Mark Eli Kalderon
@markelikalderon.bsky.social
Philosopher working on philosophy of perception and its history
Nearly 3 years after the British Library cyberattack, images of its Greek New Testament manuscripts are slowly returning online—and the restored images are now available under public domain. What's back, what’s still missing, and what can we learn from the recovery? criticaltexts.com/nearly-3-yea...
Nearly Three Years After the British Library Cyberattack: What Happened to Its Greek New Testament Manuscripts?
On October 28, 2023, one of the world’s most important research libraries effectively disappeared from the internet. The attack was not a temporary outage: it crippled the British Library’s digital…
criticaltexts.com
Margarita Konovalova, who went by the alias Rita Flores as a member of the Russian punk feminist band and anti-Putin artist collective Pussy Riot, recently claimed that she was coerced into spying on other dissident artists for the last three years by the Russian national security service.
Ex-Pussy Riot Member Says She Was Recruited by Russia to Spy on Artists
Margarita Konovalova, who performed in the collective under the alias Rita Flores, fled Russia earlier this month with the help of her lawyer.
hyperallergic.com
“Dude, we made some great songs,” he said. “And I truly do think we pushed the language of rock ’n’ roll to places it hadn’t been before.” How so? “Well, like, not very many bands featured the sound of vomiting into a toilet before us,” he replied.
A New Documentary Gives Butthole Surfers Their Due (Gift Article)
A new movie explores Butthole Surfers’ musical legacy, with layers of loss and regret. “It’s kind of vindicating,” the singer Gibby Haynes said.
nytimes.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3c...
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K]
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtube.com
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoNathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
Book Review: Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 by A. Tunç Şen (2025) and Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe by Robert G. Morrison (2025). #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/t...
The astral sciences in the Ottoman Empire
Popular perception of history are almost always constructed out of half remembered facts, myths and legends and very often have no real relation to what actually took place. In the western world th…
thonyc.wordpress.com
Live shot of my email box at the start of the semester.
Bander79: Massive Water Discharge from Structure
Alt: Bander79: Massive Water Discharge from a large round hole
static.klipy.com
Further reason to eschew AI in philosophy (I am, of course, a disjunctivist)
Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name@avel.kairos-research.org · 3w agoHere's a new LLM breakthrough, this time in philosophy!
"After all other metanarratives collapsed or were discredited, "Dolly Parton is the GOAT" was the only player left on the field, and so History ended on a surprisingly happy note."
Tribute to Prof. David Charles (1947-2026) by Brad Inwood and Verity Harte @yale.edu philosophy.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
Tribute to Prof. David Charles
philosophy.yale.edu
Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962)
Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962)
Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Changing the minds of others has never counted among humanity's easiest tasks, and it seems only to have become an ever-stiffer challenge as h...
openculture.com
@logeiongklat.bsky.social or @rogueclassicist.bsky.social Is there an app for the phone where you could look up a passage in Greek or Latin on the go (or in bed)? Perseus doesn't seem to have an app and their website is not formatted well for phones.
On this day in 2018. Kieran @kjhealy.co ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece.
Crushed—crushed I tell you—that Jason Stanley would be big mad if he discovered that an edited volume appears on my Google Scholar page (About as much as I am about Cofnas being suspended by Ghent, but still a bit silly of Jason) substack.com/home/post/p-...
It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged
The media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem
substack.com
On Jah Wobble www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Jah Wobble on covering the Beatles, London buses and why punk went wrong: ‘Being kind is seen as square’
The maverick former Public Image Ltd bassist takes us on a typically picaresque journey through his ‘Kafka-esque’ days at Transport for London, being named by Sid Vicious and his spiritual learnings
theguardian.com
I have been in the UK for too long Looking up at the slate, overcast sky, I thought yo myself, "Thank goodness it is cloudy and gray!"