Peter Tarras
@petertarras.bsky.social
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | MENA Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen
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Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'm wondering what the "mard" does. Is there perhaps no other way of saying "there was ..." than "one man was ..."?
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm wondering what the "mard" does. Is there perhaps no other way of saying "there was ..." than "one man was ..."?
"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Several large tech firms that are active in AI have set goals to hit net zero by 2030, but a new forecast of the energy and water required to run large data centres shows they’re unlikely to meet those targets
AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero
Several large tech firms that are active in AI have set goals to hit net zero by 2030, but a new forecast of the energy and water required to run large data centres shows they’re unlikely to meet those targets
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Cat ready to pounce on Mouse
BL Add 62925; the 'Rutland Psalter'; England, S. E.; c.1260;
f.60r
BL Add 62925; the 'Rutland Psalter'; England, S. E.; c.1260;
f.60r
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Cat ready to pounce on Mouse
BL Add 62925; the 'Rutland Psalter'; England, S. E.; c.1260;
f.60r
BL Add 62925; the 'Rutland Psalter'; England, S. E.; c.1260;
f.60r
Reposted by Peter Tarras
To read Klawans' original piece, see: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/...
The Case for Retraction of Academic Authentications of Forged Fragments — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This position paper issues a call for editors and publishers with oversight over peer-reviewed publications of inauthentic post-2002 Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments to embark on the processes that woul...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
To read Klawans' original piece, see: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/...
"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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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM