Rutger K. 🟥
@anotheraspirin.bsky.social
Friendly, non-threatening rewriter of medieval history. Operates out of the Low Countries. Purveyor of Fine Puns.
On top of everything else it appears that there's an Amadeus remake in the works.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On top of everything else it appears that there's an Amadeus remake in the works.
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Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen moet bezuinigen én vernieuwen
Bacheloropleidingen Geesteswetenschappen op de schop
Docenten Geesteswetenschappen kunnen de komende jaren aan de bak. Hun onderwijs moet aantrekkelijker worden voor nieuwe studenten en tegelijkertijd efficiënter. Dat is veel gevraagd in sombere tijden ...
dub.uu.nl
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen moet bezuinigen én vernieuwen
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Er is veel linkse kritiek op AI: het is slecht voor het milieu en zou ons dommer maken. Maar is het probleem de technologie zelf of het feit dat deze in kapitalistische handen is, vraagt @saaf.bsky.social zich in zijn column af.
Je haat AI niet, je haat kapitalisme – Jacobin
Er is veel linkse kritiek op AI: het is slecht voor het milieu en zou ons dommer maken. Maar is het probleem de technologie zelf of het feit dat deze in kapitalistische handen is, vraagt Savriël Dilli...
jacobin.nl
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Er is veel linkse kritiek op AI: het is slecht voor het milieu en zou ons dommer maken. Maar is het probleem de technologie zelf of het feit dat deze in kapitalistische handen is, vraagt @saaf.bsky.social zich in zijn column af.
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The Danish Model is actually a model for how to hand your country over to xenophobes
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Danish Model is actually a model for how to hand your country over to xenophobes
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Un fragment du cycle arthurien, vieux d’environ 700 ans, a été retrouvé dans la reliure d’un livre du XVIᵉ siècle à Cambridge.
Je vous raconte tout en détail : open.substack.com/pub/histoire...
Je vous raconte tout en détail : open.substack.com/pub/histoire...
Découverte majeure d’un manuscrit arthurien caché depuis 700 ans
Merlin ressurgit
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Un fragment du cycle arthurien, vieux d’environ 700 ans, a été retrouvé dans la reliure d’un livre du XVIᵉ siècle à Cambridge.
Je vous raconte tout en détail : open.substack.com/pub/histoire...
Je vous raconte tout en détail : open.substack.com/pub/histoire...
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Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
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Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
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Hij was net zo’n icoon als Cruijff of Einstein: hoe middeleeuwse bisschop uitgroeide tot de moderne Sinterklaas
Hij was net zo’n icoon als Cruijff of Einstein: hoe middeleeuwse bisschop uitgroeide tot de moderne Sinterklaas
Hoe het die middeleeuwse bisschop Sint Nicolaas toch is gelukt om het te schoppen tot de nog altijd moderne volksheld Sinterklaas? „Eigenlijk verpersoonlijkt hij een ideaal. Net zoals Einstein of Johan Cruijff in onze tijd”, ontdekte historicus Rutger Kramer. En er was zelfs een periode waarin hij daardoor viral ging.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hij was net zo’n icoon als Cruijff of Einstein: hoe middeleeuwse bisschop uitgroeide tot de moderne Sinterklaas
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!
Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
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Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
Looks like a case for
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DIGITal HUMANITIES
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DIGITal HUMANITIES
We can reconstruct two Proto-Indo-European verbal roots meaning 'to fart' but still cannot reconstruct a common PIE word for 'finger'.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Looks like a case for
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DIGITal HUMANITIES
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DIGITal HUMANITIES
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What can we learn about the late antique city from synodal acts? The special issue Civil Unrest in Long Late Antiquity is out in print now and my article on Edessa, monks, and one very unlucky bureaucrat is in it, together with four other excellent articles!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What can we learn about the late antique city from synodal acts? The special issue Civil Unrest in Long Late Antiquity is out in print now and my article on Edessa, monks, and one very unlucky bureaucrat is in it, together with four other excellent articles!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
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Yes, the book is here, in the flesh 🤩
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yes, the book is here, in the flesh 🤩
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Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
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“Just a little crush” is playing in the Uber and one of my favorite facts is that it’s co-written by the guy who wrote the Duck Tales theme, which - as any fool knows - is the slappin’est theme song ever written.
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Just a little crush” is playing in the Uber and one of my favorite facts is that it’s co-written by the guy who wrote the Duck Tales theme, which - as any fool knows - is the slappin’est theme song ever written.
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Once again; dankjewel @jandriessen.bsky.social voor het moreel normeren in de liberale familie! Het kan wél.
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www.linkedin.com/posts/jandri...
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Once again; dankjewel @jandriessen.bsky.social voor het moreel normeren in de liberale familie! Het kan wél.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jandri...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jandri...
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. @artcrimeprof.bsky.social I am riffling my memory to determine *which* small Northern Italian museum had a room devoted to forgeries and counterfeits. At present I'm convinced it was the Museo Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, but either my memory's wrong, the room's been dispersed, or they don't list it!
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
. @artcrimeprof.bsky.social I am riffling my memory to determine *which* small Northern Italian museum had a room devoted to forgeries and counterfeits. At present I'm convinced it was the Museo Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, but either my memory's wrong, the room's been dispersed, or they don't list it!
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aliens will look first at the barren earth and then at the archives of our civilization and conclude that we consumed all the pretty animals making ads for cars and phones
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
aliens will look first at the barren earth and then at the archives of our civilization and conclude that we consumed all the pretty animals making ads for cars and phones
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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🕘Vous avez jusqu'à demain (dimanche 16 novembre) pour nous envoyer votre proposition de communication pour le colloque "Périodisations historiques et synchronies imaginaires", prévu à Arras les 12 et 13 mars 2026 !
modmed.hypotheses.org/7806
modmed.hypotheses.org/7806
Appel à communications : Périodisations historiques et synchronies imaginaires
Le premier colloque de l’ANR PASSIM (Passés imaginaires : représentations littéraires et médiatiques des périodes historiques dans les fictions populaires contemporaines), organisé par Anne Besson et ...
modmed.hypotheses.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🕘Vous avez jusqu'à demain (dimanche 16 novembre) pour nous envoyer votre proposition de communication pour le colloque "Périodisations historiques et synchronies imaginaires", prévu à Arras les 12 et 13 mars 2026 !
modmed.hypotheses.org/7806
modmed.hypotheses.org/7806
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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En nu de vraag: over welke onderwerpen zou je in deze podcast meer willen horen? Of wie zou je willen horen? Wat of wie mis je? Tips meer dan welkom 💡
Benieuwd? Luisteren kan overal waar je podcasts luistert (Spotify, Apple, Podimo etc.), bijvoorbeeld hier: open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd...
🧵 5/5
Benieuwd? Luisteren kan overal waar je podcasts luistert (Spotify, Apple, Podimo etc.), bijvoorbeeld hier: open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd...
🧵 5/5
Het Shahname: leven na Ferdowsi (2/2)
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
En nu de vraag: over welke onderwerpen zou je in deze podcast meer willen horen? Of wie zou je willen horen? Wat of wie mis je? Tips meer dan welkom 💡
Benieuwd? Luisteren kan overal waar je podcasts luistert (Spotify, Apple, Podimo etc.), bijvoorbeeld hier: open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd...
🧵 5/5
Benieuwd? Luisteren kan overal waar je podcasts luistert (Spotify, Apple, Podimo etc.), bijvoorbeeld hier: open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd...
🧵 5/5
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Het was een eer om afgelopen week op @historicivertellen.bsky.social te mogen vertellen over mijn werk: zowel in het @rmoudheden.bsky.social als daarbuiten!
Volg @historicivertellen.bsky.social vooral voor meer verhalen van andere historici ✅
Volg @historicivertellen.bsky.social vooral voor meer verhalen van andere historici ✅
En dat was het dan voor deze week: heel leuk om jullie een week lang te mogen vertellen over alles wat ik doe, binnen en buiten het RMO.
Veel dank aan Anne Petterson voor dit geweldige initiatief!
Met veel plezier geef ik het stokje door aan Mathijs Boom (@mathijsboom.bsky.social).
Fijn weekend!
Veel dank aan Anne Petterson voor dit geweldige initiatief!
Met veel plezier geef ik het stokje door aan Mathijs Boom (@mathijsboom.bsky.social).
Fijn weekend!
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Het was een eer om afgelopen week op @historicivertellen.bsky.social te mogen vertellen over mijn werk: zowel in het @rmoudheden.bsky.social als daarbuiten!
Volg @historicivertellen.bsky.social vooral voor meer verhalen van andere historici ✅
Volg @historicivertellen.bsky.social vooral voor meer verhalen van andere historici ✅