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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10h

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

Cover of my book, full title is The Racialization of Print: from John Smith to Frederick Douglsss. A very simple graphic cover with black and white and yellow background

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I swear to you that in 1775, Isaac and Ruth Wedg named their newborn son Orronge. It's right here in the record.

Clip from a birth record saying "Orronge Wedg son to Isaac Wedg & Ruth his wife Born Octo 2d AD 1775"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Someday, when the bubble bursts and the AHA comes crashing down, historians will come begging on their knees for primary sources. Philologists will be waiting, and they will not forget all the times they were told "editions aren't real publications." Still they will say: "Here, it's open access."

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When you automate the Chortlemuffin Effect, it compounds each error exponentially. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

One barrier to bigger AI-induced gains is the technology’s tendency to produce “plausible-looking output” with weaknesses or mistakes that are not immediately apparent, explained Jessica Reif, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

“This makes it more likely that an error propagates through a workflow instead of being immediately corrected,” which can cause problems to snowball, said Reif.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/10/2026

Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It makes sense with all of the smaller units of a real that I see (1/4, 1/9, 2/9, 3/9 to get 1/3, 1/36, 1/64), but I still don’t get why the Navarrese and Spanish more broadly chose *11* reales to a ducado. A prime number!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I got two prints signed by Amos Kennedy Jr., and I have four tubs of thinking cheese. It has been a good Monday 😎

Two small prints printed and signed by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and a stack of four spicy white cheddar pimento cheese on a kitchen table with a blue floral table cloth. One print reads “Your library is your paradise - Desiderius Erasmus” and the other is “Man builds no structure that outlives a book. - Carl Elliott”

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Medievalist: There was a fire in Ashburnham House…

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12/10/2026

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

Directed graph showing how speakers of different languages refer to things they do not understand by invoking a different language

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The cakes in the UL tea room tell it like it is.

A dish with a glass dome containing rectangular slices of cake with very pink icing, labelled “Candid toffee apple tray bake”

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Do you mind explaining this gap in your CV? TEI Encoder: <gap reason=“cancelled and illegible” extent=“2 letters”/>

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the best day of my life

Allie overjoyed to meet Gritty, with Alex in the foreground

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I usually eek out stitching time during departmental meetings! And I finally got to fixing my duvet cover after *several* weeks today. Progress!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I still love the background fabric you chose 🥰 Life has been very busy for stitching here in AZ, so I feel ya

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just sent the revision of final body chapter of my dissertation to my advisor!! On to the introduction!!!

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Happy Pikachu Jumping with Joy

Alt: Happy Pikachu Jumping with Joy

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow. 17 & 18 November 2026 5-6pm In-person at Robinson College & online 🎟️ Book your free tickets: loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3466 guards the nest

A bunny sits beside a nest of sleeping mice, at least three of them, who are curled up and sleeping in a thicket. The bunny is eating a flower.

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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt, made of 12,500 fabric squares and unveiled at the State Capitol’s rotunda, represents the lives of the estimated 11,000 people deported in Minnesota between the beginning of President Trump’s second term and the end of Operation Metro Surge.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

our dad (ALSO A SOFTWARE ENGINEER BTW, ALVIN!) read to us every night when we were kids it was foundational not just to raising children who read for pleasure and shaping our tastes in books (highly endorse the Narnia-Hobbit-LOTR-Shannara progression), but also in our relationship with our dad!!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

English, as many linguists note, is chaos and several languages in a trench coat. We should be able to do what we want!!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think I did them before I learned Latin because when we learned ablative absolutes, I remember thinking "Oh that's what those are called!"

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@heatherfro.bsky.social, I've got a text analysis research project for us!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel like the Brits get us better stylistically. They are also pro-dependent clause. This would be a fun linguistic study. How does the English prose of L1 English-L2 Spanish Hispanists compare to other L1 English academics and how do different academic Englishes perceive it?

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be clear, some of the stuff I've sent him this year has been not up to par once I've gone back and looked. But sometimes I'm just like, the dependent clause will not kill you!!!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ohmygod you have no idea how relieved I feel!!!! (I see you saw the 2nd post) I think it has been extra "bad" during the dissertation because I'm having to switch between Spanish sources and English explanation. Did not have these issues in my quals/proposal, I think bc there was less Spanish

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Truly my one complaint with revising my dissertation is fighting my advisor about having these types of structures in English. Give my dependent clauses and micro-tangents!!!

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Working on revisions for an article in Spanish, and I can see so clearly where my syntactical habits in English come from 😅 Spanish speakers (at least in Spain) are totally happy with lots of dependent clauses and lots of mid-sentence little additions/clarifications between commas!!

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Say hello to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art): basiraproject.org #medievalsky --------------- Video by Emily Brooks Music by J.D. Porter Narration by Iris Péron-Ames

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over on VoynichNinja (an excellent discussion board with lots of solid linguistic & cryptological work), someone posted this new resource based on my (credited!) work that lets you visualize structure & rearrange quires, bifolia, and pages! It's incredibly cool and really valuable. voynichviewer.com

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was being awoo’ed at for my lack of dedication to scritching!!! So I switched table sides to scritch with my left hand. Awoos have subsided, and tail wagging has increased

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Important new lessons to organize one’s writing space: you must sit on the correct side of the table so that your dominant hand can write and your non-dominant hand can give scritches to your friend’s dog while you are both working on your dissertations 😂🐕 #phdlife

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/10/2026

"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, b/c we did not know exactly what we wanted...As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace & emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." ❤️‍🔥

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think if you’re not local to DC it’s difficult to comprehend how fucking sad it is to watch all this happening to this beautiful city. I’m barely local, as a transplant to northern Virginia, and I’m very sad

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Baja Arizona. We fight on. @bajaarizona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#VOTE #ARIZONA ARIZONA!!! Today is the LAST DAY to check those voter registrations and make any needed changes. OR to register to vote for the first time. Please alert neighbors, family, friends, co-workers. BLUE WAVE 🌊🌊🌊🌊 azsos.gov/elections or contact your county office

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

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“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts

Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The evil penguin in Wallace and Gromit or the evil purple salamander dude in Monsters Inc. Was convinced that salamander dude was gonna get me when I was alone in my daycare’s backyard!! Always kept my back to the house 😅😂

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/10/2026

I would like to hear specifically from Anglican and Catholic priests how was your day today!!

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Petty footnotes are load bearing. I realize academia is being destroyed from the outside, but we also need petty footnotes to make sure academia is motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My impression has always been that Python doesn't handle XML well. I'm just seeing if I can do things for the hell of it. Librarian buddy was able to get it to work via Python, but had to stream it 1 chunk at a time to get it to work (which is I think what Oxygen is likely doing under the hood)

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I loaded it into Oxygen, and it wanted me to load it as a "huge file" (not enough memory for "large file"!!) I have been trying to run an XPath for a good 5 min. Still has not finished... Even funnier, while it's well-formed XML, it isn't valid! No schema in sight!

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