frankenstein double bill tonight and i’ve gone down the adaptations rabbit hole
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“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
New at Orbit:
Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024)
This article reads Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) within the context of several other works of “post-Huck” fiction that have responded directly to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. It finds that, ...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New at Orbit:
Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
Booker, K., (2025) “Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s James (2024) ”, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 12(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/orb...
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
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Quite a headline.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Quite a headline.
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Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex www.sussex.ac.uk/news/univers...
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex
Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
www.sussex.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex www.sussex.ac.uk/news/univers...
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Curious little story this one. REF Team telling everyone they can't use REF 2029 logo any more. Seems to contradict previous years' guidance, and could make work for people.
REF 2029 branding ban baffles research offices.
Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF 2029 branding ban baffles research offices - Research Professional News
Instruction to remove Research Excellence Framework logo from university materials prompts confusion
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Curious little story this one. REF Team telling everyone they can't use REF 2029 logo any more. Seems to contradict previous years' guidance, and could make work for people.
Yesterday's walk in two phases. 1 Robyn lies down and refuses to walk another step. 2 Robyn gets a ride on the support vehicle and doesn't like it!
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Yesterday's walk in two phases. 1 Robyn lies down and refuses to walk another step. 2 Robyn gets a ride on the support vehicle and doesn't like it!
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Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …
orbit.openlibhums.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Classic
I hadn't planned to do anything particular for #WDPD this year, but when inspiration hits who am I to deny it?
So, here's my contribution for 2025, all put together since 10:30 this morning! A bit of fun aimed at everyone's "favourite" standard... 😝
youtu.be/OXb0NMKumkc
So, here's my contribution for 2025, all put together since 10:30 this morning! A bit of fun aimed at everyone's "favourite" standard... 😝
youtu.be/OXb0NMKumkc
Actually Pedantic
YouTube video by Sharon McMeekin
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Classic
Today's peek inside the @kcommons.bsky.social tech lab: whenever we change the site, we have a set of automated tests that run to verify we haven't broken anything that was working before. Some of these test the code, and some test the actual site with a simulated browser. Green ticks make me happy!
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today's peek inside the @kcommons.bsky.social tech lab: whenever we change the site, we have a set of automated tests that run to verify we haven't broken anything that was working before. Some of these test the code, and some test the actual site with a simulated browser. Green ticks make me happy!