Donovan's Scissors-and-Paste Pedagogy makes flourish New Norman Macleans. Physical, artful revisions, performed as habit and art under the demanding, attentive Soul-Care of a Pastor-Poet mentor, forge a Microcosm of Praxis out of which flows a Whole Life of Human Creativity and Natural Wonder.

If you've been busy with end of semester or conferencing, when you get some time, be sure to see Colbert host Only in Monroe (community access TV channel near Detroit, Michigan) w/ Jack White, Jeff Daniels, Steve Buscemi, and Eminem. Scathingly brilliant resistence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Our next Patristica Coffee Talk is scheduled for Sunday, May 31, 7pm London time. Please join us! We adjusted our schedule to avoid a conflict with James Tabor's class that evening. www.patreon.com/posts/159064... ... We'll focus on Neologismata v1.2. Bring questions and comments about 1-2 lemmas.

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

Like we say in KC, when Swope Park's not a pea-souper, it's a dog's dinner of drone-wangling curtain twitchers faffing round every bend. Innit.

Becker's 2026 chapter, "Subversive Claim to Cosmocratic Power in Early Christian Literature", focused on mythical 50-70 CE NT doc production, seems oblivious to the Greek word kosmokrator being minted or popularized by Antigonus of Nicea as a mid-2nd century Hadrianic, panhellenistic title.

@mistral should take a different tack. Partner with unis and cultural heritage institutions to source and license expert curated, sovereign data. Tell data curators what datasets you need, and give us a channel to supply/sell it. Crowd-source expert intelligence directly, not just via publishers.

I'll explain it in the medium of dance energy is strong bsky.app/profile/ruem...

What an unmitigated disgrace, to turn what is one of the most important and cherished civic rites of passages and outsource it to AI. Every admin who was in on this should resign.

The future of work is changing. And we have to evolve with it or fall behind. That's why we're proud to introduce: Serfdom dot AI. Our platform allows SERFs (solo entrepreneur revenue facilitators) to rent affordable housing that they can subsidize by picking up work with Baron, our AI assistant

*The* LaTeX Ninja authored a trenchant post all about the unsung yet crucial human-expert work of data cleaning and curation on which Machine Learning and LLMs are wholly dependent. An educated guess: clean, expert-curated data is a big part of Anthropic's secret sauce and why Grok is such garbage.

To graduating college students who boo commencement speakers for praising AI: We are very proud of you. Well done.

@firefox.com ... Single switch opt-in or opt-out of all AI features is nice. Please also make a single opt-in switch to maximum data privacy.

Every job is now a technology job. But Big Tech Billionaires shouldn’t get to decide who wins and who loses in this new economy. Working people need AI guardrails and a strong voice on the job to make sure THEY are in the driver's seat to define this new tech future.

Bird ("Ein Apologist-bro") says the evidence is "thin" to "non-existent" for Marcionite priority, when he just read his first 200 pop-level pages out of the 10,000 pages of rigorous scholarly lit published on the topic over the last decade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu45...

Probably a good time for faculty at all universities to re-evaluate their university IP policies to ensure faculty retention of copyright of teaching materials, rather than those being considered work for hire that can be brokered away in big AI deals by admins/IT.

On today, the birthday of the Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, consider for the first time whether and how a new Greek word he apparently coined (περπερεύομαι / perpereuomai / “to flaunt oneself”) made it into the New Testament! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We've written about how social media companies and other technology firms manipulate the scientific record in their favor. In our revisions, we will need to address how they have captured the state department to literally prevent researchers who criticize them FROM EVEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY.

Backup your Github repos to Codeberg or another reliable EU org, if only for preservation. The auto-migrate tool is easy to use.

For #FindsFriday an amazing new discovery: A two-meter marble statue of the goddess Athena has been found in the ancient city of Laodicea, Türkiye. www.dailysabah.com/life/history... www.finestresullarte.info/de/archaolog...

Are you a scholar of the NT / Early Christianity / Greco-Roman Classics with access to the TLG? Well, this book is like having the 40 TLG cheat codes to the TPQ New Testament documents were edited. Give em a try! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Many thanks to Patrick and Greg for inviting me to chat about my research! (Also available as a podcast through Apple and Spotify.)

This is amazing.

We waited 3 years for this moment. 🥹 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎉 Play now: 👉 s.team/a/3119540 Please repost & help us spread the word 🙏

YT can be educational space, but so often it is unidirectional, extractive & consumptive, or moronic conspiratorial bro chat. Domain experts need to build innovative, open, fun communities of crowd-sourced citizen science in all domains. @zooniverse.bsky.social projects w/ millions of contributors.

AI bot scrape prevention is endangering the Wayback Machine. @brewster.kahle.org, pivot to a two-tier archival model, just like disability access for the Open Library. Build Archive-IT into a bot-free, Hathitrust-like cohort of journalist, historian, archivist, and librarian orgs & leaders.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

If you take online, commercial, for-profit courses, and observe ebooks/pdfs by other authors are included without indication of licensed use, there is a chance you are witnessing IP theft, i.e., stolen royalties in effect. Please report such theft to copyright holders (publishers and/or authors).

John Steinbeck to George Albee: "Don’t fool yourself, appreciation doesn’t make artists. It ruins them. A man’s best work is done when he is fighting to make himself heard, not when swooning audiences wait for his paragraphs."

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

Did the earliest Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead? Apparently not, says patristics expert Markus Vinzent. #Easter #deconstruction #biblicalstudies youtu.be/IZbjupZ-FoM

Comparing GLAUx and OGA syntactical visualizations to demonstrate that Acts 9:1 ("Saul ... breathing threat and murder") imitates the deep structure of Fury references in Aeschylus' Oresteia and (here particularly) Euripides' Iphigenia at Taurica. #Greeksyntax #dataviz

www.patreon.com/posts/154961... Chapter 5 of my new book now available in full color for all of our paid members on Patristica's Patreon. I'll share some dataviz screenshots in the next few posts. #mimesiscriticism #mythcriticism #Orestes #Iphigenia #statistics #syntax #dataviz

"Living pleasantly and happily comes not from outside. Rather, it is the person who adds pleasure and charm to their surroundings, just as from a spring of character." -- Plutarch, Praecepta conjugalia (139D)

Essential reading on AI in Academia and Research. Education is an apprenticeship of human failure and human growth with human feedback and human supervision.

If you'd like a master class in academic writing in LaTeX for the Digital Humanities, I can't think of a better lesson than to immerse yourself in the 2022 open access LaTeX doctoral thesis of @ponteineptique.bsky.social ... github.com/PonteIneptiq...

Enjoyed listening to U2's contemplative Easter Lily while soaking in the vibrant, visualized flora. The multilayered vocal effects of COEXIST reminded me quite a bit of Jacob Collier. Perhaps he's been an inpisration on Brian Eno of late. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJiG...

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

Unitree's demo shows what jobs are targeted for near-term robotic replacement: grocery, food service, housekeeping, healthcare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_b... Legal protections must ensure human employees individually and collectively always have first right of refusal for these jobs.

A good sign. Those who read closely and cite carefully know that massive slop generation is the antithesis of genuine productivity when it comes to reliable knowledge curation. A big part of why LLMs are useful at all is that they are built on human crowd-sources projects like Wikipedia.

Karen Hao's DOAC interview is fire. Perhaps the juiciest tidbits pull back the veil on OpenAI's manipulative public relations culture: youtu.be/Cn8HBj8QAbk?...

Well when you put it like that, I’m sold. (from @xiandivyne.bsky.social)

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

Good. Hypsters don't get how much Co-Pilot bloat has bogged down basic, essential tasks, e.g., file indexing & retreival. File searches on Linux take 1-2 seconds. File searches on Win11 take minutes, and often simply fail b/c of slow/poor indexing. Hardware upgrades aren't solutions to this problem.

I'd love to see a crowd-sourced DH manuscript transcription RPG game called "Monk-Punk". Travel from city to city and battle with other monks to transcribe the most manuscripts. Bonus points for correcting errors in previous transcriptions. Hero/legend status for finding new readings and texts.

A beautiful and courageous letter by Emily Tucker at Georgetown Law. The complicity of academic publishers in the AI educational coup also must be noted. AI companies are not acting alone to dismantle higher education, the capacity of humans to think critically, and direct access to primary sources.

Appreciated this thick, historical critique. One small suggestion: in a future iteration, archive non-LOD URLs in the Wayback Machine or other web archive whenever possible, then link to the time stamped archival versions. Link rot may hollow out most of these URL citations within a couple years.

I'm not sure why you feel so entitled to my time and attention and I am not going to retype all of my arguments here 300 characters at at time for you, especially since you are engaging with none of them. I'll leave you with this, on automatic transcription: youtu.be/LfOiEV_x1fg?...

We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy! A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #DontStealThisBook /end

Strong market evidence against AI "training" as Fair Use. The bots are built to "steal and substitute", not "license and source". The EU needs to rachet up its commitment to be a robust IP and privacy safe-haven to counter these pernicious trends.