They should invent news about higher education that doesn't drive you insane
Mark Masterson
@markjmasterson.bsky.social
Byzantinist. Flutist. Author of Between Byzantine Men (Routledge 2022) and Man to Man (Ohio 2014) Former Associate Professor of Classics, Victoria University, New Zealand (now retired). Orcid: 0000-0001-9964-8672
If you’re in LA we’re doing a set at Amoeba in about half an hour. Actually we are doing the set whether you’re in LA or not but you know what I mean
Loving this!
Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · 2w agoNow that the NZH no longer has Hooton, Thomas Coughlan has been unleashed on Luxon: "his past week has demonstrated just how poor a performer he can be, demonstrating to the National caucus and the country at large that there is no floor to Luxon’s political ineptitude" #nzpol
At some point, AI boosters are going to have to engage with the fact that the people who have most fully and prominently bought into this product are also the stupidest, most evil people on the planet.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Derrida. Blanchot. The city of Lublin. ❤️🔥 I got to interview independent scholar, writer & literary translator @frankgarrett.online for @hfr.bsky.social about philosophy, his wider project of translation, & queer Polish poet Czechowicz @sublunary.bsky.social 🔥 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...
“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett
Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …
heavyfeatherreview.org
I honestly don’t know how anyone can be in the room when he says this kind of shit and not say ANYTHING. That’s not how you talk to people! Hit him with a rolled up newspaper or SOMETHING.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
The attached blog post is really well done, and frequently grimly humorous.
Grant Henninger@granthenninger.com · 3w agoThis was incredibly long (blog post & thread, both), but a worthwhile read if you’re dealing with AI slop at work. Increasingly, I’m finding folks completely offloading their thinking to AI, generating documents & plans without any critical thought of their own. Universally, the work is nonsensical.
I am just a boy trying to construe a dative with παρά while surrounded by addled AI advocates.
"shall" is not a good translation here, as shall is simple future. "you 'should' have the body" is better and "It should be/must be the case that you have possession of your body" is wordier but best. #theissuematterstooofcourse
Corrected a mistranslation of habeas in habeas corpus. Probs will get a snippy reaction. It's not good for people to argue about something so important while thinking the Latin says something that it does not. The shades of meaning matter. Latin still does. But yeah don't teach it anymore.
Spurs had it won and then somebody "found" a whole bunch of Knicks points in the middle of the night.
I think it's time we had some articles about what rural Americans can do to regain MY trust.
The three things Democrats must do to regain rural America’s trust | Anthony Flaccavento
After decades of alienating working-class and rural voters from the Democratic party, it’s time the left bridges the divide
theguardian.com
I filled out a survey and took a question about 'supporting the group better' sincerely. Mistake! The leader is not happy with my gentle (really!) suggestion. #HowDidIForgetThisTruthEternalAbourRequestsForFeedback
Yep. THIS. Ai enthusiasts, lightweight frauds they are, cannot imagine.
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 3mo agoI don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.
Justinianic, Heraclian, Macedonian, Komnenian, Laskarid, Palaiologian
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo agowhat are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
A new episode of Byzantium & Friends: The Menologion of Basil II, with @charleskuper.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/05/the-... #medieval #podcast
The Menologion of Basil II, with Charlie Kuper - Medievalists.net
A conversation with Charlie Kuper about the Menologion of Basil II, a lavishly illustrated manuscript pairing brief notices about the saints with images of them and their ordeals, arranged according…
medievalists.net
there's something perfect about people like this only caring about faux journalists attending a fancy elite party and not anyone experiencing violence while out doing the actual job of journalism
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4mo agoPeople here are being really shitty, including at fellow journalists who've been traumatized, and you will regret those posts. Or should. Also this does not help your political cause, whatever that might be.
Found a nineteenth century polka-mazur (a Viennese dance form) that has quite the resonant title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...
