Right, so along with refusing to publish in or referee for Springer and Elsevier journals due to grotesque profiteering, I now need to avoid publishing anything with T & F/Routledge or Wiley-Blackwell, because they'll flog it to train LLMs. And OUP and CUP are flirting with that, too. Grand.

Working with Taylor & Francis is simply unethical by this point. It’s unfortunately difficult to have AI use revoked from existing contracts but at least try, complain, if you have a book with them. And otherwise do not even consider.

CWA Gold Dagger winner #12: Lionel Davidson, “A Long Way Till Shiloh” (1966). Think I had more fun writing the review than reading the book. 💙📚 www.nickwiltsher.com/cwa-reviews/2024/9/30/lionel-davidson-a-long-way-till-shiloh-1966

Perfectly happy to be followed by several teachers of RE in the UK, but somewhat baffled as to what they're hoping to get out of it, and afraid to say they'll probably be disappointed. I think maybe I still don't quite understand social media of this form.

"He devotes considerable space to dealing with philosophers, whom he considers particularly dangerous."

The way things are going round here, I'm going to have to remember all that Portuguese I forgot.

First day for a while with substantial time available to do some research. Question 1: how does one do research again?

After a summer reading Proper Literature, I'm back to reading CWA Gold Dagger winners. Just done: #11, Ross MacDonald, "The Far Side of the Dollar" (1965), the exact kind of thing for which I am a sucker. www.nickwiltsher.com/cwa-reviews/2024/9/8/ross-macdonald-the-far-side-of-the-dollar-1965 💙📚

I might be too late to forestall this, but can we *please* not use "skeet" and derivatives to name posting, reposting, etc on here. Dunno where that terminology came from, but the word has a pretty rude slang meaning and it's very distracting to see it splashed all over the place here.