jacob riyeff

I had an email exchange with a guy yesterday who insisted I was making a mistake not outsourcing my writing to an LLM. He said, "It knows more than you do." He couldn't understand that this was impossible because the work of writing is figuring out what "I" think.

i love being a professional academic. where else could a contrarian hermit find such acceptance and approval, i ask you?

i don't think there's much more to it. it's just a versicle (i think that'd be the technical term) that is said after certain readings during the office of vigils prior to the vatican ii liturgical reforms. (maybe it's said elsewhere too, but that's where i've come across it.)
thx, j-t!

for the love of all that is holy, does anyone have a clue when/how the "tu autem domine miserere nobis" response in the roman rite vigils got there?

'there are certain tastes, as of honey, certain humors and passions, as of the flesh. when those are either taken away or injured, notice how you feel.'
—guigo of the charterhouse, meditations

or, the monk formerly known as witiza.

3rd before the ides of february.
23rd moon.
+benedict of aniane, "the emporer's monk" (per the american cassinese ordo, tho the martyrologium romanum places him tomorrow)

What you come to remember becomes yourself. Learning will be to cultivate the awareness Of that governing order, now pure of the passions It composed; till, seeking it in itself, You may find at last the passion that composed it, Hear it both in its speech and in yourself. What you remember saves you. To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent. So your learning is, From the dead, order, and what sense of yourself Is memorable, what passion may be heard When there is nothing for you to say.

Learning a Dead Language, W.S. Merwin

(final two stanzas)

The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo-SaxonistsSt. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester,...

and here's the book it's all based on: litpress.org/Products/CS2...

YouTube video by Graham Scheper The Rule of St. Benedict in Anglo-Saxon England - Jacob Riyeff

curious about the history of monasticism, the rule of st. benedict, & maybe even how it was translated into #oldenglish in the 10th century?!
well you're in luck. @grahamscheper.bsky.social had me on his youtube channel to talk about all this, and it was a great time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ene...

ran into an acquaintance who said "hey, we should talk again sometime—about poetry, not artificial intelligence."
i said, "yes, yes we should. wouldn't it be great if we all talked about poetry instead of artificial intelligence."

all right, virgil, i'll read your dang _aeneid_ again.

The DAIR Zine Library A collection of zines from the DAIR Institute

Browsing the zine library from the Distributed AI Research Institute and you should too: zines.dair-institute.org

"The challenge, therefore, is not technological, but anthropological." -leo xiv
yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

"...for the same reason that a monastery must do so: there is common work to be done that demands the cooperation of free and equal human beings."

The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...

thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

"It is precisely the world, understood as the social and economic structures into which we are born, through which we secure the necessities of survival and which hedge the boundaries of our social worlds, that an educational community must shut out..."
damn, @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social!

all right, tacitus—you win!

making hand-drawn maps for my #oldenglish class, for context. will be on the exam.
one for the germanic kingdoms after the fall of the western empire, one for the anglo-saxon heptarchy.
feelin' _pretty_ good about it.

Wortfelder!

ha! just imagine if the republican party cast itself as the "rule of law" party or something!

3rd day before the nones of february.
15th moon.
+wærburh, abbess of ely.

Eyes to See Inviting you to explore and contemplate the great art of the world “Somewhere, sometime in the course of casual encounters with art, an icon may emerge and claim its person: an image that startles and...

Congrats and happy pub day, Roger Lipsey!
Eyes to See: Approaching the Spiritual in World Art is out today.

“Eyes to See is a celebration of icons in art, finding beautiful connections across history, culture, and geography.” — Foreword Reviews

indiepubs.com/products/eye...

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

"The slippages, errors, and underthought suggestions are symptomatic of a broader paradigm shift that we may still have time to reverse, but only if we refuse to believe that a fundamentally extractive infrastructure can be redeemed by mere procedural refinements."
well said.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

This codex contains the Benedictine Rule, with a German translation following each Latin chapter.

"Ausculta, o fili, praecepta magistri..."

Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 72; Benedictus s. abbas. Regula lat. germanica; 1250-1276; Engelberg; f.1r
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

pope leo doing his thang. (now in english translation)
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

this was a fun one to do. always great to get out of #oldenglish to related languages.
thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social for giving it a home!