B. A. Bertrand

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I don’t know who he is but he’s got our money and we need to find him.

In fairness, this is not shared on my page, nor is it a finished feature. However, the fact that Academia even did this without my consent is ridiculous.

Hey look at that, sheer unmitigated rage

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

In a twist that will sadly surprise some, the plagiarism machine does not help you think better

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I attended a workshop at my university on Notebook LM and at no point could the presenters quite explain how this was superior to, or a substitution for, actually reading.

The irony of “would-be dictator goes to see Les Mis while sending troops to attack protestors” has convinced me we’re living in the first draft of a Screen Writing 101 student.

The thing about Brazilian Jiujitsu is that I never end up with injuries that sound impressive. It’s usually some variation of “I got thrown weird and bruised my tailbone” or today’s “I was getting out of a position and kneed myself in the thumb.”

You should see the other guy, he’s me.

Watched the 80s dark fantasy movie The Company of Wolves today and I have to say, we need to abandon CGI and go back to just having random establishing shots of frogs in our movies.

The squirrels are uprooting my vegetable seeds and dropping nuts in my planters. Clearly they think they’re better gardeners than I am.

Francois Truffaut said that there was no such thing as an “anti-war film” because the audience would always glorify it.

I think in the same way you can’t create medieval media that doesn’t engage in medievalism because as critical as you might try to be, someone will always revel in it

🛠️ 🧰 Grab your hammer and nails because it’s TOOL TIME 🪛🪚

Head to any podcast platform to listen to @jonfcr.bsky.social chat with the folks from the Medievalist Toolkit about their work!

Funny how they don’t seem to see any contradiction between “immersing yourself” in AI and building skills like “creativity” and “resilience.”

Listen | MMA Podcast Listen to episodes of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast.

One of these guests is a real dunce, but the other two are brilliant.

(It’s me, I’m the dunce, and it was an honor and a pleasure)

Remy is visiting us this weekend and insists that he can help with my dissertation

There was a thrill to getting home at 3am knowing I was going to have a movie hangover the next day

Just wrapped up my grading for the semester! I am extremely proud of the students in my Global Middle Ages class, who tackled some very thorny topics for their historiography papers and did wonderful work

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“Sleek, functional, symmetrical…”

This is bleak reading

Back at Bilbo’s at #icms after far too long.

I love that I wasn’t even that far off with what the White House posted

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In honor of May the Fourth, Trump is officially designating it Sheev Palpatine Day to restore honor to a GALACTIC HERO whom the leftist Jedi media has tried to unfairly demonize with their baseless attacks. Star Wars? More like Star INSURRECTIONS!

Just getting over a bad fever and several hours into revising my Kzoo paper, so things are getting whacky

I just described a book as “revealing the author’s love of rye humor.” Considering the text is about the management of an abbey’s farmlands, that managed to be both rye and wry

I am once again begging tech bros to take one humanities class

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago.

It also received $22M in federal aid.

While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

EA's very normal and definitely not freakishly doll-looking CEO Andrew Wilson

For no particular reason, let's look at how much money EA execs made recently

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Had a wonderful final Global Middle Ages class. I asked the students what a global perspective does for the field and they gave me insightful and thoughtful responses about disrupting traditional narratives and their own assumptions.

Wonderful to know that I haven’t been lecturing to deaf ears!

I need to know for my own purposes, does Henry of Blois have a song? Can I get it as walkout music when I present about him at conferences?

Times are tough here in the states but I got another stripe on my purple belt in BJJ, which was a nice surprise