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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · 5d

Heardle U2 #30
Not so good today.

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Heardle U2

The daily music intro guessing game that's 100% U2

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · 12d

The Department of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University is hiring for a tenure track position that starts July, 2026.

recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Sep 30

Is this something you would run locally with Gemma 3?

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Sep 25

I came here to say what @bnuyaminim.bsky.social already pointed to: decide whether you're asking about sound or its visual representation.

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teiconsortium.bsky.social @teiconsortium.bsky.social · Jul 6

The draft program is available and early bird registration for the TEI Annual Meeting in Krakow is open! Register by July 8 for the lower rate!

tei-c.org/news/2025/06...

Draft Programme and Early Bird Registration for the TEI Conference

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Apr 13

Bono's Bible is the title of a book I'm co-authoring with another U2 fan.
We're posting some previews on Twitter (for now, despite its owner). Give us a follow if your conscience allows. Here's Biblical Allusions in U2’s “Iris (Hold Me Close)”. x.com/BonosBible/s...

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · Mar 29

Lecturer in Technologies in the Digital Humanities at UCL

Apply now for the Lecturer in Technologies in the Digital Humanities role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Feb 4

Feb. 4: International Day of Human Fraternity, recognizing the values of compassion, mutual understanding, and solidarity. A UN observance since 2021, celebrating unity in diversity and promote dialogue, peace, and cooperation between cultures and faiths. www.un.org/en/observanc...

International Day of Human Fraternity | United Nations

Taking note of all international, regional, national and local initiatives, as appropriate, as well as efforts by religious leaders, to promote interreligious and intercultural dialogue,...

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚀 New Zotero Script: AI-Generated Abstracts! 📚🤖

Automatically generate abstracts for Zotero items with PDF attachments and no abstract using AI!

🔹 Requires an OpenAI API key
🔹 Runs in Tools > Developer > Run JavaScript
Get it here:
🔗 github.com/kmpenner/Zot...
#Zotero #AI

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Feb 4

Biblical Allusions in U2’s “Yahweh” (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, 2004)
kmpenner.hcommons.org/2025/01/27/b...

Biblical Allusions in U2’s “Yahweh” (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, 2004) – Ken M. Penner

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Jan 27

Fulfilling Jesus' reading of Isaiah

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Jan 6

Yes, and since it's imperfect rather than aorist, I'd prefer "kept weaving".

Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Jan 1

IIRC, Young and Rezetko represent the minority view that Hebrew diachrony is impossible to disentangle. Hurvitz represents the conventional periodization. Hornkohl adds a transitional phase to Hurvitz's early & late phases.

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Jan 1

It seems to me Aaron Hornkohl's views represent the scholarly consensus.

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Dec 25

Where did the H in Nicholas come from?

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Dec 21

I think there's some misunderstanding of what Hugging Face is. HF is a repository of models of various origins. It's like the archive.org or GitHub of AI. Van Strien's actions are not the actions of Hugging Face. Here's an HF-independent source: arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Dec 21

The intellectual property issue: it's currently possible for training to use only ethical sources. See arxiv.org/html/2412.06...

Fully Open Source Moxin-LLM Technical Report

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Dec 21

Here's some evidence. This Greek text has not previously been translated into English. kmpenner.hcommons.org/2024/03/19/w...

Which is the most capable AI/LLM/GPT model for translating ancient Greek? – Ken M. Penner

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Ken M. Penner @kmpenner.bsky.social · Dec 21

Some differences: ancient language (no longer spoken, limited corpus); copious secondary literature, plenty of grammatical and lexical publications.
LLMs are good at translation into English; some chatbots produce translations better than graduate students, and are orders of magnitude faster.

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