*stage whisper* Aquinas is not a surname. Putting Aquinas, Thomas in your bibliography makes no sense.

The extreme servility and flattery of AI agents is telling me that a lot of people would really enjoy having slaves and lack the appropriate disgust response to (even simulated) debasement.

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. I see both why she is compared to Austen and why see has not quite the same following. All said, though, it was a solid Victorian novel, and if you enjoy them, you will likely enjoy this one.

The SSPX guys draw the line at an American Pope who loves baseball. This violates both traditionalist and French sensibilities.

The recent news on Sony giving up on physical media shows the strength of Ugaritic clay tablets. #reclaimphysicalitypreserveculture

I'm reading the @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the editor has chosen to follow every explanatory note with plot spoilers. I would really like to understand these passing Victorian cultural references, but not if you are going to ruin the book.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

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SciFi Writers: Make up all the space pronouns you want. Go nuts, I don't care. There's no ideological resistance. But, for the love of God, just tell me how it is supposed to be pronounced. You have to decide anyway for the audiobook, so slide a footnote or parenthetical remark my way. Please.

The funny thing about removing Mormons from the list of Christian denominations and making them their own thing is that there is literally no reason to do that while also leaving JWs as a denomination.

Muss man Schweizerdeutsch verstehen? Bei Gott sind alle Dinge möglich...außer diesem.

Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Come work with us in Switzerland!

Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.

My account was hacked and the hacker seems to have just placed a link in my bio and then liked every post that came across my feed in an indirect bid to get people to click it???? Bizarre.

Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ge'ez

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

Time for the Dems to find someone named John American to run in the next election. We can't ignore this proven formula.

We need a Swiss Guard themed buddy cop show about the Pope trying to get tough on crime

I’ve got two PhD scholarships for domestic students at Macquarie University. Topics must be related to Greek myth in contexts of communal crisis in antiquity. Always happy to chat about ideas! www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Paying for NYT Connections is basically paying someone to troll you. I do not know why I play this game so consistently when I get annoyed by it even when I win.

Words to live by from an underappreciated leader. #AncientHistory

You can cancel the book, but the window to your taste is not so easily broken.

Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 6mo ago

Not the first and definitely won’t be the last.

SLEEPER CELL

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6mo ago

President Trump: We know the location of the sleeper cells and we are monitoring them all.

I will not be submitting to SBL this year, but I did take a job at a UP so I will be present.

Breaking: Plagiarism Machine trained on all of our stories and articles about artificial intelligence regurgitates expected language!

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 7mo ago

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

Unidos somos América.

Weird story I've been watching across a few other social networks re: the Democratic senate primary in Texas between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. 🧵

Reading Ursula LeGuin's novel The Dispossessed which was written in 1974 and the way one character justifies atrocious political violence by appeal to traditional masculinity is really underscoring for me how much the present situation follows an old script.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.