Ida Tolgensbakk
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Ida Tolgensbakk
@idatolgensbakk.bsky.social
Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore.

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The best thing about the current Discourse is all the (latin) Americans making jokes. Also, this:
I've been reading Greg Grandin's America, América and it's got some interesting discussion about this, and Anglo-America vs Latin-America in general. I highly recommend it!

This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
All I want for Christmas is no more journalists asking repetitive Christmas questions, and also that our amazing chain letter journal article is published before the year is over. #folklore
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New #AIstories publication by @annesigrid.bsky.social! I love this one: it compares human-told variants of a folktale with LLM-generated variants, finding 1) the implicit is made explicit 2) floatif motifs (fascinating new concept) 3) sex is censored, cannibalism augmented doi.org/10.3390/h141...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Definitely a hill people should stop dying on
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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all those years work pitching the value of the humanities and STILL when financial crunch comes and management consultants role in, they could not care less.

history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Today, a set of recipes for cooking lungs and liver in spicy sauces. #Earlymodern German had no word for #offal, but some meats were less equal than others.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/26/l...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #organmeat
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Don’t miss this wonderful talk with Roy Vickery looking at queer plant lore, can’t wait as this is such a new and unique topic! 🌸
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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How to make tortillas, from Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo (Venice, 1565)
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Pre-print of our case of new-onset AI-associated psychosis in a patient with no prior psychotic episodes.

Although there have been many such reports in the media, I believe this the first case published in the academic literature.

innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have family at the other side of the continent. Sometimes I need to be with them. Incredibly grateful to have the money to go, an employer who lets me work from abroad, and the digital means to do so ❤️ #academicsky
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Read this thread + the replies
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Well, I know what I'll be wearing next time I visit 😁🖤
@helleborezine.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Today in #museumlife : thinking about the fact that plastic is the worst to conserve.
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The birth of the author
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Wet, pretty, and probably not historically correct cobblestone #museumlife
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today: revision of the toy collection at @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social . Some toys are more cursed than others! #academicsky #foklore
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Warm and wet november, climate change will probably not do our church good. But it does look nice and dramatic! #museumlife
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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How can a microhistory about cooking and kitchen implements inspire speculative fiction? Here's @r-emrys.bsky.social on how "Consider the Fork" may change the way you think about the technological and cultural aspects of food 🍴
Fridge Phobia and the Invention of Boiling: Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork - Reactor
A surprisingly deep look into the connections between food, technology, and human culture — plus fun facts about spoons!
reactormag.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM