Reposted by Martin DolanIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I took a friend to a Geoffrey Hill poetry reading in Leeds during my student days and it was all I could do to stop him shouting this out. 0172 17
Reposted by Martin DolanThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 06/03/2025NEW: Google AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunderthenational.scotGoogle AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunderGOOGLE'S "experimental" AI service has been caught out for telling web users that the traditional Scottish dish of haggis is in fact a… 62610 26
Reposted by Martin DolanBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality 53120264306 12K
Martin Dolan @martindolan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...open.substack.comFower Pessoas: Colin BramwellPessoa and his heteronyms discuss Scots and language in this week's article from Colin Bramwell 041 4
Reposted by Martin DolanKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/02/2025These systems aren't "hallucinating" - this is exactly what you expect from a word order guessing machine If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning 819765 197
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm)
