Dr. Alex Zawacki
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Dr. Alex Zawacki
@achillghost
Lecturer @ the University of Göttingen | Medievalist - hermeneutics, ghosts, the supernatural | Multispectral imaging | Catholic
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@achillghost Das erinnert mich grad an 2023 und diesen kack U-Boot mit den Milliardären wo Leute Tik Tok Lives gemacht haben wann die Luft da ausgeht
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Interdisciplinary problem. I was looking up the name of a specific sword from the relatively obscure Arthurian romance Le Chevalier du Papegau and it seems also to be the name of an anime girl in a video game whom, I believe, you can date
♃bou ♄ijāl 🔻@abou_rijal
Weirdly common problem: googling non-English philosophical or theological terms and all the top results are random lore wiki creature entries for JRPG’s or MMORPG’s
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@SydWatchesFilms But as with fandoms generally, the focus is ultimately on being part of the fandom rather than whatever the fandom’s members are nominally fans of; it’s fundamentally bizarre, deeply online, and it makes me feel like I’m locked in a TJ Maxx
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@SydWatchesFilms All of this is wrapped in vaguely nonsensical chunks of cultural critique and/or the language of social justice, like whatever the allusion to consumerism means here
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The way large portions of this site engage with and talk about books fills me with a sort of crawling horror. “Normalize achievable reading goals” is a Library of Babel type sentence
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Seeing an online person confidently claim that “[these] AI translations are fine”, I checked the first paragraph of the latest instalment and found four mistakes (one serious) and at least three dubious renderings. And I’m no expert! Italian original here: google.co.uk/books/edition/…
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
If you want to understand the Ottoman Empire, you have to read this. It's considered the most informative report in the entire Venetian archive. It covers the Janissaries, intrigues in the harem, the scheming of Grand Viziers, and more. romanhelmetguy.com/p/venetian-rep…
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@tertius_taz Many such cases open.spotify.com/track/4VGZPbVY…
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In his first #encyclical "#Magnificahumanitas", on the Church's social doctrine in the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, Pope Leo XIV appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace.
vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…
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Secret Service shooting reminds me of the time I was in DC at 19 and they had the street closed off. I asked why and an SS guy said “Justin Bieber’s visiting.” I said “really?” and he said “no idiot”
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@TristanSevers @byronicgirl It got audience captured real bad even before that but for a while it was great. I saw them live in Brooklyn a couple times
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@byronicgirl It's still around but the original creators checked out and moved on to other projects sometime around 2015, leaving the show to spiral into a sort of self-contained Fandom Ouroboros. It's vaguely possible that they got back on the horse in the last decade but I bet not because:
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Does anyone remember Welcome to Night Vale? Is it still a thing? I used to really enjoy it and thought it was such a unique concept. We need more experimental horror/absurdist media
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I don’t especially mind getting a PoD book from a university press but I do deeply resent paying $45 for the privilege
Andrew Levidis@Andrew_Levidis
University presses that are serial offenders with “print-on-demand” books are Cornell, Stanford, University of California Press… don’t get me started on what Cambridge and Oxford pass off for academic volumes. A miasma of badly laser printed and off color volumes.
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'A History of Goblins' examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted as creatures, objects, ideas, or people—were historically contingent and grounded in an often-hazy interplay between folkloric and folkloresque traditions. bit.ly/4umaYSD
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