Jon Dell Isola

Periodic reminder: I am looking for people to review digital projects at the MAA's Database of Medieval Digital Resources! I'm looking for (PhD) medievalists, not just DH specialists. MAA membership not required! You can sign up through the form below (pick MDR reviewer) or contact me! #medievalsky

Tapping the sign, its horrible

Wow this AI Houdini show is disgusting. "My final performance ever" they can just push the button again! None of it is real!

Final thoughts: not good. Its very loosely held together and not compelling overall, with violence used in a way that felt "shocking" a decade ago but now feels played. Trying to do something with mythical figures but is far less effective than say Assassination of Jesse James

Something about the commentary here on "stories" feels not ahistorical but antihistorical, that we only weave falsehoods and so nothing is real. It isn't that uncommon (something I've talked about before)

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

Something I wonder is how this played out in different types of universities. Did most of the losses come from non-R1s/Ivies? I'd guess yes and this threatens to further lock in "prestige" PhDs as dominating the vanishingly few jobs

Underappreciated part of lecture prep: getting to look at lots of cool art to fill up slides

This is how I learned that original Smartfood was manufactured in my hometown, another W for Marlborough MA

"There's a difference between making wine and squashing grapes"

I hate that Geico croissant commercial with a passion. Awful

Needs to be said: this and things like it are fundamentally anti-societal. They reject the premise that people contribute overall to their local community. "Only pay for what you use" is an impossibility

The issue of coherence is something I've been thinking a lot about, even prompted my own post on it:

Discovered that @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social is revisiting their Khipu exhibit that first ran in 2019. Really cool chance to see them, it was how I first encountered them so I'm excited to go back! www.doaks.org/visit/museum...

the Seinfeld group on FB may be my favorite place on the internet:

Something I really hate about social media is how low % instances of an idea get morphed into "everyone" or "most". If only 12% of people believe something, it is very rare! We don't need to spend all our oxygen pretending those people are representative of anything

True Detective season 5 with Nick Cage (?!) and Antonio Banderas (??!!) sign me up

Since this global history course goes to the modern era, it really has given me a new perspective on the past. I've had to branch wayyyy out from the middle ages, and its so cool to get a sense of debates and approaches in other periods and places. History is a big world

As I try to remind my students, even in the supposedly "slow" humanities, there have been multiple times this semester where new studies/information appeared that made me rethink or rewrite my lectures.

Discovered that @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social is revisiting their Khipu exhibit that first ran in 2019. Really cool chance to see them, it was how I first encountered them so I'm excited to go back! www.doaks.org/visit/museum...

Medieval Academy members: don't forget that you get a 30% discount on all U of Chicago books. Just go to www.medievalacademy.org/page/Member_... to get the promo code.

oooh this looks great #medievalsky

This Thursday night football game is a psyop, no way should this be going to overtime

#medievalsky

Seems fine for October 14th

I was lucky to read this in draft form and its great! A very novel and interesting approach on a recurrent question. #medievalsky

Low key the best way to enjoy movies

I signed up for this, really looking forward to it