Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh hell yes 0346
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social 1024049
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out 13528128
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialTexas Tribune @texastribune.org · 27/09/2026When asked why he doesn’t become an independent, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman responded: “Because I’m a lifelong Republican.” After realizing his slip-up, Fetterman laughed and said: “That’ll get clipped.” He then corrected himself and said he's a lifelong Democrat. #TribFest26 151913420
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t... 512359
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialCarin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Manuscript news you can use! The Codex Amiatinus has a new online interface, w/a few oddities but in general a big improvement in one respect. Read on for tedious but useful details. #medievalsky 🧵 The landing page for the digital Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana is tecabml.contentdm.oclc.orgtecabml.contentdm.oclc.orgCONTENTdm 13410
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...scrippsnews.comInteractive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labelsPork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for. 11527461299
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322235587
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorianstheguardian.comNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable onlineExclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad 113586
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149273704
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Read it! Gen AI is a plagiarism machine. As someone else On Here said: making Photoshop doesn’t require access to every photo ever taken. 000
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026NPR and our Member stations will continue to uphold First Amendment rights, and to stand with any news organization targeted for its reporting.n.prStatement on White House bans from Tommy Evans, NPR's Editor in ChiefNPR and our Member stations will continue to uphold First Amendment rights, and to stand with any news organization targeted for its reporting. 24767146
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How much influence is end times prophecy exerting over American policy right now? The short answer: more than one might like My latest for The New Republicnewrepublic.comWe Need to Talk About the ApocalypseEnd-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra... 26365139
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good morning, it’s the 21st day of Septemberyoutu.beEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 17805367
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialBarbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Logical fallacies Explicit "I, a scientist, benefit from LLMs in my research, thus all other scientists would also benefit." Implicit "I, a scientist, cannot perceive the ethical issues with AI use, thus no other scientist can". 46812
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialHuw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026About 2.7 million hours of work for no return. 311445
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 825688
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 02636
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialKatie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thanks so much, Sonja. This summer I heard nurse after nurse talk about these scores, and so we included it in the story: Elena "tried to scan the code [at the hospital] more than seven minutes before her start time, which dinged her score by half a point." dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...dissentmagazine.orgLife Under the Algorithm - Dissent MagazineAlgorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future. 22913
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialJen the Tired RN @jenthetiredrn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Good god 1175
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026No matter how you refine your questions, the chatbot will generate responses reflecting what the greatest number of users are likely to want to hear, which tends to be close to what they think they already know." A great, painstaking piece. www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...hnn.usAI Is an Anti-Primary Source MachineReal voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. 37633
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe 13140001091
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialLila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today, America’s two largest school districts sent a message to the rest of the country that AI in schools is far from inevitable. When we organize and fight back, we win. 337291
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialJustine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My new article is now out in French Historical Studies: "Into the Woods: Negotiating Environment and Power in France Around the Time of the Black Death" Not OA, but I can send you a pdf if you don't have access. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...read.dukeupress.eduInto the Woods | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press 0235
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Today, children are increasingly confined to considering the surfaces of things... It would be remarkable if such dramatic changes in children’s exposure to the underlying architectures of devices had no downstream effects on how they think about causal relationships in the world around them."thereader.mitpress.mit.eduEveryday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost?Children once learned by taking things apart. Today’s devices do not provide that rewarding activity — and the cognitive consequences may be considerable. 35218
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialWill Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026SBE has been the directorate that funds history of science, so this has been especially dour news for our field. Here's the letter from NSF to AIP in 1960 that essentially jump-started our history program, and we received many follow-on awards in subsequent years. 1118
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding. 15894456
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“They just use your mind and they never give you credit…” Thank you, Dolly. ❤️🩹 094
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity. 242055497
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 02636
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comICE begins deporting Haitians who lost TPS back to homelandCommunity leaders said Thursday’s removal flight was one of the largest they had seen and included people who were detained in recent weeks. 621067240
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I got to talk about ancient and medieval AI and The Odyssey on the Age of AI podcast last week: open.spotify.com/episode/0EQ9...open.spotify.comS14E8 (Season Finale): Before Nolan's Odyssey — The Robots of Ancient Greece and the History of AIAge of AI · Episode 021
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialSara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Public university students in Texas will learn less about cool historical topics (Joan of Arc! the Vikings!), and are losing a fine history professor, b/c of political interference in higher ed. (The use of A.I. to impose politically-motivated censorship is an added insult to the original injury.) 084
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026*whispers* BLM was popular 423043499
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialLibrary of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Total eclipse of the heart! Did you know we hold two copies of only three known Irish translations of Messahalah's De orbibus coelestibus? Our astronomical tracts date from the 14th or early 15th century, and the third copy is held by our friends at @marshslibrary.bsky.social 🌘🔭 15119
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialIan Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Glad to see it share.inquirer.com/IXkm7rshare.inquirer.comTwo new scholarships named for Dito van Reigersberg, aka Martha Graham Cracker, will support Philly artists in drag, cabaret, and theaterCabaret pianist Victor Fiorillo, who performed with van Reigersberg for years, and the Pig Iron Theatre Company are working on grants that support the next generation of artists. 093
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026i’ve spent a shocking amount of time explaining to non-tech people that LLMs are probabilistic 1213
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union. 212554806
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026No wonder. I can barely get them to change their reading habits. 040
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialEduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We're officially looking for a senior Classicists for an Associate/Full Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Can confirm the community is excellent and we have some amazing resources for research. Link to the job posting is below.illinois.csod.comAssociate/Full Professor- Classics - College of LASDuties & Responsibilities 26749
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialRoxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026george miller, bc the fact that mad max: fury road exists at all is really somethingstatic.klipy.comMad Max Mad Max Fury RoadALT: Mad Max Mad Max Fury Road 528450
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialxiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Look what arrived at my office! Thanks to @joecalamia.bsky.social and @uchicagopress.bsky.social for all the amazing work they did to turn my thoughts into a material object that actually exists in the world (and for the complimentary copies)! 1238
ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I have so many thoughts about the trailer alone! I am looking forward to this. 000
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...burnsfilmcenter.orgThe Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film CenterThe Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity 802809296
Reposted by @ertruitt.bsky.socialJustin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Be in a state that allows the morning after pill. Dead serious. 310224