@emuehlbe
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
No, really: you've got a piece that makes a substantial scholarly contribution to the study of early Christianity (100-700 C.E.) on the basis of wide engagement with the primary sources in the original languages and relevant scholarship on the topic in multiple languages?
Come on down!!
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<youth pastor voice>: hey, you know where you can actually get expert review, along with editorial comments from some of the best writers in the field?
mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jecst
One pair lived through a four-day, four-state, one-day-of-deluge trip last and looked like they were new again after I washed em
Handup is doing really great wool socks and they stand up to gross weather
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If you still think what Grammerly is doing is “enshittification “ and recent but not committed to the long history of slavery, women’s ghost writing , colonialism and anti DEI
that’s why they did it
And will continue to until they learn
My beloved did mid-term feedback in one of her classes yesterday, and one submission said "I don't think people really hear me in this class---I'm not sure they even see me"
she was struck, for a moment, until she realized: it's a class on ghost stories, and someone turned in feedback as a ghost
Why did Michigan shelve a report on the state’s history of Indigenous boarding schools after paying more than a million dollars to have the report completed?
I don’t know, but I read the report and have some thoughts.
Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century!
Basically, new apocryphon just dropped.
You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...
immediate follow
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1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
I've got a tenner that says they'd be happy with you using it for everything *but* grading
how that happens---how men are convinced that they know what needs to happen to other people's lives, aspirations, bodies, and that other people surely want for themselves what men imagine them to want---is worth study, because the resulting ignorance-that-feels-like-knowledge is destroying us
Smarter people than I have pointed out that the mess we are making of the world stems from politicians not having a theory of mind for other people
I'd go one further: they *have* a theory of mind for other people---and they're convinced it's the same as their own
That study is open access here---it explains how young men in the ancient Mediterranean learned to pretend to be women, and it gave them the sense that they knew women better than they knew themselves: luminosoa.org/reader/chapt...
Much smarter people than I have written about AI use and how it trains the writer now---all I've got for this is a study of how ancient people trained writers and how it affected their view of the world and of other people
I care about the morality of AI use in the classroom because how we teach people to write is how we teach people to think---not just about ideas, but about other people and about the use of power over those other people
There is absolutely no reason why any of this has to be this way, truly none
A billion dollars a day solves most problems, and it is to our eternal shame that we do not the political will to spend that kind of money on anything but destruction
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
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*Raises hand* I wrote an article about this very thing happening in the 1920s.
Antonovich, Jacqueline. “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 439-469.
all I want to know is what's the Columbus version of Cottage Inn and what was his standard order
Wolverines, usually very vocal about every single little problem that comes out of Columbus:
this this this
I saw two on a bike ride yesterday!
Over the next two days, we'll hear papers from @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social, @mbinzurich.bsky.social, @kelsbot.bsky.social and Jill Unkel, Nils Korsvoll, Christos Tsirogiannis, Rebecca Usherwood, and myself and Daniele Pevarello.
yes
COUS
welcome