Ik vraag me regelmatig af waarom browsers niet spontaan crashen, gegeven de hoeveelheid rommel die ze moeten doorgeven. Als A.I. werkelijk intelligent zou zijn, hadden de computers allang zelfmoord gepleegd.

Yes. And, honestly: if you're not in control of every word in a manuscript, what are you doing?

The tracking down, the verifying, the new interpretations and perspectives — that's the magic stuff.

University President: Good afternoon Class of 2026! Please put your hands together for this year’s graduation speaker, MOLOCH!!

I have had this fight. I will continue to have this fight. And not just about “citing scholars” (though that’s how we keep our jobs & get resources to do our jobs better) — but that it’s also still vital to explain how you know what you know even when the expertise or sources are non-academic.

“This poem revolutionizes our understanding of the ancient world,” says Trinity professor Oliver O’Leary. “We had no idea that the ancient Romans had knowledge of Nantucket, let alone met a man from there. And the rich anatomical detail—“

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

I bought my little niece this Paddington Bear toy which talks when you squeeze it, but now my sister's dog has got hold of it and is savaging it ruthlessly while it says things like 'I wonder what adventures I shall have today!' and 'I'm your friend!'

What is maddening about this debate is that citation practices are not just about AI hallucinations. Scholars should be familiar with the ongoing conversations in their fields. Citations aren't throwaway padding. They are about matters of methodology, ethics, and care. 🛢1/2

Ik heb ooit een laat-Middeleeuws bestiarium moeten lezen en dit is ongeveer hoe alle hoofdstukken gaan

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Wait till they find out what Virgil did to the Odyssey in his adaptation.

Ook lancering Maonaise afgelast. 😐

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

And right now I don't care what it could do to people in the US or Europe. People are dying right now in Congo. And they have been for years. Massive displacement, war, other forms of violence --and now this (again).

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

buffy season 1 episode 8 is about a demon that gets scanned into the internet from a medieval manuscript and it's basically about ai psychosis

The vampire hunt is ON! Do you have a beat up VHS, film print etc of the 1922 Nosferatu? Alexandre O Philippe and our team are making a doc about our global treasure hunt called IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. More info here, or email us at albingraufilms at gmail dot com deadline.com/2026/05/in-s...

There are exactly two species of Facebook Marketplace listings for historical printing equipment Type 1: Washington-style iron hand press, manufactured in 1892 and certified by J. Bartholomew Hornswaggler in Chicago… <1000 more words follow> $500 obo Type 2: old machine. $40,000

what if the content we really created were the friendships we made along the way

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

I'm working on my presentation for the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities conference and I'm so excited. The schedule is incredible and I'm looking forward to talking about digitization for tactile books. I will have tactile samples people can touch! Because what is DH without physical objects.

I still can't get over the way that at no point in the "you KICK Miette" tweet are we told that Miette is a cat, but absolutely everybody deduces this.

táta ta tatatatata tatata

it's Friday Night

Increasingly I think the best training for learning how to ask questions in committee meetings is watching Columbo.

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The "six genders" thing is just ridiculous. As the fifth-century grammarian Priscian writes, Latin has SEVEN genders: masculine, feminine, neither, both, promiscuous, uncertain, and fluid.

God bless the former student who-- even as I sit here in the Slough of Despond (I am grading final papers)-- writes to tell me they've gotten into their grad program of choice and to thank me again for the letter of recommendation. PLEASE TELL YOUR RECOMMENDERS HOW YOUR APPLICATIONS TURN OUT!

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene & Marina Yee.

🧬 If you (or someone you know) has expertise in recent DNA-based data storage innovations (ie using synthetic DNA as a kind of memory device), please ping me if available for a quick interview. 🧬

I Googled: “it’s not you, it’s me, it’s the way we learn Rashi”. I was hoping for the lyrics to the Chevruta Breakup song. Instead I got this:

He added, "Read books, punch Nazis."

A #relic of Saint Zdislava Berka was stolen, and retrieved by the police. www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

The old advice „publish or perish“ is now: „publish without consequences“

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Op 15 mei 1648 sloten Spanje en de Republiek der Verenigde Provinciën na vier jaar onderhandelen een vredesverdrag: de Vrede van Münster. Hiermee kwam de Tachtigjarige Oorlog ten einde en werd de Republiek internationaal als soevereine staat erkend. historiek.net/vrede-van-mu...

Saw an AI bro refer to "brain-only writers" lol

I had a job interview recently where they asked me: where do you see yourself in 5 years? I told them I was pretty sure we’d still be using mirrors.

Higher ed was once considered a civic good, back when civic goods were considered good

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world.” Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit.

Question for all but especially those who are involved in academic library spaces: are there any institutions of higher ed that are questioning "wellness" as a paradigm?

Does anyone know about #EarlyModern whiteout?