Sommet sur l’intelligence artificielle de Paris
58 pays signent une déclaration pour une IA « ouverte », « inclusive » et « éthique »
https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2025-02-11/sommet-sur-l-intelligence-artificielle-de-paris/58-pays-signent-une-declaration-pour-une-ia-ouverte-inclusive-et-ethique.php
#IA #ouverte #inclusive #éthique #Paris #France #Chine #Inde #Europe #USA #UK #Afrique #anglosaxons

TIL from @wikipedia that you can add #AngloSaxons and Old #English to the many cultures and languages that had words for more than two genders. See bædling #LGBTQ #TransRights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bæddel_and_bædling

**Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**

_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_

Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

No Detectorists were involved in this discovery but watching the show really makes you appreciate these stories and the joy of the people involved in them

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/26/really-incredible-sixth-century-sword-found-in-kent

The Battle of Mældune was fought today in 991CE, during the reign of Æthelred the Unræd (poorly advised). Jarl Byrhtnoth led the Anglo-Saxons against a large Viking force commanded by the Norwegian Olaf Tryggvason.

The Vikings won the battle.

West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village in West Stow, England

This meticulously reconstructed early medieval settlement offers an immersive experience of daily life in an Anglo-Saxon community.#museums #anglo-saxons #architecture #medieval #section-Atlas
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village

Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts

“These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/04/anglo-saxons-may-have-fought-in-northern-syrian-wars-say-experts

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #AngloSaxons #England #Europe #Asia #Levant #MiddleEast #Syria #News @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

Italian deputy PM Matteo Salvini is furious with Jens Stoltenberg’s suggestion that NATO weapons should be allowed to target Russian soil and has called on him to retract those worlds or resign. Salvini said:

“I don't want to leave my children in the third world war at the gates... #Stoltenberg should either recant or apologise or resign.”

I don’t think it’s occurred to the some of the geniuses in NATO that if Ukraine strikes Russia with our weapons, they won’t be retaliating on Ukrainian soil, they’ll be striking ours - and they have the capability to strike anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes with ICBMs or 90 minutes with conventional missiles. It’s worth emphasising a recent UK report shows we have no defence capability to stop Russian missiles.

Statue of Byrhtnoth in Maldon, England

This statue commemorates one of medieval England’s most courageous heroes.#legends #warriors #poetry #medieval #anglo-saxons #vikings #section-Atlas
Statue of Byrhtnoth

A Spanish style siesta in the hottest part of the day doesn’t sound so bad now, does it? #anglosaxons #siesta

Bonjour ! #Introduction

Je ne sais jamais quoi dire ici, sans doute parce que je suis l'archétype du mec trentenaire blanc cis de classe moyenne sans intérêt. Le genre de profil omniprésent sur le Web et qui gagne à se faire discret.

Je garde un œil sur ces hashtags :
#Wikipédia #Wikisource
#Tolkien
#MoyenAge #MiddleAges
#AngloSaxons #OldEnglish
#Rock #DavidBowie #ThePrettyThings
#MastoLivre #VendrediLecture #Fantasy #ScienceFiction

Hello! My #English is decent enough.

Hej! Jag kan tala bara lite #svenska.

Bore da! Dw i'n dysgu #Cymraeg.

The latest Map Men video is fun! About why north is up on a map (and when it is not - some interesting non-historical examples there).

https://youtu.be/B14Gtm2Z_70

I saw one of the 'east is up' maps he mentions in an Anglo-Saxon exhibition a few years ago (available online at the British Library: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/anglo-saxon-world-map) - obviously their knowledge of geography was quite basic back then so things are a bit weird (though surprisingly detailed in parts!), but I found it really fascinating to see how different 'the world' (as they knew it) looks when rotated by 90 degrees.

#Maps #Cartography #MapMen #History #AngloSaxons

Des migrants privilégiés ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUzegDUtgIU

22nd April, Today we commemorate the last British #Pagan King, and last king of the #IsleOfWight Arwald.

On this day in 686, Cædwalla, King of Wessex invaded the #Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, the land of Whit [ ᚹᛁᚻᛏ ] (Spirits / Supernatural Beings).

Arwald had sent his two son to his kinsfolk, the Meonwara to keep them safe.

Due to their superior size, the army of Cædwalla were victorious. However, not without many casualties. #Folklore says that Arwald dealt Cædwalla a near fatal wound that never healed and would ultimately take his life many years later. The story says, that the last curse, uttered using the last of the old magic was from Arwald's lips as he struck Cædwalla.

After the battle, Cædwalla sent his men the commit genocide on the island. A memory that still runs deep on the Island, even to this day.

The two princes were also betrayed after they had been forced to convert to #christianity -- Cædwalla had them killed.

This is not the of the story, the sister of Arwald was the wife of the King of #Kent and was the great great great Grandmother of #AlfredTheGreat. One could argue, the line of Wiht is behind the whole of the British royal family.

#OldEnglish #histodons #medievodons #AngloSaxons #AngloSaxonSaturday #paganism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwald

@histodons
@medievodons
@anglosaxon
@oldenglish
@pagan

Quite and interesting article:

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal.

#histodons #AngloSaxon #AngloSaxons #OldEnglish

@languagelovers
@oldenglish
@histodons
@anglosaxon

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/english-is-not-normal

Remains of Roman aristocrat unearthed in ‘extraordinary’ cemetery near Leeds - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/13/remains-roman-aristocrat-extraordinary-cemetery-leeds exciting stuff keeps turning up... #romans #anglosaxons #history