Alex Wingate

They don’t deserve the money right now

Tell your dad thank you from a current IU student!

A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy. n.pr/4bfTTCp

I agree that the Q looks like it from some quick googling!

Idea de un Principe politico

Interesting. So a book in the same genre printed in 1658 in Spain has a similar layout for the body (but not quite as much space for footnotes). But none of this 22-page title page nonsense. books.google.com/books?id=gjT...

right?? I'm glad you think it's weird too. I'm waiting for someone to go "Oh this, was in fashion in the 1650s in Spain/Europe!" Which maybe it was! But this seems like a *choice*.

Random opening in the main text showing the two column format of the pages. The inner columns (close to the gutter of the book) has the main text, the outer columns have his footnotes. Footnotes may also spread across the entire bottom width of the page. It's somewhat reminiscent of highly glossed law books from the medieval/early modern periods.

Opening where the right page has a list advertising the other books from the author, Diego Enriquez de Villegas. Nice little paratext!

I want a copy of this edition for my teaching collection now.

Another opening, this one references devotion to the Virgen Mary, so "MARIA" is the biggest text among the chaos that is these pages.

Another opening. Same wild abandon for page design

Another opening. Same wild abandon for page design

The left page of this opening is *finally* the last page of this wild trip in type design. Right page is the normal licenses and pre-publication censorship approval of the book. This is the most normal page in the book.

I want to meet whoever decided on this book design as badly as I want to meet some of my idiot early modern Navarrese scribes.

The next opening. Latin quotes on the left page, beginning of a dedication to Philip IV "El Grande" (Philip IV sure as heck was not great.) on the right page, still looks like it's a title page with all the size of type one could desire.

The next opening. Still making *choices* with type. Also, a lot of BS about the titles of Philip IV. Clearly do not have a capital ñ because it's set as "ESPAñA" in the list of the areas that "obey" Phil IV

Aaaand we're still going in this next opening. Many types sizes, much drama, wow.

Another opening! More text set like a title page in varying sizes of type.

It just. keeps. going. (But now we've got a dedication!)

Title page of "El principe en la idea" by Diego Enriquez de Villegas, printed in Madrid at the Imprenta Real, 1656

First opening after the title page. Verso of title page has a quote from what seems to be the book of Solomon in Latin (book 3, chapter 3, verse 7). Recto of opening has a centered column of text in many different fonts ala an early modern title page

Another two pages of the weird title page/intro thing. The printer is using *ALL* the types. All the text is centered, the font size varies. It's all very dramatic and quite a statement.

The dude is still going. And it's totally like a title page advertising it's content. But we're like 6 pages after the title page??? He's just saying what is going to be in the book.

Graphic design is my passion, but make it early modern:
There's a book called _Principe en la idea_, and someone got new type & wanted to use ALL of it, or the author wanted to have a 22-page title page? & the body has an entire column for footnotes?
books.google.com/books?id=EP1...
#BookHistory

I can't wait for more RSAs with y'all!!

Omg @13thgravegypt.bsky.social I told Mr E that Finland got the bronze in men's hockey, and he immediately replied, "...You might call that a third-place Finnish, ja?"

That theater is so pretty!!

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

oh my god

bugs bunny from looney tunes is sitting in a hole . Alt: bugs bunny from looney tunes holding up a silly isn’t he sign

lol I just got three TripIt notifications that DHS has reversed the global entry pre-check nonsense.

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

Well. This should be fun today as I try to get home. At the very least, I’m not trying to get to VA home, thus combining political and weather fuckery

People do in fact remember that they kept TSA Pre and Global Entry running during the last shutdown

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn't cheating—it's the erosion of learning itself Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ba...

Short circuiting the learning process is the whole point of #AI. Users offload the "simple" or "mundane" thinking that nurtures growth. Students borrow its "understanding" and think that understanding is thiers.

Use at the risk of stupidity.

#academicsky

phys.org/news/2026-02...

I could really start a fight in my PhD program’s group chat over rice cookers. East Asia vs. South Asia vs. West Africa 😂
(I am team rice cooker even if I can do it on the stove)

Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

If anyone at #rensa26 found a coat with a print of red flowers on a white background, it's mine and I miss it dearly.

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

Was v happy to find @saracharles.bsky.social ‘s book in the wild! And The Subversive Stitch seems v #DHmakes!

Books on a sofa: Eco’s Name of the Rose, Borges’ The Craft of Verse, Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson, Dress Diary by Kate Strasdin, Simply Donabe by Naomi Takei Moore, The Subversice Stitch by Rozsika Parker, The Medieval Scriptorium by Sara J. Charles, and Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See!

Books acquired during this jaunt to San Francisco for #RSA2026 from Green Apple Books!

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

this is the soundbite and we can make it stick

I was lamenting not having a portable project for RSA sessions, but then we went to Japan Town yesterday in SF and I found sashiko materials!

Thank you! No worries!!