Considerations of audience will play a part. UK press coverage of these cases seems as much about harvesting clicks from a hyper-engaged interest group as conventional news values; I'd expect most coverage to reflect the viewpoint that feeds the meter

sadly these may be features not bugs, ie aiming to brute-force ‘tiering’ at institutional level (see also moving away from ‘pockets of excellence’ in REF)

would be amazing to see this back in print, eh @liammcilvanney.bsky.social?

surely Rogers and Hammerstein

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

UK ball-watchers who slept through that are definitionally not actually into baseball

has anyone done The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince?