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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I have made some, I just end up writing a bunch of specific comments anyway. They didn't end up saving me time. But I might pull one out to give to them.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I don't personally use rubrics but that probably would help here.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I went old school and asked for every student to bring in paper copies to share - partly so they have to comment without AI.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

This is very helpful, thank you! I was only doing two each so as not to overload them, but I am also checking to see that they did the commenting.

Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

That's very helpful, thank you!

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I decided to add a peer-editing assignment to my first year seminar, but I've never done such an assignment before. Anyone here have experience and advice or tips to offer?

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 2d

She's a sweetie

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The eternal problem with satire is that many people, perhaps most people, will not understand it is satire. Sometimes including the author.
I feel like this could be applied to our political moment as well as our literature.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile I don't think anyone has yet done Philip K Dick justice on film and I'm willing to accept it's just not possible to translate media with his work.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I mean I actually nostalgically love Starship Troopers because I read it at exactly the right (re:wrong) age and it recalls a really important time in my life, but I would never share it with a teenager myself. That shit warped me for a long time.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

And bless his heart, subtlety is not Verhoeven's forte.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely. But that's also because Philip K Dick was writing a fascinating and nuanced satire that fundamentally questions what we can no is real, and not a book selling fascism to teenagers under the pretense of libertarianism.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 5d

I have something good to share: my article "Æthelwold's Reform and Bede's History" will be published in the June 2027 issue of La Revue Bénédictine. That's the last thing I needed for tenure I delayed to this coming Spring, so it's a huge weight off my mind.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 9d

In some ways the thing I've most learned to appreciate from a decade of Trumpism is that a hypocrite failing to live up to their good ideals is a vastly superior option to someone completely lacking in good ideals at all.
Hyopcrites can potentially be shamed into doing better.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 9d

A healthy reminder that two opposed evils are never equally evil, that you usually won't get anywhere better by refusing both of them, and that a hypocrite still has a better potential for good than someone lacking good ideals to begin with.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much!

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 10d

So my understanding is that most medieval scholars no longer believe in the historicity of the berserker myth, but I'm having trouble finding focused scholarship on the issue in English. Does anyone here have a good reference article to hand on the question?

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 13d

Socialism can be abused, just like anything else. But at its best, ideal form it's everything we say we need more of: communities coming together.
We need to stop assuming that human beings are incapable of this & try to live together better. The alternative we're living in now is destroying us.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 13d

you won't believe what's saving rural towns

HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM.

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The Small Town That Saved Its Only Grocery Store — By Buying It

Across rural America, independent grocery stores are shuttering. To keep its only store from joining the trend, one small town in Kansas got creative.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 15d

I fell firmly on the avoidance of the term side with a volume I co-edited. Not sure I would be so aggressive in scrubbing it out today. I look forward to reassessing my approach afresh with this volume.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 15d

That said, I still have concerns with what alternatives we are to use if Anglo-Saxon is truly to be retired as a term. That is, it seems to me, no less fraught an issue.

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 15d

It is an important issue, and I am glad to see a collection of peer-reviewed work we can now share with our students to demonstrate the complexities and relevancies of the questions involved.

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The Power of a Word. Non-Anglophone Perspectives on the Use and Abuse of ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Cover eBook

This volume contains ten articles dedicated to the comparative study of emotions in literature, addressing emotions relating to ‘Fringes’ in both Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature, but al...

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you! It just came up in my "on this day" FB feature for ten years ago, so that's why I guessed. Beautiful piece!

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Chris Riedel @medievalhistory.bsky.social · 15d

Well that is a gamechanger, thank you!

The Holkham Bible f2

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