We finally did it, folks. Every facile argument about AI concentrated into a fine powder. Not a critical engagement in sight to blunt the ecstasy of the void.
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We finally did it, folks. Every facile argument about AI concentrated into a fine powder. Not a critical engagement in sight to blunt the ecstasy of the void.
Fortitude. Because you know you need it! By Sandro Botticelli, whose day is today, in 1470.
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
❗️Petition to protest the planned closures of the Wincklemann-Institut (!) and archaeology programs at Humboldt University in Berlin ⬇️
Not yet! I’ve not been *Romae* since it opened.
About to lecture on Fulvius Nobilior’s temple of Hercules and the Muses. Will be using the Severan marble plan for all its worth, including this scrap of a 16th century drawing of a now lost chunk of the Forma Urbis Romae. Hoping this will help inspire the young with a sense of adventure.
Make America Paralyzed Again
Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Open this link with caution. You’ll find yourself piecing together the past for hours. formaurbis.stanford.edu
In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy
BREAKING: federal judge orders the Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House.
The opinion opens with “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed…”
With @fallonroth.bsky.social
They’d eat this one
Turning and turning in the widening gyre …
An important enabling structure that is helping slop makes its way into institutional life is several decades of built in bullshit bureaucratic bloat that is not meaningfully attached to advancing institutional goal but nonetheless has to be ground out week after week. It’s a natural home for slop.
When I read of payout UT offered to get rid of him my blood boiled. Outrageous.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
Super bowl you say? How bout this artifact from the Catline’s run for the consulate in 63 BCE. Inscribed within is CASIUS LONGINV QUEI CATILINAE {SU} / SVFRAGATVR (“Cassius Longinus who is {su} supporting Catiline” (text and trans Berry 2020:21). Part of a get-out-the-vote food dole program.
Finally watched Das Leben der Anderen. Truly fantastic, and surprisingly cheering in the midst of our own dystopian present. The shots of Stasi HQ brought me right back to the oppressive bureaucratic nightmare of a building that a visited last May.
*Of course* he’s connected to Epstein.
So good
Right?
@katherinemcdon.bsky.social
Shoot. Forgot she’s here! Thx.
Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...
Something from a Connecticut insurance attorney to brighten your evening. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
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