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Karl Grossner, geographer, nomad (still), co-instigator and former lead dev of whgazetter.org. #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into #folklore with AI-ish methods. Denver for November
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I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
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I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
1. bibliography curators/editors
2. day-to-day editor/reviewers (format, compl...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
I had a year-long experiment with AI (LLMs) & creation myths. Stopped after realizing I could only expose LLM capability(?) to interpret metaphorical text in societal context, not the myth concepts themselves. Neither of which I’m competent to judge. Comments welcome. kgeographer.org/glos_on_paus...
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I had a year-long experiment with AI (LLMs) & creation myths. Stopped after realizing I could only expose LLM capability(?) to interpret metaphorical text in societal context, not the myth concepts themselves. Neither of which I’m competent to judge. Comments welcome. kgeographer.org/glos_on_paus...
A quick glance at this map and it’s easy to see GeoHumanities have not hit ADHO fully yet. Sorry, must be noted 🤷
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December 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A quick glance at this map and it’s easy to see GeoHumanities have not hit ADHO fully yet. Sorry, must be noted 🤷
Arrived in Santa Fe for a month’s stay, so…
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Arrived in Santa Fe for a month’s stay, so…
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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Rothko is growing on me. No particular reason.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Rothko is growing on me. No particular reason.
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
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Q to the hivemind: I'm wondering if anyone else around here's been building RAG systems for cultural collections/museums?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Q to the hivemind: I'm wondering if anyone else around here's been building RAG systems for cultural collections/museums?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Phase A of my GLOS project digitized, and built exploratory tools for, canonical folklore indexes. Phase B, which attempted concept induction from creation myths using LLMs has stalled. Turned into a study of LLM interpretive capabilities, not myths. Inevitably. Blog post explains: kgeographer.org.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Phase A of my GLOS project digitized, and built exploratory tools for, canonical folklore indexes. Phase B, which attempted concept induction from creation myths using LLMs has stalled. Turned into a study of LLM interpretive capabilities, not myths. Inevitably. Blog post explains: kgeographer.org.
Hasta luego Europa
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Hasta luego Europa
Today I joined ~200 others at the Les Camposines memorial site in the mountains of Catalunya, honoring those who died in the Batalla de l'Ebre in 1938. I heard my uncle's name read as one added to the plaques this year, and in some sense laid him to rest after 87 years, thanks to the Catalunya govt
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today I joined ~200 others at the Les Camposines memorial site in the mountains of Catalunya, honoring those who died in the Batalla de l'Ebre in 1938. I heard my uncle's name read as one added to the plaques this year, and in some sense laid him to rest after 87 years, thanks to the Catalunya govt
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The program for the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium is now online. Registration will open soon. The symposium is Dec 4 & 5. Plan to check out the Thematic Sessions, Paper Sessions, Emerging Researchers Panel, Keynotes, and Interview. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/program.html
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The program for the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium is now online. Registration will open soon. The symposium is Dec 4 & 5. Plan to check out the Thematic Sessions, Paper Sessions, Emerging Researchers Panel, Keynotes, and Interview. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/program.html
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The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
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November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
NYC born and raised. This great cover illustrates the world I saw growing up. I left in my late 20s. You can take the boy out of NY but you can’t take the NY out of the boy. Mamdani’s win is a breath of fresh air today.
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NYC born and raised. This great cover illustrates the world I saw growing up. I left in my late 20s. You can take the boy out of NY but you can’t take the NY out of the boy. Mamdani’s win is a breath of fresh air today.
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
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You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
Going back and forth: do I end my 4-year plus #LongRoundabout’ nomadic trek and resettle in the US, or carry on in a #Don’tStopTillYouDrop (DSTYD) extension, adding South America and other new for me places.
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Going back and forth: do I end my 4-year plus #LongRoundabout’ nomadic trek and resettle in the US, or carry on in a #Don’tStopTillYouDrop (DSTYD) extension, adding South America and other new for me places.
Paul Klee says Happy Halloween
(detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)
(detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Paul Klee says Happy Halloween
(detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)
(detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)
Due to return to the US in 2 weeks. To this. On the way back stopping in Spain to attend a memorial ceremony for Spanish Civil War deceased, where an uncle I never met will have his name inscribed on a plaque with others who died in Batalla de l’Ebre in 1938. Wondering what he would be doing now.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Due to return to the US in 2 weeks. To this. On the way back stopping in Spain to attend a memorial ceremony for Spanish Civil War deceased, where an uncle I never met will have his name inscribed on a plaque with others who died in Batalla de l’Ebre in 1938. Wondering what he would be doing now.
Is this photo real? wtaf? Also, when I type “wtaf” I’m offered these emojis. Who says AI and surveillance are useless?
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Is this photo real? wtaf? Also, when I type “wtaf” I’m offered these emojis. Who says AI and surveillance are useless?