Sami Olive

Toujours rassurant d'apprendre qu'au moins un aspect de mon travail n'est pas (encore ? yikes) menacé par l'IA.

Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds

By me: Climate cost of Israel’s war on Gaza will exceed the annual greenhouse gas emissions of >100 countries - exacerbating planetary catastrophe on top of the horrific death toll and suffering of Palestinians

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The most devastating thing about France’s new smoking law is that I’ll have fewer opportunities to smell a cigarette. First the advent of vapes and now this.

Also, I'm begging universities to please come up with a comprehensive policy for #genAI use before throwing millions at a new "institute." We don't need an institute to know that students are using #genAI to outsource thinking.

I want to know who conned my university administration into thinking it can "use (generative) AI to fight climate change." Buddy it is the climate change.

Applied to a summer school out of pure interest and was accepted and now I have to submit “my project” to them!!! Help!!!

Fun spring activites for 2025:
- Turning off Copilot.
- Disallowing AI training permissions for Meta.
- Telling your students to write the same email in their own words.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

Dante a oublié le cercle d’enfer où l’on doit noter les présences et gérer les projets finaux en groupe à perpétuité.

Hello everyone! Our first event — a launch — is happening next week, so we thought we'd take a moment to introduce ourselves and the scheme.

We want to create a dedicated space for PhD students and early career researchers of all kinds to share their work within the society's remit.

I love living in an old building because I have winter sink water that *hits.*

Every time a Disney sequel comes out, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to not have children.

I’m not sure if Bluesky is big enough for me to get harshly punished myself for lack of nuance, but yes I KNOW that the math Pythagorists broke off from the mystic Pythagorists and that they may have not been as secretive as time went on. I just like saying “Arithmafia.”

Having fun learning that the Pythagorists harshly punished those who spoke about their doctrines like some kind of psycho math fraternity. An Arithmafia, if you will.

You can when it isn’t technically your research area.

More of my friends have left the fascist app for this one, so I’m making a conscious effort to use this account more. Take this post as a gasp of life. I’m heeeeeere!

My current chapter has me thinking waaaayyyy too much about the Roman Empire.

One perk of my Ph.D. is that I can now cite dozens of traditional Christian sources that state that no, a nine-year-old shouldn’t ever have a baby, actually.

Got the schedule for #IAS2024 and I’ll be able to attend Keith Busby and Danièle James-Roul’s round table on reading Old French à haute voix. This is something I regretfully have never been certain how to do and I’m eager to learn more! Looking forward to July!

Broke: Everyone in the Middle Ages died when they were 30.

Woke: The average lifespan in the Middle Ages is skewed low due to a high number of infant deaths.

Bespoke: Dozens of sources, dating to the 3rd century C.E., cite 70 as a person’s ideal lifespan.

As someone who has experienced both a 9 a.m. sunrise and 4 p.m. sunset, I can say with conviction that the 4 p.m. sunset is better.

I always get so hungry reading the Grail feast episode in Perceval.

How people imagine medieval French epic: *Brave knights on a battlefield, deftly taking down enemies from atop their trusty steeds.*

How medieval French epic actually is: “Oh god William we forgot snacks we’re gonna die out here.”

Normalize not having to normalize what you do

Crazy that Mr Beast can do what he does without first having to go undergo an ethics review. How long until he does the Stanford Prison Experiment??

I guess the thing I have going for me on Bluesky and X is that I don’t know how to use either of them.

T-3 days until I go from writing an article in my apartment to writing an article in my rural hometown! Truly a Hallmark holiday film in the making.