I love maps.
I love 'eccentric' maps.
Wondering about the borders of the Hungarian Empire
before 1914,
I found that it stretched from Bratislava (in modern Slovakia)
in the NW to Brasov (modern Romania) in the SE,
and from Mukachevo (n Ukraine, Hungarian Mukács)
to the present Mohács (still part of Hungary).
On its southern border, Újvidék is now
Novi Sad in Northern Serbia.
Hungary has been horribly truncated.
However, I was cheered up by this page
of amusing, tongue-in-cheek sociological maps
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
from a 19th century Austrian point of view.
This is one of them.
4 comments:
As for maps: I've just had a look at your visitor stats and your website was visited 850 times by a crawler two days ago. The origin of the visitor (bioware.com) possibly implies that a video game company might incorporate your blog entries into a training set for a large language model.
Yours,
not really yet monetised but surely incorporated by a LLM,
Martin
Hello Martin,
You mean my website (beyond-the-pale.uk) rather than my blog ?
No, your blog, according to the statcounter that you have linked to: https://statcounter.com/p8799414/visitor/?date=2025-08-02
Not that it means much but given its origin, it does reek of scraping for AI training data.
Bioware sells role-playing games, so it would be reasonable to assume that your blog, among tens of thousands, will be used to artificially create dialogues.
Ah, the splendid future: Imposter bots will eventually replace us all. And your Geist will live on, archived on a US American A.I. corporation server! Maybe a mimicry-dsdnt 2.0 blog will continue to write entries echoing yours until the year 2525.
Yours,
still not in Scotland
Martin
My Geist is rather weak at the moment. I had completely forgotten about statcounter. It's on some pages of my website, but I have no idea how to access or use it.
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