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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 1d

The visualization (dependency graphs) and flexible context window on OGA ANNIS can also be useful. If a close reading or quick LLM translation of matches is needed, the cts_urn plus token id can be quickly used to find the matching sentence via github.com/mgbilby/oga_...

GitHub - mgbilby/oga_src: Opera Graeca Adnotata made friendly

Opera Graeca Adnotata made friendly. Contribute to mgbilby/oga_src development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 1d

Hosted query-enabled OGA repo is freely available at annis.varro.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/oga020

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 1d

But 2482 matches for pos="n" _ident_ case="n" @* author="Eusebius of Caesarea" _ident_ urn_cts_work="tlg011" .... Basically, Eusebius' onomastic lexica are nouns.

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 1d

10 matches for pos="v" _ident_ mood="i" _ident_ person="1" _ident_ number="s" @* author="Eusebius of Caesarea" _ident_ urn_cts_work="tlg011"

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 1d

OGA ANNIS is quite useful for quick metrics on such phenomena. By way of examples, here are some queries and query results from Eusebius' Onomasticon .... 68 matches for pos="v" _ident_ mood="n" @* author="Eusebius of Caesarea" _ident_ urn_cts_work="tlg011"

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 2d

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On Feeding Benevolent AI Beasts | Mark G. Bilby

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 2d

Free idea for South Park or SNL to borrow. Try a skit or episode about a certain guy’s hour plus morning makeup routine as he talks to himself in the mirror. For a classical touch, sprinkle in some quotes from Dio Chrysostom’s fourth oration on kings. And then put him alongside makeup influencers.

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 5d

Meet a Paul who 1) doesn't hate on gays and lesbians; 2) doesn't endorse slavery
3) doesn't tell women to shut up in church; 4)
doesn't emotionally manipulate the audience; 5) doesn't beg for money all the time; 6) doesn't espouse rank anti-Jewish sentiments; and 7) doesn’t name-drop constantly

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 5d

Meet the original Paul of the earliest stratum of letters that we can recover and reconstruct. www.patreon.com/posts/140603...

Apostolos Critical Reconstruction Now Available for Purchase | Mark G. Bilby

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 7d

Supersessionism (“we are the true Israel”) was an Early Orthodox Christian fetish, not a Marcionite one.

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 7d

Might want to read Markus Vinzent’s artcle, “Marcion the Jew,” in the journal Judaisme Ancien. Or watch Justin Sledge (an observant Jew) and David Litwa chatting about Marcion on the Esoterica channel.

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 7d

That antisemitism is a Marcionite heresy is an excellent insight

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 7d

Might want to read Markus Vinzent’s artcle, “Marcion the Jew,” in the journal Judaisme Ancien. Or watch Justin Sledge (an observant Jew) and David Litwa chatting about Marcion on the Esoterica channel.

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 7d

That antisemitism is a Marcionite heresy is an excellent insight

Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 7d

Marcionism but dumber AND claims to have the moral high ground.

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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 9d

I was interviewed by the AP last week about Nicolas Cage’s new film based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. First interview of many? My years of study on this text may finally pay off! youtu.be/3GSUbJB0oOg?...

The Carpenter's Son - Official Trailer | Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs | In Theaters Nov 14

YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 11d

This was clearly written by JD Tattoo Vance, but is actually a teaser for the upcoming South Park episode.

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 11d

I…what am I supposed to do with this

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Presidential Message on the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel

Today, I salute the millions of Christian believers in the United States and around the world observing the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel.

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 11d

Posit (VS Code base and interface + R friendly console) is also great for this. Scholars should consider composing books, articles, and presentations in Code/Posit, using LaTeX or Typst or Quarto Markdown, instead of MS Office or even LibreOffice. It’s free, intuitive and super powerful.

DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social · 11d

Continuing the #Git Curriculum from
@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social -
this short course shows how to use the code editor VS Code with its graphical user interface for working collaboratively in Git with Windows, Mac and Linux!

#TrainingTuesday #GitCode

➡️ campus.dariah.eu/resources/ho...

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 19d

And the pdf slide deck is entirely generated from Quarto markdown (qmd). So also sending much love to my R community with this format choice and lots of little design details.

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 19d

And yes, I composed several lines of original, non-AI-generated, Shakespeareanesque, data science punning verse to honor the occasion.

Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 19d

The slide deck is archived on Zenodo, so feel free to check it out and to cite to that archival version if you'd like: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Refactoring Heretical Christian Scriptures as Normalized Data: Impact and Insights

Normalizing the data of all major scholarly reconstructions of the "heretical" Christian scriptures of Marcion of Sinope, while challenging, has led to new collaborations and refinements in the recons...

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 19d

Just finished up the slide deck that I'll be presenting this Friday for the 10 year anniversary celebration of the Journal of Open Humanities Data. openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/events/anniv...

Anniversary Event 2025 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 20d

Everyone who has (somewhat) enjoyed using Academia.edu should be aware of these creepy changes. Thank you, @petertarras.bsky.social, for laying it out so clearly!

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · 23d

Gross. Unethical. Irresponsible. Reprehensible. AI coddle bots do students a disservice (brain mush) whenever attempting to offload and replace inherently human critical and creative activities (research, writing) or communities of practice (Academy in the classical and humanist sense of the word).

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 24d

Really excellent article on the state of e-lending by Maria!

Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 25d

Just a few huge companies control *all the ebooks* including the ebooks you borrow from your library

There's a way past this: selling ebooks directly to libraries. We're working on this at @flaminghydra.com

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Nearly all publishers of newspapers, magazines, and commercial books, as well as the tens of thousands of small, independent, and academic publishers, rely on these same few companies to get their books into libraries, schools, and bookstores. Industry consolidation means that publishers have little choice but to sign contracts advantageous to distributors and the lifelines to revenues they offer, while having little negotiating power with respect to terms.

In the case of e-books, where these near monopolies have consolidated and solidified over the past decade, the danger of a sudden loss of access is particularly acute. When you borrow and read an e-book at your library, for example, that transaction is almost certainly handled by the country’s largest private equity company, KKR. The firm currently controls as much as 90 percent of library e-book loans through its OverDrive/Libby platform, according to a 2023 report from Library Journal.

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Apostolos Reader's Edition: Greek-English ---response to Amazon review | Mark G. Bilby

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · Sep 5

authorsguild.org/news/what-au.... Top line: “Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history.”

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is one of my favorite of all #apocrypha, & I'm really glad to have this entry in the e-Clavis now!

NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · Sep 5

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Fifteen Signs before Judgment, compiled by @brandonwhawk.bsky.social. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · Aug 29

I hope Swift, Johansson and Gomez sue Zuckerberg, Musk, and other petty fiefs of digital pimpdoms into oblivion.

Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · Aug 29

Meta created celebrity romance chatbot replicas of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson and Selena Gomez. Reuters found these "parody" bots would generate hyperrealistic images of the women in lingerie with their legs spread and invite users to the women's homes.

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

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