Mark G. Bilby

Hamlet and Macbeth owe a tremendous debt to Attic Orestes and Electra. And speakers of the English tongue an equally great debt to Shakespeare. Words so beautified must not be forgotten.

Billie Eilish Calls Out 'Pathetic Coward' Elon Musk for Hoarding Wealth During Global Crises Billie Eilish called out Elon Musk for hoarding his wealth at a time of multiple humanitarian and environmental crises.

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With ChatGPT and Meta going full steam into porn creation, does that now make Zuckerberg and Altman the biggest purveyors of pornography in the world? And Oxford and the Cal State system (500k students) still have deals with ChatGPT forcing their students to use it, right? Ok, then. #values

Hey Microsoft. Google’s Gmail doesn’t let me block email from porn spam sites, but it does let me block promotional emails from your company. Just thought you might like to know that.

Thank God.

Only when watching Severance.

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this" Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.

Microsoft plans to turn Windows into agentic AI OS, despite user complaints. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... This is a big reason to move to open source OSs. Without them, human agency will be compromised from the kernel up.

Mr. Lion and pals … it takes zero courage to revere saints who lived hundreds of years ago. It takes genuine courage to canonize saints of our time. Canonize St. Alexei Navalny.

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

Respect. Genuine non-narcissist leadership by example. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Corporate executive greed is a cancer on the planet, and Elon Musk is a trillion dollar tumor. Let us pray to the spirit of FDR for a way out of this inhuman evil. Even wheelchair bound, that saintly man would have kicked Musk where it counts.

I’m beginning to wonder if Humanities people, we who actually do close reading and meticulous citing, especially when multiple languages and historical sources are involved, are uniquely positioned to see the complete horse manure that AI routinely produces.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Today's blog post, "On Disrupting Passive-Human Active-AI Feedback Loops in Higher Education" .... www.patreon.com/posts/on-dis...

@mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press... Steven Spielberg and the ghost of Stanley Kubrick called and said they want their royalty check from you guys for pumping a book that unabashedly rips off the plot of their sci-fi joint venture and helps inflate the AI hype bubble just before it bursts.

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When it comes down to it, big tech companies are all replaceable. The scientific record is not.

Scientific publishers like ACS have no business making academic libraréis police AI uses by users. They should instead advocate together for open source technical infrastructures to counteract big tech siphoning off their IP through users who are being force fed AI integrations in everything.

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor [Frankenstein] be similar in some ways to the tech bros. — también Guillermo del Toro www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, "What is your stance on AI?" And my answer was very short. I said, "I'd rather die." … My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. — Guillermo del Toro

That is really good news.

Love this!!! Might your catharsis include the sharing of .tex snippets?

Was the Paul of the Letters Just a Myth? Full mini-documentary now available contrasting the implicit biographies of Paul in Marcion's Pauline letters with their canonical New Testament counterparts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIZE...

Was it perchance the mascot of Legio X Fretensis? ;-)

Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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But raises for academic leaders who want to insinuate AI into all corners of an institution 🙃🙃🙃

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www.patreon.com/posts/new-qu... Has the data-driven reconstruction of Marcion's collection of Paul's letters kicked off a new Quest for the Historical Paul?

Social media must warn users of ‘profound’ health risks under new California law It’s the latest state to mandate such warnings, advocated by the former U.S. surgeon general.

Good. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

Essential reading on AI’s tendency to amplify uniformity, conventional thinking, and liability avoidance while erasing local, elegant, diverse and interdependent ecosystems of human and environmental wisdom, from language to architecture to botany to medicine. aeon.co/essays/gener...