Wrote a lil manifesto with @kevinroose.com about what we're trying to do at Machine Gods. We call it AI realism www.platformer.news/machine-gods...

Introducing Machine Gods

Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell

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I should point out that there's nothing in this platform that is "Latin Only", other than the seeded sample pack. Any language, any discipline could make use of it for review, etc. More info here: periclesgroup.org/mendax/

MENDAX - The Pericles Group Foundation

MENDAX is a free whole-class bluffing review game for the projector, for any language or subject, based on the classroom game Bluff, from The Pericles Group Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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Kevin Ballestrini@kballestrini.bsky.social · 6d ago

Introducing the Mendax platform! mendax.periclesgroup.org Many have used a version of a bluffing game in class. @senorachase.bsky.social has a post: senorachase.com/2018/03/23/b... Mendax is a free version built for simplicity. Upload your own questions, any content works! More to come...

Introducing the Mendax platform! mendax.periclesgroup.org Many have used a version of a bluffing game in class. @senorachase.bsky.social has a post: senorachase.com/2018/03/23/b... Mendax is a free version built for simplicity. Upload your own questions, any content works! More to come...

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Look it’s really simple. It’s always about money. Always. .ai has been a boon to Anguilla. Team Trump has found a way to steer that money to them instead. Which country owns .si ? Slovenia. Gee, wonder how he’ll manage to get a huge cut of the forced domain registrations.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "Super intelligence -- we've changed the name officially, by the way. I signed the document. We don't call it artificial intelligence. Because it's not artificial. It's real. It's a terrible world. It's amazing it loved on so long, actually."

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social debate whether digitizing artifacts (particularly to train #LLMs) justifies the loss of their physical forms: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #genAI #museum #history #library #mediastudies

Ok; Spanish VERBA is now live at play.verba-game.com, joining Latin, French, and an English version designed for ML learners. Since the collapse of the old bird place, the WL network isn't as large. Please share widely and let me know what you think! If you are new, verba-game.com has the details

Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.

VERBA - The Pericles Group Foundation

Putting the _____________ in Language Learning VERBA is the language learning card game developed by The Pericles Group. The concept is incredibly simple — one player (acting as a judge) ...

verba-game.com

I played the physical version of this game with my Latin classes back when I was teaching and it was lots of fun, so I recommend checking this out!

Kevin Ballestrini@kballestrini.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.

Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.

VERBA - The Pericles Group Foundation

Putting the _____________ in Language Learning VERBA is the language learning card game developed by The Pericles Group. The concept is incredibly simple — one player (acting as a judge) ...

verba-game.com

How often does @kballestrini.bsky.social think about Rome? Every day! But not for the reasons those weirdos on Twitter do... Tune in to learn about the development and implementation of the text-based Latin #language #ARG #RPG Operation LAPIS! #EduSky #roleplay #classics #Latin #k12 #highered

The Worldbuilding Workshop@wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social interview award-winning Latin and classical history educator @kballestrini.bsky.social: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teaching #Latin #ACTFL #classics #Rome #history #languageed

NEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...

The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Have AI Slop in It

The logo for officially renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport appears to be generated with AI.

futurism.com

You ever have an idea that sticks in your head and won’t leave until it’s complete? Well, that was me and my idea for a Latin reader based on the Roman values listed on the AP syllabus. So here it is: an anthology of Latin exempla, free to use and enjoy! magisterconway.blogspot.com/2026/07/more...

Free CSI Lectures - July 6-10, 2026 - CANE caneweb.org/free-csi-lec...

Free CSI Lectures - July 6-10, 2026 - CANE

The CSI Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public, begins next week. We hope you can join us!

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The big reveal was at the American Classical League Institute yesterday, but VERBA (the language card game) is now available as a web-based digital platform, absolutely free to use. Latin is available now; other languages to follow down the road: play.verba-game.com

And yet, a week later, here we are again.

Kevin Ballestrini@kballestrini.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm sure it's entirely a coincidence that each week, without fail, that on Friday afternoon the situation in the Strait devolves and breaks down, but is magically resolved by Monday morning. If only there were some kind of opening and closing bell that the posturing was being built around.

I'm sure it's entirely a coincidence that each week, without fail, that on Friday afternoon the situation in the Strait devolves and breaks down, but is magically resolved by Monday morning. If only there were some kind of opening and closing bell that the posturing was being built around.

Hell, I’m here for the Teen Girl Squad reference alone!

Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just gonna leave this here. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...

For anyone looking for some summer PD opportunities or just general collegiality with fellow Classicists, CANE Summer Institute will be fully virtual this year and open to anyone, no membership in CANE required! caneweb.org/csi/

CANE Summer Institute - CANE

Questions? Please contact Mark Wright, the director of the CANE Summer Institute, at summerinst@caneweb.org.

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Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Marco Rubio: "You're the bad guy in this. You guys should be not be blowing up ships."

The Lion, the Witch, and the IKEA Brimnes

Magistra Cohen (she/her)@magistracohen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Slightly diminish a book Mischief and Warning

But I was told we needed to tone down the rhetoric

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Calling Democrats “treasonous” and “human garbage” would’ve been a big deal in any other era. Now it’s just another fucking Saturday.

The answer is never. The media is irrevocably broken and has failed entirely at their primary purpose for at least the last decade.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

published this morning and already aged like milk. when will legacy outlets stop falling for the "new tone" BS?

For anyone preparing for the looming Latin AP exam, I’ve been working to get more informational texts (many are AP EKs) loaded onto the site: lapis.practomime.com/index.php/in... It’s time to move towards history and culture being embedded language content rather than tacked on English.

For anyone preparing for the looming Latin AP exam, I’ve been working to get more informational texts (many are AP EKs) loaded onto the site: lapis.practomime.com/index.php/in... It’s time to move towards history and culture being embedded language content rather than tacked on English.

Guess #actfl has too many quality Latin presentations this year. I mean, last years total was like 3, with a cancellation. Too much competition to accept little ol’ me 🤣

I have SO MANY thoughts about these schools and the broader movement and gave a paper about them at a conference last month. Overall, this isn't an awful article but I do have an issue with the credulous parroting of this "apolitical" line www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It’s almost as if they are all in on it too…

“UConn missed 18 of its first 19 attempts from 3-point range and finished 5 for 23. The fifth will be remembered in Connecticut for generations.”

So many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati... 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social

latincy/latin-bert · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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