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Most NEA translation grants for single books are around $12,500. An F/A–18 Super Hornet costs about $65M. These two jets dumped in the ocean would’ve financed 10,400 book translations.

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applying for jobs again

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"Christoph Plantin, a player in a multilingual book market. A tour through the Namur collection of #Plantin editions" - Miræus lecture by Pierre Assenmaker & Valérie Leyh (Université de Namur), online now for (re)listening on soundcloud soundcloud.com/consciencebi... or spotify! 📜 #BookHistory 📚💙

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"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

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Please share your fave anti-LLM memes with me 🙏🏻

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Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

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I’ve just learned that my new division, Bartlemas, has its own celebratory day: 24th August is Bartlemas / St Bartholomew’s Day & was particularly for printers (as the days shortened they traditionally got a Bartlemas payment for candles to work by). www.thyrsuspress.com/blog/2014/8/...

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Back from medieval girls weekend in NYC, to celebrate a year in my new house ♥️ I guess it’s not so new anymore?

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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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Consulting a recent reference work on the history of plastic surgery, I notice that the preface identifies God removing Adam’s rib to make Eve as “the first plastic surgical operation” lmaooo ??

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"truthiness prevails over truth ... claims are judged plausible not because of evidence or logic but because of vibes" thesphinxblog.com/2025/02/25/t... I'd never really thought of this before: The problem is not so much that AI produces unreliable crap, the problem is that people believe the crap.

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Going to New York Friday night to see the opening of a new musical adaptation of SIR ORFEO by my fave early music troupe 🧚

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Why are Thomas Taylor’s Plato translations so much more expensive than 16th eds 😭 I’m only complaining because I want one—but seriously!!

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It should be illegal to make an ebook without page numbers.

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good news, classicists: AI is 100% ready to teach your Advanced Latin class

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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Remind yourself of the Greek alphabet. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 397; Personal reference handbook (vade mecum) of Grimald of St. Gall (Abbot 841 CE-872 CE); middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.25 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Spent the morning pruning my climbing roses and killing rose slugs. I understand why some people find this too high maintenance… but I actually enjoy it—and worth it when the flowers come!

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My colleague and I got a really cool book at the fair, which is a French porno manuscript written in Greek characters. But the first 8 pages seem to (sort of?) actually be in Greek. This is going to be very difficult to decipher but hopefully worth it!!!

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Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Dosso Dossi, court painter to the Este family in Ferrara. Here, the Enchantress Circe (Melissa), or perhaps Alcina, 1520. With wise dog.

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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Somehow I never before today encountered the term “translatio princeps” but I love it. Is it unfashionable? Idc.

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What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

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The way some people talk about LLMs reminds me of Hoffmann’s Sandman: a dumb boy who falls in love with a robot girl because she likes his terrible poems more than his human fiancée does, and then goes insane after becoming unable to distinguish between the real and the robotic.

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I had really incredible lamb tartar at a fancy restaurant in Reykjavik before Covid. It was arranged like a little mountain range with powdered vinegar snow. I think about it regularly.

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I’m so grateful it’s spring. I went to the library this morning, then had lunch outside and now a leisurely walk to the train back to the office. Sunny and warm.

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ROMANES EUNT

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My Italian is unfortunately shaky but I’m pretty sure the book I am cataloging is partly about how angels are hot because they are the closest beings to God. milton senses tingling

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Griffith was very good at the vet. We are trying some new anti-inflammatory medication for his arthritis. The dr thinks he might have progressive spinal degeneration, but not worth doing an MRI—just make him comfy as possible. For a dog who is over 100 in dog years, he is doing pretty darn good.

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To remain safe in bathrooms all I have to do is simply show my vagina to anyone who questions my femininity. Thank you for keeping me safe from male predators LGB Alliance

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Trying to figure out how to write a description of this book that doesn’t make all my colleagues just tell me to STFU

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Incredibly, I have just happened across a Renaissance guy (Francesco Patrizi) who made all the exact same dunks on Aristotle’s “empiricism” that I do. The persistence of knowledge ♥️

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