Today we launch Read More Books, a semi-regular Commonplace series featuring @kawulf.bsky.social asking authors five questions about their new book. We kick off with @johngmarks.com and his fascinating study of the long fight over Washington's legacy of slavery.🗄️
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Hey, #Boston friends! I'll be giving a talk on David Walker at Boston Public Library on 21 May, and I'd love it if you were able to join me! The talk is free, and you can sign up at the link below! 🗃️
Read, be outside, travel!
Haha no not intended as sarcastic at all!
You're on fire today! Haha!
Paper sheet with four different type settings of pages in liturgical books printed in black and red
Detail of two pages in different type but of the same text of a diurnum with handwritten notes below
Detail of a page of a breviary with a handwritten note below
Planned some cataloguing today, but didn’t expect to (re)discover this uncatalogued early 17th‑century specimen sheet comparing the same liturgical text in different type setting, with annotations noting the number of sheets required with that specific type and corresponding cost for printing!
Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.
When given sources in their context window to 'work' from, LLMs just can't help but output obvious plagiarism due to their lack of a theory of mind. It takes so much work to make it look like it's doing more than just summary-shaping the input, students may as well just write the essay themselves.
Yeah. If you look at the whole list of 9k-odd of them there seem to be a *few* that do have authors listed, but only a handful (and even those are bare-bones with no citations). And there seems to be no way to even find out the creation/editorial process
Ah gotcha. Yes, super weird, and bizarre that there's just no author/credit data at all (and also yeah totally unclear what the date is supposed to mean).
Weird that it's dated 2003 too if it wasn't there previously, since they each seem at least to have different dates (I thought at first that 2003 must just be the resource date, but each bio seems to have a distinct date)
Yes, no thank you please.
Three PDR Press Minis booklets displayed on a light grey background, showing covers for Proust's "Overture from Swann's Way" (navy blue), "A Dictionary of Victorian Slang and Phrase" by J. Redding Ware (light blue), and "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched" by May Sinclair (green), alongside text announcing a pre-sale with 25% off until April 29th.
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Yessssssss!
Cover of Trouble Maker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan features a close up of Mitford's face in black and white with the title and author name in red text.
Next week I'm hosting a virtual event w/ biographer Carla Kaplan & two of her research assistants on her new book about Jessica Mitford & doing archival research w/ RBML's Jessica Mitford Papers. Will be an interesting discussion! You can register at: library.osu.edu/events/troub...
wow!
Hello! I'm glad this is making the rounds, as sometimes it feels as if we're pretending the so-called hallucination problem has gone away. It hasn't. It won't. But more importantly, this poses a particularly pernicious harm for education that I think is not well understood. So, a short thread...
description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033
to all who celebrate...
It doesn't matter what other powers they nominally have on paper, including lawmaking. A legislature that doesn't control the checkbook is impotent, and an executive who does is a tyrant.
Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”
nyuck nyuck nyuck haha
There was an interesting segment on (I think?) the Decoder Ring podcast about this exact thing!
I imagine she wasn't!
The IKEA meatball bath bomb one made me laugh, but otherwise, no, please no haha
April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.
Ends today! Go forth and buy some books!
But who will look after the elves??!
So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread: