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Stephen McConnachie

@mcnatch.bsky.social
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Head of Data and Digital Preservation at #BFINationalArchive @BFI #digipres #digitalpreservation #avarchiving Opinions my own

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
1/5. "I always hoped there would be dogs" announces David Niven when he thinks he's died and done to heaven in A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (#PowellAndPressburger, 1946). Powell was a dog lover and his 2 golden cocker spaniels, Erik and Spangle, had cameos in a number of his films.
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is wonderful www.bfi.org.uk/features/wat...
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The real locations from Watership Down: how they look today
When making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers?
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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Film Cyber Security Job Klaxon! Come and work in the British Film Institute and help us to protect our mission and the collections in the #BFINationalArchive from the threats of cyber attack - a new Head of Cyber Security role - closing date Monday 9th of December
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Denny Fischer @df-sec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
That's a Cybersecurity Advisory worth reading, with many important points to note. Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization www.cisa.gov/news-events/... #infosec #blueteam
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Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization | CISA
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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 22/11/2024
For those interested, I made a GPT that can evaluate Terms of Service agreements and tell you if the content you're uploading to a service is at risk of being used to train AI models. Just give it a URL: chatgpt.com/g/g-67410323...
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms. We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data. Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇
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vb @reach-vb.hf.co · 20/11/2024
🚨 UPDATE: New Whisper based model competing with Nvidia on Open ASR Leaderboard! 🔥 CrisperWhisper aims to transcribe every spoken word exactly as it is, including fillers, pauses, stutters and false starts Whisper Large V3 fine-tune - beats it by roughly ~1 WER margin ⚡ hf.co/spaces/hf-au...
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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For #WorldTelevisionDay here’s how we preserve U.K. telly from videotape at the #BFINationalArchive and make it available in the BFI Mediatheque in London blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...
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Week 1: 12-19 November 2024 – BFI’s ten-year strategy
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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Anton Walbrook would like to let you know that the glorious Technicolor restoration of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social is now available on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here's a useful tool for Bluesky Type your account name in and activate It will come up with a list of the accounts followed by the people you follow.. If you type in your password it will give that list with an optional follow button to make life easy. Try it 💙💙 bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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The Pastels @thepastels.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
We're happy when it rains too. Thanks to Jim Reid for including Slow Summits in his Baker's Dozen, it means a lot. @thequietus.bsky.social thequietus.com/interviews/b...
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Beautiful Losers: Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Baker’s Dozen | Page 4 of 14
This record feels like where The Pastels were moving towards for a while. They’d always had great songs but the productions could sometimes be a bit lo-fi and scratchy, which I also love, but by this ...
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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I could not be happier to announce that I have curated a season of Luchino Visconti's works, featuring a 4k restoration of my favourite, Rocco and his Brothers, for January 2025. More than half of the films will be screening on 35mm at BFI Southbank. More info here: www.bfi.org.uk/news/luchino...
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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Some #BFINationalArchive work profiled for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 - first our Netflix #digipres featuring important acronyms like IMF, IMP, SMPTE, MXF- www.bfi.org.uk/features/arc...
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Archiving Netflix: how and what we preserve from the streamer’s programming
In 2022, the BFI National Archive announced a partnership with Netflix for a selection of their shows to be preserved as part of the national collection. Two years on, we look at highlights from the s...
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Marc Alexander @mga.is · 07/11/2024
Thought-provoking laptop sticker given out for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 at Senate House in London today
Laptop sticker from the Digital Preservation Coalition saying “storage is not preservation”
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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
And now ... I get to declare World Digital Preservation Day officially open! Woohoo! Blogging by me celebrating the communities we work in and the commuinities we work for... www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/op...
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