He/Him, History nerd,
see pinned post (in Dutch and English) for more info
Voor zeer lange Nederlandse rants over geschiedenis;
https://geschiedenisish.wordpress.com/
For fandom stuff: @inspecteurcooperwashotactually
[Voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post; zoek ff op "Dit blog 101"]
"Enchantée! You found a nerd of the Victorian, Edwardian and history at large, mainly Dutch history. Look around, you may find some fun stuff. :)
I mostly use this blog to reblog or to dump stuff here I found in old Dutch books. Normally I'd annoy my friends with that, but they didn't like it. Hopefully Tumblr is more fond of my findings. ;)"
That was the original intention of this blog. Now it has turned into a rando Tumblr blog about all kinds of things! But I'm not planning on doing anything about it. EMBRACE THE RANDOMNESS OF TUMBLR!!!!!! And scroll down far enough and you'll actually find some real fun stuff from Dutch history.... ;)
If you speak Dutch, I also highly recommend checking out my Wordpress;
Tiko's rants over de geschiedenis van de Lage Landen
On there, I write longer articles about historical rabbit holes I have fallen into. There is some really cool stuff on there! Especially about the formation of Dutch culture and Dutch society. Real tin foil hat stuff, but it's all true and historical! Real fun. ;)
Profile pic on here is my great-greatgrandfather Cornelis Hendrik Herman Wisse (1877 - 1954).
Here's my basic tag system because there is a bit of order in the chaos (but I am absolutely one of those "my tags are a mess" type of people);
rant = longer text posts
NS = stuff about trains
Christianity = stuff about christianity
religion = stuff about religion in general (also for esotericism and spirituality)
(Dutch) history = stuff about history, also tagged usually with the period in question
hot people from the past = self-explanatory
Tumblr = for fun Tumblr stuff, especially posts I never thought I'd encounter in the wild (seldom used though lol)
[soms others I forgot about and I'll add in the future]
That's it for now. Hope you enjoy my blog! :) <3
Oh, I don't have any DNI's, I just don't really like confrontation. For example, I'm an atheist with a fascination for religion, especially christianity. But please don't try to convert me. That's never gonna happen, no matter what you say. I have heard it all. But if you're willing to look past my atheism, we can have some real fun and cool conversations about theology or ecclesiastical history. (Or make a tier list of Bible Books or whatever. It doesn't have to be deep.)
Same with politics. I hope the fact my DNI is at the end tells you enough about me. As long as you're nice, I'm pretty sure we can get along. Even if we disagree on, like, fundamental moral things... Don't let that stop you from exchange ideas with me. <3
Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted
Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine
Yes it's fair use, but this is still a crime under I presume every countries archival laws.
Because we don't just wanna preserve the text, we wanna preserve the para-text. Pages where text has been underlinded by older users, annotations, printing mistakes, differences between different prints of the same book. These AI companies are not "preserving" these books. THIS IS NOT DIGITAL PRESERVATION. Digital preservation would be PDFs. Because with PDFs, you're preserving everything that can be preserved digitally. ("But these are PDFs". No, these are not PDFs of the books. They are PDFs of the text. That's not the same.) The only thing you'd miss is the physical material, which you can't preserve online. So something like carbon dating would become impossible for example, but usually that's not a major problem.
Now, these companies are doing transcriptions. Which on its own is fine. It is an absolute crime agianst humanity that they do not share their transcriptions with historians. Even though the field of history would tremendously benefit from these databases. But hey, that's by the by. But calling transcriptions "digital preservation" is super problematic. Like I said, transcriptions are just plain text. They don't make the difference between a paragraph and a title usually, and leave out small things that make each book 'used' and 'have a history' and such.
Also, most transcriptions aren't perfect. Even with printed books, you need to make choices. Do you preserve letters and especially punctuation that is no longer used? Do you keep abbreviations? Do you make a differences between titles and normal text, if so, how? And that's besides the fact that it's really easy for even the most clear text and the best scanners to come up with a bad transcription. And that's presuming you're even dealing with English text.
We know most of these AI researchers have an IT background and not a background in linguistics. I don't trust them to take into account historical writing, even the writing used in early modern western printed books, or how their scanners might not be so great for languages beyond English. So not only do they commit crimes against historical preservation, it wouldn't surprise me if their output is shite.
It takes archives a long time to digitize things, and they often throw away the original afterwards because it takes too much storage to store. But I am pretty confident no archivist or librarian was consulted during any part of this project. And after knowing this, I think few archives would still say 'yes' to this, even though digitizing and storage space are two of the biggest problems of struggling archives. I hope it's mainly private collectors they get this stuff from. Collectors that are just as greedy as those AI companies and would have never shared these books with the world. Because otherwise, we sure are in a dark timeline. I mean, we already are, but still.....
markiplier fandom is so funny they be like “I was SO excited to see West Montgomery” and they post a picture and it’s literally just markiplier in a different hat
In the third stitch from the red chain, ch 10
skip 2 st, 8 hdc [8]
slst and cut off extra yarn, weave in from behind
Head (green yarn) - 00:31:00
R1: ch 14, slst in the first ch making a circle
R2: ch1, hdc2tog, 10 dc, hdc2tog, slst ch 2 [12]
R3 dcinc, 2 dc, 6hdc, 2dc, dcinc, slst ch 2 [14]
R4: 2 dc, 3 hdc, 4sc, 3 hdc, 2 dc, slst ch 1 [14]
Cut off yarn
Upper lip - 00:40:15
At the 5th st from the head, insert green yarn
R1: ch2, dcinc, 6dc, dcinc [10]
R2: ch2, turn dc2tog, 6dc, dc2tog [8]
R3: ch2, turn dc2tog, 4dc, dc2tog [6]
R4: ch2, turn dc2tog, 2dc, dc2tog [4]
ch1, cut off extra yarn
Lower lip - 00:47:44
R1: ch1, 6 hdc [6]
R2: ch1, turn hdc2tog, 2hdcdc, hdc2tog [4]
ch 1 turn
Attach red mouth piece and tongue by sc in every stitch, slst,
Cut off extra yarn and weave in
Stuff in
Eyes (white yarn) x2 - 00:53:40
R1: MR, 6sc in MR [6]
R2: slst, ch1, 6 sc [6]
slst and cut off extra yarn
Glue on eyes and heads for pupils
Attach head and tail at opposite ends,
Put stitch marker 4 st away from each direction for limbs
Legs x4 - 01:01:24
ch7, slst, skip 1 st st, 2 slst, (ch2, skip 1st st , 2 slst) *2, 4 sc, slst
Cut off and weave in yarn
Abbreviations + additional links under the cut
Abbreviations
R1 = Row 1
MR = magic ring
ch = chain
st = stitch
slst = slip stitch
sc = single crochet
dc = double crochet
hdc = half double crochet
inc = increase
dec = decrease
dc2tog = double crochet 2 together (used for decreasing)
hdc2tog = half double crochet 2 together (used for decreasing)
[12] = the amount of stitches you should get for that row (especially for increase/decrease instructions)
See this article about the abbreviations + video showing how to do a magic ring: https://catherinecrochets.com/what-does-mr-mean-in-crochet/
Another article about abbreviations : https://joyofmotioncrochet.com/crochet-abbreviations-and-terms/
Here's another article, showing some of the differences between USA vs UK abbreviations: https://peacefulcrochet.com/us-vs-uk-terms/
To everyone who followed me solely for my completely sane and rational PHM pebble comic, I apologize for absolutely blasting you with the pinkest, most mentally unstable, cursive variant of the bloodymary crackship.
