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happy octavia e butler’s birthday to all who celebrate. we are so much richer for the worlds she’s invited us into

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Great to see @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social (& Shakespeare Quarterly!) getting media coverage for this ‘upstart crow’ re-attribution! archive.md/2025.06.18-2...

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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“If I had ever learnt to play, I would have been a great proficient” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Looks like the ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬ off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!

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Vanished by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social is such an exceptional book. It traces the history of how Western scientists have understood #extinction, and the political and social implications of that thinking, including on colonial fantasies of replacing Indigenous peoples. I can't recommend it enough! 👏

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“If there is one thing I strongly believe, every human being is entitled to know from whence they came, be it good or bad.” —Helen Macior, born in 1913, in a letter she wrote in 1995 pleading for information about her origins. i think about all those who died without the truth—a monstrous crime. 🥚

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The big mistake was letting them get away with calling it artificial intelligence in the first place

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“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

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Let's give this another outing:

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Mine, just out in Washington Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/08/l...

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I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame! The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama. I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.

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“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

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The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments

The average American has three friends

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Now available to pre-order from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social: Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600, editors Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni & Henrique Leitão www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Publication date: 30/7/2025 #maritimehistory

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…who wore it better?

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Tonight at 6pm for any of my locals!

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Oh my God, do yourself a favor and TURN ON the NCAA womens' championship on ABC if you don't have it on already. UConn and South Carolina are both shooting 60 percent, both teams are up and down the floor, and there have already been five lead changes in the first quarter. This is beautiful.

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I do believe this is the best UConn team I've seen. Ever. Even Bird and Taurasi didn't have a Sarah Strong on the floor with them. These three different players who can go off for 40 if you don't guard them with your life, and then Kaitlyn Chen buries you for 15 too.

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COLUMBO: So he wouldn’ta bought that shirt? TAILOR: Marigold yellow? For a bright winter? Absolutely not, sir. COLUMBO: Now that is interesting… TAILOR: Shall I find sir’s color season? COLUMBO: Ohh, no sir, that won’t be necessary. My wife tells me I’m a soft autumn and that’s good enough for me

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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

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This Doonesbury cartoon coming to mind tonight for some reason

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Tonight’s #Shax2025 cash bar is open til 7! Grab a drink and then buy a drink for Shakespeare by scanning the QR code to donate to SAA. Donations help to support travel grants, awards & prizes, & much more. Give today by scanning Will’s sign or visiting linktr.ee/saaupdates

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Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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#RenSA2025 #Shax2025 today at 9am, Marriott, Exeter Room, 3rd floor: monster papers! #earlymodern #skystorians #histsci #histmed

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Heh #Shax2025 #RSA2025 #RenSa2025 do you want to get rich quick, be a cosmopolitan gentleman, and succeed at a renaissance court? Then come along today to my paper about a 1609 pamphlet which uses a courtesan’s life story to teach all this and more!

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It’s March 20 & here’s your view of today at #Shax2025: 🖋 Registration 📚 Book Exhibits ✍️ Journal Meet & Greet and New Variorum Breakfast 🗣 Seminars & Workshops 🌍 WSC Meeting 🧑‍🏫 Shax Futures 📖 Book Launch 🎓 #ShaxGrads Coffee Hour 🧁 Annual Reception See you there!

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For any of the #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

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Six UConn undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines will perform their personal stories in an intimate show reflecting on issues of social isolation and connection. The UConn Story Slam will take place on Thursday, March 27th at 3:30 - 5:00 PM in the Ballard Museum Black Box Theater.

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Fantastic article by my colleague Anna Mae Duane!

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