Just rewatched #TNG “Measure of a Man” & listened to accompanying @greatesttrek.com (late to the party I know!) but it has me wondering, why do I love Data but hate the current AI blitz? Then it hit me -cause Data has ethical subroutines. Only an idiot would build an AI without them. Oh wait… 😬

Got my stylish new sweatshirt to rep my first semester teaching for the U! #SeumasU #APPliny @jeltzz.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share that my article, “Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios” is now available on the Journal of Roman Studies website via FirstView. (It’s also open access!)

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel due to government pressure has rightly shaken those committed to free speech. Entertainers have always criticized politicians. The sign of a good politician who values free speech is to let them; only authoritarians take revenge - just ask the Romans./1

What: the best ancient language courses around. When: starting beginning of October. Where: through Zoom. Who: amazing, expert instructors. Why: to be a hardcore language learner. Join us here and don’t miss out: habesnelac.com/courses

Ezra Klein's claim that Charlie Kirk "practiced politics the right way" is a categorization error in terms of what philosophers of science call "the demarcation problem" between science & pseudoscience. By analogy, Kirk engaged not in debate but pseudo-debate. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/stop-with-...

Expressing Likes and Interests in Classical Latin!! At LAC, we endeavor to create content that is inclusive, useful, authentic, and fun!!! Get these designs here: www.habesnelac.com/paid-downloa... Check out a video of delectat in action here: youtu.be/wQ-9COQpqE0?...

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Just watched “Harakiri” (1962) for the first time. Perhaps the perfect film for this moment. From “the cruelty is the point” to the faux “manliness” of those behind it, to the sniveling coverup, it perfectly illustrates how hollow men will cover their emptiness with sham bravery and wonton cruelty.

Children of the Gorn

Gorn on the Fourth of July 🐊 🇺🇸

Good thing the other countries are paying for the tariffs because otherwise my $10 Maxwell House would suddenly be $22! Ok, so now I just need to know - where do I submit my request to Brazil and Columbia for reimbursement?? #TariffsAreTaxes @kairyssdal.bsky.social

Yogi Bear themed escape room. “Hey Boo Boo…” 🐻 🐻 🧺

there's a giveaway for my book on goodreads rn! enter here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

new and exciting courses at SeumasU starting in October thepatrologist.com/2025/09/01/n...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Classroom Commands in Latin! 🙂 I use these almost every day with my students! What are some other commands you use in your class not listed here? Get this design for a poster here: www.habesnelac.com/paid-downloa...

Grecanico: Ancient Greek language still spoken in southern Italy www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Today, August 24 is, according to the letter of Pliny the Younger, the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii. Come read that letter (VI.16) and the 9 others of the new required #APLatin syllabus with me this fall, Monday’s at 7 EDT on Zoom, starting September 1! 🌋 🏛️

How you are feeling today? Let us know below in the language you prefer! ✨ Grab your downloadable/printable copy here: www.habesnelac.com/paid-downloa... #Latin #AncientGreek #LanguageLearning #Emotions

Only 2 spots left as we are 10 days away! Come read #APLatin Pliny with us!

My brother just reminded me that my dad died 30 years ago tonight. Which means that this essay is now 5 years old. It’s still probably the thing I’m most proud of having written. #StarTrek #DS9 gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-...

People of the Boston area! If you're around Tufts on September 24, I'd love to see you come out to this talk, which will be open to the public.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

gordon ramsay but he’s in star trek: oh bloody hell. the gagh are barely wriggling. and this hasperat looks days old. good lord, what’s that- riker, through tears: my eggs

Sign up please! This has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in my professional life!!!

#Latin teachers! Nervous about the new #APLatin curriculum? Never taught Pliny? Come read all required letters in my first ever course at #SeumasU Monday nights at 7 on Zoom! We will read in Latin, then discuss interpretation & teaching strategies in English. Course starts Sept 1, limited spots!

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

#Latin teachers! Nervous about the new #APLatin curriculum? Never taught Pliny? Come read all required letters in my first ever course at #SeumasU Monday nights at 7 on Zoom! We will read in Latin, then discuss interpretation & teaching strategies in English. Course starts Sept 1, limited spots!

Very excited to announce that Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social is offering an Latin course on Pliny, esp. for teachers, under the #SeumasU umbrella. Starts September 1st, sign up today. thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Hey AP Latin teachers and other interested Pliny readers! My book, A Pliny Workbook, is on the precipice of printing! In the meantime, you can pre-order it here: www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work... #Classics #Latin

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up.

Hey AP Latin teachers and other interested Pliny readers! My book, A Pliny Workbook, is on the precipice of printing! In the meantime, you can pre-order it here: www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work... #Classics #Latin

Once again, Trump's tariffs are a heavy new tax on American consumers. They're NOT paid by foreign nations or foreign companies. They're paid by you and me in the form of higher prices on a staggeringly wide range of products.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Read the full poem. Chilling and painful. But so powerful.

7. So the evidence is clear: Biden appointed a secret Republican operative who issued negative job and inflation reports to help Trump get elected. And Trump appointed a secret Democratic operative who bolstered Biden’s numbers. 8. Either that, or the president’s assertions are simply ridiculous.

If only we could devise some system by which people who have extra money could help pay for public goods, like state parks for example. It could even say be tiered by your economic ability to contribute… 🤔

The WCC invites you to the workshop, An AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social Thursday, August 7, 2025 - 1-3 PM ET Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Watching Star Trek III The Search For Spock and David’s unethical use of proto-matter for the Genesis device because “if I hadn’t it might have been years or never” hits differently under the rush to make “AI” everything as fast as possible, ethics and consequences be damned.

History has shown us that when productivity (however defined) is the only goal, then productivity will justify anything.

This is excellent! All great advice & information. We tried a lot of this at the Our Voices in Classics conference at Columbia back in Feb of 2020. We didn’t get everything right, but I like to think we helped show what was possible. Thank you @workingclassicists.bsky.social for doing this work! ❤️

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.