Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages @karlvalk.bsky.social on the @jhideas.bsky.social blog www.jhiblog.org/2026/10/19/c...

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If you ask me, this is one of the most important manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah collections. It's a page from a 9th-century Quran with text from Sura 11 (Hud) about the prophet Noah (vv. 43-50). Despite this origin, it was found in a synagogue and likely owned by a Jew. @theul.bsky.social

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As a historian of medicine who's taught the history of HIV/AIDS throughout her career & has been teaching the history of other global diseases the past 20 years, I find myself troubled by this new piece in @bmj.com on the claimed rehabilitation of the term "Patient Zero." www.bmj.com/content/395/...

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"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, b/c we did not know exactly what we wanted...As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace & emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." ❤️‍🔥

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In this initial 'A'(d) in Cod.Sang. 339, which is probably by the monk of St Gall and recluse Hartker, we certainly see gold in the interlace: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 339; Calendar, Gradual, Sacramentary; c.980-1000 CE; St. Gall; p.33 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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