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This is really interesting b/c of the framing we're always given for the Roman Empire vs the middle ages:
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jdraper-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire-or-why-were-medieval-people-mor…

J. Draper — The Collapse of the Roman Empire, or, Why were medieval people more primitive than the Romans?
The Romans had civilization- wine and aqueducts and roads. Why did we go backwards in the medieval period?

Bookmarked: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria #HTR Transcribing thousands of medieva…

CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the task through the use of generative AI. Their creation is CoMMA, a giant, one-of-a-kind corpus that will now be available to specialists in the humanities, revolutionising the exploration of writing from the Middle Ages.

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138805/deadline-january-30th-cfp-wisdom-middle-ages-philosophical

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138805/deadline-january-30th-cfp-wisdom-middle-ages-philosophical

Ya know what, I bet modern middle ages type living wouldn't be bad without all the nobles taking the food

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
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- A Medieval Christmas
Donald Macleod investigates some unusual festive celebrations popular in the Middle Ages.
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One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Alexander Glazunov, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi:
🎵 The Crusaders (From the Middle Ages Op.79 - Finale)
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