Daniel Bellingradt
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Historians love a good turn, from the Spatial to the Emotional Turn, from the Environmental to the Digital Turn. So “turn” to this excellent study! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #earlymodern @massimorospocher.bsky.social @toffolosandra.bsky.social
Calle me sentimental but we sholde not be throwinge burninge trasshe at the moone.
Writing at night was and is a thing. You just need good lighting to keep you running, as this engraving from 1713 with *checks notes* a nude female figure holding book and palm leaf, and also a bright light source without an electricity connection in her hands, reminds us. #writingsky #skystorians
Champagner-Flaschen zum Auffüllen, gleich neben dem Lesesaal „Atlantis“. Bitte weitersagen!
Stabi Berlin@stabiberlin.bsky.social · 7h agoNeu im Haus #UnterdenLinden: Ab morgen gibt es Trinkwasser-Spender! ⛲ Hier könnt ihr gratis & nachhaltig zwischen still, medium & sprudelndem Wasser wählen! Wo? Im 1. OG, beim Treppenaufgang zum Lesesaal „Atlantis“. Vergesst beim Lernen & Arbeiten das Trinken nicht & füllt hier eure Flaschen auf 🍾
"how to survive without AI overviews?" "without 'out'" "what?" "'how to survive with AI overviews?' is the correct form"
🎶 In the jungle, the mighty jungle The lion sleeps tonight In the jungle, the mighty jungle The lion sleeps tonight 🎶
Just lovely putti dissecting a dog lying on a table in 1729, nothing to see here...
Jeder der mal ein paar Stunden Support-Anfragen zur Onleihe beantwortet hat, weiß: Die Zukunft des Buchs ist nicht das E-Book.
How I plan to do my August reading, in the shadows, with an owl on my hat, feeling good.
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
Learn a German word with impetus today: Hitzefrei. Literally translates as „heat free“, and means you should get time off from work or school or whatever you do because it is simply too hot. #hitzefrei
Something new from the AI/academia interface: just got a citation alert pointing to a book that appears to be AI generated and only available through a link on a single Youtube video by an account with three followers to a payment processor I've never heard of for sixty dollars.
Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky
It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Senses
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses
cambridge.org
„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo agoText mining before the age of LLM training.
greetings to the ghost ancestors!
Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 5d agoUC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human relatives. #evolution #hominoids #genealogy #genomes
I often think to myself that if all the academia business goes up the spout, then at least I'll have enough material to do a stand-up comedy set without writing a single joke.
It’s not really that hard to imagine a world where tiktok would embrace this as a dark academia-coded practice! Light some candles and wear some tweed to capture the vibe, and learn book history.
Terry Belanger would begin his Rare Book School classes by physically destroying/dismantling a (well-chosen) old book. This is NOT the same as what Anthropic is doing! But there is a popular culture of preciousness around books that is belied by the material realities of their circumstances. +
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d agoAI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky
That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts
Re Anthropic, AI, and (ab)uses of historical, rare and early printed books, their ‘capture and destruction’ As someone immersed in the world of historical books, a friend asked me “is this true?” My thoughts are … novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...
AI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky
I found out one day that tabs will eventually fall off the end of the screen.
Having lots of tabs opened for weeks and months on your laptop is a habit. But have you tried additionally opened tabs on your smartphone and iPad to go full nuts? We live in an opened tabs universe.
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
Homo ludens! The three shadows you see are playing kids. One with a hobby horse, one is playing hide and seek, and the third one is hoop rolling. The year is 1682, and this is a tiny detail in a 1682 published book of engravings about the city of #Augsburg.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Ask yourself this question: Are you a true power LinkedIn user producing high-impact posts, or are you just tweeting for the blue skies?
