Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation on the counterfactual in Sophoclean tragedy! Succinctly, my dissertation looks at different types of "unreal" expressions and what they tell us about how characters build their inner worlds

Rage Against the Machine Learning

Truly, this man has shaped our digital lives in important ways far out of our CTRL.

I dont really get into these things but Jeff Hiller deserves to win everything and this makes me happy

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

seeing nice people who helped raise you and old friends you used to party with call for you to meet the business end of a holy war does something to you, man.

On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

In Coddling the American Mind, Haidt and Lukianoff equate student actions at Middlebury (Charles Murray) and Yale (Halloween) with Mao's Red Guard. Wondering if they have any thoughts about what went down at Texas A&M. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/an-academi...

I really, really hope we all start to appreciate the almost always combined dangers of Christian patriarchy and Christian nationallism, personified by Wilson.

"We live in an upside-down world now where books are dangerous items to be locked away from children except in special cases, and only put in front of them with special approval from literally the highest authorities in any given school district." open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

Philology is protean back to its first coining as a word. It combines with other methodologies and knowledges to respond to different needs and interpretive goals

Look if ted cruz is going to go around bullying people we have no choice but to continue bullying him until he returns to the pit of hell he emerged from

Honest review: these aren't good but it is a tiny bit fun to eat little gummies shaped like Shaq.

More than 60,000 students in North East ISD in San Antonio will walk into classrooms on Tuesday with NO BOOKS or with “library closed” signs blocking access to classroom libraries as a result of Senate Bill 13.

I was in the library stacks and some kid asked me where the PAs were "Those are my friends" I say After I drop him off "Best of luck on your quest" I will ride this high the rest of the day, maybe my life. For a moment, I was Athena.

I love the paper tiger

"Read the syllabus" to the tune of "deliver us" from Prince of egypt

The damage done by this man in creating familial environments of force, control, and coercion has contributed to the evangelicals encouragement and acceptance of the brutality of ICE and police. Control and force undergirded his disciplinary approach.

the overdue ILL walk of shame is so intense for how low the stakes are

In the hopes that he will be cooking full meals by next year

A new patient appointment at the children's dentist here is $467 without insurance $467

There is, as I see it, one person at the center of the popularity of the classical Christian education movement in the US and its subsequent forays into charter and public schools. His name is D*ug Wils*n (his fanbase is unpleasant, hence the **s)

So... Who Killed Homer, again?

H, watching a video of Aretha for the first time: "I love her!!! Is she real!?!?! Is she in TEXAS!!!!??"

Came up with a brilliant game where my son "puts me to bed" and I just get to lay down until he comes to get me

COMING SOON: Federal Vision wearable tech from Canon Press

The new King of the Hill is giving me life and I highly recommend

The man who popularized classical (Christian) education in the US doesnt want women to have the right to vote and he has a lot of influence over Hegseth and others in DC. If they succeed in gerrymandering, this is on the table. Then they have a lot less gerrymandering to do.

when I first read this I thought the homeschool thing was tangential at best. But after stewing about it, I think that it is really important that he was brought up to always believe that the government can't be trusted, is incompetent, and that he knows better.

Tim made this today and I wrote a few footnotes. so we both bring things to the table

This little move where they put the thing that actually happened into a conditional sentence is weak minded and pathetic

TIL the Dept of Ed quietly launched a Center For Faith in April (?), and the only thing they've done to date was post this wildly sectarian Christian nationalist blog post about school prayer from Franklin Graham: www.ed.gov/about/initia...

Cornyn's ads are straight up Trump pandering--he isn't asking for our vote, because if he were he would be going after Paxton. He's asking for Trump's.

New post on Humanist! Reflecting on a discussion I wish I'd had on the 4th of July, how hard it is to facilitate a really good discussion, and why continuing to try might help to save democracy. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky humanist.ghost.io/discussion/

this is so good!!

almost done with my dissertation and barely stopping myself from buying cigarettes every time i'm out, if you're curious how that's going

There should be a minimum 10 year embargo on starting a school after you moved from the Bay Area to Austin. plus 1 year of substitute teaching. Minimum.

yeehaw y'all

People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf.

this is not just DOGE: this is Machen and Rushdoony. This is the result of libertarian political/economic theory and fundamentalist Christianity melding into the political agenda of Heritage Foundation types

does the scene with Nausicaa and her hand maidens in Odyssey 6 pass the bechdel test? pls discuss

"political symbols filled the worship space. Old newspaper articles praising Ronald Reagan dotted the walls, as did multiple American flags."

at the risk of bringing the ancient texts we study to bear on current events in an uncritical way, but i've been deeply studying the language of the counterfactual in sophoclean tragedy for the past several years and watching that video of public comments at...

“Under the court’s new rules, no curriculum could ever be constitutional unless parents are always informed in advance and can protect their children from anything objectionable to their specific religious beliefs.”

this isn't the whole problem. but taking phrases like "here I am, send me" and the creating an entire unit of sunday school lessons, a VBS, a cross-stitch pattern etc that elides the full scale of what is meant in Isaiah exploits the Bible for your own ends

i call ted cruz's office almost every day and this is the first time I've talked to a human, so Texans, call that San Antonio office

This is written by someone who thinks of technology as apolitical, and as "just a tool dependent on the user" which is the fiction that Big Tech has been pushing for decades, to avoid taking responsibility for all the levels of harms their products generate, including gAI.