James Green

Good news that the digitised Beowulf manuscript has survived the digital equivalent of the Cottonian Library fire, the British Library cyberattack of 2023

V simple red circles on black containing the relevant words

Poetic Artifice - Veronica Forrest-Thompson

Bluesky should add toil

What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI As AI becomes ever more interwoven in daily life, new research from Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, and Gašper Beguš, PhD '18, is beginning to map out machine learning’ "latent space," the hidden mathematical ar...

A fascinating article about how researchers use Finnegans Wake to assess AI's learning process.

gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...

When amol rajan congratulates university challenge teams on applauding each other I boo and jeer at the tv

the rye museum also had a collection of old 1950s machines where you'd put in a penny and they'd move and do a little show. this one, "the laughing sailor", was quite creepy

“Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.”

(Wittgenstein, On Certainty)

This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage

Crivelli is so good, probably my favourite

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on 21 November 2024 and it has made no difference to how Netanyahu is covered in the press. We’re all supposed to pretend not to know that he is accused of deliberately starving civilians.

inspector morse vinyl soundtrack

one sec babe, just need to get the mood right

An annoying performance, this. Wouldn't recommend

Annoying caricatures by Edward sorel of yeats joyce and o'casey on this. Ugh hated looking at this cover.

A Colder Eye - Hugh Kenner

Hobbies include: clicking 'yes' to continue,

Teal verso radical thinkers edition, with a white line drawing showing a spiky circle split into quadrants symbolising the four phenomena determining women's social roles according to mitchell

Woman's Estate - Juliet Mitchell

Headline (from Guardian): 'Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say'

Detail from article: 'ILR would be scrapped and replaced with a renewable five-year work visa with a high salary threshold, Yusuf will say, meaning tens of thousands [sic? - think this should be hundreds of thousands] currently with settled status could lose their right to be in the UK.'

In a way, I feel kind of grateful to Zia Yusuf for dragging my attention back to the fact that the party leading in the polls has as a policy deporting a group of people that includes my wife. It's oddly easy to forget this on a day-to-day level and I absolutely shouldn't.

Applying for an esta to go to the us. The page where they ask you to volunteer social media info still calls it 'twitter' lol

Jamieson's Favourite YouTube video by Release - Topic

youtu.be/Ih0o72U3VgI?...

bored now. arrest another one

Tibetan Calendar wheel - By SHANTI Cohort - https://www.flickr.com/photos/uva-shanti/23885940507/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79979857

Losar Tashi Delegs - Year of the Fire Horse

Statue gets blasted in face over grey... much to think about

The Final Pagan Generation - Edward J. Watts

Masterchef the professionals this week tapping into rare and noxious archetypes ... heston blumenthal cyclist ...

You, uncultured swine: seahawks beat the stags today.
Me, refined: bodø/glimt, qarabag, standard liége, galatasaray... merely some of the names floating through my head at a given time

I have an article in the new special issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, 'The Century at 25'—working through some research that didn't make it into the book while processing Lucy Ellmann's _Ducks, Newburyport_ and Olga Tokarczuk's _Flights_

About to pull some crazy shit at the doctor's office

A lot of the flaws in the new wuthering heights are shared with the new frankenstein but (puffing my pipe a little) you do notice that people are far less forgiving of emerald fennell's idées-fixes than they are of guillermo del toro's

A place called finnegans fish and chips, crucially lacking the apostrophe to signal joycean affiliation

Finnegans hake in barry island

Very weird sensation as I have a weirdly unsore sore throat and am losing my voice. Never experienced this before