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Screenshot of the Viabundus website.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

The word ‘to hear’ stems from the same root as ‘acoustic’.

They’re completely different, so how can that be?

‘To hear’ was inherited from Proto-Germanic, while ‘acoustic’ comes from Ancient Greek.

These languages have a common ancestor, but they developed very differently.

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I believe The Mouse will find a way to stop this but it would be extremely funny if SB79, the bill allowing apartments to be built near transit stops throughout California, ends up allowing homes near Disneyland because the monorail is technically transit

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews Scholars of Anglo-Jewish history have traditionally described medieval English Jews as French-speaking, and there is strong and varied evidence of their facility with French, as well as with Hebrew, A...

Publication day! My new article in ASCHKENAS has appeared: "The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews"—ever wondered if the Jews of medieval England might have spoken English? This article's for you, #medievalsky. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort. With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Peters, 5 Cranch, at 136. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.

From Sotomayor's dissent, which she's now reading from the bench:

"The President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Today’s ruling threatens the very essence of public education. The Court, in effect, constitutionalizes a parental veto power over curricular choices long left to the democratic process and local administrators. That decision guts our free exercise precedent and strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society. Exposure to new ideas has always been a vital part of that project, until now. The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.

In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A Documentation of the Occitan Language of Languedoc, or "un langdoc de la langue d'oc du Languedoc"

Λειτουργία της εξόδου κινδύνου

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.”

Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I inquired unto Urim and the Thummim and found that my own son Jonathan was he who breached the oath to refrain from food until nightfall

Just had a great discussion with some Stanford Law students! Now to open my phone and make sure the Supreme Court didn’t overturn a famous 90 year-old precedent on the shadow docket during the last hour.

Under ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws, Families May Be Evicted for Minor Offenses

You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence.

This is "crime-free housing" in America.

A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:

What website is this from?

Arcaicam Esperantom is a constructed auxiliary sociolect for translating literature into Esperanto created to act as a fictional 'Old Esperanto', in the vein of languages such as Middle English or the use of Latin citations in modern texts.

Mob linguist threatening to break your legs unless you pay back your loanwords

page written in Javanese

them: I'm learning javascript

I’m so sorry - it’s really hard in Netherlands, but kamernet always pulled through for me

sentiment check from bloomberg opinion

The absences are absolutely damning.

Trump’s astonishing claim of authority would render the other two branches of government purely advisory in the entire field of immigration enforcement. Congress’ decades of extensive legislation detailing which immigrants can be detained and deported, and under what circumstances, would amount to meager recommendations that the president could disregard. Under this construction of executive authority, court orders attempting to enforce those laws—or even bedrock constitutional protections—would be similarly voluntary. As Steve Vladeck has noted, no Supreme Court precedent remotely backs up this startling theory that Trump has “categorically unreviewable” power over foreign affairs that includes the right to identify, detain, and deport specific immigrants over judicial objections. The best support comes from a solo 2015 opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that even Justice Antonin Scalia ridiculed as promoting “a presidency more reminiscent of George III than George Washington.”

The Trump administration defied Judge Boasberg's order on the basis of its theory that courts have no authority to review or restrict the president's alleged constitutional right to deport immigrants. That theory, if accepted, would mark the end of constitutional democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*

I'm a big fan of the Irish goodbye. Which goes without saying

BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

The Uralic languages? The reconstructed ancestor of the Alic languages?

Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor.

It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today.

My heart breaks for the millions of Ukrainians who have been betrayed by our traitorous president in his pathetic quest for Putin’s approval. Ukraine’s people have shown immense courage in the face of Russia’s brutal, illegal aggression; they deserve our admiration and support. Trump is a quisling.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says opinion pages will defend free market and 'personal liberties' The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

"The censorship will continue until freedom improves."

This bird is now the rightful owner of Baile Átha Cliath