Freelance academic editor • PhD from @durham_uni: the modernist kiss • @wtppod_ host. I love great books and bad TV.
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My editing business now has a website! Check it out, get in touch, and pass it on to anyone in need of editing, research services, or writer coaching (academics, graduate students, writers, you name it).
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Very proud that my article on cinematic kisses has been published in the latest issue of @MModernity!
The article is based on Chapter 2 of my thesis; I wrote it a few years ago, so reading it now feels slightly like an out-of-body experience, but I'm thrilled it's in the world!
The article is titled, "The Interracial Screen Kiss: Haptic Cinema and Racial Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World," and you can find it here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56814
I've never been one for the Romantics, but this week I've been thinking about AI threatening human creativity and the environment via Wordsworth's worries about the Industrial Revolution:
Just received the proofs (yay!) of an article I submitted in 2022 and it truly feels like an out of body experience. I do not remember researching or writing any of this.
This is not going to stop everyone from studying creative arts.
It’ll ensure that the only people with access are the rich.
“We’re going to stop the government funding dead end university courses”
Shadow education secretary Laura Trott says her party would stop funding courses that “don’t deliver for young people” citing some creative arts courses as an example
#BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
🤔 in this thesis I will…
Margot Robbie says her ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation is much more courageous and passionate than the book :
“There is actually not much kissing in the book, but we kiss a lot in the movie. We kiss everywhere.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Margot never said that the adaptation is more courageous and passionate than the book. The quote was also edited, mixing Jimmy Kimmel's words with Margot's during the interview.
Minute 10:34 in the video.
youtu.be/kpLarmsYVx4?si…
My student loan has only grown since I started paying it off. I was 17 when I signed up for it. How the hell was I supposed to understand?
Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT
Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"
"From the day I was charged RPI interest"
"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"
"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"
"On top of that its a regressive system"
"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"
"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"
Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"
Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"
"The state paid for it, didn't they?"
Fiona Bruce, "They did"
Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"
Has Erica Kirk read the part of the Bible where Jesus is murdered for protesting against a corrupt regime
Possibly the best author bio I've ever read: Raj Patel has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them.
I’m an American citizen with an English accent. I wonder why ICE haven’t tried to arrest me?
A great example of why you should not rely on LLMs to write for you when you have a word limit (and, let’s face it, you always have a word limit):
LLMs cannot stick to a specific word count! They can only count tokens, and some words use more tokens than others.
The fact that an LLM literally cannot think aside, the part of the prompt that says “think hard about this” is removing the point of the PhD from the process, which is learning how to think of original ideas in your subject area and demonstrating that thinking to others.
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As an editor, I do fear that the written word will go the same way as the fashion industry. I don't want written production to become like fast fashion: people paying less for more, worse quality products, contributing to environmental degradation and human exploitation.
Anyone know where I can watch an awesome adaptation of Hamlet for free? Or is there one in any country on Netflix?
Asking not for intellectual reasons but to prepare for Taylor Swift's album release 🔶