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Mark Saltveit

@daoish.bsky.social

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Medieval manuscripts, Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy, palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c. Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 16h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 13h

You're assuming the world will not end for nearly 8,000 years. Big if true!

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 14h

Is that because the Cornish got upset about being linked to maize for no good reason?

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 14h

We do say maize maze, and the repetition is what makes it fun!

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 14h

Medievalists, can anyone suggest a good example of a critical edition / apparatus for a florilegium? Thanks!

#medieval

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 15h

Sure. It's open ended questions. Gives the interviewee agency to take it whereever they want to.

(I assume that we hear 20% or less of the actual conversation, after severe editing.)

Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 15h

Cornhenge! it's the obvious solution. A corn maze for Druid-cosplayers! (I guess in the UK you'd say a maize maze, which is confusing.)

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 15h

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania provides a defining piece of iconic imagery in making the case for universities to stand together and repudiate the subservience the Regime is seeking to impose.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

And if you give a mouse a plane….

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 2d

Won’t some dice decide most now?

#palindrome

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Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social · 3d

The Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth - Out Today!

The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.

Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 3d

You checked it out, I see! I would have thought it was library use only.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, indeed. Also some nice majuscule on fol. 80v.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

Voila:

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 3d

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, people, here's my @utoronto.ca Medieval Studies #Voynich lecture! I've got BIG NEWS to report about the potential original structure of the manuscript. Check it out! (new material starts around minute 14) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH28...

Lisa Fagin Davis: "The Materiality of the Voynich Manuscript"

YouTube video by U of T CMS

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

Poster for a talk at city college NY that reads, “Stripmining History:
How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It
IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM
OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316
Universities and museums have recently begun partnering with technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their Al products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-a foundational branch of Al-can achieve.
This talk provides an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. This vision has relied on extracting history, and Drimmer argues that it is the responsibility of scholars in the humanities to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes.
Sonja Drimmer
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst”

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv . 18.3.1, right? The following article mentions "a late eleventh-century probatio pennae on the final folio as from a chant for the feast of St. Lambert, whose cult was most fervent in the Diocese of Liège."
www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

The provenance of the Edinburgh Martial

www.research.ed.ac.uk

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 3d

Any interesting glosses or pen trials in the Martial?

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 5d

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

John le Carré talks

Join us for a series of talks on John Le Carré, to tie in with the new exhibition at the Weston Library

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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