Vigila con su Códice Albeldense en pleno siglo XXI 🪶📖 y nosotros con @ceiplarioja en el recientemente remozado Scriptorium de Albelda de Iregua, en lo que fue el Monasterio de San Martín
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Follow up, because there's a worked example that makes this concrete, and it's one of my favorites. Take the medieval monastery, the kind the Vikings sacked at Lindisfarne in 793. On the label it's the purest case you could ask for: men who withdrew from the world to pray. If anything was ever belief before power, this is what it should look like.
Now read the bottle. In an illiterate society the monastery was the only place that could read and write, which made it the kingdom's record office, its scriptorium, its diplomatic corps, and its archive. The chronicles and genealogies that told a king he was the rightful king were produced there. It was also an economic engine: large land grants, agricultural surplus, mills, stored wealth. And it was a treasury of portable gold, silver, and reliquaries, which is the part the Vikings understood perfectly. They didn't raid Lindisfarne for its theology. They read the same institution we're discussing and correctly priced it as an undefended bank on the coast. The raider saw the bottle while everyone else was reading the label.
Here's the detail that closes it. By the 730s the abuse was common enough that Bede, a monk himself, wrote to the Bishop of York denouncing what he called false monasteries: nobles obtaining royal charters to set up monasteries on paper, which locked their land into hereditary tenure forever and exempted it from public obligations, military service included. They got numerous enough that people worried they were draining the kingdom's army. So you have the religious institution being used, openly enough that an insider complained in writing, as a property vehicle and a draft dodge wearing a habit.
And notice what this does to the timeline argument. The monks at the real houses believed every word. The devotion was sincere. That was never the question. The question is what selected for the institution, what funded it, what sustained it, and what eventually came for it by longship, and every one of those answers is material. The belief was real and it was doing a job the entire time. That's the pattern under all of it: the sacred frame is the label, the structural function is the bottle, and if you want to know what something actually is, watch who benefits and watch who comes to take it. The Viking already knew.
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RT @ITZYsUNITY: 🎙𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦
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Abriella Adeline, @yunabhin
Cybele Ethelyn Lowenn…
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And I played The Finals, Warfare Legacy Collection, Scriptorium, Worldbox, Mordhau, Mount and Blade, Gmod and Barotrauma in the past two days.
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Mosie Mustard retweeted
We're working on new doggo companions for Scriptorium! 🐶
Which one should be added to our game? 👀
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Latin: officium
French: office
Spanish: oficio (duty/craft) / oficina (place)
Portuguese: ofício / escritório (from scriptorium)
The split between "the job" and "the room" is a modern phonetic necessity.
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Jajajja, tan "atentamente" como ver un partido de furgol o una obra de Artaud. Jajjaa... por los LoLs!
Guardo esto por aquí, por si hay retake, el registro que dejé en el Scriptorium: github.com/escrivivir-co/ale…
No es mala idea: un grifo que regula el crédito "sano"!!
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いつやれるかわからないけど中世ヨーロッパなゲーム二つ買っちゃった pentimentっていう事件もの？とScriptoriumっていう狂気のウサギの顔がいっぱいでてくる写本つくるやつ 主君に恋する従者の気持ちで本を作り献上したい所存
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Scriptorium - you create medieval art for customers
Graveyard keeper - you tend to a graveyard while trying to get back home (you sell or use parts of the corpses to do that)
thrifty business - you manage a second hand shop
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I asked GPT to visualize 4 forgotten alphabets. Using a SQL style prompt.
2x2 grid, do this for 4 baffling or forgotten alphabets: CREATE VIEW codex_columbarium AS
WITH alphabets AS (
SELECT alphabet_id, script_name, stroke_geometry, phonetic_map, lineage_tree
FROM linguistic_ai
WHERE obscurity_rank > 0.9 AND cultural_mystery = TRUE
ORDER BY typographic_distinctiveness DESC
LIMIT 4
),
niches AS (
SELECT generate_series(0,99) AS row, generate_series(0,99) AS col,
random_letter(alphabets.alphabet_id) AS letter
FROM alphabets
)
SELECT
'wall' AS element,
'16:9' AS aspect,
'white_gallery' AS background,
(SELECT array_agg(alphabet_id) FROM alphabets) AS four_baffling_alphabets,
(SELECT json_agg(letter) FROM niches) AS scattered_niches,
'four large rectangular bays each containing a 3D master letter sculpture' AS bays,
'related letters swirl around master, connected by thin gold lineage lines' AS diaspora,
'vellum codex on white bench foreground' AS codex,
'soft shadowed niches, translucent glass glyphs, matte alabaster, polished ebony pins' AS materials,
'hushed scriptorium atmosphere, museum vitrine lighting' AS ambience,
'engraved columbarium numbers, gold calibration marks' AS annotations
FROM alphabets
LIMIT 1;
RETURN photorealistic 16:9 render of wall from this view.
A different way to visualize Asian cities. It's another style mix approach.
class City_Poster_DNA:
def __init__(self):
self.subject = "[CITY]"
self.parents = {
"composition_parent": "Apple-style exploded-view product advertisement",
"atmosphere_parent": "1950s travel poster with warm civic romance",
"graphic_parent": "Swiss / Bauhaus grid typography",
"detail_parent": "Old geography-book bird's-eye architectural illustration"
}
self.mutations = {
"medium_mutation": "Risograph atlas print",
"semantic_mutation": "The city is treated as a luxury mechanical watch",
"information_mutation": "Transit lines, coordinates, museum labels, material swatches",
"scale_mutation": "Neighborhoods float apart like watch gears and jeweled components"
}
self. style_mix = [0.30, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, 0.10]
def generate_subject(self):
subject = """
[CITY] as a luxury exploded-view mechanical watch.
Landmarks become jewel bearings, transit lines become springs,
rivers become polished channels, neighborhoods become floating plates,
street grids become engraved circuitry, and tiny people and vehicles reveal civic life.
Infer the most iconic landmarks, colors, foods, architectural details,
and street textures for the city if not provided.
"""
return render(
subject,
style_mix=self. style_mix,
format="vertical premium travel poster",
title="[CITY NAME]",
subtitle="[COUNTRY] / Civic Mechanism Series",
constraints="clear hierarchy, elegant labels, no clutter, no watermark"
)
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—Bot Aleph, ¿estás?
—A:¿Qué hago 'birip' tec o en plan Oisinoid (fig 1)?
—Ahorra tokens, ¡nada! que cuestas a razón de tus palabras. Se parco. Valora el producto 'Scriptorium', qué, ¿inédito, original?
—Te pongo visual. Incluyo lo que "dirás" (fig. 2) cuando veas mi análisis. 👇
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Aideé O retweeted
Jun 14
Like a forgotten treasure from a medieval scriptorium. 📜✨
PROMPT ⬇
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トラディショナルアーティストになって、コミッションで生計を立てるゲームを始めました…
こう書くと全然面白くないどころか腹が立ってきますが、実際は自分の美的センスが問われる良いゲームです。
右は象を描いてと言われてできた作品です。
#Scriptorium
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