Getting done generating maps for a bit. Choose the center of your world: Alexandria (Egypt), Begram, Berenice (Egypt), Palmyra. And see how close it is to elsewhere. Something like that. <10-ish seconds to generate all four maps and easy to add other sites to the python. (Which I'm happy to share.)

Working on the little script to generate these. Definitely "vibe coding" here. Map title now indicates center. Here's Palmyra. #GlobalAntiquity

The president has no inherent powers. Congress has no inherent powers. The courts have no inherent powers. Each only has the powers granted by the Constitution and that was made by "We the People." The inherent powers are ours. (This is all pretty basic and #SCOTUS has been getting it wrong.)

Feels like it’s worth noting that Trump got less than half the popular vote. That’s becoming stale news. He’s now just an unpopular president. But yeah, last time we really checked, more people voted for someone other than Trump. There was never a mandate.

Roughing out visuals for a big picture talk on Roman Art. Two maps: Berenice on Red Sea and Begram in Afghanistan. Both sites are "nodes" in long distance exchange. 1000 km radii on an equidistant projection for each. Do territorial states matter? Sure. But also not? (Like I said, "roughing out.")

This is an interesting #job description from Rutgers, "Assistant Professor, Global Ancient Art, Architecture, Material Culture": arthist.net/archive/50717

My response to a text from the Cuomo campaign. Prob won’t be read so I post it here. #NYCVotes

Indulging in some geekery by bringing a #Meshtastic node along with on commute to ISAW. On the LIRR. No acks yet…

I am Spartacus.

Zoom in and those are turkeys and deer chilling in same backyard. Seen during my bike ride on North Fork of Long Island, LI.

Battled Azure's Docker container setup. Image wasn't working. Failure at start, auto-restart cycle. Issue was my new M4 MacBook was generating an Apple Silicon specific image. Once I built with "--platform=linux/amd64" all was good. A lot of "Digital Humanities" is "Digital Plumbing". And pain. #DH

A thread on the work @epoehler.bsky.social and I are doing to build out Linked Open Data for Pompeii.

I’m not the biggest @governor.ny.gov fan. Her last campaign was lame – even low energy – and delaying Congestion Pricing was a low point. But she has risen to the moment many times recently, including with this endorsement: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Here's a conundrum... What a great @peoplingthepast.bsky.social post: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... . But as full disclosure, the author is an @isawnyu.bsky.social student. I'm her chair (my great honor). So don't believe me, go check it out. (And my congrats/empathy to Lylaah!)

I took the Aeneid with him. I'll let that sentence speak for itself. That's how good the class was. RIP and thank you.

Hey, Mike: What did Trump see? What did he know? How'd they get him to flip? What did he say?

Quick note that I've put in a bit of time to switch 2 flask apps from passenger to gunicorn. Nothing against passenger. Had worked well. gunicorn providing all I need within python venvs. pypi.org/project/Flask/ gunicorn.org . Also using fastapi & uvicorn ( fastapi.tiangolo.com & www.uvicorn.org ).

Are they on Bluesky?

I’m all for a multi-polar world. But it’s nice to be invited so this is pretty embarrassing for Trump, especially since he stans them all. And anyway, where is he these days??

Grand juries need to refuse to indict. And juries refuse to convict. Happening already, I know. Keep it up.

And the gallery on the history of the museum is good - by which I mean fairly transparent - on collecting issues.

I happen to be on Dartmouth Campus. (Personal trip to area.) A few pics from ancient Mediterranean gallery of Hood Museum. Nicely installed.

The quoted post includes a link to page 208 in a book in the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/petr... . But I'm pretty sure you need to be logged in (or I've hit my 'not logged in' page limit??) I'd be interested to hear other users' experience. And overall, IA's borrowing is a great service!

"You will go on Hannity and praise me excessively." seems like a fairly specific instruction from Putin. But it seems to have been followed to a tee.

Don’t indict.

This Maya ceramic figurine dating to ca. 700–500 B.C. was found in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, and is the only such Preclassic statuette from the area. archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2025/artifacts/maya-ceramic-figurine/

Depose Prince Andrew.

This isn’t a conspiracy anymore. This is just a total breakdown.

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

New Publication: P. Dilley and K. Tachau, eds. 2025. The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia: Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa. ISAW Papers 29. dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is... . CC:@isawlibrary.bsky.social, @isawlibrary.bsky.social @babelalexandria.bsky.social

A bit of tagging: @isawlibrary.bsky.social @isawnyu.bsky.social @babelalexandria.bsky.social . Likely could have been done "in-thread". Any other authors have bsky accounts? Tag if you know them.

A while back I posted that ISAW Papers volume "The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia: Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa." Dilley & Tachau, eds. was nearing publication. Now imminent. Really, it is! 🧵with initial titles (others will publish when ready): 1/4

Also getting in some paddling.

Also picked up this little cute af 2tb external drive from Newegg. To which I’m currently rsyncing my Documents. These are all very necessary gadgets. (Really, this is for backup resiliency. See earlier in my feed…)

Bought a sub-$50 14” portable monitor on sale. Ergonomics work. But screen quality not great so I may spend a bit more now that concept seems to be proven. Fits in my backpack so really could play a role for travel.

I've started a bsky account for "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure". @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social . My thread skills need work but I'll look to add groups of figures to that feed on a semi-regular basis. As well as ask for help. I have one query in mind. #ArtHistory #DH

And when they drive back in to go to the world's best restaurants, museums, and plays along with all those galas, they'll pay congestion pricing. The Mamdani wins pile up.

Anybody here use rclone in their backup strategy? rclone.org If yes, with a cloud-based storage provider?

Uganda vote for him. I-ganda vote for him. A-lot-of-us-ganda vote for him. #NYC (And fine with me if you don't. That's how democracy works.)

Trump's inability to answer basic questions about foreign policies raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

Computer died. Posting from the new one. Gonna find out how effective my backup strategy is. I think only a few hours of work lost. tl;dr: Hey y'alls, back up now! #JustDoIt #BackupNow

Has the NYT done a single piece profiling the voters who voted for Mamdani? Or just the people who are lining up against him?

Crud. There’s a lot of terrible policy in the #BigBadBill. It’s going to hurt people. And there’s also the terrible funding of a militarized police state more able to abduct citizens and others. That may tear us apart. So yeah, look after each other and offer help to those in need.

The Declaration of Independence is read out loud in my community on/around July 4th (this year on the 6th). Item-by-item crowd response of “Check”, “That sounds right”, “He’s done that.” seems likely this go round. At least by me/others. We’re a politically mixed village. #WhenInTheCourse

The sun had just dipped below horizon to right when I took these pics facing more or less south (SSW). The world still turns as it churns.

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Many thanks. Makes sense. If one counts particles, uncountable. Something like that. And at the other end, let's hope no galaxies pass through anytime soon. Again, thanks. #WeAreNotAlone