@rousemedieval
Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
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They all need to take one of those western civ courses they fetishize so much.
Aka “we do not want allies with a conscience.”
We do look forward to that time.
Only the US contingent, sadly.
Or fearing that AI can do your job worse than you, but cheaper, and that math making sense on the balance sheet.
I will buy 4 mothmans!
9.7% error rate in the transcription… Thats worse than OCR, no?
You just don’t do research during the teaching term. And lecturing gets easier/more efficient
So the volcano gods are going to save us all?
And for simply being in that treasonous room
lol, “used to be what Alberta was”… cretinous nonsense
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So happy to be a part of this successful venture, and many congrats to the intrepid editors!
Was all good until the sword work….
Where do I sign up?
It kinda spoils it a bit for me, as is like to watch it with my daughter, but that ain’t happening. Limits the audience.
Um, ok.
Sighs conferences have never been just about the research papers.
Not all Canadian universities. In the past UBC and UoT used to do the MLA interviews, but thats changed in recent decades. Now zoom allows us to long list interview remotely (still problematic, in a different way). Not that many are hiring right now im any case…
Could only have been better if the blue robot punched a spectator…
Ah, Sir Isumbras in a nutshell.
Yup. It’s from a certain playbook 101, and the implications are intended. Rivers of blood redux.
Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.
Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory
www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Ha, did they have your permission to record? That’s a current issue of strong debate here at UBC.
Nice to see Ad looming in the back there, in an appropriately coloured jumper.
And with some wonderful medieval narrative allusions.
Y was the way early printers - lacking a symbol for þ - set the word in early printed texts in England.
Ah, CBC Vancouver; have done a couple of interviews there over the years, on Radio and The National.
Pfft. You could drink as much water from the fountain (or hose) as you wished.