I hope my first-year tutorial students appreciate Tosh as much as I did as an undergrad in Iceland all these years ago. Also quite handy that I still had my copy with me here in Dublin!
On the morning of 22 September I will finally be presenting my 'Thesis in Five [minutes]' if you want you are around and want to hear a proper 'elevator pitch' of my research!
Trinity Long Room Hub@tlrhub.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat is democracy made of? Can machines know you better than you know yourself? Who gets to decide what matters? The Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival returns from 18-28 September, exploring some of the biggest questions of our time.
If you are interested in the larger historical currents behind the EU referendum and Icelandic history generally:
The myth of Icelandic insularity
As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage.
engelsbergideas.com
Matthías Aron Ólafsson@matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · last mo.Today’s result will mark a watershed moment in Icelandic history.
One neat thing about Soul Calibur was that every single fighter got their own exhibition feature. A demo to show off their proficiency with their weapons, all recorded by real martial artists doing badass mocap. Kilik's was the best.
A hidden gem in Pisa. On display inside the Church of San Sisto is the Kufic Epitaph of Emir Ibn Aglab al-Murtaḍā of the Balearic Islands, from 1094. It ended up here as plunder from an 1114 Catalan-Pisan crusade waged against the islands but was only discovered in 1937. Anyone here know Kufic?
In light of the EU referendum in August, I wrote this short piece on Iceland’s relationship with Europe over the centuries and the enduring myths surrounding the island’s insularity.
The myth of Icelandic insularity
As Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage.
engelsbergideas.com
4th of July always feels like going to see a band that had one pretty good first album and has been riding solely on that accolade for the last 250 years
started watching Ultimate Muscle and i can already tell the translators were having fun
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
This is such a beautiful cover for a history book. Forest and Brännvin! We need more covers like this.
From the people who brought you "I'll lose a million fans before I fire this sex offender" comes "It's not graverobbing if I'm only reanimating his corpse digitally, right?"
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 4mo agoTupac is in ‘Stranger Than Heaven' Releasing on January 15, 2027
Preventing the Wayback Machine from saving the news puts today’s journalism at risk of disappearing from history. 📝 Help push back. Sign the open letter calling on publishers to stop blocking web archiving 👉 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
I would pay extra to have this option. I'll say it again, the destruction of all search engines is the tech story of the decade.
Dr. Emily Friedman@ecfriedman.com · 5mo agoI am currently lamenting the obliteration of chronological search on YouTube, and am glad I got most of the pressing stuff done before that. But sometimes you just want to know when/who tried to make a stupid term a Thing on YT, and all of the video-based platforms make that so fucking hard.
@ St Andrews for the week! Attending and presenting at the 2nd COMLAWEU Conference titled "Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe”. Really looking forward to this.
found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.
does anyone have any context for this clip and is the guy ok
Today y'all gonna learn the Hampster Dance is just sped up Whistle Stop from Roger Miller: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxnv...
Robin Hood (1973) whistle stop
YouTube video by Liam
youtube.com
Internet Archive@archive.org · 5mo agoTurn Sound UP. Go WayBACK. DANCE, Hampster, DANCE ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19990423...