7 lawsuits against Open AI claim "that OpenAI knowingly released GPT-4o prematurely, despite internal warnings that it was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative. Four of the victims died by suicide." 1/ apnews.com/article/open...

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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Yes! My ranty take: "Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad."

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Regeringen har valt skuldbeläggning framför lösningar, skriver debattörerna.

My contributor copy arrived!

Staten stänger flera servicekontor - minst tolv i utsatta områden. Det är faktiskt en så dum politik att man har svårt att hitta ord. Eller är det inte dumhet utan ren ondska som ligger bakom? En politik som strävar till att göra det så djävligt som möjligt för vissa människor?

Thand-Ringqvist kan bli den första partiledaren vars officiella förkortning består enbart av emojis: 🦷💍🌿

I rashly promised to bring in a "fun" primary source for our optional extra class on my first-year Early Modern World module tomorrow. I've got a couple ideas but what's your favorite #EarlyModern source to throw at first-years? Max 1-2 pages. Any topic! 🗃️

what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.

There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point. There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

THIS WEEK! Join via MS Teams (or still make your way to Florence! which we can recommend) for two days of brilliant conversations about Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art 6-7 NOV in Florence all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ch... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #ArtHistory

A fantastic presentation by Dirk van Miert, and what a pleasure to hear a Q&A discussion between him and @annegoldgar.bsky.social about the republic of letters! Not a bad way to spend a Friday evening 🤓 #EarlyModern #17thC #reformazing

“A Cultural History of Higher Learning” – this massive work in six volumes is today published by Bloomsbury. Spanning 2,500 years, 67 scholars chart the dynamics of higher learning across the centuries. I am glad to have contributed a chapter on the history of disciplines in the 20th century.

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

Den senaste utvecklingen i Stockholms visar att det är dags för alla som står upp för ett fritt kulturliv att sätta ner foten, skriver Ann Mari Engel (V).

Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases. If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.

We are now open to receive grant applications. Closing date is 3 months today, 1 December. Remember to send 2 completed references and when writing it think what questions you are trying to answer and whether methods proposed will help do that.

Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Vann slaget som var en diskussion med min dotter angående att hon borde städa bilen men man kan säga att jag förlorade kriget när hon kom in igen och sa det står för fan ingen bil där

The parable of the ten virgins as depicted in Magdeburg Cathedral. Quite a remarkable piece of art from the mid-13th century - it's worth zooming in on their faces since there aren't that many smiling or crying medieval statues. 🏺

Ready for today's @ghilondon.bsky.social lecture with @hlaehnemann.bsky.social: "1525 and All That: How Nuns' Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History." #EarlyModern #16thC #nuntastic

The #EarlyModern and Climate and Environmental History seminars @stockholm-uni.bsky.social host Charlotta Forss from Södertörn University next week, presenting on "North of the Map: Cartography and the Image of the Far North through History." 5 November 2025, 15:00-17:00 CET In-person or online.

Keep hearing people say ‘in the age of AI’. We’re not in an age of AI: we’re in an age of corporate rapacity in which AI is being pushed on society and institutions but that actually has little or no intrinsic role in our everyday lives the way religion or culture or language or art does.

A #Eurovision conference! Paris, 1-3 April 2026 Abstracts due 31 October 2025

Uppdatering! ❤️Samlings-🧵👇 Glesbygd: Jokkmokk, Sorsele, Överkalix, Gällivare, Härjedalen, Berg, Strömsund, Bräcke… Städer: Östersund, Luleå, Kiruna… Söderut: Norrtälje, Växjö, Kalmar (ej sett källa än)…

CfP📢"Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period", Institutes of Philosophy and History, Czech Academy of Sciences 📆15–16 April 2026 |🌍Prague ⏰Application deadline: 30 October 2025 #Earlymodern @czechacademy.bsky.social

Did you know that classics students at @wwu.edu put out a weekly newsletter in Latin? You can read it online or subscribe to receive it in your inbox Friday 🤓 #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians #languages

Here is more on Europe's first paper age and its flows of unicorns and other watermarks all over the book markets: brill.com/display/book...

En utmärkt idé om man vill förvärra de ekonomiska klyftorna i samhället 🫤 Inför gärna en progressiv inkomstskatt men börja med ett skattefritt belopp för låginkomsttagare. Trapporna ska sedan stiga så att höginkomsttagare betalar en större andel än andra. Det är inte komplicerat... 1/2

Question for medievalists and classicists: how old is the simplified ❤️ shape as a way to represent the human heart? I’ve seen examples from 14th/15th wounds of Christ type stuff, and it’s making me wonder how much older the simplified symbol is and where it came from…..

I veckan släppte Rädda Barnen en ny rapport med ett uppdaterat barnfattigdomsmått. Den visar att 276 000 barn i Sverige lever i fattigdom, 100 000 fler än man tidigare trott. Tidöregeringen kommer inte göra något. Att vissa barn går hungriga är helt enkelt en del av deras politiska projekt.

Dartmoor ponies rocking their autumn styles

Det här är verkligen skrämmande. Svensk gränspolis trakasserar, låser in och hotar en EU-medborgare med permanent uppehållstillstånd på grund av hans klimataktivism. Vi ser den svenska demokratin urholkas i realtid.

"Sverige har problem med en strukturell arbetslöshet bland unga. Med det här förslaget hade det lönat sig mer att arbeta och det skulle också bli billigare för företag att anställa unga, säger Douglas Thor som driver förslaget." 🧵 1/3

Ett officiellt fuck you från Jokkmokks kommun till Tidö-regeringen. Det är ändå en lisa i denna tid att bo i den lilla motståndsficka som är Norrbotten.

Trying to decipher the second word (after ἔπαινος) of the chapter title scribbled at the bottom of this page and srsly I hope he’s happy in hell.

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

This looks like an interesting research network - "Science and technology before 1500." Founded by Tatiana Bur and including @therculesdavies.bsky.social, @dhump.bsky.social, @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social, @drestellestrazdins.bsky.social, and several others. #skystorians #MedievalSky #classics

As part of the 2025 ANZAMEMS conference, a one-day intensive palaeography workshop will be hosted at University of Melbourne on Tuesday 2 December for HDRs and ECRs. See the below flyer:

"Exploring what radicalised these individuals into contributing to this volume is as informative as asking an iron filling why it responds to a magnet." You have to love that sentence, you just have to.

Exeter is Awesome! Apply! Apply!

I frågor som Trump inte begriper, vilket är de allra flesta, påverkas han mest av den han talar med sist. Putin har en aura som tilltalar Trump och lyckas därför bäst med detta. Men eftersom Trump har en uthållig koncentration som en fisk blir effekten kortvarig. Sedan börjar det om.

this image is so french, i just pioneered the use of systematic census taking and statistics gathering