Dinah Roe
@preraphsrule.bsky.social
C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
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Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei
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Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.
Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI will become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.
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Looking for something to do on a drizzly day in #Hampshire?
'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester.
Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester.
Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looking for something to do on a drizzly day in #Hampshire?
'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester.
Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester.
Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...
Oh look - yet another example of how literature is not at all relevant in our modern world. No siree bob
Mary Shelley: I subtitled my book The Modern Prometheus as a cautionary tale
Tech company: At long last,
Tech company: At long last,
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Oh look - yet another example of how literature is not at all relevant in our modern world. No siree bob
Best one-line summary of the problem I've come across (though I still resist the 'product' framing):
“The main outcome is learning to make the product, and you can’t learn that if you don’t do the making.”
“The main outcome is learning to make the product, and you can’t learn that if you don’t do the making.”
who benefits when you cheat yourself?
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
"Students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying w friends, learning from professors, + putting their thoughts into writing. The gray area of cheating not the system but themselves."
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Best one-line summary of the problem I've come across (though I still resist the 'product' framing):
“The main outcome is learning to make the product, and you can’t learn that if you don’t do the making.”
“The main outcome is learning to make the product, and you can’t learn that if you don’t do the making.”
"The device listens to users & their surroundings, remembers what they say & is designed to provide supportive responses. He likes to wear it while going to the movie theater alone...so that he can discuss the plot with his [bot] Friend afterward."
Yes this will surely cure the incel 'crisis'. 🙄
Yes this will surely cure the incel 'crisis'. 🙄
An unassuming circular pendant slightly larger than a quarter has been at the center of a massive uproar.
How this tiny device became a symbol for the backlash against AI | CNN Business
An unassuming circular pendant slightly larger than a quarter has been at the center of a massive uproar. The chief executive behind it isn’t fazed.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The device listens to users & their surroundings, remembers what they say & is designed to provide supportive responses. He likes to wear it while going to the movie theater alone...so that he can discuss the plot with his [bot] Friend afterward."
Yes this will surely cure the incel 'crisis'. 🙄
Yes this will surely cure the incel 'crisis'. 🙄
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Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
"The cost of removing the 60-metre long, 15-metre wide pile of rubbish could be more than the entire annual budget of the local council."
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"The cost of removing the 60-metre long, 15-metre wide pile of rubbish could be more than the entire annual budget of the local council."
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The contaminated waste piled high in a field near Kidlington is now washing into River Cherwell. In the last 48 hours, the water level has risen 4+ feet and is lapping against the illegal dump.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The contaminated waste piled high in a field near Kidlington is now washing into River Cherwell. In the last 48 hours, the water level has risen 4+ feet and is lapping against the illegal dump.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
We stand on the edge of an environmental disaster. We need urgent action from the Environment Agency.
"When women enter workplaces designed by and for men, we’re not imagining the signals that we don’t belong. We’re reading the room accurately."
To dismantle structures that cause imposter syndrome:
- Examine who gets credit & why
- Value collaborative achievements
- Recognize that someone who thinks before speaking might have better ideas than those who dominate the conversation @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
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- Examine who gets credit & why
- Value collaborative achievements
- Recognize that someone who thinks before speaking might have better ideas than those who dominate the conversation @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why women feel like imposters in spaces that value masculine traits
The solution to imposter syndrome isn’t teaching us to be more masculine. It’s dismantling the structures that make us feel like imposters in the first place.
substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"When women enter workplaces designed by and for men, we’re not imagining the signals that we don’t belong. We’re reading the room accurately."
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Anyone having problems with Google Books? I'm getting this blocking shaded screen... Tried different browsers.
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Anyone having problems with Google Books? I'm getting this blocking shaded screen... Tried different browsers.
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"Disappearance Studies," CFP for special issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ar...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on World Literature and Disappearance
| ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Disappearance Studies," CFP for special issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ar...
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
📣 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT📣 We are delighted to announce the acquisition of THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME by @catherineredford.bsky.social, a heart-wrenching debut about young widowhood
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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Today marks publication day for my book When Fitness Went Global!
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Today marks publication day for my book When Fitness Went Global!
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape.
Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...
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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Timely!
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
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global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Timely!
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Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
The video captioning keeps translating 'Barbauld' as 'Bob Oats', and I am CRYING. 🤣💀
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The video captioning keeps translating 'Barbauld' as 'Bob Oats', and I am CRYING. 🤣💀
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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'From next year, universities will be required to cover the employer’s share of a new supplementary health and welfare insurance scheme, known as the PSC, and make increased contributions to a special pension fund for employees, the CAS.' 1/2
French universities fear ‘collapse’ as unfunded extra costs mount
New health and welfare payments mandated in country’s budget will leave institutions ‘unable to fulfil their mission’, scholars say
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'From next year, universities will be required to cover the employer’s share of a new supplementary health and welfare insurance scheme, known as the PSC, and make increased contributions to a special pension fund for employees, the CAS.' 1/2