"The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context."
The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2023, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
@bookstodon The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2023, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
Everyone looking forward to PS5 Pro is actually a PC gamer in their heart, dreaming of having an option to spend money on a more powerful graphics card.
@sharan I actually agree. I think PC remains what it has always been for people who prefer it that way, but consoles distanced themselves SLIGHTLY from what they used to be. There is now too much emphasis on resolution, framerate, options, etc in console space.
Digital Foundry has a million YT followers talking about console games running at 25 fps in certain scenarios. This kind of content has changed console gamers to be like PC gamers, but it doesn't work. 🤷
@nazokiyoubinbou console game developers used to create game for particular hardware and you would always get fluid gameplay. Nowadays developers fail to optimize their game and hope that more powerful hardware gets released. And users support this way of doing things...
I missed a lot of stuff from the book in Season 1, and S2 was clearly too late to bring all of that back. I loved S1 and still enjoyed S2, but I think it would have been even better if they'd made S1 longer. There was much more that could have been told there.
S2 was definitely more like Dr Who than the apocalyptic stakes of S1, but I guess you can do that only once.
Went to the African-American history and culture museum yesterday - everyone should. Despite what I imagine some people believe, it’s not just violence and trauma porn, it’s a lot of day to day normal stuff on the upper floors. My wife wondered where the slavery and Jim Crow stuff was, but it occurred to me that it would probably be concentrated somewhere else in the building - excessive focus on slavery and trauma is a complaint I’ve heard about cultural stuff usual made for white audiences.
Probably the most informative exhibit (“favorite” sounds wrong) was the segregated train car. You really get a sense of how petty and cheap the racists were - the Black bathrooms are tiny (about the size of airplane ones now), white ones have a “lounge” area, which is weird, but regardless of how weird it was they had more space. Plus you couldn’t use the suitcase storage areas unless you were white, which is just ridiculous.
If I get a chance to go back I’ll have to see if they’ve got a Wilmington 1898 exhibit and what they have about COINTELPRO-related fuckery. Probably the single most horrifying thing in there is the child-sized shackles, but there’s also plenty of stuff in there that isn’t evil or soaked in blood.
I noticed the difference in my xbox controller vs playstation. My woman had to keep hers plugged in because the battery was at end-of-life, I kept a set of rechargeable AA's and used them in my mouse, xbox paddle, razor...I forget what all else.
Nope just greedy fuckers being greedy. In devices like phones it kinda makes sense from a space efficiency standpoint but most devices its simply so they can take ur money when u need a replacement.
@older I read The Mimicking of Known Successes a couple months ago and then passed it on to my wife. I enjoyed the noir feel and the novel take on humans resettling elsewhere in the solar system. As a nice bonus, the central but understated romance was perfect for my non-aro ace sensibilities.
Oh great someone posted a thing about how “ADHD and autism are only disorders in a capitalist society” again.
Speaking as a person with #ADHD I say unto you all that this take needs to die. I can’t speak for #actuallyautistic people but ADHD is difficult in a lot of ways that would still be difficult in, like, a post-scarcity space socialist paradise or whatever!
"It is worth getting inside Trump’s head a bit and imagining his mood following an election victory. He will have spent the previous year, and more, fighting to stay out of jail, plagued by myriad persecutors and helpless to do what he likes to do best: exact revenge. Think of the fury that will have built up inside him, a fury that, from his point of view, he has worked hard to contain. ..."
Why do people believe that Trump’s revenge would not be like proscriptions of Marius or Sulla, but with the power of the surveillance state and tactical precision of drones?
Sometimes I'm called upon to teach a writing intensive capstone class where the main assignment has been a review paper. Given #GenerativeAI, I've been wondering what to do differently. Helping students improve their writing is totally different now...that's all I know.
I found this article:
The role of ChatGPT in scientific communication: writing better scientific review articles
@dogzilla@eilonwy@rspfau@academicchatter to be fair, I don't dislike that - teaching is not just about passing on knowledge, it's also about preparing students for the next steps in life.
Whether we like it or not - #generativeAI will be with us going forward, so might as well teach how to extract its benefits - e.g. examples of how to build and use #ChatGPT bots, etc... #academicchatter#ai
@banibau@academicchatter Merci für die lieben Worte. Heute schon erledigt. Wir hatten noch ein weiteres gut passendes Journal in der Hinterhand, das jetzt das Manuskript zugeschickt bekommen hat. Mal sehen, ob wir uns in unserer Einschätzung wieder scheinbar so vertan haben oder ob es jetzt passen könnte.
Ich habe gestern mit den neuen GPTs von OpenAI rumgespielt und mir letztendlich für meine aktuellen Projekte drei tatsächlich hilfreiche Chatbots erstellt.
Say hello to "Linux Server Admin Assistant", "Bricks Builder Assistant" und "Kirby CMS Advisor". Derzeit frei verfügbar für alle, die es brauchen und ein Abo für ChatGPT abgeschlossen haben.
"Das ist nicht die Zukunft, aber man kann sie von hier aus sehen" (DXHR)
Yesterday I played around with the new GPTs from OpenAI and ended up creating three actually helpful chatbots for my current projects.
Say hello to “Linux Server Admin Assistant”, “Bricks Builder Assistant” and “Kirby CMS Advisor”. Currently freely available to anyone who needs it and has a ChatGPT subscription.
“This is not the future, but you can see it from here” (DXHR)
Si bien des images des jeux du tournoi sont des écrans officiels venant de @steam ou !gog , je dois remercier du fond du coeur le travail de plusieurs décennies effectué par Abandonware France !
Sur les 512 meilleurs jeux français, plus de 80 en version PC/Mac sont actuellement préservés par eux, incluant les captures d'écran qui me permettent de les illustrer !
Well, here's my #introduction to Mastodon. I'm a literary fiction writer and occasional journalist, currently travelling in #Oceania. Would love to connect with other writers, readers and anyone who cares about #books, and I'm up for some political and environmental discussions too. Happy to have found a corner of the web that feels something like what the web was meant to be.
@andrewblackman One thing I should have mentioned yesterday is there is a group @bookstodon where you will run across many readers and writers. You can follow the group (and assorted hashtags of your specific interests), and add the group to your bookish posts.
I believe there is at least one writers group out there too.