Pulling for you, Viv!

I’m happy to share that my article “A Collection of Loyal Songs: Songs as Spaces of Memory” has been published in Études Écossaises 25!

#JacobiteStudies #JacobiteSongCulture #LoyalSongs

Coming up on Tue, 21 Apr at 5pm UKT, the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops will welcome @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, who will be sharing some of his team’s material and historical findings from their recent surveys of numerous late-17thC townships in Glencoe.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners From August 8–9, the Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories will host its first annual conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the theme “Revolutions and Reflections.” We invite editors, re...

Team: Check out this exciting opportunity from UVA's Center for Digital Editing to discuss how archives and collections shape our understand of revolutionary moments, & how evolving technologies, methods, and public needs are reshaping the editorial landscape.

elaboratories.org/event/revolu...

Great now do the President.

Meanwhile, our Secretary of Defense

After decades of working in the tech industry, I'm convinced that the jobs most easily replaced by AI are the typical senior executive roles occupied typically by mediocre white men.

AI can already generate plausible-sounding and confidently wrong takes. That's 90% of the job.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.

Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news:

#AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

The problem with being a historian looking at the present day is not that one knows what will happen, but that one knows what can happen.

For those interested in Scottish history, Rebecca Wilkieson will be presenting "Maritime Scotland and the Transatlantic Trade: the development of Scotland’s maritime infrastructure through the transatlantic trade, 1690-1750"

Our next JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop fires off this Tue, 7 Apr at 5pm UKT. We'll be welcoming Richard Maher, biographer of Sir Charles Wogan, who will be speaking w/us about the Irish Jacobite's time in exile & what he deems to be perhaps his greatest triumph.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Ah, but that would require a modicum of self-awareness and emotional maturity. This is academia, man! 🤓

A classic!

Having 24 hour, near-instantaneous access to every bit of information about how the most ethically challenged people alive are actively dismantling the society you're living in is probably more than the human psyche was designed to handle.

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

I think we have to accept that there is no going back to normal. Trump fucked things up. Now we're all going to pay in ways we can't imagine right now. These are the consequences of politics. Maybe next time, Americans will take their democracy more seriously.

Better angle of the incredible inlay. What a piece!

As part of the #JacobiteNations workshop this past weekend, we were treated to a special viewing of some of @uoacollections.bsky.social's gorgeous artifacts. Here I'm gingerly holding a pristine scroll butt pistol believed to be owned by Col John Roy Stuart during the '45. #museums #scottishhistory

This has also been my exact method for many years. And once they’re in the cloud I file the .pdfs in Evernote for transcription, searching, tagging, etc. I’ve found it to be an incredibly effective workflow.

The Predatorier Sea?

New project notebook and all the trimmings care of the wonderland that is Oblation Papers and Press. Every visit is an adventure and a balm for the soul. On either side of the counter!

Pretty much anything to do with the nature of late-era Jacobitism. To the public it's a looking glass through which they see whatever speaks to them most through centuries of mythologised and appropriated history. But then I would say that, wouldn't I?

That's quite the sign:

fried scottish breakfast (eggs, black pudding, sausage, lorne, bacon etc) wrapped up in a tortilla and sliced in half

there's a takeaway van at aberdeen beach that does a full scottish breakfast in a wrap

You're definitely going to need one after downing that bad mutha.

Historians, archivists, librarians, data preservationists. All attuned to this crisis, working to make and keep information accessible and available.

Because we know that democracy requires accountability and transparency.

just this week:

-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content

...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...