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📚 Après 🐻 🐮 🐦 🐺 🐳 Le bestiaire de Michel Pastoureau s’agrandît : l’âne, une histoire culturelle.

Big thanks in advance to anyone sharing this. It's my attempt to help get the book back into the world after my ex-publisher collapsed, putting it out of print for many months, and taking away my earnings from it (& six other books) in the process.

Hills, rivers, ghosts, psychedelic music & more.

It's fancy duck time here in Michigan with ducks migrating through. These are Gadwalls, with one of the males in front. One of the male calls is a short, deep call referred to as a "burp."

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

I would like to attend a literary festival where the audience contains a row of attentive owls. [The following is from a guide book to St Mary's, Westham]

Suiveuses de guerre / Trévisi L’illusion d’un monde commun / Lilti Et le monde créa l’occident / Quinn

Pas moins de 3 enregistrements de podcast programmés demain 😋

The "Neoliberal singularity" - an observation from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social that is both astute and terrifying 😬

YouTube video by Lee Walters Little Lamb Chilling With Cat

We interrupt your usual feed for this video of a lamb and a cat on a rock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiR6...

These service contracts go to large companies, not small businesses, because the company needs to be an approved vendor in whatever financial management software system your university uses. To be vendorized in Workday requires paperwork, insurance, legal advice that is hard for small businesses. 9/

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.

This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

Maybe we should do this instead!

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

For more information on the book, read Judith Rice Henderson: “John Heywood’s ‘The Spider and the Flie’: Educating Queen and Country” in: Studies in Philology, 96.3 (1999): 241-274.

A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle. The image shows this battle of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies.

Printed was this story from John Heywood in 1556. #skystorians

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Teaching the Codex Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology

Hello Bluesky! We're an interdisciplinary project on the teaching of palaeography and codicology, and we're now branching out to include early printed books. Check out our website for lots of learning resources: teachingthecodex.com

At the same time, I do wish that when people call him "media savvy" they'd note that his mother is Mira Nair, the filmmaker. It wouldn't be denigrating his other qualities to suggest that, since his mom is an internationally known, award-winning filmmaker, maybe he's picked up a thing or two.

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Three-month old falcon cautiously testing out her wings on a light pole next to the Newberry Library.

I'm late to the baby falcon party, but "Lizzy" has been hanging out with us at #newberrylibrary, eating snacks from her fly-by folks, making lots of noise, and gearing up to learn to fly!
Great timing for our Winging It! exhibition (through Sept 27)!
www.newberry.org/calendar/win...

Algren, The Neon Wilderness
Bellow, Augie March
Dybek, The Coast of Chicago
Forrest, Divine Days
Hemon, Lazarus Project
Just, An Unfinished Season
Langer, Crossing California
Makkai, The Great Believers
Mengestu, All Our Names
Ware, Jimmy Corrigan
Wright, Native Son
Wallace, The Pale King (ch. 22)

I have loved the Mountain Goats my entire adult life. That I have potentially gotten their lead singer to read Bleak House is one of those personal accomplishments I hope they put in my eulogy 🙏

Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.

Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente...

Local artist (she mainly creates welded metalwork) Marie Ahearn inspired by Melville:

entrance to the room commemorating French writers killed during World War II between two fluted columns, a doorway, and over it the inscription: AUX ECRIVAINS MORTS POUR LA FRANCE MCMXXXIX MCMLXV On Bloch's life and death: History Heroes: Marc Bloch. Scholar created a whole new way of looking at history, but found time to fight in two World Wars–latterly, aged 60, as a leader of the French Resistance https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-heroes-marc-bloch-134082792/ Fired for being Jewish, executed for being a resistant: Marc Bloch's WWII years https://archive.ph/FqDh4#selection-1667.0-2321.18

long vertical wall tablet with list of names divided into those killed in battle MORTS AU CHAMP DE L'HONNEUR and killed under other circumstances MORTS POUR LA FRANCE

detail of the preceding tablet, showing Bloch's name at left in an alphabetical list

16 June 1944 Nazis execute Marc Bloch, medieval historian & resister

When I last visited the Pantheon, he was simply listed among the writers who died for France in #WWII.

Late last year, President Macron announced that Bloch's remains would be moved there (link in alt text)

Copies of two freshly unpacked books: on the left, Susan Dackerman, "Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East; on the right, Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries."

New book mail arrived yesterday from the @princetonupress.bsky.social 50% off sale, with Susan Dackerman on Dürer's knots and Andrew Hui on Renaissance libraries: 📚 😃 #earlymodern press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... and press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

When it comes to attitude, all gulls are laughing gulls:

a great pyrenees opens his mouth to accept a breakfast burrito from his person.

a screenshot of Max’s journey from his GPS collar app. it shows he went 5 miles across 2 hours and took 17,000 steps.

an iphone screenshot with all the notifications from his GPS collars tracking his adventure. he left home at 11:39pm and arrived at the store a little after 2, but waited there until 7:30.

max lays on the floor at his house and looks up at the camera with some side eye. he does not look remotely contrite. maybe just a little sleepy.

This is Max. He snuck out in the middle of the night and walked 5 miles to get a breakfast burrito from a store that gave him one once. They hadn't opened yet when he got there, but Max was found the next morning thanks to his GPS collar patiently waiting outside for his well-earned snack. 14/10

Why I Decided To Sell (A Really Huge Chunk Of) My Record Collection I took a formidable wedge of my record collection to a vinyl dealer friend in Gloucestershire this week.

I urge you to read the comments on this: some amazingly powerful and moving stories of people’s relationships with their possessions. open.substack.com/pub/tomcox/p...