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Text mining before the age of LLM training.

NEW ESSAY — Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria: publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-no...

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Poor cats, they can't catch a break from factories anywhere bsky.app/profile/poor...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Hiring a new full-time colleague in the School of Library and Information Science in Iowa. Particularly well-suited (but not limited) to special collections librarians or academic library instruction librarians who want to switch to full-time teaching. 📜 jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

“As a librarian, I think it’s important to see this as…helping people reclaim their autonomy over whether they want to use AI tools,” Bailey said. “It’s important, especially when it can be so difficult not to use them, and when the design seems to force adoption” Librarians to the rescue (again)

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.techcrunch.com

The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

hey! you! almost 1000 folks have read/downloaded Virginia Burrus's new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, isn't it time you joined them? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian LiteratureCambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literaturewww.cambridge.org

Job opening: Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at Loyola Marymount University lmu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity, Department of Theological StudiesOur Invitation The Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a Carnegie classified R2 institution in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks…lmu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

AI companies are bulk buying and destroying rare old books in order to train their slop generators www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”www.404media.co

new JANT dropped!

Assistant Professor of Religion (Islam subfield; tenure track) Denison University

friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian LiteratureCambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literaturewww.cambridge.org

TT opening in #IslamicStudies at Stanford: Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies

Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies - Stanford University, California, United StatesThe Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies. We seek candidates specializing in pre-modern Islam; regional foc...facultypositions.stanford.edu

Deep, detailed review of my recent book in BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.07...

And hey: Things Unseen is free--- you can buy it, sure, but it's available open access. Go to this link www.ucpress.edu/books/things... Hit "read book" and boom! There it is

Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDFScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.www.ucpress.edu

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

The allergy to religion that somehow still persists in various social sciences and humanities is itself a critical data point in understanding how we got into this mess.