1/5. "I always hoped there would be dogs" announces David Niven when he thinks he's died and done to heaven in A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (#PowellAndPressburger, 1946). Powell was a dog lover and his 2 golden cocker spaniels, Erik and Spangle, had cameos in a number of his films.

This is wonderful www.bfi.org.uk/features/wat...

Film Cyber Security Job Klaxon! Come and work in the British Film Institute and help us to protect our mission and the collections in the #BFINationalArchive from the threats of cyber attack - a new Head of Cyber Security role - closing date Monday 9th of December

That's a Cybersecurity Advisory worth reading, with many important points to note.

Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization
www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

#infosec #blueteam

For those interested, I made a GPT that can evaluate Terms of Service agreements and tell you if the content you're uploading to a service is at risk of being used to train AI models. Just give it a URL:
chatgpt.com/g/g-67410323...

Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms.
We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data.
Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇

🚨 UPDATE: New Whisper based model competing with Nvidia on Open ASR Leaderboard! 🔥

CrisperWhisper aims to transcribe every spoken word exactly as it is, including fillers, pauses, stutters and false starts

Whisper Large V3 fine-tune - beats it by roughly ~1 WER margin ⚡

hf.co/spaces/hf-au...

For #WorldTelevisionDay here’s how we preserve U.K. telly from videotape at the #BFINationalArchive and make it available in the BFI Mediatheque in London blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access.

Can't wait to share it all with you.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Anton Walbrook would like to let you know that the glorious Technicolor restoration of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social is now available on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Here's a useful tool for Bluesky

Type your account name in and activate

It will come up with a list of the accounts followed by the people you follow..

If you type in your password it will give that list with an optional follow button to make life easy.

Try it 💙💙

bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky

@theguardian.com

We're happy when it rains too. Thanks to Jim Reid for including Slow Summits in his Baker's Dozen, it means a lot. @thequietus.bsky.social

thequietus.com/interviews/b...

I could not be happier to announce that I have curated a season of Luchino Visconti's works, featuring a 4k restoration of my favourite, Rocco and his Brothers, for January 2025. More than half of the films will be screening on 35mm at BFI Southbank. More info here: www.bfi.org.uk/news/luchino...

Some #BFINationalArchive work profiled for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 - first our Netflix #digipres featuring important acronyms like IMF, IMP, SMPTE, MXF- www.bfi.org.uk/features/arc...

Thought-provoking laptop sticker given out for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 at Senate House in London today

And now ... I get to declare World Digital Preservation Day officially open! Woohoo! Blogging by me celebrating the communities we work in and the commuinities we work for...
www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/op...