tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī
arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī
"Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me
A new moon will appear, my sun will shine."
A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.
I'm going to use this as a blurb for the project on my CV. They make it sound so good!
Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
This is so heartening!
Thank you so much to the MLA, AHA, ACLS for pursuing this lawsuit
Exactly. What is striking to me is just how much many people worked so hard to believe that explicit racism and misogyny ended with the Civil Rights Act or whatever. What appeared to be implicit bias was often just hidden explicit bias. People can and do strategically lie about what they believe.
I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.
From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace
theconversation.com/from-ancient...
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Read this. Even more than the Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I think, this speech captures the essence of where King was going and where we still need to go from here.
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." - MLK
All we need when people scrutinize protester conduct & communal self-defense.
Haha, thanks!
TIL that not only is my birthday also the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., it is also the date of the assassination of Rosa Luxembourg. What a do.
An article that combines my birthday-sharer MLK Jr. and racial/disability solidarity? Yes, please!
Also, dire warnings about the efforts to resegregate society? Necessary.
Hello just making my periodic announcement that I'm a trans man and transitioning made my life SO MUCH better and trans people of all ages deserve respect and access to gender-affirming care - just like cis people do!
CripAntiquity was at the SCS/AIA Conference in SF! Thanks to everyone who chatted with us during the conference and at our roundtable. Discussions at the conference gave us many ideas to improve accessibility in our sector. Please continue these talks and providing your support in the future!
This is such a good story. If you'd like an easily listenable version, try this one from The Memory Palace.
https://thememorypalace.us/the-wheel/
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
Useful.
Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
You need to seriously consider sense modalities other than vision. Theorising about vision and assuming that it will generalise is not a good strategy. (Also, don’t conflate states, events and processes, but that’s another kettle of fish!) #PhilPerception
Tomorrow’s a preview of 2026! A collection of clips from my conversations with Jonathan Sedlak, Sara Koenig, @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social, @blindscholar.bsky.social, Jennie Grillo, Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat, Kirk MacGregor, David Basher, & @alexianafry.bsky.social.
The last time I went I saw previews for the new zany, quippy animated comedy "Animal Farm"—also a sign we're in a good place societally.
I think it’s more the case that everybody is stupid sometimes, in some contexts. So we have to protect people for when it’s their turn to be stupid, since someday that will be us too.
Whenever I led sections of undergrads, I found one of the most effective things was openly admitting I didn't have all the answers, but I could teach them how an expert (and them!) might find out. The content is often secondary to the scaffolding of knowledge creation and discovery
oh my.
I love this.
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