Haha, I'm the total opposite. Dark mode gives leaves me with a really persistent after image in my vision, so I find it unusable.

Relatedly, I never understood why people went crazy for sweet potato fries. (I feel like they were big for a while.)

Pickle juice is an essential part of my migraine regimen.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

one of my favorite things when buckaroos do bad things is we are given opportunity to find grace. it is a loaded word because there are religious connotations but as a non religious buckaroo i find the concept so powerful: not just forgiveness but grace. thankful for those moments when they come

Thank you for this. Snail Friend is the best thing I've seen all day.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.

I need to see one of these guys in person one day.

I don't know how much good these petitions really do, but I don't think they can hurt. Please sign and share!

21st century humans: can't understand why ancient Mesopotamian diviners thought they could predict the future from wordplay-based omens.

Also 21st century humans: "This AI told me how to fix my lawn mower once, this computer is basically God now."

I love their blue eyelids.

Lady of the Flake killed me.

Humans can be pretty excellent.

Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, by Paolo Veronese, 1576-78, 📸 by @JOHNRU55ELL

It is one thing for professors to resist AI in education; it is far more powerful when students do. Only a coalition between the two groups of students and teachers —and not the antagonistic one between “cheaters” and “cops”—will be powerful enough to create a movement.

Fantastic article. This, in particular, cannot be said often enough:

"A liberal arts degree ... is not meant to be efficient."

I've been thinking of you a lot, Zoe. I hope you're okay.

I note saying that I believe that even if you think you have no artistic skill, I'd rather see your effort than your A.I.

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Get out of my brain!

And good luck — I believe in you. (I do not believe in me.)

The scribe emerges in the margin from the line-filler to write the text.

Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A vessel in the shape.of an owl, displayed on a transparent pedestal. The figurine is intricately painted in black, red, and beige, with finely detailed feathers, large round eyes, and a slightly tilted head.

We all need a a timeline cleanse!

A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.

On display at Antikensammlung München

A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀

📷 me

Oh, this looks incredible! Thank you for sharing.

That's so frustrating! I finally got in (with the password they sent me — I guess the system just suddenly decided to work?), but I missed some papers I really wanted to see.

#AIASCS folks, is anyone else having trouble getting into the virtual platform — and more importantly, have you figured out how to solve the problem? It keeps telling me that my login credentials are wrong, but I'm using the ones they sent me.

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

The tech bozos should receive a bill every time a librarian has to look for a fabricated book or article. Slop enablers should be held accountable.

Another class action suit needed here - a global one. The UN needs an anti-AI charter. WTAF is this timeline.
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