Brilliant work! First time hearing of the article and dataset by Cargnelutti et al (2025). Amazing that the Perseus team managed to extract 600M Greek words from this! Will a list of the works reflecting the non-overlapping 300M Greek words be released soon?

@philologistgrc.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Noticed that SANS' upcoming conference will be discussing (semi?) permanent identitifiers for AI agents. Some run for days or weeks. Others, mere minutes or seconds. An extension of ORCiD could handle public agent registration (on first run) and deregistration (at run stop) with agent-based OAuth.

Danny Kingsley@dannykay68.bsky.social · 2w ago

COLLECTIVE ACTION: good article arguing we need to work collectively across the sector to manage the AI onslaught on the infrastructure we (commercial and community) have built or we will just be a customer yet again. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/30/g...

Shall we see schools of synthetic jellyfish, radition-absorbing and -deflecting shields of bubble-cells dancing back and forth in Lagrangian ranges, pulled by solar gravity, pushed by solar winds, propelled by solar energy, coordinating & competing swarms of brilliance to protect us from ourselves?

ICYMI, a new, major expansion of the PROIEL diachronic Greek + multilingual parallel corpus was just announced, leading off with a toolkit for curation, alignment, and analysis. Will be interesting to see, once v0.5.0 is released, how much data the project encompasses. arxiv.org/abs/2606.15510

AthDGC: An Open Diachronic Greek Treebank with Indo-European Parallels

AthDGC ("Athens-PROIEL") is an open, end-to-end workflow and dataset. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first openly licensed dependency-parsed treebank of Greek that spans eight diachronic per...

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The EU is opting out of Microsoft. It's time for Religious Studies Academia to do the same. Typst (or publisher LaTeX templates) and Codeberg provide all the tools, workflows, and data sovereignty needed to write, edit, and review academic prose without Microsoft & Silicon Valley stealing your IP.

Shaily Patel@vox-magica.bsky.social · last mo.

MS word why won't you let me put comment bubbles on footnotes? feels like we should have fixed this by now.

The mockup arch at GASF and planned 250 foot arch in DC are modeled after the Arch of Titus. www.salon.com/2025/11/05/t... In other words, Agent Orange is copying the monument built to celebrate the destruction of Israel, Jerusalem, and the 2nd temple. #ChristianNationalistIrony

Trump's triumphal arch is a monument fit for an emperor

Triumphal arches have historically been symbols of autocracy. Trump's will be no different

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The Orangeshirts have overtaken Kansas City, but based on the confused looks in response to "Goedemorgen", I suspect not all of them are, in fact, Nederlanders. To the actual Dutch, while here as our guests, we kindly ask you to advise our Mayor on bike line planning, tulip fields, and windmills.

Sylvia's bard sang an arboretum auditorium Days eastbound from care Sufjan's all I hear

Could be significant

tante@tante.cc · 2mo ago

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

Our next Patristica Coffee Talk is scheduled for Sunday, May 31, 7pm London time. Please join us! We adjusted our schedule to avoid a conflict with James Tabor's class that evening. www.patreon.com/posts/159064... ... We'll focus on Neologismata v1.2. Bring questions and comments about 1-2 lemmas.

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Bird ("Ein Apologist-bro") says the evidence is "thin" to "non-existent" for Marcionite priority, when he just read his first 200 pop-level pages out of the 10,000 pages of rigorous scholarly lit published on the topic over the last decade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu45...

Marcion: Christianity's First Protestant Theologian?

YouTube video by Early Christian History with Michael Bird

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Probably a good time for faculty at all universities to re-evaluate their university IP policies to ensure faculty retention of copyright of teaching materials, rather than those being considered work for hire that can be brokered away in big AI deals by admins/IT.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sorry in what way is appropriating faculty work (lectures, assignments) without consent not plagiarism?

On today, the birthday of the Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, consider for the first time whether and how a new Greek word he apparently coined (περπερεύομαι / perpereuomai / “to flaunt oneself”) made it into the New Testament! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Are you a scholar of the NT / Early Christianity / Greco-Roman Classics with access to the TLG? Well, this book is like having the 40 TLG cheat codes to the TPQ New Testament documents were edited. Give em a try! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

YT can be educational space, but so often it is unidirectional, extractive & consumptive, or moronic conspiratorial bro chat. Domain experts need to build innovative, open, fun communities of crowd-sourced citizen science in all domains. @zooniverse.bsky.social projects w/ millions of contributors.

AI bot scrape prevention is endangering the Wayback Machine. @brewster.kahle.org, pivot to a two-tier archival model, just like disability access for the Open Library. Build Archive-IT into a bot-free, Hathitrust-like cohort of journalist, historian, archivist, and librarian orgs & leaders.

Open Access Tracking Project@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

John Steinbeck to George Albee: "Don’t fool yourself, appreciation doesn’t make artists. It ruins them. A man’s best work is done when he is fighting to make himself heard, not when swooning audiences wait for his paragraphs."

Did the earliest Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead? Apparently not, says patristics expert Markus Vinzent. #Easter #deconstruction #biblicalstudies youtu.be/IZbjupZ-FoM

Scholar: Most early Christians never heard of the resurrection.

YouTube video by C. J. Cornthwaite

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Comparing GLAUx and OGA syntactical visualizations to demonstrate that Acts 9:1 ("Saul ... breathing threat and murder") imitates the deep structure of Fury references in Aeschylus' Oresteia and (here particularly) Euripides' Iphigenia at Taurica. #Greeksyntax #dataviz

www.patreon.com/posts/154961... Chapter 5 of my new book now available in full color for all of our paid members on Patristica's Patreon. I'll share some dataviz screenshots in the next few posts. #mimesiscriticism #mythcriticism #Orestes #Iphigenia #statistics #syntax #dataviz

"Living pleasantly and happily comes not from outside. Rather, it is the person who adds pleasure and charm to their surroundings, just as from a spring of character." -- Plutarch, Praecepta conjugalia (139D)

If you'd like a master class in academic writing in LaTeX for the Digital Humanities, I can't think of a better lesson than to immerse yourself in the 2022 open access LaTeX doctoral thesis of @ponteineptique.bsky.social ... github.com/PonteIneptiq...

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

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Unitree's demo shows what jobs are targeted for near-term robotic replacement: grocery, food service, housekeeping, healthcare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_b... Legal protections must ensure human employees individually and collectively always have first right of refusal for these jobs.

A good sign. Those who read closely and cite carefully know that massive slop generation is the antithesis of genuine productivity when it comes to reliable knowledge curation. A big part of why LLMs are useful at all is that they are built on human crowd-sources projects like Wikipedia.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Karen Hao's DOAC interview is fire. Perhaps the juiciest tidbits pull back the veil on OpenAI's manipulative public relations culture: youtu.be/Cn8HBj8QAbk?...

AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

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Well when you put it like that, I’m sold. (from @xiandivyne.bsky.social)

I'd love to see a crowd-sourced DH manuscript transcription RPG game called "Monk-Punk". Travel from city to city and battle with other monks to transcribe the most manuscripts. Bonus points for correcting errors in previous transcriptions. Hero/legend status for finding new readings and texts.

Brandon W. Hawk@brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There should also be a mini-game where the player has to tame dragons coming out of a cave on the road to Egypt during the flight after Herod's massacre of the innocents. #apocrypha

A beautiful and courageous letter by Emily Tucker at Georgetown Law. The complicity of academic publishers in the AI educational coup also must be noted. AI companies are not acting alone to dismantle higher education, the capacity of humans to think critically, and direct access to primary sources.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."