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Heads up for fellow academics as well as other authors. I'm not a prolific published academic, but at least two of my academic journal papers (on Scottish book history and library history) have been pilfered for AI training purposes. All done without my permission. You can search for these at https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Lots of academic papers (co-authored) from Martin on there as well. And loads by my historian and computer scientist friends. It's also amusing seeing author namesakes. I now know which academic with a similar name (my maiden name - I have some early published academic work under my maiden name) is publishing prolifically about healthcare and medical matters! That Academia.edu keeps emailing me unhelpfully about, referring to "Vivienne Dunstan"!

Rather surprised that none of the Sky One TV versions of Terry Pratchett novels seem available to stream in the UK any more. Not even via Sky that I can see. We'd really like to watch Going Postal again soon, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Discworld. So nabbed us a secondhand DVD copy. Even those are getting scarce. It's also available in Blu-ray.

The 2010 UK DVD version of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal ("A Tale of Love and Revenge ... and Stamps"). The DVD cover features Richard Coyle's Moist Von Lipwig in the centre, holding out a letter. Beside him are various characters. Fellow cast members include Claire Foy, David Suchet, Andrew Sachs and Charles Dance.

The 2010 UK DVD version of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal ("A Tale of Love and Revenge ... and Stamps"). The DVD cover features Richard Coyle's Moist Von Lipwig in the centre, holding out a letter. Beside him are various characters. Fellow cast members include Claire Foy, David Suchet, Andrew Sachs and Charles Dance.

EDIT: It does seem to be on YouTube, but that won't be a legal version uploaded by the copyright holder. So it's absolutely not something we want to watch. Nor will it be as good quality on our big TV. So many things are lurking on YouTube, but not legally uploaded ...