Mark G. Bilby
@mgbilby.bsky.social
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Hamlet and Macbeth owe a tremendous debt to Attic Orestes and Electra. And speakers of the English tongue an equally great debt to Shakespeare. Words so beautified must not be forgotten.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hamlet and Macbeth owe a tremendous debt to Attic Orestes and Electra. And speakers of the English tongue an equally great debt to Shakespeare. Words so beautified must not be forgotten.
With ChatGPT and Meta going full steam into porn creation, does that now make Zuckerberg and Altman the biggest purveyors of pornography in the world? And Oxford and the Cal State system (500k students) still have deals with ChatGPT forcing their students to use it, right? Ok, then. #values
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
With ChatGPT and Meta going full steam into porn creation, does that now make Zuckerberg and Altman the biggest purveyors of pornography in the world? And Oxford and the Cal State system (500k students) still have deals with ChatGPT forcing their students to use it, right? Ok, then. #values
Hey Microsoft. Google’s Gmail doesn’t let me block email from porn spam sites, but it does let me block promotional emails from your company. Just thought you might like to know that.
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey Microsoft. Google’s Gmail doesn’t let me block email from porn spam sites, but it does let me block promotional emails from your company. Just thought you might like to know that.
Thank God.
Governor Elect Spanberger advises the UVA BOV to pause selection of a new President until they have a Board approved by the General Assembly. A good and fair call.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thank God.
Microsoft plans to turn Windows into agentic AI OS, despite user complaints. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... This is a big reason to move to open source OSs. Without them, human agency will be compromised from the kernel up.
Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"
Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.
www.windowscentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Microsoft plans to turn Windows into agentic AI OS, despite user complaints. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... This is a big reason to move to open source OSs. Without them, human agency will be compromised from the kernel up.
Mr. Lion and pals … it takes zero courage to revere saints who lived hundreds of years ago. It takes genuine courage to canonize saints of our time. Canonize St. Alexei Navalny.
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Mr. Lion and pals … it takes zero courage to revere saints who lived hundreds of years ago. It takes genuine courage to canonize saints of our time. Canonize St. Alexei Navalny.
Respect. Genuine non-narcissist leadership by example. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'
Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Respect. Genuine non-narcissist leadership by example. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Corporate executive greed is a cancer on the planet, and Elon Musk is a trillion dollar tumor. Let us pray to the spirit of FDR for a way out of this inhuman evil. Even wheelchair bound, that saintly man would have kicked Musk where it counts.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Corporate executive greed is a cancer on the planet, and Elon Musk is a trillion dollar tumor. Let us pray to the spirit of FDR for a way out of this inhuman evil. Even wheelchair bound, that saintly man would have kicked Musk where it counts.
I’m beginning to wonder if Humanities people, we who actually do close reading and meticulous citing, especially when multiple languages and historical sources are involved, are uniquely positioned to see the complete horse manure that AI routinely produces.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’m beginning to wonder if Humanities people, we who actually do close reading and meticulous citing, especially when multiple languages and historical sources are involved, are uniquely positioned to see the complete horse manure that AI routinely produces.
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Today's blog post, "On Disrupting Passive-Human Active-AI Feedback Loops in Higher Education" .... www.patreon.com/posts/on-dis...
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today's blog post, "On Disrupting Passive-Human Active-AI Feedback Loops in Higher Education" .... www.patreon.com/posts/on-dis...
@mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press... Steven Spielberg and the ghost of Stanley Kubrick called and said they want their royalty check from you guys for pumping a book that unabashedly rips off the plot of their sci-fi joint venture and helps inflate the AI hype bubble just before it bursts.
Astonishing that a leading scientific press pumps a book entirely premised on anthropomorphizing and infantilizing tech giant AI as “our children.” Just what we need.
Honored to share that "Raising AI" is one of Porchlight Book Company's top business bestsellers for June! If you're looking for an accessible, empowering look at the cultural implications of our #AI future, this one is for you: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204976... www.porchlightbooks.com/pages/busine...
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
@mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press... Steven Spielberg and the ghost of Stanley Kubrick called and said they want their royalty check from you guys for pumping a book that unabashedly rips off the plot of their sci-fi joint venture and helps inflate the AI hype bubble just before it bursts.
Marcion Scripture Datasets Now on Codeberg & EU Servers ... www.patreon.com/posts/142284... #codeberg #forgejo #git @dariaheu.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Marcion Scripture Datasets Now on Codeberg & EU Servers ... www.patreon.com/posts/142284... #codeberg #forgejo #git @dariaheu.bsky.social
Scientific publishers like ACS have no business making academic libraréis police AI uses by users. They should instead advocate together for open source technical infrastructures to counteract big tech siphoning off their IP through users who are being force fed AI integrations in everything.
Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything.
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory
Fascinating to see how one academic library vendors is trying to restrict students/faculty using LLMs.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Scientific publishers like ACS have no business making academic libraréis police AI uses by users. They should instead advocate together for open source technical infrastructures to counteract big tech siphoning off their IP through users who are being force fed AI integrations in everything.
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, "What is your stance on AI?" And my answer was very short. I said, "I'd rather die." … My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. — Guillermo del Toro
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, "What is your stance on AI?" And my answer was very short. I said, "I'd rather die." … My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. — Guillermo del Toro
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That is really good news.
📚 Great news for patristics scholars!
The proceedings of the International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011 & 2015) are now available in Gold Open Access.
That’s 42 volumes of cutting-edge research—now free to read on our website!
🔗 www.peeters-leuven.be/search_resul...
The proceedings of the International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011 & 2015) are now available in Gold Open Access.
That’s 42 volumes of cutting-edge research—now free to read on our website!
🔗 www.peeters-leuven.be/search_resul...
October 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
That is really good news.
Was the Paul of the Letters Just a Myth? Full mini-documentary now available contrasting the implicit biographies of Paul in Marcion's Pauline letters with their canonical New Testament counterparts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIZE...
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Was the Paul of the Letters Just a Myth? Full mini-documentary now available contrasting the implicit biographies of Paul in Marcion's Pauline letters with their canonical New Testament counterparts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIZE...
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Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
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It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
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📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
CoMMA
comma.inria.fr
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
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But raises for academic leaders who want to insinuate AI into all corners of an institution 🙃🙃🙃
disbarment for attorneys who use AI to write briefs; dismissal for teachers who use AI to grade student papers; dismissal for researchers who use AI to write their books and articles
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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
But raises for academic leaders who want to insinuate AI into all corners of an institution 🙃🙃🙃
www.patreon.com/posts/new-qu... Has the data-driven reconstruction of Marcion's collection of Paul's letters kicked off a new Quest for the Historical Paul?
New Quest for the Historical Paul [2025-10-14] | Patristica
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October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
www.patreon.com/posts/new-qu... Has the data-driven reconstruction of Marcion's collection of Paul's letters kicked off a new Quest for the Historical Paul?
Essential reading on AI’s tendency to amplify uniformity, conventional thinking, and liability avoidance while erasing local, elegant, diverse and interdependent ecosystems of human and environmental wisdom, from language to architecture to botany to medicine. aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
October 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Essential reading on AI’s tendency to amplify uniformity, conventional thinking, and liability avoidance while erasing local, elegant, diverse and interdependent ecosystems of human and environmental wisdom, from language to architecture to botany to medicine. aeon.co/essays/gener...