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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
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The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.
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Each year I help some students in the fine art of article writing, and every now and then one makes it to print!
Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky
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Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky
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Manuscript and Text Cultures
An open access journal for scholars of manuscripts, epigraphy, and texts from various pre-modern cultures operated by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen's College, Oxford.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Each year I help some students in the fine art of article writing, and every now and then one makes it to print!
Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky
mtc-journal.org/index.php/mt...
Very proud of Tim Hertogh (Oslo/MINiTEXTS) and his article 'The Lorscher Bienensegen is an Amulet: Using Manuscript Margins to Make Amulets' #MedievalSky
mtc-journal.org/index.php/mt...
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Das ist übrigens Eugenik.
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Hendrik Streeck fragt: Sind teure Medikamente für Senioren wirklich nötig?
Hendrik Streeck fragt: Sind teure Medikamente für Senioren wirklich nötig?
Der CDU-Gesundheitspolitiker Streeck fragt: Sollen 100-Jährige wirklich noch teure Medikamente bekommen?
www.t-online.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Das ist übrigens Eugenik.
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
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![Numerous tech companies are vying to harness the power of AI for a new generation of web browsers. Probably the most prominent is Perplexity’s Comet, which it describes as a “personal assistant and thinking partner” while you surf the web.
Unsurprisingly, that approach can have enormous cybersecurity implications. As privacy-focused browser company Brave noted in a blog post last week, it’s alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick Perplexity’s browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.
The vulnerability, known as an indirect prompt injection attack, is terrifyingly simple.
“The vulnerability we’re discussing in this post lies in how Comet processes webpage content,” the blog reads. “When users ask it to ‘Summarize this webpage,’ Comet feeds a part of the webpage directly to its [large language model] without distinguishing between the user’s instructions and untrusted content from the webpage.”
“This allows attackers to embed indirect prompt injection payloads that the AI will execute as commands,” the company wrote. “For instance, an attacker could gain access to a user’s emails from a prepared piece of text in a page in another tab.”
“The AI operates with the user’s full privileges across authenticated sessions, providing potential access to banking accounts, corporate systems, private emails, cloud storage, and other services,” it continued.
Users on social media were taken aback by how easy it was to exploit the buzzy tech.
“This is why I don’t use an AI browser,” one coder tweeted. “You can literally get prompt injected and your bank account drained by doomscrolling on Reddit.”
For instance, malicious instructions could be hidden in a Reddit or Facebook post in white text on a white background, which isn’t visible to the user, but readable by the Comet browser’s agentic AI.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vhsz4y6e56gdeb5nxzh6mki/bafkreial4nwptrvagckocqigkghqp5ql35pjzl6tanri4cpieasbvjykwq@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
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Vom Straßenbild zum Stadtbild, von den Nazis über AfD zu CSU/CDU, von Juden über Flüchtlinge zu Migranten und zu Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte. Und dann? Wie viele Warnsignale brauchen wir noch? Was müssen sie noch alles sagen, bis wir endlich begreifen, was sie in Wahrheit meinen?
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Vom Straßenbild zum Stadtbild, von den Nazis über AfD zu CSU/CDU, von Juden über Flüchtlinge zu Migranten und zu Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte. Und dann? Wie viele Warnsignale brauchen wir noch? Was müssen sie noch alles sagen, bis wir endlich begreifen, was sie in Wahrheit meinen?
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It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)
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Im Namen der #Demokratie wird Herrschaft ausgeübt — und zurückgewiesen. #Marx bringt so die grundlegende Ambivalenz von Demokratie auf den Punkt. Wir freuen uns über Alex Demirovićs Buch: »Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik« — und verlosen zur Feier unserer Neuerscheinung 1 Exemplar 👇 /1
September 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Im Namen der #Demokratie wird Herrschaft ausgeübt — und zurückgewiesen. #Marx bringt so die grundlegende Ambivalenz von Demokratie auf den Punkt. Wir freuen uns über Alex Demirovićs Buch: »Marx als Demokrat oder: Das Ende der Politik« — und verlosen zur Feier unserer Neuerscheinung 1 Exemplar 👇 /1
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And Open Access, too! 😁
{New book} This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. www.arc-humanities.org/978164189408...
August 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
And Open Access, too! 😁
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Looking forward to teaching a short course on digital approaches to (medieval) history in the autumn. Does anyone have any favourite things they'd recommend the students read?
August 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Looking forward to teaching a short course on digital approaches to (medieval) history in the autumn. Does anyone have any favourite things they'd recommend the students read?
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This is an excellent thread which also points to one very important basic aspect of persecutions: They have to be manufactured & prepared. The frequent narrative of innate hatred or existing tensions often ignore how long it takes to generate the kind of hatred that flourishes into violence.
Medieval story time (that is actually about Alligator Alcatraz merch):
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.
July 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is an excellent thread which also points to one very important basic aspect of persecutions: They have to be manufactured & prepared. The frequent narrative of innate hatred or existing tensions often ignore how long it takes to generate the kind of hatred that flourishes into violence.
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So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ...
HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG!
"Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel!
Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen.
Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!
HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG!
"Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel!
Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen.
Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!
July 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ...
HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG!
"Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel!
Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen.
Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!
HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG!
"Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel!
Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen.
Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!
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My student Tatiana Petrukhina defended her dissertation "Custom in the Long Twelfth Century" on Friday the 13th. Seen here with her examination committee. It is a powerfully and elegantly argued thesis about practical reasoning about custom.
June 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My student Tatiana Petrukhina defended her dissertation "Custom in the Long Twelfth Century" on Friday the 13th. Seen here with her examination committee. It is a powerfully and elegantly argued thesis about practical reasoning about custom.
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Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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We are seeking a last-minute entry to the #leeds #IMC2025 hybrid panel "Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness"! Please send abstracts to [email protected] BEFORE JUNE 4. Details of panel at the following link: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...
June 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are seeking a last-minute entry to the #leeds #IMC2025 hybrid panel "Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness"! Please send abstracts to [email protected] BEFORE JUNE 4. Details of panel at the following link: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...
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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
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Blir sprø av argumentene «folk har mistet jobbene sine på grunn av utvikling før, det er ikke noe nytt med KI» og «det er bakstreversk å jobbe mot ny teknologi» kommer fra samme leir, som om ikke det er bakstreversk å tviholde på at det ikke går an å gjøre noe annerledes eller velge en annen fremtid
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Blir sprø av argumentene «folk har mistet jobbene sine på grunn av utvikling før, det er ikke noe nytt med KI» og «det er bakstreversk å jobbe mot ny teknologi» kommer fra samme leir, som om ikke det er bakstreversk å tviholde på at det ikke går an å gjøre noe annerledes eller velge en annen fremtid
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The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.
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Which leads us to the *reason* why these headlines like “The Medieval Peasant Worked Less Than You!” keep on appearing. It’s because a nostalgia for an imagined past is used to excuse the mistakes of the present. 8/
April 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Which leads us to the *reason* why these headlines like “The Medieval Peasant Worked Less Than You!” keep on appearing. It’s because a nostalgia for an imagined past is used to excuse the mistakes of the present. 8/
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Advice that applies to both bodybuilding and art history: part one.
Eat protein forward meals.
They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.
Eat protein forward meals.
They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Advice that applies to both bodybuilding and art history: part one.
Eat protein forward meals.
They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.
Eat protein forward meals.
They help to build muscle and provide slow release energy needed for long days in the museum.
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Transphobia is evil, & a tool for evil. Nunc et semper.
April 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Transphobia is evil, & a tool for evil. Nunc et semper.
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You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
April 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
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We are very sorry to learn of the death of the medieval historian, Bob Moore, who published as R.I. Moore.
Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2
Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2
Bob Moore obituary
Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance
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March 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We are very sorry to learn of the death of the medieval historian, Bob Moore, who published as R.I. Moore.
Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2
Elected a Fellow of the RHS in 1975, Bob Moore taught at Sheffield and Newcastle. He was known for his work on persecution and heresy and as an early proponent of world history bit.ly/4iXCAb2