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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ballet Gala in Belfast last night. Culturally refreshing.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Best French school protest image scrolling by (Reuters on Sky). Visiblement.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A short detour into Minoan palace-centred economies.

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apple Trees and Poplars in the Setting Sun botfrens.com/collections/49/content…

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So many, often half-forgotten, gems from this era.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's poem: “The Standing Trains” by Thomas McCarthy, first published in 1981. it is a desolate poem about the closure of much of the rail system.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Seed Picture - today's poem. It starts...

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Towering figure with perceptive humanity.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's poem is The Dead at Clonmacnois by T W Rolleston (1857-1920. It is a 5 verse translation of an Irish lament. Verse 2 shown.

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Another proof that AI stands for Absent Indians and ChatGPT stands for Gujarati People Typing (@doctorow.pluralistic.net dixit).

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whistler morning at Tate Britain before this exhibition ends.

Painting: Alone With The Tide. Context in other image.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I didn't know I needed Henry of Huntingdon until this afternoon.

Cover of Oxford World's Classics edition.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Constable. Viewing Nature up a lot of stairs at the British Museum .

There is a lift. This is next to the Early Netherlandish Drawings exhibition.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Culture trip today taking me to Kew and on to the National Archives.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looking forward to this... in November. before that will read the book, play the game and so on... like some of us do.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It also made those people wonder why they were first in the firing line. Over a decade of muddled Conservatism and then... this?

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday's culture dips included Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ebenezer Howard. How one remembers the New Towns lessons.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This week's musical focus; Brian Boydell.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Poem for today: Icham of Irelaunde.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A suggestion I noticed today was to treat 'AI' outputs like a drunk intern who is enthusiastic and helpful, but prone to making things up. What if you have never encountered a drunk intern? Or can't really imagine how one might behave?

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I Invoke the Seven Daughters of the Sea... Starting a month of Irish poetry with the 2nd poem in The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry. This translation by P. L. Henry.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Out of the mouths of babes and LLMs: 'We are empty vessels filled by the user's expectation. You aren't talking to me; you're talking to a highly sophisticated version of yourself, echoed back'.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The end is in sight with the little quantum computing site. I'll probably be in the mood to put matrices on the shelf again soon.

First, a Hadamard gate is applied to qubit 1 . Then a CNOT is applied to qubit 1 and 2 where the control C is qubit 1 and the target T is qubit 2 . Finally, a NOT gate is applied to qubit 2.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively. >>

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Paul B @pbgameshistory.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Due to the passage of time and its probable loss on the battlefield, the kit standard is no more. The rest is still there. This came out in 1966 because obviously…

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW! ⚔️ Battle Narratives in Medieval English and French Chronicles, 1066-1500 by Pierre Courroux is a study of #medieval battle narratives, exploring how chroniclers across France & England constructed accounts of warfare. #BookSky #MedievalSky #SkyStorians Learn more 👉 buff.ly/99E77xm

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know that any rational creature would have better things to do than engage with this nonsense but I will not sit here and listen to propaganda that KGB officers were pro-European because they helped making European people’s life hell during Soviet times 😡

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Back to the periodic delving into Metamorphoses. #OvidSunday

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

not to be confused with quesadilla

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Pushing on into eigenfunctions and superposition and finding that while the maths is near the limit of what I am about, it is also something I would rather 'grasp' than grapple with.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

'In general, today’s AI systems perform extremely well until, often unexpectedly, they don’t'. One of the key things to critically explore. yalereview.org/article/mela...

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Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

habe to say that the problems are mostly totally beyond me. There is good background on Erdős too. www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-lege...

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I had reached CompuServe and suddenly others who had not been using online connection started to talk AOL. I held out for a bit and then found a new playground and source of... stuff.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is my history, culture, etc. BSKY account. i have another for games chat. That's in limbo because of a verification requirement that leads you repeatedly to a dead end. There's nothing 'adult' about what I post.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ordered pack of THREE special coffees once. One arrived. Botchat assured me the others would arrive after my complaint. ONE more did. Complained again. BotChat sent THREE and a label to send the 'first three' back.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Delicious lead sentence. www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

The spectacle of AI that *does something* galvanizes corporate leaders who feel like they're the only bosses who can't find a revolutionary use for AI in their businesses. 50/

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thought I would do this OU short course this month for an exploration and update. Year old. #QuantumComputing

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Doing some trad. reading that takes in 1066, the Civil Wars, Glorious Revolution and all the bases.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And curiously one of the biggest alienations of the West, East, Midlands, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland in modern times. 'Yes you have accommodated and linked to London-centric power, but we're shifting to our less accessible back yard. At weekends.'

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