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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

"But this sector is busy and understaffed!" I know this, I am in fact part of the sector. However, I don't know how long we'll be able to call it the humanities if it's just AIs sending slop writing back and forth

I got my first egregiously AI-written email from a fellow heritage professional recently, and my skin is STILL crawling about it. What are we doing if we can't be bothered to talk to our colleagues?

They’re making hay bales of grass outside at work today and I am about to sneeze myself to death

Woodcut device of a bird of prey with a small bird in its talons, flying over a castle with the sun blazing. Used by the London printer Thomas Scarlet, in his 1592 edition of Henry Smith’s sermon ‘Satans compassing the earth’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.8.59.60.

From elsewhere in the same catalog: “A radio receiving set is probably the last place one would expect to find a serpent.” FUCK MAN SURE IS

Yeah man

Same

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I do not know what the FUCK this means, but imagine wearing this today with no context

HELLO??

1943 memes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Woah there tiger

Ok, I won’t

Now presenting: a thread of “Comic Celluloid Buttons” from a 1943 novelty catalog

"Just fiddle with the dial until it stops hissing..."

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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