Agnieszka in an orange apocalypse

"But I would put it on canvas and that would be a signal that it would be art." John Baldessari

Book Day! I was so confused avout the package I was supposed to pick up but then I realized 😂

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Federal antitrust lawsuit filed against 6 academic publishers (inc. Elsevier and Wiley) alleging a conspiracy to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research. lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad… Ooh, baby, I am here for this!

Never skip the footnotes – it’s here you find out who made the author angry enough to write the article.

Never in a million years did I think this was going to be the topic of the vent

Ben Albritton discuss the advantage of a multi-intitution model for conservation of digital repositories. 'Changing the one-institution model is one key to sustainability and risk mitigation' @bla222 #NYSINYD

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls: This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!! These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular." This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll. In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned. The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us. It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful! Read more in our announcement: scrollprize.org/grandprize

Today is the feast of St Lucy, or Lucia. According to legend, she was a young girl from Syracuse who lived during the Diocletian persecution. Lucy’s historicity is dubious. (1/n) [Breviarium Nidrosiense (1519), p. 574]

I will never recover from this student email.

@manmugar I’m starting to feel the crash coming on now 💀 made it home at least 😂

@ffrwelin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂extremely seen

Us @manmugar

An amazing workshop comes to an end with paleographic realizations and discoveries, interested students - all brilliantly conducted by @manmugar!

In Tokyo and in need of some paleography training? 👀👀 Come to our workshop! We have pretty manuscripts and fragments 😊

During the WGA Strike of '07/'08, David Letterman did a bit on the AMPTP. As relevant now as it was then.

New one for me: in a paper on LOD challenges, Nanni/Freyberg/Gunther/Dork referencing the fact that we @ProgHist had to retire a SPARQL tutorial because even a large institution couldn't keep their LOD online.

@supercamilla 💃🏼 vad glad jag blir!

@ffrwelin Men veldig bra du hadde twitter-handle på din presentasjon så jeg kunne søke deg opp her 🥰

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@supercamilla Super! Det är vid såna här tillfällen det känns väldigt tråkigt att inte kunna delta på plats

@ffrwelin Jeg snakket med Quinn tidligere denne uka på konferansen og sa at jeg var interessert 🥰

@supercamilla Tack! Ja, vi jobbar aktivt med att utöka korpusen till de andra skandinaviska språken! 👀

@ffrwelin Veldig spennende presentasjon! Kanskje vi kan få til en skandinavisk sammenligning sammen? 🥰