Sam Kaislaniemi

My wildest, craziest fantasy is that they won’t just be cowering in the darkness again within my lifetime.

I want them to face real consequences. I want the Nazis to hurt. I want every far-right extremist currently posting openly about their bigotry to never again know a moment’s peace.

Exhalation EP, by The Anxious Bench 3 track album

Hey y’all, it’s Bandcamp Friday again. So if you by the Anxious Bench EP today, 100% of the proceeds will help us get back into the studio

@eviedc.bsky.social says that we play "winter music"—good for quiet evenings at home when it’s too cold outside to do much—so maybe today is perfect

Next Monday, 1-2pm, Séverine Angers takes us into the world of women’s patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars – told through intimate letters from military families. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #history #letters #WarofIndependence 🗃️

I read it the same way 😂

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

Jäsenjärjestöltämme @sask.fi leikattiin juuri lähes 40 % julkisesta rahoituksesta. Järjestöiltä tehtävissä leikkauksissa ei valitettavasti ole mitään uutta. Mutta nyt on menty uudelle härskiyden tasolle: ulkoministeriön virkamiesten mukaan ministeri Tavion (ps) tekemä päätös on nimittäin laiton.

Now me, I'm interested in historical spelling variation, and even with a 99% CAR the resulting transcriptions don't pass muster - if, that is, I want reliable numbers.

The technology is amazing, but it's not amazing for everything. It's not even _good_ for everything.

Oh, totally. But what this means is that it's really good at modernizing historical texts, which is what a lot of users want anyway. Such a technology is fantastic for some research questions, like: find me _all_ the names in these 1,500,000 pages of MSS dated 1500-1800.

Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.

Wondering if the reason Gemini is apparently so good is that Google has twenty years experience of Google Books to draw on. The OCR behind it has greatly improved over the years, though I can't think of anyone remarking on this, or the practices behind it.

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Palkinto, joka katosi – Taiteen valtionpalkintojen 160-vuotinen perinne joutui katkolle ”On haluttu rankaista taiteita, ja nyt se tapahtuu.” Palkitut kommentoivat SK:lle tunnustuksen merkitystä ja uutta kulttuuripolitiikkaa.

Perinteiset arvot eivät nauti tämän hallituksen suojelusta.

suomenkuvalehti.fi/kulttuuri/pa...

A New Lens into the Archive You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation

The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

Otsikko: Israel saa osallistua Euroviisuihin - Alankomaat, Espanja ja Irlanti jäävät pois, Suomi osallistuu

Koomikkona velvollisuuteni periaatteessa olisi väkertää tästä jokin oivaltava solvaus tai satiirinen irvikuva.

En jaksa. Sen sijaan totean vain EBU:lle ja Suomen Yleisradiolle, että ei vittu miten säälittävän selkärangattomia pelkureita te olette.

On 7 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET, @mrfw17thc.bsky.social is speaking on "Time Apart in the Early English East India Company" as part of @movedapart.bsky.social's Gendering Global History seminar series. Contact cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se for the Zoom link.

#EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians

For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.

"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".

Built with books - The Queen's College, Oxford Book history has been one of the most exciting subfields in the humanities over the last couple of decades, something confirmed by a recent symposium, Built with Books: Shaping the Shelves of the Earl...

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/built-w...
Write up of the wonderful Built with Books symposium hosted by the Shaping Scholarship project @ucl.ac.uk in September. @queenscollegeox.bsky.social was represented by me and the fabulous @matthewshaw.bsky.social

I could pull out so much in this thread but “ah but that was bad science, we’re doing good science so we don’t need to learn any lessons” is a perpetual STEM bro problem.

In 1950 UNESCO issued a statement on "race" rejecting its validity for scientific analysis.

UNESCO's first Director-General was Julian Huxley, who in 1959-62 was President of the Eugenics Society.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_...

Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based) This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created

Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Thanks!

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.

The coup was over in hours because people said no.

I've had Covid for a week now (Nth time). Felt a bit better, took a walk yesterday. Just now was gonna go for a walk, but had to come to bed instead as feeling weak & dizzy. Covid ain't the common cold.
We all have piles of masks now. Wear one when you feel the least bit under the weather, please.

Even if you believe that Covid is over:

Could you please mask to protect yourself against flu etc. AND to protect others from the viruses YOU might be spreading? Nobody wants your "it's just a cold" either!

Thank you.

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Join us on a day full of new data of the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database, presentations from researchers that are related to ESTA or the field of Indian Ocean slavery, and the introduction of TIDES.

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