Dr Rhiannon Easterbrook

I might steal that!

Enjoyed the Irish culture, Siobhán’s evil vamp Pierrot costumes and Paudie’s commitment to saying as much as possible.

Oyin in Traitors Ireland is amazing, a regal clairvoyant in a fantastic pincer movement with Vanessa.

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

I’m thinking a sheep for the imperfect

Do we think my students will remember the formation of the Latin pluperfect indicative if it is accompanied by a picture of Taylor Swift Eras tour?

This does sound interesting! My food-related listening is normally either Off Menu or critiques of Wellness, but I will look it up!

I mean I thought it probably was but I guess it could have been fresco. What happened to the statue?

Haha! What were you searching to find this 2 year-old post?

This is only true if the first set IMO. Once that’s out of the way they magically transform into something fun and cool.

STUDYING CLASSICS AT UNIVERSITY - OF GODS AND WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A University Taster Day of mini lectures and interactive experiences for school students.

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

Don’t we all at times?

Had a lovely time speaking to classics and English students at St Grammar School today about imagined invasions, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity and Victorian and Edwardian performance. Had the pleasure of answering some brilliant questions!

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Thank you! That looks intriguing

YES to linguistics

That sounds fun!

Any recommendations for podcasts that leave you feeling upbeat? They can be about anything. Can’t seem to shake off the late-Winter blues.

Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others

‘I’d been Chaucer for a week!’: Forging the Medieval in Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ ABSTRACT. Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ describes the creation of a Chaucerian forgery in immense detail. The short story, first published in 19

‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
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Love that the latest series of What We Do in the Shadows has a nod to The Warriors. This means that it now is not only a reception of the Prometheus myth (Laszlo’s monster) but Xenophon’s Anabasis.

#ClassicalReception

Love that the latest series of What We Do in the Shadows has a nod to The Warriors. This means that it now is not only a reception of the Prometheus myth (Laszlo’s monster) but Xenophon’s Anabasis.

#ClassicalReception

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And to be clear: I do think that it was rough on students too and have a lot of empathy for the feeling of disappointment and missed opportunities — as well as the anxiety and isolation. However the narrative here is questionable. Why mention strikes? What about clinically vulnerable students?

Someone I really care about worked themselves into chronic illness - a disability they still have, by helping their institution maintain services during lockdown, working all the hours while they themselves were suffering from Covid. I’m sure they’re not the only one.

i'd like to see AI do this!!! [draws a convex function which i label concave and discuss as if it's concave for the entire lecture despite the vague feeling that i've made some kind of error, only realising next week what happened]

Traitors Ireland has some of the funniest episodes since the Aus 2 finale.

Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."

Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"

So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.