Mark Saltveit
@daoish.bsky.social
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.
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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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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There are no truly great teams, but maybe 10-12 good teams that can all beat each other on any given day.
I love it
I love it
the best football team is the rams and even they are kind of bad (but it’s fine bc this stafford MVP will be great for my agendas)
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
There are no truly great teams, but maybe 10-12 good teams that can all beat each other on any given day.
I love it
I love it
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Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy
Chip Kelly had a great year at Ohio State last year, and one or two very good years in Philly, plus 4 great years in Oregon. In between those, he made $5-10 million for being mediocre at best, with a remarkable talent for winning rivalry games and doing well in contract years. Why not always?
Kelly had ONE good season at Oregon and everyone decided he was a football genius.
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Chip Kelly had a great year at Ohio State last year, and one or two very good years in Philly, plus 4 great years in Oregon. In between those, he made $5-10 million for being mediocre at best, with a remarkable talent for winning rivalry games and doing well in contract years. Why not always?
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NEWS: The Raiders are firing offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, per source.
Kelly signed a contract to make him the richest offensive coordinator in football this offseason, but is dismissed after just 11 games.
Kelly signed a contract to make him the richest offensive coordinator in football this offseason, but is dismissed after just 11 games.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
NEWS: The Raiders are firing offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, per source.
Kelly signed a contract to make him the richest offensive coordinator in football this offseason, but is dismissed after just 11 games.
Kelly signed a contract to make him the richest offensive coordinator in football this offseason, but is dismissed after just 11 games.
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Writing advice I wasn't asked to give: Never finish a piece of writing in the evening. Leave a little bit you know you can add to the next day, in order to get you back in the flow state.
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Writing advice I wasn't asked to give: Never finish a piece of writing in the evening. Leave a little bit you know you can add to the next day, in order to get you back in the flow state.
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Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
Medieval Manuscripts at Bristol Central Library
A rare opportunity to view a selection of medieval manuscripts from our collections. Highlights from this unique display include a richly decorated Book of Hours, a Missal made for St Augustine’...
bristol.events.mylibrary.digital
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
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Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Writing History c. 1000-1250: An Introduction to the Manuscript Sources – a short course taught by Charlie Rozier, Manuel Muñoz García and Laura Cleaver
The course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The past was a popular subject for writers in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, partic…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Are you interested in how people thought about the past in Middle Ages? Want to understand the books they wrote about it? We have an online short course for you! Book now for January 2026 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
I also question this line in that Olivia Nuzzi op-ed:
"The glamour shots, the literary memoir, the Vanity Fair gig—none of it feels like tone-deaf narcissism anymore."
Protesting just a bit too much.
"The glamour shots, the literary memoir, the Vanity Fair gig—none of it feels like tone-deaf narcissism anymore."
Protesting just a bit too much.
this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I also question this line in that Olivia Nuzzi op-ed:
"The glamour shots, the literary memoir, the Vanity Fair gig—none of it feels like tone-deaf narcissism anymore."
Protesting just a bit too much.
"The glamour shots, the literary memoir, the Vanity Fair gig—none of it feels like tone-deaf narcissism anymore."
Protesting just a bit too much.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
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And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
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Two-year postdoc at Queen’s University for historians of Classical &/or Medieval Europe.
~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.
Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.
~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.
Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Two-year postdoc at Queen’s University for historians of Classical &/or Medieval Europe.
~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.
Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.
~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.
Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.
Whose English degree was worthless NOW, asshole?
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Whose English degree was worthless NOW, asshole?
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The Harvard Crimson kids are kicking ass on this Larry Summers story.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Harvard Crimson kids are kicking ass on this Larry Summers story.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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And here we go! A new episode discussing the relationship between magic and early Christianity with @vox-magica.bsky.social!
classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/11/20/s...
classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/11/20/s...
Sidequest 27 – Magic and Early Christianity with Dr. Shaily Patel
In response to a suggestion from Dr. Rhiannon Garth Jones, I reached out to Dr. Shaily Patel at Virginia Tech (GO HOKIES!) to see if she would come on the podcast. Turns out she was willing to do s…
classicalantiquitypod.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And here we go! A new episode discussing the relationship between magic and early Christianity with @vox-magica.bsky.social!
classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/11/20/s...
classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/11/20/s...
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Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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The story goes that the Vikings cut off Edmund's head and hid it in the woods. His people went looking for the head, calling out, "Where are you, friend?" And the head answered, "Here, here, here!" "'Hwær eart þu nu gefera?' And him andwyrde þæt heafod, 'Her, her, her.'" See the HERs washed in red!
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The story goes that the Vikings cut off Edmund's head and hid it in the woods. His people went looking for the head, calling out, "Where are you, friend?" And the head answered, "Here, here, here!" "'Hwær eart þu nu gefera?' And him andwyrde þæt heafod, 'Her, her, her.'" See the HERs washed in red!
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Funny how, in our time of institutional austerity in which our instructional budget is getting slashed, we can’t hire more faculty/staff, and course caps are rising, there’s still plenty of money for AI initiatives 🤔
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Funny how, in our time of institutional austerity in which our instructional budget is getting slashed, we can’t hire more faculty/staff, and course caps are rising, there’s still plenty of money for AI initiatives 🤔
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
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NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
Fall of Rome: Elon Musk’s Crazy Doomsday History
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome)
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
THE FAILED CARTOGRAPHER (Palindrome)
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....
Demand a hill, at solid nadir….
Damn it!
One morn,
I saw I was in Rome,
not in Madrid,
and I lost all I had named....