@bahartung
Teaching Professor, Arizona State University When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Canโt believe we are still doing this
As I've said many times, this is an awful thing that we are doing to ourselves for no discernible reason.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a โlarge deportationโ promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schoolsโand often impairs it."
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
The broad protections of free speech in the US donโt disprove my point. The 20th century iteration of the Klan is a different thing. The 19th century Klan was destroyed.
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
Itโs not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
Didnโt watch the video, eh? The post civil war Klan (which is the subject of this video) was utterly destroyed by the US government during Reconstruction.
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
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4th-century mosaic from Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) at the British Museum
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
My daughter (2) calls "Feliz Navidad" "Police Peacock" and I just had to share that.
My favourite holiday meme
I just did something similar on the plane. Just being around smart people talking about their work lit a fire under me
If only they hadnโt scheduled it on Monday night!
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
For the first time in our parasocial relationship, I feel seen
As a historian, I just can't get over the ridiculous idea of a "communist jihadist"
โThou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.โ
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklinโs โJoin, or Dieโ engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trumpโs โcompactโ: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.
It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
FFS, โthe Marvel Universe of faithโ? That quote says it allโฆ
I encourage you to learn the difference between the academic study of religion and theology
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
