Mastodawn

Just had some delicious potato and leek soup for lunch, with a little garlic bread. Which is an excuse to say that, in the opening line of Beowulf, “Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum … “ the “Gar” in “Gardena”, i.e. “Spear-Danes”, is the same as the “gar” in “Garlic”, because garlic is the Spear-Leek.

Ant Eagle 6d ago

John Quiggin 6d ago

My hostility to #albo and #Labor has intensified over recent weeks, and I'm picking up that others are feeling the same. This ought to be a moment for #Greens and progressive independents to match what One Nation is doing to the LNP. Not evident so far, but maybe about to happen #auspol

Ant Eagle Mar 11

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Eugen Rochko Mar 10

From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

Ant Eagle Mar 10

FELTspace Mar 10

Mark your calendars! Our upcoming exhibition opens on March the 25th and runs till 25th of April.

Thea Lucia

Post-Scores (Archives and Invitations into Sound and Scoring)

#gallery #art #artist

Ant Eagle Mar 9

Ulrike Hahn Mar 9

it’s unfortunate that so many of the voices concerned about the adoption of AI have been so singularly focussed on “hype” as the main problem and pushing back against “hype” as a core strategy, because that hasn’t helped us deal with the very real, and in many cases very destructive, transformative effects the technology has actually been having

Ant Eagle Mar 7

Third Foundation Mar 1

"Here’s a fun website: How far back in time can you understand English? It’s a story in sections, each section going back 100 years from the one before. It’s a fascinating experiment, and the author of the piece takes you back through the experience and explains what you saw happening to English in the process. It’s like a one-page history of the English language."
https://www.lichtenbergianism.com/blog/2026/2/27/fun-friday-resources

Fun Friday Resources — Lichtenbergianism

In which I offer a handful of fun websites with which to practice your TASK AVOIDANCE…

Lichtenbergianism

Ant Eagle Mar 3

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Alex Holcombe Mar 3

Nietfeld, E. (2025.). What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk-psychology-therapy-ptsd/ Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

Learning styles . https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-styles-myth

Damian, R. I., & Roberts, B. W. (2015). Settling the debate on birth order and personality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(46), 14119–14120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519064112 What does popular media say about birth order?

Compared to what?
Crede, M. (2019). A Negative Effect of a Contractive Pose is not Evidence for the Positive Effect of an Expansive Pose: Comment on Cuddy, Schultz, and Fosse (2018). Meta-Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2019.1723

Ferguson, C. J. (2025). Do social media experiments prove a link with mental health: A methodological and meta-analytic review. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(2), 201. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-80192-001

Bunce, C., Eggleston, A., Brennan, R., & Over, H. (2025). To what extent is research on infrahumanization confounded by intergroup preference? Royal Society Open Science, 12(4). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/4/241348/235666

What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

Mother Jones

Ant Eagle Feb 28

Richard Zach Feb 27

So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountable from Dedekind https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

Quanta Magazine

Ant Eagle Feb 27

Boris/Merzbow in full Earth mode at a relatively sparsely attended #Adelaidefestival. So much e-bow. #BorisMerzbow

Ant Eagle Feb 27

anders d Feb 27

Powerful public artwork in #adelaide opposite the art gallery on North Terrace, naming the 18000 plus children killed in #gaza #palestine #WallOfTears

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