Maybe the thing with the birds is not as difficult as it looks?
Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Spare a kind though for Émile Littré (1801–1881), a French lexicographer, who translated Dante into medieval French (1879).
Socrates Kapsaskis's 'Greek' Translation of James Joyce's ULYSSES was published in 1991. "a work of Homeric proportions, with lexical combinations ranging from the very modern colloquial language to Byzantine, New Testament, and Ancient Greek." (Peter Constantine)
Christian Socialist Reverend Stewart Duckworth Headlam (1847-1924), was forced to resign his curacy because of his professed interest in "Theatres and Music-Halls".
"Clear of the rocks the impatient vessel flies; Whilst in the port each wretch encumber’d dies. With earnest haste my frighted sailors press, While kindling transports glow’d at our success; But the sad fate that did our friends destroy, Cool’d every breast, and damp’d the rising joy. "
"not considering that we, as Englishmen, are indebted to the descendants of the Gothic tribes for our existence, our language, and our laws. "
Advice for freshers in 1660: "Goe not a gadding and gossiping from Chamber to Chamber..." (James Duport) #students #HigherEd #edusky #academicsky #university
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, NBC projects
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
aljazeera.com
"In one example, an agent powered by Anthropic’s Mythos model sent targeted emails to people." www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #AI #cybersecurity #threat #OpenAI
OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test
AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk
theguardian.com
Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century [OPEN ACCESS BOOK] "International, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational" #HigherEd #edusky #academicsky #university #research #humanities #PhdChat #edchat
"Make choice of honest, studious, religious youths for yr Companions; avoid all profane scurrilous, unsavoury, rotten, frothy communication." (James Duport) #students #HigherEd #edusky #academicsky #university
Time to fess up! When / where / why did you say " Fiddlesticks! "
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
The habit of sticking up two fingers behind a guy's head during group photos has as its origin 'the horns of the cuckold' - an insult suggesting the man has an unfaithful wife and and is therefore unmanly. This 1815 #satire implies rampant cuckoldry among the supposedly genteel. #WyrdWednesday
"Raciolinguistic ideologies are as much about social class as they are race – especially in England, where working class racism and global capitalism have long shaped the fabric of society and schools" --- Ian Cushing #language #edchat #linguistics #race #class
Advice for freshers in 1660: "Goe not a gadding and gossiping from Chamber to Chamber..." (James Duport) #students #HigherEd #edusky #academicsky #university
If you're at a loss for something to do this summer ... have you considered translating the Book of Job into Greek and Latin? --- Threnothriambos (1637) by James Duport (1606-1679)
"For the new far-right movement, “irony has a strategic function. It allows people to disclaim a real commitment to far-right ideas while still espousing them.” " www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hiding in plain sight: how the 'alt-right' is weaponizing irony to spread fascism
Experts say the ‘alt-right’ have stormed mainstream consciousness by using ‘humor’ and ambiguity as tactics to wrong-foot their opponents
theguardian.com
In a world of ‘Boy George’s’ and ‘Helen Mirren’s, be a “Brian Cox”. One of the great elder performers of our day. Anyone with a shred of integrity is with Palestine. 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide #StandUpForPalestine #StopKillingBabies
Even within the BBC, a memo from Barrie Thorne, for example, was sent (in 1962) to the Director of Television, Kenneth Adam, expressing his view that “The Uncle Tom attitude of the show in this day and age is a disgrace and an insult to coloured people everywhere”;
"But I feel as a writer that they should be out in the open so we can see how daft these comparisons are." ---Writer Johnny Speight on Alf Garnett, a fictional character from the English sitcom Till Death Us Do Part 1965-75 +
"Gender-flipped Shakespeare isn’t woke. He invented it. The RSC’s decision to cast Sharon D Clarke as a lesbian Othello may provoke purists, but the bard has always toyed with sex and desire." www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Gender-flipped Shakespeare isn’t woke. He invented it
The RSC’s decision to cast Sharon D Clarke as a lesbian Othello may provoke purists, but the bard has always toyed with sex and desire
telegraph.co.uk
