Adam Crocker

Moreover, with these poems you pretty much have to deal with translation and with that accompanying interpretation. And while I'm not familiar with this field, from some bare bones research, talking about an "authoritative" version of these poems seems almost impossible.

It says a lot about how little thought he put into this that he doesn't even notice that this is a prose translation, but then he already mixed up the Iliad with the Odyssey.

So. We don't have to unpack all of this, and we probably can't, but let's examine a couple points from the PoV of a classicist (different from a classist). First, as someone rightfully points out in the replies, that picture is the Odyssey, which is part of why I struggled to find the edition.

Music video title card. A shot of the interior of a Nigerian hospital, with workers in scrubs, face masks, and hairnets, engaging in preparation for surgery. IV drips, room dividers, and medical charts are visible in the background. Over this, in bold white letters, are the words: NO TOUCHING

15. Guchi, “No Touching” (Nigeria, Aug 21 2024) prod. Tuzi I don’t think I would have predicted at any point in the past six years that this would be my highest-ranking Nigerian song of that same period. No Yemi Alade? No Tiwa Savage? None of the more world-shaking Nigerian hitmakers to have emerged in the 2020s? Guchi is a minor figure at best in the panoply of Nigerian pop; successful, sure, but not overwhelmingly so, and with such a pronounced tendency toward playing fresh-faced schoolgirl roles in her videos that I was mildly surprised to learn she’s 27. (But given that she started in 2019, that makes sense. Everyone looks younger and younger, the older I get.) But this song, man. I said in my 2024 year-end roundup that I was hearing it as a song of asexual desire for connection even if it wasn’t intended as one, but after spending months with it I can’t believe that it wasn’t intended as one, even if those aren’t the words Guchi or her songwriters would use. “Cause I need it for my healing, for my healing.” Asexuality doesn’t have to be unconditional to be real, and maybe it’s the fact that I gleefully embrace so much allo- and even specifically hypersexuality in pop that makes this gentle plea for presence, rather than verbal or physical caress, to be the medium of love for now hit so hard. YouTube: 977K views | Spotify: 941K streams | TikTok: 71K vids

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 35

15. Guchi, “No Touching”
(Nigeria, Aug 21 2024)
prod. Tuzi

youtu.be/UIBgKaqcg70

#NowWatching #TheRunningMan

Nefarious onscreen, a helluva guy off

“Have fun working, human. I keep your bed now”

Nice choice. This is basically how I approached multigrain breads back when I was baking my own bread in Canada. Bobs Red Mill was always a great choice for that sort of thing.

Bread Machine Multigrain Bread + Recipe Video - Bread Dad This easy bread machine multigrain bread recipe is a delicious way to add more fiber and nutrients into your family's diet.

Okay, multigrain bread is outrageously expensive and I have a bread machine, so i am giving it a shot for the first time. I didn't before because I didn't want 25 little bags of quickly perishable whole grains sitting around but this recipe suggested using a hot cereal:

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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

The problem with this approach is that the government *also* have to be strong enough to tolerate the red tops running stories about the "undeserving poor" being given handouts.

They show no sign of being able to do this.

The disturbing victory of Old Labour over New Labour In education, labour and housing we risk going back towards what we know will not work

Excellent, excellent column this by Martin Wolf - capturing a neglected truth, which is this government is an 'Old Labour' one, not in the way it was useful for Blair and Corbyn to caricature, but in the 'how those governments actually governed (and mostly lost):

Come on and safari with me…🏄‍♂️

Today we’re travelling back to Episode 199: “Surfin’ Safari” by the Beach Boys, which examines the first hit single that helped crystallise the band’s harmonic identity.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...

Yeah, this is a wat to dodge accountability while simultaneously priming the company for a lawsuit down the road as it inevitably runs afoul with the most basic requirements of diligence.

New AI-powered Smart Disputes will be enabled in December 2025

Stripe here showing the ultimate purpose of AI: offloading blame of consequential decision-making onto a cold, unthinking, unfeeling, "purely logical" machine.

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

Music video title card. A ahot of Baby Cortes surrounded by five dancers in an open, empty warehouse-style building. Over top, in a leopard-print font, are the words: BABY CORTES LOKI PUTI FINA

16. Baby Cortes, “Loki Puti Fina” (Cuba, Dec 20 2024) prod. Roberto Ferrante, Ernesto Losa One of the most exciting, novel, and explosively growing genres of urban music across Latin America today is Cuban reparto: a relief for those of us deeply aware of Cuba’s central place in Latin music history, but also of how the post-1962 embargo has systematically excluded Cuba (with some exceptions) from the broader conversation in Latin music in the generations following hip-hop and dancehall. Reparto can be understood as a Cuban analogue to Puerto Rican reggaeton or Dominican dembow, but born of the specific cultural and economic pressures of Havana. I talk about it less often than I could because my bias towards female voices mean that the big names in the current generation of reparto (Bebeshito, Wampi, etc.) have a tendency to slide off my attention, but I’ve become a devoted fan of the one woman currently given resources by Italian label Planet Records, Baby Cortes. Daughter of the late José Luis Cortes, the virtuosic flautist of Los Van Van, Irakere, and his own NG la Banda, she’s pushing reparto in a pop direction, as in this whistle-hook girl-power dance number with amapiano accents that is, save for the build-and-release kickdrum parts, barely reparto at all. Most excitingly, I don’t think she’s made her best work yet. YouTube: 408K views | Spotify: 4.2K streams | TikTok: 1 vid

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 34

16. Baby Cortes, “Loki Puti Fina”
(Cuba, Dec 20 2024)
prod. Roberto Ferrante, Ernesto Losa

youtu.be/N_-6lf84q54

Sean Davis Delivers Stunning Condemnation of Trump On X Sean Davis posted a scathing takedown of President Donald Trump and warned Republicans to they "had better wake up" before the 2026 midterms.

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The mood was pretty sour and dark when I got up today, understandably so. But I wanted to add a bit of good news about how the rats are fleeing a sinking ship and the Federalist's chief has turned on Trump.

If Funko goes down, Forbidden Planet goes down btw

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.

Stacked bar chart showing global vehicle deliveries by quarter from 2016 to 2025, rising steadily to 1.81 million in 2023, dipping slightly in 2024, and dropping further to 1.22 million in 2025.

These are Tesla sales. This is what he's been rewarded for.

He's killed the brand, helped kill the subsidies that BUILT the company, and bet the company on technology that only exists as AI slop.

Better chance the stock crashes than Elon ever reaches or gets close to his trillion-dollar payout.

Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

Community is Keeping this Young News Outlet Alive The 51st owes its success to reader support and input

“D.C. is a city of people who really care about things... I think it's a really incredible city to try and launch something like this in.”

@thefulcrum-us.bsky.social interviewed our co-founder @abigailhiggins.bsky.social — among others — for this piece about how community fuels our team's work:

I think it's pretty telling that the Conservatives gave a little speech about how they're very mad at Carney's budget (as is their job) but then when it came time, they were like "oh, no notes, nothing to add".

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company.

Utterly despicable.

“The program director, who left China in 2014, said that he did not feel he was in physical danger but that the relentless messages forced him to shut down the event. His parents and friends, who live in China, also received verbal harassment, he said.”

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And they should face some sort of legal sanction since these actions were plainly illegal.

And Marco Rubio.

I mean he'll, the whole Trump admin and GOP Congress are culpable, but Rubio played a big role in this.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk