Joris J. van Zundert
@jorisvanzundert.bsky.social
senior researcher and developer | digital and computational humanities | art, philosophy, and science | non practicing atheist | https://jorisvanzundert.net
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What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation
This paper analyzes the relationship between the Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades trilogy as a case study on the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction. We aim to develop computational me...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
doi.org/10.16995/dsc...
"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan..
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken
www.volkskrant.nl
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan..
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?"
They have played us for absolute fools.
They have played us for absolute fools.
September 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?"
They have played us for absolute fools.
They have played us for absolute fools.
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Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases.
Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.
Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.
Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.
Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases.
Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.
Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.
Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.
Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.
This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?
September 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?
Well, not to put a finer point on it…
September 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Well, not to put a finer point on it…
Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.
April 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.
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Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.
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Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine.
The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.
The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.
April 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine.
The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.
The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.
I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.
April 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.
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🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections
Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others
academic.oup.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...
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There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!
March 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!
I merely wanted a strawberry donut..
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I merely wanted a strawberry donut..
It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..
February 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..
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This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.
Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.
February 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.
More or less equivalent to my current sentiment regarding world events…
February 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
More or less equivalent to my current sentiment regarding world events…
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Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine.
Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.
Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.
Trump snaps back at Zelenskyy, blaming Ukraine for the war
The Ukrainian president has been excluded from the administration’s negotiations with Russia seeking an end to the war.
www.politico.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine.
Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.
Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.
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Fascist dekt niet langer de lading. Als Europees extreemrechts denkt dat MAGA Amerika wél een bondgenoot zal zijn als wij ook veranderen in fascistische, zwakke en verdeelde autocratieën, is men volstrekt naïef. Maar vooral een stel landverraders.
February 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fascist dekt niet langer de lading. Als Europees extreemrechts denkt dat MAGA Amerika wél een bondgenoot zal zijn als wij ook veranderen in fascistische, zwakke en verdeelde autocratieën, is men volstrekt naïef. Maar vooral een stel landverraders.
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In the series “typos that deserve a good gloss” (as in dictionary entry): situtatuon. Please elaborate…
February 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In the series “typos that deserve a good gloss” (as in dictionary entry): situtatuon. Please elaborate…
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I guess I would feel better about Google's new willingness to use AI for weapons and surveillance if I thought the country leading in AI development actually *was* a democracy guided by core values like equality and respect for human rights. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
February 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I guess I would feel better about Google's new willingness to use AI for weapons and surveillance if I thought the country leading in AI development actually *was* a democracy guided by core values like equality and respect for human rights. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...