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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 30

rick

I don’t know who he is but he’s got our money and we need to find him.

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 26

In fairness, this is not shared on my page, nor is it a finished feature. However, the fact that Academia even did this without my consent is ridiculous.

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hey look at that, sheer unmitigated rage

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 19

In a twist that will sadly surprise some, the plagiarism machine does not help you think better

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 17

I attended a workshop at my university on Notebook LM and at no point could the presenters quite explain how this was superior to, or a substitution for, actually reading.

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 12

The irony of “would-be dictator goes to see Les Mis while sending troops to attack protestors” has convinced me we’re living in the first draft of a Screen Writing 101 student.

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 10

The thing about Brazilian Jiujitsu is that I never end up with injuries that sound impressive. It’s usually some variation of “I got thrown weird and bruised my tailbone” or today’s “I was getting out of a position and kneed myself in the thumb.”

You should see the other guy, he’s me.

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 7

Watched the 80s dark fantasy movie The Company of Wolves today and I have to say, we need to abandon CGI and go back to just having random establishing shots of frogs in our movies.

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · Jun 4

The squirrels are uprooting my vegetable seeds and dropping nuts in my planters. Clearly they think they’re better gardeners than I am.

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 29

Francois Truffaut said that there was no such thing as an “anti-war film” because the audience would always glorify it.

I think in the same way you can’t create medieval media that doesn’t engage in medievalism because as critical as you might try to be, someone will always revel in it

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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · May 25

🛠️ 🧰 Grab your hammer and nails because it’s TOOL TIME 🪛🪚

Head to any podcast platform to listen to @jonfcr.bsky.social chat with the folks from the Medievalist Toolkit about their work!

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 25

Funny how they don’t seem to see any contradiction between “immersing yourself” in AI and building skills like “creativity” and “resilience.”

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 25

One of these guests is a real dunce, but the other two are brilliant.

(It’s me, I’m the dunce, and it was an honor and a pleasure)

Listen | MMA Podcast

Listen to episodes of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast.

www.multiculturalmiddleages.com

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 17

Remy is visiting us this weekend and insists that he can help with my dissertation

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 14

There was a thrill to getting home at 3am knowing I was going to have a movie hangover the next day

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 14

Just wrapped up my grading for the semester! I am extremely proud of the students in my Global Middle Ages class, who tackled some very thorny topics for their historiography papers and did wonderful work

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 14

“Sleek, functional, symmetrical…”

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ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie holding a piece of paper in his hand .

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · May 14

This is bleak reading

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 10

Back at Bilbo’s at #icms after far too long.

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · May 5

FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 4

I love that I wasn’t even that far off with what the White House posted

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 4

In honor of May the Fourth, Trump is officially designating it Sheev Palpatine Day to restore honor to a GALACTIC HERO whom the leftist Jedi media has tried to unfairly demonize with their baseless attacks. Star Wars? More like Star INSURRECTIONS!

a close up of a man in a hood with the words `` good '' written below him .

ALT: a close up of a man in a hood with the words `` good '' written below him .

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · May 3

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B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 2

Just getting over a bad fever and several hours into revising my Kzoo paper, so things are getting whacky

I just described a book as “revealing the author’s love of rye humor.” Considering the text is about the management of an abbey’s farmlands, that managed to be both rye and wry

B. A. Bertrand @errantmedieval.bsky.social · May 2

I am once again begging tech bros to take one humanities class

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · May 2

So Curtis Yarvin is a fool, so it will not surprise you that 'executive' is not, in fact, a 'literal synonym' of 'monarchy.'

Executive is just "that which carries out" from Latin exsequor, 'to follow to completion.' There is no etymological reason the executive needs to be a single person.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · May 2

Always funny to me that Yarvin is held up as the great intellect of the New Right and then when he argues for stuff it's this - here's some etymology for a synonym of a word you're using, so we gotta have a tyrant -- checkmate libs. Behold the philosopher.