Upcoming lecture on Tuesday, 28 July by John Guy, Curator at @metmuseum.org, on the Piprahwa Buddhist relics recovered in India in the late 19th century. Free and open to all! Details: tinyurl.com/ras-260728
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
Grim thread, but captures more or less how I feel about universities’ capitulation to AI.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo agoAt the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.
Hopefuly we are getting to the point that the PM will just be a giant wicker figurine that can be burned ritually every year to stop the crops from failing
I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.
Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 5mo agoI keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
We was robbed! (of a few hours in the sun watching the Black Caps win)
The absolute worst part of this is the University decided this was “appropriate use of AI” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’
theguardian.com
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
independent.co.uk
Take a Religious Studies paper at Otago University in 2026. We won't tell you who God is. www.otago.ac.nz/religion/stu...
Boy I hope the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (DW&RF) has a funky little dwarf as their logo
Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social · 10mo agoBig weekend around here. Lines Of Flight: Thursday - Sunday. Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival: Friday - Sunday. Also: The Rugby (Friday)
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · last yr.It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
“We have an obligation to prepare our students for the future tulip-based economy.” - overheard in an Amsterdam faculty lounge, ahead of the Spring 1637 semester
Fastest growing religion in the United States, percentage wise at least.
New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
Love language of historians and archivists. This here is a romantic poem in archival dialect. Note the internal rhyming structure of the first two verses and the subtle double alliteration in the main body. The coda is elegant yet plentiful, conveying perfectly the fullness of the archival fonds.
Kathrin Kininger @guidobaldine.bsky.social · last yr.ÖStA HHStA UR AUR 18857
My kingdom for a library camel!
William Dalrymple@willdalrymple.bsky.social · 2y agoNew from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Humayun- The Planetary King We make the case that Humayun was most underestimated of the Mughals. An expert astronomer and astrologer, he was one of the most learned and bookish of his dynasty, accompanied everywhere on this wanderings by a pair of library camels
If you see this, quote post with a famous landmark you’ve seen.
Dor HaMidbar@dorhamidbar.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you see this, quote post with a famous landmark you've seen.
This is just to say I have eaten the rough beast That was slouching towards Bethlehem Forgive me, I could not hear the falconer