Earlier me from my D&D-playing time slice would have been delighted by this.

It is recommended to attach stickers to your luggage pieces so they are easier to recognize.

This is already available online, *The Future of Education: Reimagining its Aims and Responsibilities*. From what I've looked at so far, it's quite exciting if you're interested in philosophy of education. (If you're not, it's probably super-boring.)

https://academic.oup.com/book/61645

Refurbishment update: apparently floors will take a bit longer, as we had to part ways with out original floor fitter due to a communication breakdown. But on the bright side (literally), almost all the lights are up now, including our iconic ostrich lamps.

Last funding application of the year submitted. Now gin.

There's no kitchen yet and still a week's worth of parquet fitting to do but we nonetheless already moved into out new flat with our flora and fauna. So far, they seem to adjust quite well to the new environment.

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ Human Rights in the Digital Domain. Core Questions

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606295

#HumanRights #SocialMedia #digitalization #legislation #privacy #governance #ethics #education #OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon

Maybe I should quit academia and start a curry place called Korma Chameleon.

I like that preparing for the solar-powered website/ "how much energy does the internet use" workshop I am teaching tomorrow at the UZH children's university has also given me a reason to add a low-resource version of my own homepage, which only serves a simple about page.

I've implemented it as an initial choice on the root address, which now gives the options to visit a minimal, the full English, or the full German version of the website.
https://marioangst.com

This has actually gotten me thinking about this design pattern (if it can be called that) - an internet that serves a minimal page with 20% of the information of the website that 80% percent of visitors are probably after as a default might not be such a bad idea.

Technically, I am using a #Quarto profile that only renders the index page at / and a separate quarto website rendered to /minimal.

I'm already a bit late for this one, but considering that I'm fond of both democracy as well as solitude, I'm looking forward to reading.

@cmboulanger and I are excited to publish the final program of the Workshop "Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration", to be held at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt) in Frankfurt/Main on Tuesday, 4th Nov 2025: https://mpilhlt.github.io/reference-extraction/workshop-2025/programme/

More information about registration and the workshop series can be found on the website.

Maybe I should quit academia and start a curry place called Korma Police.

How randomisation has changed the British Academy’s approach to research funding
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/04/16/how-randomisation-has-changed-the-british-academys-approach-to-research-funding/
Another funding org exploring randomization of awards among proposal exceeding a certain threshold.
The pool of applicants and recipients was more diverse after the policy change 1/

"Minimal Computing" by the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition

https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/toolkit/minimal-computing.html

#FrugalComputing

Last talk preps for https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/

#philosophy #politicalvirtues #digitaldemocraticnudging

This is a Scottish cat, no doubt.

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has fully granted our application for a publication cost subsidy for the volume 'What was Artificial Intelligence? contours of a research field 1975-2000 in Germany', which is based on the conference that took place at HU Berlin in 2022.

The book is edited by Martin Schmitt (Uni Paderborn) and me and will be published in the #ComputerArchaeology series this year.

#ArtificialIntelligenz #GOFAI #ComputerHistory

Many current political developments feel very much like this line from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism to me: 'Nothing which was being done, no matter how stupid, now matter how many people knew and foretold the consequences, could be undone or prevented.'

Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Small Town Boys at the Edinburgh ZOO festival. Some great choreography and a reminder of what being gay/queer meant in Britain (and of course, elsewhere) when AIDS appeared. It's still running until Sunday and you should totally get tickets and see it too.

https://zoofestival.co.uk/programme/small-town-boys/

Currently looking (again) at Karl Loewenstein's articles on Militant Democracy; they feel much more relevant now to me (and probably a lot of other people too) than they did, say, still fifteen years ago when I read them the first time. It appears that recent technological developments have been used more efficiently so far by authoritarian and fascist political actors than by democratic ones.

"Fascism is the true child of the age of technical wonders and of the emotional masses."