Daniel Bellingradt

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.

Didn’t realize till just now how much my life has been missing early-Modern citrus fruits

Tiny elephant or really big farmer?

Annual Historyposting Award Categories:

-Best history thread
-Best use of historical images
-Best history hashtag/feed
-Best history journal account
-Best heritage account (other than the MERL it’s just not fair otherwise)
-Best history conference account
-Best history puns
-Worst history puns 😏
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A merwoman holding a comb and a mirror, riding a big fish. This is the colophon from this book: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/8532285

Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin Frieß... #bookhistory

You all know what I mean…

In 2026, Human-Printer interaction is still more important than Human-AI interaction.

Your everyday Human-Machine Interaction:

They’re trying to get us to be enthousiastic about AI - BUT WE DONT EVEN HAVE WORKING PRINTERS YET. I WANT A PRINTER THAT PRINTS WHEN I HIT THE PRINT BUTTON, I don’t want AI to predict when I will need new shoelaces, based on my search history for medieval paintings. ALL I WANT A WORKING PRINTER.

A group of women, Amazons, are fighting a group of armed men. This image was printed in 1550, in sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis, vol. 6.

Fear the well-dressed Amazons!

That’s a good question!

Something happened between 1440 and 1550…

That would be great!

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A classic read!

a printed elephant.

As you can see, the elephant's trunk is functioning as a text absorber. Emptying early modern books was a main function of elephants back then, #bookhistory

And that’s more than correct to do so!

Will start referring to Elephant power from now.

#envhist

Schreibkalender mit Eintragungen sind einzigartige Quellen für sehr viele andere Forschungsfelder, insbesondere für klima- und umwelthistorische Forschungen.

That’s true

Mit dem Tagungsband nähern wir uns Notationen, Notizen, Inskriptionen, Eintragungen, Zeichnungen sowie Kritzeleien – und all dies fassen wir in diesem Band unter dem Begriff „Handschrift“: also alles mit einer menschlichen Hand graphisch sinnhaft fixierte.

Von den bisher bekannten rund 18.000 Schreibkalender-Exemplaren konnten wir rund 7.600 Kalender identifizieren, die handschriftliche Eintragungen tragen. Alle diese Eintragungen und Kalender sind in der Datenbank recherchierbar.

Der Tagungsband zu handschriftlichen Einträgen in frühneuzeitlichen Schreibkalendern baut u.a. auf einer DFG-geförderten Datenbank auf, die frei nutzbar ist:

schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de

It is likely Andalusian paper, distributed via Paris. The paper flows started in this time. bsky.app/profile/dbel...

On a more textual level, the elephant and the plow are moving into the existing text, making way for new ideas and letters to grow in the future …

Yep, they all did. I wrote a chapter about this, called the recycling: media echoes.

#earlymodern 🐘 in action.

For good reasons!

Here you go: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0...