Saethelred the Unsteady / is on Nostr

Literature Professor specializing in #Enlightenment #encyclopedism and the #HistoryOfKnowledge.

Website: https://www.sethrudy.com/
Book!: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137411549
Newer Book!: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ends-of-knowledge-9781350242289/

Last Notes

2024-07-26 22:38:32

I watched these birds be unbothered by this for hours. #seascape #landscape #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/854/714/227/819/632/original/c5cde5e9623b0695.jpg

2024-07-19 18:34:24

This was my view for ten days. Things were better then. #seascape #landscape #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/814/118/658/305/681/original/bfeeff43c82b9aae.jpg

2024-07-17 17:23:13

"Well what have we here?" #seaotter #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/802/512/519/700/862/original/4d7b3d819cf65109.jpg

2024-07-16 16:45:23

There is so much more #seaotter than you'd think from seeing their little heads above water. Look at this absolute loaf. #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/796/700/741/499/786/original/d38828293ea6b6b2.jpg

2024-07-15 23:28:42

We interrupt your irregularly scheduled sea otters to bring you this #sealion instead. #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/792/626/447/239/322/original/295110dfb1f0f120.jpg

2024-07-15 02:13:50

Otter tail. Otter flippers. Otter face. #photography #seaotter
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/787/613/511/402/774/original/9d49275bf7737a2f.jpg

2024-07-13 16:49:21

Haha my wife makes macarons now, suck it all you losers not married to my wife

2024-07-10 22:07:50

If you don't like sea otters and seascapes, you should mute me for a while. Gonna get charismatic megafauny in here. #photography
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/763/995/023/843/204/original/d9bbc4383e0cb08a.jpg

2024-06-25 21:33:10

Can someone do a Total Recall cabs look like Cybertrucks, Cybertrucks just got recalled (again), therefore their drivers need cabs, hence Total Recall! joke? I haven’t the strength.

2024-06-14 03:09:05

Really tired of hearing colleagues and undergrads say ChatGPT is “good for brainstorming.” YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO USE YOUR BRAIN IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME

2024-06-12 16:51:36

#AI
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/604/209/612/934/310/original/cbacb0ac015ded94.png

2024-05-31 13:35:21

Good morning! Here are some boring adult geese wrangling some stubborn teenage geese at the #MemphisBotanicGarden
https://cdn.masto.host/c18mastohost/media_attachments/files/112/535/488/478/726/685/original/40ac8f91390631bb.jpeg

2024-05-28 23:04:09

Thinking about AI again.
Yesterday, the AI-powered bird-ID thing my mom gave me detected what it identified as a scarlet ibis.
Now I have a couple options. I can say, hey, this AI has seen a lot more birds than I have, so if it says one of the two national birds of Trinidad and Tobago stopped to eat in my backyard, so be it. Or I can look at the photo and say, well that there’s a cardinal.
You have to already know stuff to know the AI is wrong. But no one is going to treat it that way.

2024-05-09 02:56:03

Do you remember that experiment you did in high school physics, where you built a bridge out of toothpicks or whatever and then tested its strength by slowly adding more weight until it snapped?
That’s what we’re doing with American democracy.

2024-04-24 01:46:11

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails