I like how AI is totally ambivalent about being right. Here we go from the right answer directly to spectacularly wrong answers.

Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.

Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...

Generative OY.

Happy holidays.

“Hey Siri, play Yiddish Chaukah carols.” And then—a great miracle happened: music.apple.com/us/album/yid...

It'll be the second year in a row my talk at the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference will be about a writer with fancy rabbinic pedigree. One more time and I'll have to talk about rebbishe eyneklekh forever.

Just saw Sault Ste. Marie written in Yiddish for the first time. An adventure, but not as exciting as Buenos Aires.

They’re now writing biographies of authors I’ve never heard of.

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

📣 The Big Give is now live! This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work. You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign. Donate now:

The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵‍💫

Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

Moderately versatile.

My 6th grader needed someone to peer-review her writing homework. I agreed to do it, but first sat her down and explained Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2.

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

Apparently the constitution was written by a group known as the “Framers.”

Self-driving books will be the end of higher education.

But can robotaxis write books?

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Revise until your significant other understands.

I’ve got cognitive dissonance about other people’s cognitive dissonance.

Every family has its own insider language. For example, in my house “bookmark” means my business cards.

Machine learning what?

I’m looking to download a new Weltanschauung.

If you’re in the area and like cool books… featuring Dr. Mack Zalin of @jhulibraries.bsky.social and yours truly. events.jhu.edu/form/hopkins...

I’m thinking about building a collection of early modern ebooks.

I now get more peer review requests every week than emails from LensCrafters.

Very strange that the Group Seven early 20th century Canadian landscape painters are going viral.

“Have mercy. Don’t be a nudnik.” Ordering these immediately.

These post-it notes are perfect for when you need a reminder that you’ve already forgotten the thing you wanted to remember.

I set a personal best by building my sukkah yesterday. My new goal is to do Pesach cleaning before Yom Kippur.

Roadworks will tear us apart, again

I burn most of my calories on Peloton fuming about genre taxonomy.

My laser pointer didn’t work in class yesterday so instead I simply asked my students to visualize the course of the Oder River.

Bluesky abridged: Have you heard about the Cracker Barrel at the University of Chicago?

My fig tree runneth over.

I started my semester with a root canal. How are you gonna beat that, ChatGPT?

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly. cup.org/4lQfUL7

Why is everyone talking about the fall semester. It's May.

Tried to get my kids to stop fighting about what show to watch by quoting the Prophets. No luck with Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

They don’t understand. It’s not basketball weaving, it’s basket imbricating.

Nothing more annoying than dittographic Sumerograms.

Migraine and other Headaches in the... Of course I clicked. I needed to find out what headaches have to do with Sonderkommando testimonies. ...in the Mesopotamian Incantation Bowls. doi.org/10.1515/tc-2...

Personally, I won’t even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.

Dear colleagues, experts, and everyone: What's the best single volume history of the Holocaust to assign as supplementary reading for an undergraduate course? Thanks, Sam

We all know about computers and data mining. But did you know about humans and doodoo mining?