{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - bookandswordblog","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/bookandswordblog@scholar.social","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"55723","username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social","bio":"S. Manning, MA (Calgary), PhD (Innsbruck)Blogging https://bookandsword.com/ from 🇨🇦 after travelling suddenly overseas for my health {lu2}DUB.SAR.TUR u {lu2}TUG2.DU3  Please don't request to follow unless I can see a profile and some posts #noBot\n\nToots harmlessly disperse after six months","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":0,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://micro.blog/photos/200/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg"},"items":[{"id":"93312773","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>electricarchaeo</span></a></span> people in other diaciplines would have to ask our opinions ro get our opinions, and I really find the plausibility extruders boring</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116850815471085655","date_published":"2026-07-02T14:19:05+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"14:19","date_timestamp":1783001945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91704811","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span> \"oh prince of Wa-shi-tung, may I execute one of your generals as an example to the others?\"</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116709712130891220","date_published":"2026-06-07T16:14:38+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-07 16:14","date_timestamp":1780848878,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91675929","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span> now I wonder what Gregory of Tours or Notker Babulus would have made of Greg Martel</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116705849540215625","date_published":"2026-06-06T23:52:20+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-06 23:52","date_timestamp":1780789940,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91665174","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span> there are a collection of past stories about Greg Martel on Exilian</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116705027376189284","date_published":"2026-06-06T20:23:15+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-06 20:23","date_timestamp":1780777395,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91493675","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span> 🤗💪📖</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116688437606930735","date_published":"2026-06-03T22:04:15+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-03 22:04","date_timestamp":1780524255,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91486838","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span> sollen wir dann auf Deutsch beim monatlichen Videotreff reden?</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116688079455607592","date_published":"2026-06-03T20:33:10+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-03 20:33","date_timestamp":1780518790,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90960443","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@mburtonkelly\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>mburtonkelly</span></a></span> theyalso wqnt you to create accoubts and I am not sure of the privacy risks if I eg. take photos within 2 km of my home which can be geolocated (or tied by the phone to latitude and longitude)</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116642299848805257","date_published":"2026-05-26T18:30:49+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-26 18:30","date_timestamp":1779820249,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90173198","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@troypatterson\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>troypatterson</span></a></span> I had a similar issue after I inserted a \"no AI\" graphic into the sidebar of my Wordpress blog, on some screens it overlapped the main column</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116574232383743537","date_published":"2026-05-14T18:00:22+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-14 18:00","date_timestamp":1778781622,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89574908","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>electricarchaeo</span></a></span> IIRC the global airline industry has been a net money loser for almost all of its history</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116517076094329676","date_published":"2026-05-04T15:44:46+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-04 15:44","date_timestamp":1777909486,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89392003","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@CaribenxMarciaX\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>CaribenxMarciaX</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://indiepocalypse.social/@JessMahler\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JessMahler</span></a></span> Substack also have a thriving antivaxx department called Health Politics.  They are happy to shut down blogs that get too spicy, but really concerned about interfering with Nazi or alternative medicine speech. Can't say I might not be tempted by that sweet VC money if my writing had a chance of reaching a large paying online audience.</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116500075421348090","date_published":"2026-05-01T15:41:16+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 15:41","date_timestamp":1777650076,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89390809","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@CaribenxMarciaX\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>CaribenxMarciaX</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://chitter.xyz/@bogpunk\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>bogpunk</span></a></span> one of the first people they invited to join Substack Pro and get special cash bonuses and legal aid was Scott \"Richard Lynn and HBDchick were right\" Alexander</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116500008147070127","date_published":"2026-05-01T15:24:10+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 15:24","date_timestamp":1777649050,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89245712","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> if only Jevon's Paradox was taught in schools!</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116488491406056590","date_published":"2026-04-29T14:35:18+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 14:35","date_timestamp":1777473318,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"89190254","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>electricarchaeo</span></a></span> most countries went to big universities because of the obvious economies of scale over tiny American-style universities with a few thousand students.</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116483837232267346","date_published":"2026-04-28T18:51:41+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 18:51","date_timestamp":1777402301,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86744225","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>gedankenstuecke</span></a></span> I added a human.json to <a href=\"https://bookandsword.com/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">bookandsword.com/</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a> but I think to be effective someone in the network also has to add me to theirs</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116274840649136002","date_published":"2026-03-22T21:01:06+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-22 21:01","date_timestamp":1774213266,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86142970","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>gedankenstuecke</span></a></span> ten years ago, Maciej Ceglowski made a case that loading these sites with mobile data generated more revenue for the cell phone provider than the publisher</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116223407487013034","date_published":"2026-03-13T19:00:58+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-13 19:00","date_timestamp":1773428458,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85848775","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://toot.wales/@TheBeastOfBaglan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>TheBeastOfBaglan</span></a></span> and child labour has been basically eliminated in countries with functional labour laws!</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116200730767510913","date_published":"2026-03-09T18:53:59+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-09 18:53","date_timestamp":1773082439,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85837729","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> I will see if I can do that once I have a feel for what the base form of MS's web apps is like. I hope to get office work soon.</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116200115457272547","date_published":"2026-03-09T16:17:30+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-09 16:17","date_timestamp":1773073050,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85835899","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> say signing up every student and staff member for a paid chatbot subscription.</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116199990411580094","date_published":"2026-03-09T15:45:42+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-09 15:45","date_timestamp":1773071142,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85835268","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> does Glasgow Uni have mandatory AI subacriptions? The uni I am affiliated with recently introduced MS Copilot which begs you to use it</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116199947214404011","date_published":"2026-03-09T15:34:43+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-09 15:34","date_timestamp":1773070483,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85219672","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>electricarchaeo</span></a></span> notoriously a third of Canadians live in three greater netropolitan areas so to a first approximation Canadian anything is Southern Ontario-St Lawrence, the Calgary-Edmonton corridor, and the Lower Mainland-Saanich Peninsula</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116148978883418127","date_published":"2026-02-28T15:32:48+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-28 15:32","date_timestamp":1772292768,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85197609","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>electricarchaeo</span></a></span> there are a superfluity of banks, credit unions, and ATMs in boty Canadian cities I have lived in</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116146896098721224","date_published":"2026-02-28T06:43:07+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-28 06:43","date_timestamp":1772260987,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84319216","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>gedankenstuecke</span></a></span> I have noticed Wiki editors who seem to be using LLMs to 'help' (in the \"cat and embroidery project\" sense of help).  What a diverse range of terrible people we are learning about this February!</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116075406670651166","date_published":"2026-02-15T15:42:25+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-15 15:42","date_timestamp":1771170145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84279440","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> I am almost sure that the energy to support a high-school-educated human long enough to calculate and check that with pen and paper is much greater than the energy to calculate it electronically</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/116070980796200689","date_published":"2026-02-14T20:56:52+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-14 20:56","date_timestamp":1771102612,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83166022","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@Aepasek\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Aepasek</span></a></span> I hope I was not mansplaining just infodumping.  Maybe one of the Firefox forks will get enough resources to go completely independent and the plugin/exyention community will move to it.</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/115980412492844230","date_published":"2026-01-29T21:04:09+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-29 21:04","date_timestamp":1769720649,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83142366","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@Aepasek\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Aepasek</span></a></span> browsers have been regulatory captured so you need a huge budget to fully implement them.  For a few years my main browser has been Librewolf BUT it depends on Mozilla. Intrigued but not hopeful about Servo given said regulatory capture and people's ability to donate in 2026 (AFAIK Mozilla gets most of its money from an antitrust deal in the US not donations or capital).</p>","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/115979165698115778","date_published":"2026-01-29T15:47:05+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-29 15:47","date_timestamp":1769701625,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"43267245","content_html":"<p>New post: Wikipedia's way of deciding what is true scratches the souls of journalists and academics and requires a lot of time, so Wikipedia contributors tend to come from outside those professions <a href=\"https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/08/10/wikipedia-culture-journalistic-culture-and-academic-culture/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">bookandsword.com/2024/08/10/wi</span><span class=\"invisible\">kipedia-culture-journalistic-culture-and-academic-culture/</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/users/bookandswordblog/statuses/112938591158679581","date_published":"2024-08-10T16:08:59+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-10 16:08","date_timestamp":1723306139,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42421197","content_html":"<p>From Steve Dodson of Language Hat: Aneta Pavlenko, ed., Multilingualism and History (Cambridge University Press, 2023) with three chapters on the Greco-Roman world <a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/multilingualism-and-history/78E8D62AF02488F5E993F56DA54BA88C\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">cambridge.org/core/books/multi</span><span class=\"invisible\">lingualism-and-history/78E8D62AF02488F5E993F56DA54BA88C</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/linguistics\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/multilingualism\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>multilingualism</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/book\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>book</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112864793752798615","date_published":"2024-07-28T15:21:20+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-28 15:21","date_timestamp":1722180080,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42399176","content_html":"<p>Alex Usher's Higher Education Strategy Associates is organizing a Canada Summit for AI and Post-Secondary Education next March 6-7 in Calgary, Alberta <a href=\"https://higheredstrategy.com/save-the-date-hesas-ai-cademy-summit/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">higheredstrategy.com/save-the-</span><span class=\"invisible\">date-hesas-ai-cademy-summit/</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112862119617123028","date_published":"2024-07-28T04:01:16+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-28 04:01","date_timestamp":1722139276,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42345501","content_html":"<p>New post: the creature on the Persepolis staircase <a href=\"https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/07/27/cross-post-the-creature-on-the-persepolis-staircase/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">bookandsword.com/2024/07/27/cr</span><span class=\"invisible\">oss-post-the-creature-on-the-persepolis-staircase/</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/monsterdon\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>monsterdon</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/achaemenid\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>achaemenid</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112856703854034057","date_published":"2024-07-27T05:03:58+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-27 05:03","date_timestamp":1722056638,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42319238","content_html":"<p>In 40 minutes (20.00 UTC) I will be chairing an online talk on \"Queering The Bit: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Contributions to Computing\" by <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hackers.town/@kestral\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>kestral</span></a></span>  Link to join available anyone who asks! <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/SummerSchool\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>SummerSchool</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112854427776870244","date_published":"2024-07-26T19:25:08+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-26 19:25","date_timestamp":1722021908,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42273190","content_html":"<p>H.P. Lovecraft had nothing on the horror which is Greater Victoria street names</p><p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F112%2F850%2F722%2F519%2F190%2F358%2Foriginal%2F2da1e6f984bb469d.png\" alt=\"a street map of a suburb with \" width=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112850727433436198","date_published":"2024-07-26T03:44:05+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-26 03:44","date_timestamp":1721965445,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42242371","content_html":"<p>The late Robert Miller has an open-access paper asking whether scribal culture in Achaemenid Judea could have been similar to scribal culture in Achaemenid Taxilia (Indus valley, home of Panini the grammarian) <a href=\"https://avarjournal.com/avar/article/view/2857\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">avarjournal.com/avar/article/v</span><span class=\"invisible\">iew/2857</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/achaemenid\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>achaemenid</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/philology\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>philology</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112848356413521738","date_published":"2024-07-25T17:41:06+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-25 17:41","date_timestamp":1721929266,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42161955","content_html":"<p>The spider-tailed horned viper of Iran sounds like a RPG monster <a href=\"https://kottke.org/19/01/the-lure-of-the-spider-tailed-horned-viper\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">kottke.org/19/01/the-lure-of-t</span><span class=\"invisible\">he-spider-tailed-horned-viper</span></a> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.art/@vicorva\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>vicorva</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>JubalBarca</span></a></span></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112842246336695435","date_published":"2024-07-24T15:47:14+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-24 15:47","date_timestamp":1721836034,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42097892","content_html":"<p>A pundit-economist just illustrated an essay with LLM art which is glossy but has a mangled hand, an extra half leg on the central figure, and bodies in the foreground which don't fit in space with the other figures.  How could he not see that?</p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112837035245934516","date_published":"2024-07-23T17:41:59+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-23 17:41","date_timestamp":1721756519,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42086972","content_html":"<p>Excavations at Berenike the Red Sea port of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt <a href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">smithsonianmag.com/history/hid</span><span class=\"invisible\">den-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/antiquidons\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>antiquidons</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/egyptology\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>egyptology</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112836424270501458","date_published":"2024-07-23T15:06:36+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-23 15:06","date_timestamp":1721747196,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42022719","content_html":"<p>A Byzantine princess is a featured article on Wikipedia <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla_(daughter_of_Theophilos)\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla_(</span><span class=\"invisible\">daughter_of_Theophilos)</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/byzantine\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>byzantine</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/romanEmpire\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>romanEmpire</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/wikipedia\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>wikipedia</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112831380643502203","date_published":"2024-07-22T17:43:56+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-22 17:43","date_timestamp":1721670236,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41928750","content_html":"<p>Does anyone know of a better way to archive a Facebook page than 'copy and paste text or right-click and save media'?  Videos seem especially difficult to report.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112821739129542099","date_published":"2024-07-21T00:51:59+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-21 00:51","date_timestamp":1721523119,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41864372","content_html":"<p>Four years ago today my father Kelly Bert Manning died of cancer <a href=\"https://www.earthsoption.com/obituaries/Kelly-Bert-Manning?obId=22723013\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">earthsoption.com/obituaries/Ke</span><span class=\"invisible\">lly-Bert-Manning?obId=22723013</span></a>  I hope to post an obituary in the next few days.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112815239490514759","date_published":"2024-07-19T21:19:02+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-19 21:19","date_timestamp":1721423942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41773853","content_html":"<p>I am finishing less blog posts as I focus on getting a better day job, expanding my freelance work, and offline activities.  In the meantime every time you share my writing with a friend or donate through Patreon or other services is appreciated! <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/bookandswordblog\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span>patreon.com/bookandswordblog</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p><p><img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F112%2F808%2F718%2F254%2F403%2F611%2Foriginal%2Fc086c993cb24e4b8.jpg\" alt=\"a play on the lawn of a stone Edwardian mansion with the mansion itself in the background silhouetted against a blue sky\" loading=\"lazy\"></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112808745351915717","date_published":"2024-07-18T17:47:29+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-18 17:47","date_timestamp":1721324849,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41695299","content_html":"<p>Mike Bishop tells me that John Coulston, a leader in Roman Military Equipment Studies, has died.  He is survived by his wife and fellow archaeologist Hazel Dodge <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Coulston\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Coul</span><span class=\"invisible\">ston</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/romanEmpire\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>romanEmpire</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112802555861293276","date_published":"2024-07-17T15:33:25+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-17 15:33","date_timestamp":1721230405,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41436306","content_html":"<p>New Post: What Am I Doing Here? <a href=\"https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/07/13/what-am-i-doing-here/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">bookandsword.com/2024/07/13/wh</span><span class=\"invisible\">at-am-i-doing-here/</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/blogging\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112779682668162612","date_published":"2024-07-13T14:36:28+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-13 14:36","date_timestamp":1720881388,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41403528","content_html":"<p>If I were teaching I would be tempted to send a student to edit Wikipedia pages like <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashu_family\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashu_</span><span class=\"invisible\">family</span></a> (this one is based on random books and articles which happen to mention the family, not the most important recent books). I gave it a quick edit but I can't afford the time to rewrite it completely. <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/wikipedia\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/cuneitoot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>cuneitoot</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/mesopotamia\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>mesopotamia</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112775856495527556","date_published":"2024-07-12T22:23:25+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-12 22:23","date_timestamp":1720823005,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41319591","content_html":"<p>I love seeing hits from fedifriends' sites when I check how much traffic my sites have used this month!  Knowing that an actual person chose to link to my writing feels different than a corporate search engine emitting one of my pages or images as a result.</p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112769055294567018","date_published":"2024-07-11T17:33:47+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-11 17:33","date_timestamp":1720719227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41208321","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.nz/@KiwiHellenist\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>KiwiHellenist</span></a></span> has a blog about myths he won't debunk on his blog because they are associated with a living person with academic dignitas and have not been debunked in an academic publication.  <a href=\"https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/03/off-limits-these-theories-arent-for.html\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/201</span><span class=\"invisible\">7/03/off-limits-these-theories-arent-for.html</span></a></p><p>My claim to fame in that area was showing that a 19th century translator created the impression that ancient linen armour was glued together <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3138/mous.17.3.003\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span>doi.org/10.3138/mous.17.3.003</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112759563234461791","date_published":"2024-07-10T01:19:50+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-10 01:19","date_timestamp":1720574390,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41111594","content_html":"<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://glammr.us/@jessamyn\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>jessamyn</span></a></span> do you know how to find dead pages on the Library of Congress website?  I am looking for something on Jeanne and Spider Robinson's trip to the (US) National Book Festival in 2006 <a href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-3997\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span>loc.gov/item/webcast-3997</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112751849874868959","date_published":"2024-07-08T16:38:13+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-08 16:38","date_timestamp":1720456693,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"41073770","content_html":"<p>Fans of science fiction will know the story of Jeanne Robinson.  Although she never got into orbit because of the \"Challenger\" disaster, there is a video of her experiments with freefall dance on the vomit comet <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sk9dU5pvM\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">youtube.com/watch?v=K7sk9dU5pv</span><span class=\"invisible\">M</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/scienceFiction\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/space\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>space</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/dance\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>dance</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112748213210494822","date_published":"2024-07-08T01:13:22+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-08 01:13","date_timestamp":1720401202,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"40931176","content_html":"<p>Players of the King's Quest games will remember Charon's obol.  Did the Hellenistic Greek custom of placing a coin or coins on the eye or mouth of the deceased spread to Turfan in the Takalamakan Desert? <a href=\"https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span>languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/archaeology\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/philology\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>philology</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/ancMedToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>ancMedToot</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/hellenisticCentralAsia\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>hellenisticCentralAsia</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112734472428542484","date_published":"2024-07-05T14:58:54+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-05 14:58","date_timestamp":1720191534,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"40867234","content_html":"<p>Another story about a local fraudster and the trouble of putting him out of circulation (Canada is a hotbed of cons and swindles because its a high-trust society)  <a href=\"https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/court-ruling-in-may-timothy-durkin-comes-closer-to-being-deported\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">capitaldaily.ca/news/court-rul</span><span class=\"invisible\">ing-in-may-timothy-durkin-comes-closer-to-being-deported</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112728877890768314","date_published":"2024-07-04T15:16:08+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-04 15:16","date_timestamp":1720106168,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"40731285","content_html":"<p>Peter T. Daniels talk on the origins of writing systems and what Sumerian, Chinese, and Maya have in common from 1999 <a href=\"https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64775\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class=\"invisible\">?p=64775</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/linguistics\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/philology\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>philology</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/cuneiToot\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>cuneiToot</span></a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112717522340637960","date_published":"2024-07-02T15:08:17+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-02 15:08","date_timestamp":1719932897,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"40547375","content_html":"<p>Victor Mair has a post about the American custom of sentence diagramming since 1831 <a href=\"https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64712\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class=\"invisible\">?p=64712</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/linguistics\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href=\"https://scholar.social/tags/grammar\" class=\"mention hashtag\">#<span>grammar</span></a> <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://wandering.shop/@lingthusiasm\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>lingthusiasm</span></a></span></p>","summary":"","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/112700517971259046","date_published":"2024-06-29T15:03:50+00:00","author":{"name":"bookandswordblog","url":"https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fscholarsocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F000%2F033%2F468%2Foriginal%2Fa239df5e77ab5954.jpeg","_microblog":{"username":"bookandswordblog@scholar.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-06-29 15:03","date_timestamp":1719673430,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}