Perhaps it didn’t make the news in your media. Yesterday, russia damaged the Book Chamber of Ukraine in Kyiv. It holds 15+ million books, newspapers, magazines and maps published in Ukraine since 1917. The collections are now at risk from moisture. Windows in the storage areas were blown out.

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I completely agree. And I think so much academic writing has completely lost its flair and people are reluctant to do things with words anymore. There’s knowledge in *the way things are written* too!

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The other day I was thinking about how difficult, but rewarding, reading academic texts felt at the start of my BA degree. If people are now using LLMs to summarise them, we are losing the entire point of education, not to mention all the nuance/opportunity for interpretation that’s inevitably gone…

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You know how edited collections of academic essays can take a while to come out? Well, one of the contributors to this one died sixteen years ago.

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I had that at a pub quiz once. It was a music question (I’ve forgotten what) and the quizmaster’s answer was wrong, so my team lost the point. He wouldn’t budge. I was furious. One of my teammates said “Ah, it’s only a bit of fun.” NO IT ISN’T!

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