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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 3h

And the cover photo is a thirst trap!

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 18h

…you ought, in general, to keep slow time.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 19h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If a single book were your most precious object, how would you keep it safe? BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art): basiraproject.org #medievalsky

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The kids are alright, despite (*frantically waving hands in all directions*)…everything.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 14/10/2026

Hey DH folks, an easy way to be a #MultilingualDH ally is to request that your library catalog this open-access literature data set even though it's not in English! (There'll be a WorldCat record soon they can pull from, if there isn't already, since I'll be asking Stanford to do it too.)

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let’s learn from past crashes and be ready w bold transformative demands. No AI bail outs. No impunity.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hadn't thought about it this way before, and you're making compelling arguments! Thanks for sharing!

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/10/2026

there's GOT to be a better way!

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Announcing our critical philosophy of AI seminars for 2026-2027: ‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ cpct.uk/2026-2027/ Each week pits a philosophical text and a technical document against each other to interrogate presuppositions and provoke radical reflections.

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‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ Image: UBahn station in Essen, Germany, artwork by anonymous students at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste, 2026 Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 p…

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie

Not a selfie! My husband, peeking in from the left, took this of me sitting next to him on the plane, wearing noise canceling headphones, eye mask, and KN95 mask over my nose/mouth.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Helen Paxton Brown (1876 - 1956), artist associated with the 'Glasgow Girls' who worked in a range of mediums, including painting china #womensart #GlasgowGirls

Three images of china cups and plates painted with colourful floral designs

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Skybrarians, have any of you had similar experiences recently? If so, any ideas about what's changed? Is it an internal shift to more "A.I."/"semantic" searching and less on key words, actual metadata that's made search so crappy? And if you've noticed this, how are you changing your instruction?

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

...when I searched for scholarly journal articles on various topics. It was kind of shocking, and it also totally undermined any appearance of expertise students might have thought I had.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've been doing library orientations for 1st-year composition classes for years now, and the biggest chunk of those orientations is introducing databases and modeling searching. This year, *both* of the big, expensive multi-subject general databases yielded mostly useless/irrelevant results...

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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Bot test: Zelensky should get the Peace Prize for destroying the bot farms

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nekrasova isn't covered in Slavic grad programs either! Such spectacularly good translations you and Danila K. have crafted... Thank you for this marvelous introduction.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This was the second forest fire aerial embroidery I made back in August, short title is 'Apathy' - something I was seeing a lot of around me during the extreme heatwave. It's now available and you can see its full name in the description: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/forest-... 1/2

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. the landscape has a dry forest to the right with patches of dried out grass; the left has burned ground with smoke rising off. There is a actively burning line of fire down the centre.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The man has clearly read and internalized “Zorba the Greek.” (I had a Greek immigrant father — ask me how I know!)

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Demoralizing. And such a dispiriting waste of your live, human intellect…

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Would it be ironic if Ukrainian resistance saved American democracy?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How come no actor who gets super deep into character while playing a historical figure ever gets carried away and launches a public jobs program or overthrows a fascist government? It's always just doing an accent all day and yelling at crew members for not calling them "Wolfgang" or whatever.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone who has ever worked with photocopiers can tell you that they: 1. are malevolent 2. act with intent 3. display uncanny situational awareness 4. are pack hunters (swear at one, and they'll all turn on you) This doesn't mean they're alive, or conscious.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Coxon and Anthropic "did not respond to a request for comment." 👀 👀 👀 @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you for taking the time to post a response. A good part of what sanity I still have is holding on purely because of your public service!

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh goodness. Tough crowd! Not ideal conditions!

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Multicultural mixological genius right there!

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That is 100% what I meant! 😉 And *I* sure thought I sounded better! (Thank the gods of libation there was no one around with an audio recorder back then to confront me with the harsh reality after I sobered up...)

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have done double-blind empirical testing with hard cider over the course of several years and discovered that it also makes you more fluent in a foreign language.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And by how each copy looks same-but-different, depending on which layer it was.

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