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A popular tool for reconciliation is "Open Refine". This blog post gives a very nice introduction to how this tool can be used for linking names and identifiers (and it also concerns places!): https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/4703 3/

All too often the case in the present job market

However, you can also use Python to achieve the same aim. This notebook shows Python code that automatically retrieves identifiers for places from the API of the CERL thesaurus (https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus) - a very helpful tool in our context, because, as you can imagine, many place names in early modern prints are in Latin and CERL has excellent coverage in this area (thanks for the tip @anwagnerdreas). https://gitlab.com/shessbru/early-modern-dissertations-in-french-libraries/-/blob/main/places/reconcile_place_1.ipynb?ref_type=heads
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Let's talk about reconciliation. In the #DigitalHumanities we use this term for the process of linking several names of one and the same thing to a unique label. Ideally, this label is machine-readable as well. #EMFrenchdiss 1/

Here’s an excellent article about important lawsuits just filed on behalf of Uvalde families who lost loved ones to a mass shooting there. The families, represented by the same attorney who represented the Sandy Hook families, are suing Daniel Defense, the maker of the AR-15 used by the shooter, as well as the publisher of Call of Duty video games and Meta. (I am quoted in the story.) https://wapo.st/3R1Y9LA #LawFedi #GunViolence

I’m now reading the complaint in Rubio v. Daniel Defense, the suit filed today in Uvalde County (Texas) District Court, by the families whose loved ones were killed by a mass shooter using an AR-15 made and marketed by Daniel Defense. Sharing observations as I read. #LawFedi #GunViolence 2/

Chatbots!

My paper On trusting chatbots— a paper on trusting chatbots— has been accepted at Episteme.

Abstract: This paper focuses on the epistemic situation one faces when using a chatbot like ChatGPT: When reading the output of the chatbot, how should one decide whether or not to believe it? By surveying strategies we use with other, more familiar sources of information, I argue that chatbots pr…

https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2024/05/24/chatbots/

#LinkDump #ai #MyWriting

Added a new resource page to my Substack. This one has 33 videos and 33 corresponding podcast episodes covering all the themes, characters, and plot points from Ursula K Leguin's Earthsea trilogy
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/video-and-podcast-resources-on-ursula
#Video #Podcast #Leguin #Earthsea #Magic #Fantasy #Resources

The shooter in the Uvalde mass killing was 17 when he added the Daniel Defense AR-15 model DDM4v7 to an online shopping cart. He did not complete the purchase. Daniel Defense then sent him a targeted email, calling him by name, and encouraging him to get “off the fence”. The email supplied a hyperlink to take him back to the cart to complete the purchase. 6/

At the heart of the complaint is Daniel Defense’s financial need to sell more and more AR-15s, the product line it specializes in. To grow the market for its products, the complaint explains, Daniel Defense targets underage teens specifically, to “cultivate brand loyalty in teenagers before they turn 18, to hook and reel in a steady stream of new potential customers from the millions of teens scrolling Instagram and cosplaying soldier in Call of Duty.” 5/

Daniel Defense, the complaint alleges, courts adolescent boys who are socially isolated, hooked on Call of Duty, and struggling with masculinity - the all too familiar profile of school shooters. It spends heavily on marketing to ensure that its expensive AR-15 is the weapon of choice for 18 year old males. 10/

“On May 16, 2022, the day the [Uvalde] Shooter purchased his Daniel Defense DDM4v7, Daniel Defense posted a social media advertisement showing a toddler holding a Daniel Defense AR-15 and a quote from Proverbs 22:6, “[t]rain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 🙏” 12/

Taktisch ist die Forderung nach der 4-Tage-Woche vielleicht nicht der beste Weg.

Wir sollten die 3-Tage-Woche fordern, um Raum für Kompromisse zu lassen.

Dann können diese #FDP usw. sich loben lassen hinterher: uff, das Schlimmste verhindert.

#gewerkschaft #arbeit #worklifebalace #viertagewoche

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new semester! I’m really excited to be teaching cultural #evolution again. Now is your chance to suggest a cool or exciting example of cultural evolution that I may have overlooked so that I can talk about it in class! #cultevo #philbio @philbio @philosophyofscience

One I read elsewhere…

English weather is wet
German weather is Wetter

English kids are kind
German kids are Kinder

English mothers mumble
German mothers Mutter

The English shout the word people
But Germans just quietly Menschen it

And English sausages can be bad
But a German sausage is the Wurst

#Humour #Language

Going to lead a class session shortly on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 5, then have some lunch, & after that I'll be welcoming new arrivals at Almost Home Cat Rescue, hanging out with and socializing new cats that will reside at the shelter until adoption! Pics will follow