The design of this c5th Pictish plaque from Norrie’s Law goes pretty hard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social
Wearing a proper replica Mick Aston jumper 😮
A Chaucerian treat this evening - godes kitchels, a medieval ancestor of the Eccles Cake
Thanks!
We hear a lot about wilderness Bigfoot sightings, and sometimes about urban Bigfoot sightings, but has there ever been a domestic Bigfoot sighting where someone has tried to track Bigfoot within their own home?
If a cathedral ever hosts a 'Cathedrals on Film' film festival, this one should definitely feature
I just re-watched 'The Medusa Touch' (1978), an unsettling tale of telekineses notable for starring @bristolcathedral.bsky.social. I first watched it decades ago while eating pizza with the late Philip Grierson. It's a great exemplar of the 70s genre I think of as 'BleakWoo'
No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI
I got briefly excited and then realised the article is not about literal ghost cars ☹️
It's partly dependent on context, but if it's a history book I would normally index every name. There are different conventions for different disciplines
The website for @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in Folklore is now live! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Oh, I wouldn't normally index living authors unless asked to do so, at least not in history - that's not the usual convention, but it varies from subject to subject
Sure, indexes aren't concordances, but I would say they are analytical rather than 'selective'. In my practice as an indexer it's absolutely basic indexing 101 that every person and place mentioned gets an entry; the analytical part comes for the indexing of concepts, themes and ideas
Good luck with the ff, fi and Th ligatures 👍
The problem is I have a completeness mania and that's the reason I'm a professional indexer; views on what an index should or should not include may differ
You might imagine that, but AI is actually terrible at creating indexes - as many studies have shown. It’s something we still need humans for
*looks around for nearest waste paper basket*
I’m sorry WHAT
Old Eastern European literature be like ‘Read my poem in praise of Poland! Where all the characters are Lithuanian! Which is set entirely in Belarus! And is written in Latin,’ etc.
He certainly wasn't arguing that!
A great inaugural lecture this evening from Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski as Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at SSEES
To give you a flavour, I tried to explain St Helen’s Bishopsgate by comparing it to the SSPX
I was interviewed by La Croix this afternoon about the current state of the Church of England; something rather challenging to explain to a French newspaper!
No payment before the first 500 bodies, even though I only ordered the one hit
I wanted to take out one of my literary rivals, so instead of a contract killer I engaged a memorandum-of-agreement killer
Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region.
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In an ideal world, the burning shame attendant on using AI to write should be enough to enforce an honour-based system. But I’m not sure that’s enough for the world we actually live in
The @societyofauthors.bsky.social Human Authored scheme launches today. I am really interested to find out what verification process it's going to use.
‘Silence of the Gods’ is my attempt to do historical justice to the last pre-Christian religions of Europe. But there will always be something else, something that can only be adequately expressed in fiction - and hence the short story, ‘Sieidi’
