andrew phillips
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From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸
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'I saw death': Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem fear for their lives amid Israeli football fan violence www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-bu...
'I saw death': Arab bus drivers in Israel fear for their lives amid football fan violence
Drivers are 'routinely' targeted by Israeli football fans, as unions warn of escalating assaults and lack of police response
www.middleeasteye.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
'I saw death': Palestinian bus drivers in Jerusalem fear for their lives amid Israeli football fan violence www.middleeasteye.net/news/arab-bu...
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"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
#UKHE
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University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
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Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Pleased that the @irishtimes.com has published this co-authored piece with a number of Palestinian academic colleagues on the destruction of higher education in Gaza.
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Pleased that the @irishtimes.com has published this co-authored piece with a number of Palestinian academic colleagues on the destruction of higher education in Gaza.
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
And the fears that the same will happen in the West Bank.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manuscript-handbook-of-firework-design-1785 #Fireworks
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Pages from a beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture published in 1785, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes. See the full book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manuscript-handbook-of-firework-design-1785 #Fireworks
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#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:
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Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Offering bearers adding to the pile in the tomb of Horemhab. Just remnants of the colourful paint that once decorated these scenes remains. #Egyptology #Archaeology
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An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
An interesting discovery: A manuscript (shelfmark Chambers 821 b) in #Qalamos that served as an English-Bengali dictionary or glossary, in which not only the Bengali words in the right column are written in Bengali script, but also the English terms in the left. .../1
The Maqlû is a series of well‐known Akkadian anti‐witchcraft texts, to be recited by an exorcist. It survives in a number of tablets from the early first millennium BC, some of which also contain explanatory commentary. One such tablet belonged to the junior exorcist (‘āšipu ṣeḫru’) Kiṣir‐Nabû
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Maqlû is a series of well‐known Akkadian anti‐witchcraft texts, to be recited by an exorcist. It survives in a number of tablets from the early first millennium BC, some of which also contain explanatory commentary. One such tablet belonged to the junior exorcist (‘āšipu ṣeḫru’) Kiṣir‐Nabû
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The bodies of 54 unidentified Palestinians, recently returned by Israel under the exchange deal, were buried today in southern Gaza.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The bodies of 54 unidentified Palestinians, recently returned by Israel under the exchange deal, were buried today in southern Gaza.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
Families were unable to recognize their loved ones because of the severe mutilation and disfigurement the victims suffered while in Israeli custody.
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This is (still, for a few hours EDT) the feast of Malchus of Syria, d. 390, whose Life was written by Jerome. Here's that text in an exceptionally handsome Humanist manuscript, BNF lat 1891.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is (still, for a few hours EDT) the feast of Malchus of Syria, d. 390, whose Life was written by Jerome. Here's that text in an exceptionally handsome Humanist manuscript, BNF lat 1891.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
Admire the Gs! I kind of love this script. I wonder whose arms those are in the inital Q.
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Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq.
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
An Anonymous Syriac Medical Compendium
“Many medical works from antiquity were translated into Syriac and transmitted through the...”
hmml.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Medical texts were transmitted in various forms in #Syriac literature well into the modern period—for example, manuscript DFM 00696, located in Iraq.
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
Take a closer look with Dr. James Walters, lead cataloger of Eastern Christian collections at HMML from 2020 to 2024: hmml.org/stories/seri...
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One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...
This 1850s cotton cloth was used by the Working Men’s Educational Union in its lectures to teach ancient scripts. It includes samples of Aramaic, ‘skeletal’ cuneiform signs, and the names of various kings from inscriptions published in ‘Nineveh and its Remains’.
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This 1850s cotton cloth was used by the Working Men’s Educational Union in its lectures to teach ancient scripts. It includes samples of Aramaic, ‘skeletal’ cuneiform signs, and the names of various kings from inscriptions published in ‘Nineveh and its Remains’.
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
A 3,300 year-old Egyptian-Akkadian vocabulary from Amarna, with Egyptian words written in cuneiform
ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight)
ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ)
ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ)
…
na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts)
DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair)
pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)
ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight)
ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ)
ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ)
…
na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts)
DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair)
pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A 3,300 year-old Egyptian-Akkadian vocabulary from Amarna, with Egyptian words written in cuneiform
ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight)
ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ)
ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ)
…
na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts)
DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair)
pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)
ši-na-aḫ=šnꜥ (unit of weight)
ši-na-aḫ-wu₄=šnꜥwj (dual of šnꜥ)
ḫa-am-tu₄ šu-nu-uḫ=ḫmtw šnꜥw (three šnꜥ)
…
na-ab-na-su=nꜣ bnšw (the doorposts)
DU-as-bu=tꜣ jsbt (the chair)
pa-ḫa-tu₄=pꜣ ḥꜥtj (the bed)
The genocide in Palestine has not stopped.
BREAKING: The Israeli PM’s office says Netanyahu “has instructed that the Rafah crossing will not be opened until further notice”.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The genocide in Palestine has not stopped.
In this hymn praising the god Marduk's great knowledge, the scribe writes
niṭluššu mala tikip dešši kippatu ul imṣi
In his eyes the circle [of the world] is no bigger than the mark of a wedge
To mean that understanding the world for Marduk is as easy as reading cuneiform marks, 'it's an open book'
niṭluššu mala tikip dešši kippatu ul imṣi
In his eyes the circle [of the world] is no bigger than the mark of a wedge
To mean that understanding the world for Marduk is as easy as reading cuneiform marks, 'it's an open book'
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
In this hymn praising the god Marduk's great knowledge, the scribe writes
niṭluššu mala tikip dešši kippatu ul imṣi
In his eyes the circle [of the world] is no bigger than the mark of a wedge
To mean that understanding the world for Marduk is as easy as reading cuneiform marks, 'it's an open book'
niṭluššu mala tikip dešši kippatu ul imṣi
In his eyes the circle [of the world] is no bigger than the mark of a wedge
To mean that understanding the world for Marduk is as easy as reading cuneiform marks, 'it's an open book'
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increasingly feel like every powerful person in the world has some form of early 2000s forum mod psychosis
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
increasingly feel like every powerful person in the world has some form of early 2000s forum mod psychosis
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A 1491 publication of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Housed in the Wilson Library special collections at UNC. What a marvel to be able to handle such history.
October 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
A 1491 publication of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Housed in the Wilson Library special collections at UNC. What a marvel to be able to handle such history.
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In both Greek and Mesopotamian art, the κάλαθος and the 𒄭𒆷𒌅 ḫallatum became metaphors for prosperity, which is the origin of our modern notion of the cornucopia. Here for example is King Ashurbanipal of Assyria holding aloft a basket representing wealth:
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In both Greek and Mesopotamian art, the κάλαθος and the 𒄭𒆷𒌅 ḫallatum became metaphors for prosperity, which is the origin of our modern notion of the cornucopia. Here for example is King Ashurbanipal of Assyria holding aloft a basket representing wealth:
A Turkic proverb recorded in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, an Arabic-language compendium from the 11th century:
'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur'
'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond'
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'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur'
'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond'
dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/...
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A Turkic proverb recorded in the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, an Arabic-language compendium from the 11th century:
'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur'
'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond'
dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/...
'birin birin miŋ bolur tama tama köl bolur'
'one by one becomes a thousand, drop by drop becomes a pond'
dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/...
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We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out!
The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination
Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination
Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out!
The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination
Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination
Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...