Stephanie J. Lahey PhD

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Oschinsky Research Associate, Cambridge University Library & Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge · PhD: UVic (2021) · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜

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Every August, typeface designers flock to the middle of the desert for a week of sex & drugs, and they erect a large wooden word with all the spacing fucked up. They call it Kerning Man

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the cycle of the months of Torre Aquila in the Buonconsiglio Castle #Trento with the first depiction of a snowball battle (late 14th century)!

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Rare sighting of Nessie at Loch Ness!!!!

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Jayne Headstone Carving, Marblehead, Massachusetts Ansel Adams, 1948. www.philamuseum.org/collection/o...

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Every generation must learn for themselves to think backwards when printing 📚 🖼️ 🎨

Uni delivering a rousing political speech

Uni :3

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#Practice, practice! Evidence of a book artisan perfecting their technique in the margin of this @theul.bsky.social statute book. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law #Art 📜 📚

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I'm slowly developing a heuristic for whether or not to trust LLMs. I've found it pretty reliable and wanted to share it: Did the answer come from an LLM? Yes: You should fact-check the answer. No: You should still fact-check the answer. I hope you find this as helpful as I have.

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Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs

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#MedievalSky: new resource. "Carminabase (carminabase.ehess.fr) is an online database of medieval incantation formulae." A "high-performance tool" for the history of magic, medicine or language "that makes it possible to serialise texts and examine them systematically." #histmed #Charms

Accueil | Carminabasecarminabase.ehess.fr

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Back in @theul.bsky.social today, taking in more medieval common #law #manuscripts. #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw 📜 📚

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These people have an impoverished idea of what dignity means. For a start, if you’re incapable of work because of disability, are you leading an undignified life? We all rely on other human beings. We’re a social species. It’s just the bonds of reliance look different at different times of life.

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Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI

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The new regulations could result in the banning of most classic works of literature from South Carolina schools — from The Canterbury Tales to Romeo and Juliet to Dracula. popular.info/p/south-caro...

South Carolina poised to impose draconian censorship regime on school librariespopular.info On Tuesday, the South Carolina State Board of Education will impose a centralized and expansive censorship regime on every K-12 school library in the state. The new regulations could result in the ban...

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Silent But Deadly? It's... A FART's Epitaph! Enjoy some quality 17th c. English literature from #NewberryLibrary!* i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... *If you're wondering, in 1650, "cracked" meant "make a sharp noise"... #CrackedSo # SmeltSo

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Love these initials.❤️ (Hereford Cathedral E.1.3)

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Polka-dots in a lovely copy of Platearius from @theul.bsky.social . #MedievalManuscripts #PolkaDots #Pretty 📜 📚

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Visiting the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge today, taking in (you guessed it) yet more Statuta Angliæ #manuscripts — including one which features this rather unhappy little fellow. 😕 #MedievalManuscripts #LegalHistory #HistLaw #Law 📜 📚

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One reason Columbo has enjoyed a renaissance lately is probably that most adult friendships actually do arise as side effects of murder investigations.

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I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

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Fragment van de Liber sextus decretalium van paus Bonifatius VIII (Zutphen, Librije)

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Some nice crisp ghost scissors in BL Egerton 2874, which also contains more than two hundred invented coats of arms, I’m so pleased

Silver lining: They’ve signed their names to their suggestions, so now New Yorkers know precisely which people to cut dead at social events.

The New York Times piece on how to do a good party is every bit as horrifying as you expect if you hate parties and, increasingly, the New York Times

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New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.

The Federal Court of #Canada has ruled in favour of #FairDealing in a case of particular relevance to university #libraries. 📚 📜 #Law Read more: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom... Decision: www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/do...

2024 FC 829 (CanLII) | 1395804 Ontario Ltd. (Blacklock's Reporter) v. Canada (Attorney General) | CanLIIwww.canlii.org Access all information related to judgment 1395804 Ontario Ltd. (Blacklock's Reporter) v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 FC 829 (CanLII) on CanLII.