Tom Elliott

AI event with Patrick Burns

If you are in the NYC area, you're invited!! @diyclassics.bsky.social

Sun Tzu “Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

& the current proposals aren't good for GLAM data imo, have your say here

Wikidata's notability policy is under review here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Epigraphic Object Encoding

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Epigraphic Object Encoding, Thursday 5th March at 16:00 GMT (online only). Presentation by Gabriel Bodard & Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini (University of London), Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki).
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The president is still a pedophile and should still be impeached.

Our #siteoftheweek is POP - Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. POP describes and disseminates scientific descriptions of cultural assets that are studied or preserved in France (works of art, buildings or sites, objects or furniture, photographs, etc.).

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from England in the north to the Horn of Africa in the South and from the Iberian peninsula in the west to the Indian subcontinent in the east.

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (23 February - 2 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 16 new and 226 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta […]

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In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students When you check Google Groups after course registration to see who’s in your upcoming classes, there’s one extra pupil you won’t find listed in a class with Associate Professor of the Classics Naomi Ro...

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students – The Colgate Maroon-News
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Stansbury: “The vast majority of co-conspirators that were investigated were the women who assisted in Epstein's crimes—

None of the male perpetrators who committed rape & SA, including potentially the president who’s accused in the files, have been called to testify & to account for what happened”

Thanks to @serviliusahala.bsky.social, the #PleiadesGazetteer now has a place resource for the Sanctuary of Palaimon (Palaimonium), a Roman sanctuary located at Isthmia and dedicated to an embodiment of the Isthmian games ... #SneakPeek

According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show By Daniel Ruetenik, Graham Kates Updated on: February 7, 2026 / 5:18 PM EST / CBS News U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

From a Fox News story (link below in thread) Cantor accused the airline of failing to prevent hijackers from taking the plane that crashed into the firm's headquarters in the north tower of the World Trade Center. After years of legal wrangling, American agreed to $135 million settlement in December 2013. Some people inside Cantor believed the money would be distributed to families of company employees who died in the attacks, or put into the firm's general coffers. But during a conference call in March, Lutnick told senior executives "the bulk" of the money would be distributed among the firm's partners, according to one person on the call. Further, the person said each partner would receive $2 for each partnership unit. The source also said Lutnick is widely believed to own the biggest piece of the firm's partnership shares, thus entitling him to possibly tens of millions of dollars from the settlement.

TIRED: Lutnick was in business with Epstein

WIRED: Lutnick was in business with Epstein using money he skimmed from the American Airlines 9/11 settlement with Cantor Fitzgerald

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

THIS is what RFK Jr. is doing right now in reverse. He is undoing incredibly effective disease prevention efforts.

Scientists and healthcare professionals are screaming at the top of our lungs about what the result will be.

But until people see it for themselves, many will not believe.

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr.

TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

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To be blunt: tens of millions of school kids watch CNN 10 every day in school and are taught to view it as the standard of reliable factual news.

Here's another model for today's meeting...

Ancient Greek LatinCy lg model, same workflow/infrastructure at the Latin models, obv. different texts/data!

Experimental, beta—but on HF now: huggingface.co/latincy/grc_...

#digiclass #nlproc

FWIW, "emeritus" doesn't usu. get you much other than library access and maybe coffee time access in your old dept, UNLESS you were a high flyer and negotiated in writing additional perks before you made the transition. The real question is: what is Harvard giving Summers to make this transition?

All day today—starting in 10 minutes with the State of the Project report...

I did a thread on RTS AI after a question from @glassbottommeg.bsky.social, for those fond of the genre

Comparative metrics for different LatinCy models—spaCy but also Stanza, Flair, UDPipe

LatinCy @ 3 graphic with birthday cake

Model drop! Some (beta!) LatinCy releases ahead of Friday's dev meeting/"birthday" party, trained on same data as spaCy models…

- LatinCy Stanza huggingface.co/latincy/la_s...
- LatinCy UDPipe huggingface.co/latincy/la_u...
- LatinCy Flair huggingface.co/latincy/la_f...

#nlproc #digiclass

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Lent Term Seminars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. VIEWS Lent Term Seminars (Times GMT/UTC+0) Friday 30th January, 4.30pm ONLINE ONLY Reading, Riting, Rithmetic and 1+2=??? The varied roots of quirky sign ordering in Indic orthographies (Christopher ...

Tomorrow, Friday 27/2 16.30 GMT:
Anna Bertelli "Looking at the Inscribed Temple: Reconstructing Viewer Experience at the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete"

A fascinating inscribed space!

Zoom reg: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

I have a very bright Latin 2 student who’s a zoology major and wants to do an independent study reading Pliny the Elder next semester. Are there any student editions of any part of the Natural History? I’m not getting paid extra so I’d rather not have to prepare my own notes for them.

Happy 1601st birthday to the Pandidaktērion or "university" of Constantinople, founded with 31 chairs in philology, philosophy and rhetoric to train civil servants and administrators by Theodosius II, #onthisday in 425 CE.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING Bringing Down A Dictator FEB 27 @5:30 UAH MORTON HALL MOR 145 SCAN THE CODE TO RSVP

Huntsville 50501 is hosting a screening of Bringing Down a Dictator TOMORROW! Screening with discussion afterwards.

When: Friday, 2/27 5:30PM
Where: UAH Morton Hall Room 145, Huntsville AL
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Join us to learn about and discuss the power of non-cooperation!

The Maxwell evidence log notes three additional 302 documents dated in August and October 2019 related to the same victim, as well as three other sets of “interview notes.” None of those appear to be present in the files released by the DOJ, although there are copies of several photos she provided to the FBI as well as records of correspondence with her attorney.

Almost every media outlet this side of Fox has reported @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social's discovery of missing Trump allegation 302s, but most are missing significance. Roger proved they existed by pointing to a discovery inventory Maxwell got. SHE KNOWS what they say.
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donald trump and his cabinet are using the power of the government to cover up allegations he raped a child