Is he taking a cut of the proceeds? Because that BS accusation against Powell came from somewhere

Co-sign

Balanced twill weave in red, gold, yellow and white. The effect of balancing warp and weft is a square plaid.

Close up of the weaving in progress

Monday #WeavingLikeAViking

Will it lock from the outside?

Says the colleague of Eric Swallwel and Tony Gonzales?

H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of Lost (I can still sing every word), Electra Woman, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Banana Splits (again, every word), the Bugaloos, the Lost Saucer... shows that taught me the wonders of weird & the importance of boundless imagination. And scary lizard people in rubber suits! hssss

"T-T-Take it easy, Big F. They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow. It's just business." DJ (Don't Join) in The Last Jedi, played by Benicio del Toro.

oof

Balanced red and yellow plaid very nearly balanced

Deciding on plaid vs all red border

Chevron on the center pops in red against the yellow background

Friday #WeavingLikeAViking. Starting to weave the 2/2 twill, including accidental but fabulous chevron.

Oh no, not a jerk at all! Just an ongoing thing with a colleague. He calls my work irrelevant, I tell him if you don't learn a dead language and use newspapers as a source, you're doing current events, not history. Yesterday was simply *not* the day to pretend medieval history isn't relevant.

Ha! Avignony papacy day was the *wong* day for him to try. Weird coincidence that we were covering it in the survey yesterday, but honestly, after Plagues and Jacqueries and now popes, I could do with being a little less relevant. It would be nice to think we'd learned... anything?... from history.

Ran into one of my Americanist colleagues in the hallway. He tried to score points in front a student from my class by joking about how his classes are "relevant" and hoo boy was I able to shut him down. Not today, Satan!
#medievalsky

Holy f*ck

Student: That's the most American take you could have come up with.

Student wasn't wrong.

#medievalsky

I realize that a would-be king attempting to bully the pope by invoking the Avignon papacy is catnip to medievalists (myself very much included), but has anyone stopped to consider the lunacy of a NY mafia boss sending his goons to intimidate (checks notes)...

a guy from the south side of Chicago?

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

We are enshitifying our own fields "Surveys and related studies have shown that researchers are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to help to conduct literature searches, write manuscripts and format bibliographies. And sometimes, these models generate non-existent academic references."

A tiny chocolate cake shaped like a rosebud

Dark chcolate roses (with chocolate ganache centers) for dessert.

I love it!!

Happy Easter from your favorite SciFi/fantasy writers, Everyone!

Postdocs, adjunct pay, even NTT salaries -- because they know someone will want the job and do it for the peanuts.

I would love to take a year off and do this (though the salary seems low for London)

That is not what the evidence says -- read some of those MIT studies. And yes they might use it outside my classroom, but inside, they're using their own brains, even if it means reading handwritten essays with my very middle aged eyes.

Add that to the ethical issues of plagiarism (that's *my* work it's feesing back to students uncredited) and the devasting impact AI is having on our environment, I've gone old school with my own students.

It's your classroom, but research is piling up fast that using AI undermines critical thinking and undermines it badly.
www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.

I see a very possible future where the AI bubble bursts and tanks the economy, leaving massive unemployment. But we also have the option to continue to teach critical thinking instead of AI use, which we know from multiple studies is harmful to student learning. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

omg, that's exactly what it was like. It was also weirdly like being alone in a crowd where everyone talked around each other but almost never to each other.

Oh good, let's teach the kids that plagiarism is great and verifiable facts are for the birds, all the while melting their brains so the tech companies that created the monsters don't fail in their mission to make sure these kids will never have a job.

Games history!

Empire of the Sun (not Europe, obv), Schindler's List, Their Finest. Might not be as "classic" as you are thinking, but maybe one that focuses on those caught up in the war instead of soldiers and battles? A lot of Schindler's List is set in 1945. My own current mood is all Nuremberg all the time

AI suuuccckkkks. This sure looks like an attempt to 1. hire fewer people to create the text content; and 2. stop paying HS teachers and adjuncts/junior faculty to score the tests.