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Joseph Howley

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I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool

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Acab, but if more of our cops commuted by public transit (or LIVED WHERE THEY POLICE) and worked all day on bikes rather than cars, it would be an improvement

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it truly is a shame that the New York City charter requires that the mayor be "thee largeft heap of fhite within thirty Miles" but the law's the law

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Opportunistic embrace of transphobic politics gets you “social liberal” from NPR

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"The home of the John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been sold. Now, 92 of the 93 wax figures that help tell the story of Brown, the abolitionist who led the raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, need a new home."

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This Middle Dutch manuscript (ca. 1400) shows how parchment warps when exposed to intense heat—in this case, during a WWII bombing raid. No longer readable as a book, it's still a powerful historical source.

Universitätsbibl. Kassel, 8° Ms. theol. 15: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...

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Simply *bursting* with ed zitron

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phylan's avatar phylan @phylan.bsky.social
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wow look at all the stuff that is happening right now. very awful. the most important thing I can do right now is tell people How To Post

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It’s so wild how these things keep doing the thing they were designed to do

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I’ve been stockpiling tubes and air for years waiting for this moment

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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Biden’s policy on Gaza is “a failure and a threat to U.S. national security” that “dehumanizes both Palestinians and Jews” and should be immediately overhauled, 12 former government officials who quit their posts over Biden’s controversial approach argued in their first joint public statement.

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Dr Abeba Birhane 's avatar Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social
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companies and firms do not implement AI products to make work easier, better, or more enjoyable for the average worker but to cut labour costs and reduce staff

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

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Gregory Hays's avatar Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must

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Matthew Harrison's avatar Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social
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robert greene claims panthers love human dung so much that if you hang some dung above their heads out of their reach, "he sooner killeth himselfe with the ouer-stretching of his windlesse bodie, than he wil cease from his intended enterprise." this is the best account of academia i have ever read

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

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It’s getting to where I can’t open the linen closet without a cat somehow rocketing up three shelves to snuggle up on the towels. I’m ready for some kind of app based solution

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Carlos Noreña's avatar Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social
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"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬

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Luke O'Neil's avatar Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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Maybe the left hates Biden because for every one decent thing he does there are ten things like this he does to placate republicans who will never ever vote for him. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/h...

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Joseph Howley's avatar Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social
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Breaking the paradigm with Digamma and Qoppa Males

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Did I miss something new about EL on the TL?

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Almost exactly two months left to plan your DS9 s3e11 Past Tense Party

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It’s a good day to have correct political opinions

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The Colossi of Memnon are statues of Amenhotep III in the Theban Necropolis, Egypt. Greek & Roman tourists came to see if they could hear them speak at dawn; 1 bilingual, 61 Greek & 45 Latin graffiti survive. A greek poem from Julia Balbilla is on the left foot sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/03/19/m...

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David William's avatar David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.

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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

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Liz Shayne's avatar Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social
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If you're in NY and can sign this, please do. Masks bans will not combat antisemitism, they will just put disabled people at risk. We can and must do better.
www.jewsformaskrights.com

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“With Columbia University as a backdrop,” Jonathan Greenblatt will continue his campaign against Jewish students organizing for Palestine. Under his leadership the ADL applauded the suspension of Jewish Voice for Peace and alleged that students were an Iranian front.

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It’s repulsive to see yet another bad faith invocation of Jewish safety to justify yet another expansion of police power to brutalize protesters.

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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If I did not wish to maroon the crew I would simply avoid tempting fate by naming the craft “Calypso”

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When I’m sweating on the 1 this summer I’ll remember to thank the governor

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I find it best to have low expectations but this generation of “AI gadget” somehow is finding ways to be even worse than I would have thought!

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This one is full of disappointments

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