there's something perfect about people like this only caring about faux journalists attending a fancy elite party and not anyone experiencing violence while out doing the actual job of journalism

Found a nineteenth century polka-mazur (a Viennese dance form) that has quite the resonant title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...

Academia. MEAN GIRLS (DUH)

Excellent!

This! So much this!

Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: are the double Heroides actually by Ovid?

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

#NZpol Seymour on expanding access to alcohol: “In a free society adults should be trusted to make their own choices. The role of the law is to target harm, not to micromanage responsible behaviour,” he said." Ah, ok, so *responsible cannabis users* can welcome legalization soon, right? *RIGHT?*

One more week before our philosophy study group starts back: frankgarrett.online/philosophy/g.... Come join us.

I'm thinking a production of Euripides' "The Bacchae" with her as Pentheus and a Chorus of Federal Judges.

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

I have been a subscriber since they started subscriptions and a reader since 2000. TPM is essential for understanding US politics all through this time and all the more so now in this age of billionaire induced rot.

Nic Smith, VC of Victoria University of Wellington, has resigned. He takes up the same position at Auckland in June. I have many inchoate thoughts about this.

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

Copilot was put on phone in an update. What a nightmare to view an attachment in an email. FVCK!! Was able to delete the piece of sh*t. Thank God.

some tonic in the morning (it's morning here)

Is it both-siderism if you utterly loathe both sides?

@frankgarrett.online @shmonkey.bsky.social

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

what a legend lmao

After a GREAT DEAL of arguing in a draft I have secured the privilege (via old fashioned hard work) to write re a stunningly interesting bit of Theophanes Continuatus -- a medieval Roman historiography --that "it is too unbelievable not to be true." #iykyk #winetime

Last week on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. @egarcmol.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discussed specializing in the Seleucid Empire, challenges of working with limited historical records, and his course on gaming and ancient history.

Defund, unmask, indict.

Are we living through a new Victorian era? youtu.be/E4D5doaKulk

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

You can hear me (perhaps "uhm-ing ah-ing at bit more than I would like) talking about the bachelorhood of Basil II on the 1000 year anniversary of his death: tinyurl.com/ynktprn6

Many thanks to my friend @lucasbutler.bsky.social for reminding me that today is the thousandth anniversary of Basil II's death, which I think is pretty neat.

Getting ready for some hardcore code switching!

One would think this does not need to be said, but it sure does.

Playing my bass flute in a concert yesterday.

So, Labour will fiddle around with how to spend 0.4% of the budget in 2027 (futures fund) and then get cracking on a capital gains tax that will increase revenue by around 0.6% by 2030. We could get maybe 20km of new road for that. 'The tranquilising drug of gradualism'.

Folks, I would like our research knowledge to get better, not worse. Our publications to become more intentionally structured and phrased, not less. And our experiences and perspectives to find more echoes in the academic language we use, not fewer. AI slop is the opposite of all that.

In early Christian literature and art, the turtle was a symbol of heresy and evil. Why? Because of its lowness to the ground and its tendency to wallow in mud and filth. Oh, shell yeah.

I wish people would stop posting old analyses of what's going on Washington. I don't need and most assuredly don't want an op ed from March presented as though it is current. Say it's old but it's relevant cuz x or y. Otherwise don't do it.

Heading into a concert.

@analocking.bsky.social I hope you will post here, as I have long since left that other place.

FINALLY OMG

We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position. Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this. My GOD

Challenge to commentators: don't dismiss transphobia and landlordism as 'side' issues in the implosion of Your Party. It's central. Same as Galloway: you can't build a progressive party on petit bourgeois prejudice and hatred masquerading as "community values". That's what we are seeing play out.

That feeling when an American honours student with whom you helped a little via email submits an honours thesis that more or less plagiarizes your book. No really: great big swathes, pages. (AND RELATEDLY: And students who have little or no Greek and scholars likewise, how about some respect?)