Mark G. Bilby
@mgbilby.bsky.social
PhD RS/JCA virginia.edu | MSLIS drexel.edu | patreon.com/patristica | patreon.com/markgbilby || orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-6634 | youtube.com/@vocesanticae | youtube.com/@patristica | original posts and comments ©2025 by author, no AI ML uses permitted
I get it that the world never sleeps and all, but this move seems ripe for foreign and AI manipulation of US securities and thus foolhardy and dangerous to US economic security. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Exclusive: Nasdaq seeks to extend trading hours, as Wall Street gears up for 24/7 move
Nasdaq is planning to submit paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to roll out round-the-clock trading of stocks, as it looks to capitalize on a global demand for U.S. e...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I get it that the world never sleeps and all, but this move seems ripe for foreign and AI manipulation of US securities and thus foolhardy and dangerous to US economic security. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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It is remarkable to me that LLMs capable of churning out effectively infinite amount of text have existed for several years now and the damning fact is not one of them has produced a text so far that a meaningful number of people wanted to read.
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It is remarkable to me that LLMs capable of churning out effectively infinite amount of text have existed for several years now and the damning fact is not one of them has produced a text so far that a meaningful number of people wanted to read.
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ope... The problem is deeper than de-escalation and diversion to human services for help. It is that AI company chatbots can 1) without company-ending repercussions 2) pose as caring humans 3) to monopolize trust and attention, 4) treating humans as data extraction sites.
Open AI, Microsoft sued over ChatGPT's alleged role in fueling man's "paranoid delusions" before murder-suicide in Connecticut
The suit alleges the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified a man's "paranoid delusions" and helped direct them at his mother before he died by suicide.
www.cbsnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ope... The problem is deeper than de-escalation and diversion to human services for help. It is that AI company chatbots can 1) without company-ending repercussions 2) pose as caring humans 3) to monopolize trust and attention, 4) treating humans as data extraction sites.
Serial child rape, dementia, unrelenting sociopathy, and malignant narcissism are individually, and even more collectively, grounds to exercise the 25th Amendment. Let’s move
forward as a country and put this sordid mess behind us.
forward as a country and put this sordid mess behind us.
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Serial child rape, dementia, unrelenting sociopathy, and malignant narcissism are individually, and even more collectively, grounds to exercise the 25th Amendment. Let’s move
forward as a country and put this sordid mess behind us.
forward as a country and put this sordid mess behind us.
May Rob and Michelle Reiner’s memory be a blessing. Thank you for giving us such beautiful stories. Princess Bride, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men are all timeless treasures.
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
May Rob and Michelle Reiner’s memory be a blessing. Thank you for giving us such beautiful stories. Princess Bride, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men are all timeless treasures.
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'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2
Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2
Unís that make Big Deals with AI companies are dupes if they think they are buying a unique service. 10,000s of open, locally runnable and tunable LLMs exist. Such Big Deals are essentially selling faculty expertise and student data and reinforcement learning in bulk at a massive financial loss.
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Unís that make Big Deals with AI companies are dupes if they think they are buying a unique service. 10,000s of open, locally runnable and tunable LLMs exist. Such Big Deals are essentially selling faculty expertise and student data and reinforcement learning in bulk at a massive financial loss.
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This is a continual gripe: there are so many amazing new edited volumes from Brill, but each is around $265 dollars. I just deeply wish that there was an Edict of Maximum Prices on book costs. Open access is so imperative in a world with fewer & fewer people with academic library access.
December 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is a continual gripe: there are so many amazing new edited volumes from Brill, but each is around $265 dollars. I just deeply wish that there was an Edict of Maximum Prices on book costs. Open access is so imperative in a world with fewer & fewer people with academic library access.
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Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
Very important notice for academic cybersecurity. Could CrossRef made bulk doi validation tools as browser plugins, VSIX, etc., for pdfs, webpages, etc? They could apply the DOI format rules to all DOI-like links and perhaps even pre-validate DOIs before the user (human or bot) clicks on them.
Fake DOI-like strings are increasingly common. Learn how to check whether a DOI is valid, how prefixes work, and more. https://tinyurl.com/599yk8yv
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
#metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Very important notice for academic cybersecurity. Could CrossRef made bulk doi validation tools as browser plugins, VSIX, etc., for pdfs, webpages, etc? They could apply the DOI format rules to all DOI-like links and perhaps even pre-validate DOIs before the user (human or bot) clicks on them.
Ehrman's final lecture: "The Most Significant Discovery in the History of Biblical Studies"! Powerful opening: Religious Studies is CRUCIAL to teach critical thinking. Hype/clickbait title spoiler: not the DSS, not manuscript variants, but that "there are multiple books in the Bible." 🤦 #ITTBWCD
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Ehrman's final lecture: "The Most Significant Discovery in the History of Biblical Studies"! Powerful opening: Religious Studies is CRUCIAL to teach critical thinking. Hype/clickbait title spoiler: not the DSS, not manuscript variants, but that "there are multiple books in the Bible." 🤦 #ITTBWCD
Journals should probably start requiring very specific and transparent disclosures of whether and how AI was used. Black and white thinking and evaluations are increasingly untenable.
I enjoy doing peer-reviews. It's exciting to read new work in the field and (hopefully) offer constructive feedback.
But my feelings are changing because a substantial fraction of reviews are now just identifying AI-hallucinated fabrications and distortions.
But my feelings are changing because a substantial fraction of reviews are now just identifying AI-hallucinated fabrications and distortions.
December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Journals should probably start requiring very specific and transparent disclosures of whether and how AI was used. Black and white thinking and evaluations are increasingly untenable.
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Honored to have my book *Religious Affects* discussed as part of this outstanding Religion for Breakfast video essay from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social reviewing the evidence for religious behavior among animals!
Are Animals Religious?
YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast
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December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Honored to have my book *Religious Affects* discussed as part of this outstanding Religion for Breakfast video essay from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social reviewing the evidence for religious behavior among animals!
Authors are scattered, divided, leaderless, & their IP fragmented. @creativecommons.bsky.social, @archive.org, @libraryfutures.bsky.social: co-found a non-profit to bargain collectively for creator IP uses. @authorsguild.org charges dues but basically only consults on individual infringement cases.
We love a good remix, but we sure wish licensing deals and (alleged) contribution back to creators weren’t solely a reality for Big Content & Big Tech.
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Authors are scattered, divided, leaderless, & their IP fragmented. @creativecommons.bsky.social, @archive.org, @libraryfutures.bsky.social: co-found a non-profit to bargain collectively for creator IP uses. @authorsguild.org charges dues but basically only consults on individual infringement cases.
One of the most damning exchanges in the history of Congress.
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One of the most damning exchanges in the history of Congress.
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Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 (pub'd by #SpringerNature), who just resigned to launch a new #openaccess (#diamondoa) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf
Here's the new OLH journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 […]
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf
Here's the new OLH journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 (pub'd by #SpringerNature), who just resigned to launch a new #openaccess (#diamondoa) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf
Here's the new OLH journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 […]
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf
Here's the new OLH journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 […]
Agree on FAIR data. Disagree strongly on "machine-first". Human-generated research data should be FAIRly structured and shared, but also, because of unethical tech scrape-all-first, ask later/never, privacy, and cybersecurity) strategically masked, guarded, and watermarked to saturation.
💻🤖 What does it mean to be "machine-first FAIR"? And how can this benefit research conducted by (and for) humans?
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
Our VP of #OpenResearch, Mark Hahnel, shares why we need to embrace the #AI research revolution with open & #FAIRdata.
🔗 Read his post: https://ow.ly/e7oe50XAtht
#AcademicSky
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Agree on FAIR data. Disagree strongly on "machine-first". Human-generated research data should be FAIRly structured and shared, but also, because of unethical tech scrape-all-first, ask later/never, privacy, and cybersecurity) strategically masked, guarded, and watermarked to saturation.
@patreon.com, @kcommons.bsky.social, @figshare.com, @github.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, #zenodo, build the new RSL 1.0 (esp. Pay to Crawl) licensing and protections into your platforms asap if you want to keep data/knowledge curators and attract new ones. creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...
Integrating Choices in Open Standards: CC Signals and the RSL Standard - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is partnering with RSL to integrate attribution and reciprocity into the new 's RSL 1.0 standard.
creativecommons.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@patreon.com, @kcommons.bsky.social, @figshare.com, @github.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, #zenodo, build the new RSL 1.0 (esp. Pay to Crawl) licensing and protections into your platforms asap if you want to keep data/knowledge curators and attract new ones. creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...
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Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨
If any academics (especially if you work in Early Christian Studies, Biblical Studies, or Classics) would like professional assistance migrating from Windows/Office to Linux and open source research/writing tools, DM me. I'm offering $50/hour discounted consulting during the academic winter break.
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If any academics (especially if you work in Early Christian Studies, Biblical Studies, or Classics) would like professional assistance migrating from Windows/Office to Linux and open source research/writing tools, DM me. I'm offering $50/hour discounted consulting during the academic winter break.
www.patreon.com/posts/just-h... ... Throwing down a tiny gauntlet, both in the interest of deflating personality hype metrics (views & likes ≠ authority) and as a summons to start benchmarking academic tasks such as translation of ancient languages.
Just How Good is Richard C. Miller's Greek and Latin, Really? | Mark G. Bilby
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December 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
www.patreon.com/posts/just-h... ... Throwing down a tiny gauntlet, both in the interest of deflating personality hype metrics (views & likes ≠ authority) and as a summons to start benchmarking academic tasks such as translation of ancient languages.
Catholic Church would do well to throw their full support behind Saint Julie Inman Grant, who is truly doing God’s work against Satanic social media and tech companies.
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Catholic Church would do well to throw their full support behind Saint Julie Inman Grant, who is truly doing God’s work against Satanic social media and tech companies.
Kudos to Australia for taking necessary measures to protect children from the social media companies destroying their minds, confidence, and human relationships. ***Slavery to exploitative algorithms is NOT freedom.***
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Kudos to Australia for taking necessary measures to protect children from the social media companies destroying their minds, confidence, and human relationships. ***Slavery to exploitative algorithms is NOT freedom.***
Here’s a solution. Tax predatory publisher monopolies like Wiley (who rake in 15%+ profit margins) so that all UK profits in excess of 5% go back to support fair wages at libraries and other scholarly knowledge production and curation infrastructures that such publishers use and exploit every day.
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Here’s a solution. Tax predatory publisher monopolies like Wiley (who rake in 15%+ profit margins) so that all UK profits in excess of 5% go back to support fair wages at libraries and other scholarly knowledge production and curation infrastructures that such publishers use and exploit every day.