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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor
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Non-fiction editor of award-winning and bestselling books and other media πŸ“š Freelance. Also photographer πŸ“Έ Loves art 🎨 and the guitar 🎸 CIEP Advanced Professional Member ACES full member. Find me: lisacordaro.com
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Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
Right! No idea it had been around for 10 years before I found it too 😁
She taught me Russian Literature: I learned a lot about the country, its history and culture from studying those authors.

No doubt some of those books are on the banned list now: Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, maybe even Dostoyevsky.

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College is such a valuable and important time and chance to encounter other perspectives. Erasing them erases lived history, philosophy and experience...

This week, one of my professors passed away.

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Put it this way: uni didn't 'wake me up' – it didn't need to. I'd not come from a soft, affluent background, had already lived its effect.

But it did facilitate my ability to question, to think critically.

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And the best Department of Government, with the UK's leading experts on Thatcherism and elections at the time, very much in demand in academe and the media.

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I was taught by Oxbridge-educated Marxist professors. Doc Martens-wearing, Smiths-listening types who rated Brecht and worked with Brenton and Hare...

...But there was an active Conservative Society on campus.

A vibrant international student body.

And incredible, sometimes heated debate.

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Not brutal, but an excellent class war putdown from a guy crossing the road to a posh, rah Cambridge student on a bike braying at him to 'Get out of my way!':

'Oh shut up, you plum' πŸ˜‚

Calling someone a fartleberry is savage (see Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)

And just for fun, this πŸ‘‡πŸ˜
Shakespeare Insult Generator
codepo8.github.io
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Tomorrow it's the 7th birthday of #buyastrangerabook!

It first happened on May 2nd 2018.

Incredible!

Thanks so much for allowing it to keep going.

I LOVE doing it and really hope you enjoy it all too.

See you tomorrow!

www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
An indie bookshop is getting strangers to buy each other books on Twitter
Big Green Bookshop is giving readers the chance to #buyastrangerabook every Wednesday
www.bigissue.com
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We welcome news about the joint venture between the Copyright Licensing Agency, Publishing Licensing Services & @alcs.co.uk to develop a collective licence for generative AI. This announcement is timely and demonstrates that licensing for AI is possible with transparency & remuneration for authors.
Gillian, talk to a lawyer about misrepresentation and defamation. Right of paternity could be an issue here too, if ChatGPT has stolen your work and regurgitated it under your byline. People have already brought cases where AI has hallucinated and libelled them.

See also this πŸ‘‡
Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
goodlawproject.org
😬 That looks like the aftermath of a medical procedure!
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Post a cool library πŸ“š

Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1800.

The national repository for every book published in the USA, important historic documents and much more! πŸ“šπŸ“œ

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky πŸ’™πŸ“š #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
😊 The atmosphere in bluebell woods is so serene and special 😍