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.
05.03.2026 11:54 — 👍 385 🔁 85 💬 5 📌 0@dbellingradt.bsky.social
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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.
05.03.2026 11:54 — 👍 385 🔁 85 💬 5 📌 0Didn’t realize till just now how much my life has been missing early-Modern citrus fruits
05.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Tiny elephant or really big farmer?
05.03.2026 14:58 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
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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
06.03.2026 11:38 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2You all know what I mean…
06.03.2026 10:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In 2026, Human-Printer interaction is still more important than Human-AI interaction.
06.03.2026 10:41 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Your everyday Human-Machine Interaction:
06.03.2026 10:32 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0They’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.
05.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 146 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 3A 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!
05.03.2026 16:34 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0That’s a good question!
05.03.2026 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Something happened between 1440 and 1550…
05.03.2026 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That would be great!
05.03.2026 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🐘
05.03.2026 13:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A classic read!
05.03.2026 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a 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
05.03.2026 11:14 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0And that’s more than correct to do so!
05.03.2026 09:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will start referring to Elephant power from now.
05.03.2026 09:03 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0#envhist
05.03.2026 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Schreibkalender mit Eintragungen sind einzigartige Quellen für sehr viele andere Forschungsfelder, insbesondere für klima- und umwelthistorische Forschungen.
05.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s true
05.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mit 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.
05.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Von 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.
05.03.2026 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
05.03.2026 08:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On 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 …
05.03.2026 08:19 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yep, they all did. I wrote a chapter about this, called the recycling: media echoes.
05.03.2026 08:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#earlymodern 🐘 in action.
05.03.2026 07:27 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For good reasons!
05.03.2026 07:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here you go: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0...
05.03.2026 07:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1