@ertruitt.bsky.social
she/they • professor • person • MEDIEVAL ROBOTS & NECESSARY INVENTIONS (coming out soon) Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
I have so many thoughts about the trailer alone! I am looking forward to this.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d agoOh you want premodern robot gender and disability pop culture discourse? I think we are going to need @ertruitt.bsky.social on this when it comes out! youtu.be/UVAki9SGrlg?...
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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Be in a state that allows the morning after pill. Dead serious.
19thnews@19thnews.org · 5d agoFor generations, students chose colleges based on factors like their academic reputation, tuition costs or social scene. But in today’s divided nation, politics has emerged as a rising influence on where young people pursue higher learning.
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“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
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To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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11. I don't think I have to help anyone read between the lines here. AI: good. Universities: bad. Trades: good. Academics: bad. It's a straightforward continuation of the Vought/Vance "the universities are the enemy" program.
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...
University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department | H-Net
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a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
Chicago to honor John Prine with a 5 day festival, "Souvenirs" will run Oct. 7-11 and include concerts, film screenings, tours and more at various venues across the city. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/16/c...
Chicago To Honor Folk Legend John Prine With 5-Day Festival
"Souvenirs" will run Oct. 7-11 and include concerts, film screenings, tours and more at various venues across the city.
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looking to speak to bbc staff about what they think about lisa nandy as culture secretary. my DMs are open.
Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.
🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w agoMany faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
"we have found strong evidence that the Voynich manuscript is not meant to be bound in quires at all (as is the norm) but, instead, was originally a collection of individual bifolia meant to be read in sequence (called “singulions”)."
Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 Voynich alert! 'Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript', by Colin Layfield and Lisa Fagin Davis Our latest article from the Digital Medievalist Journal: 🔗 tinyurl.com/45hsw3an @lisafdavis.bsky.social #medievalsky #DigitalHumanities
Essential reporting from @joshkovensky.bsky.social. On Jan. 6, 2021: “Brian W. Lynch was months into a new job as a federal prosecutor in Maryland when he attended the march on the Capitol.” Now: “He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing political violence.”
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
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but if we can’t fund or host independent research because we’ve destroyed, cowed and stripped the mission from universities, all while decimating, intimidating and reworking the CDC, we won’t be able to demonstrate this connection either.
Morgan@larubia22.bsky.social · 3w ago28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
New Issue of Pasts Imperfect is out. Special issue on Homer and the Odyssey, Mayan ruins and much more. Also ends with a plea (thank you @sarahebond.bsky.social) for signing the petition to #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 3w agoμοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, of this special Homer issue! Resident Homer sage @sentantiq.bsky.social weighs in, Yoandy Cabrera has a list of Hispanic reimaginings of The Odyssey, saving Chaco Canyon, Mayan ruins reveal an ancient astronomer, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 👁️🗨️
movie on the 1381 Peasants Revolt #medievalsky? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Jérémy Mingot@jeremymingot.bsky.social · 3w agoPremière affiche du prochain long de Paul Greengrass, "The Uprising", avec Andrew Garfield dans le rôle principal Le pitch ? En Angleterre, un homme lance une rébellion contre la tyrannie du roi Richard II Première bande-annonce demain
From the Loras College collections, the *best* vine-bird-dragon of all time?! I think so, yes! 😍😍 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
“Keeping trans women out of sports” was always a Trojan horse to attack women’s rights more broadly (here, under Title IX). This is the logical conclusion that comes from essentializing humans‘ anatomy. Anytime you get out the calipers to differentiate people you are dealing in bigotry and brainrot.
James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w agoMy god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.
