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Mark Saltveit

@daoish.bsky.social
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Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy, palindromes, medieval manuscripts,, &c. Upcoming: "Ego Tourism", a cringe-comedy-memoir about Taoism, Edinburgh Fringe, Aug 8-30 (not Tuesdays). Carbon Lounge Room 3, 14:25. PBH Free Fringe.

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Sheil Kapadia @sheilkapadia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Cowboys traded Micah Parsons in August of 2025. In the 22 games they've played since, their defense ranks: 32nd in EPA per drive 32nd in success rate 32nd in explosive play rate allowed 31st in rushing success rate
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The John Rylands Library in the rain looks even more like something out of a gothic horror film. Release the bats!
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
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Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're very excited that Brent Nongbri will join us next year to lead the ‘Papyrus Provenance Project’! As part of the ‘Global Minds’ programme @dfg.de, he and his team will investigate the transmission history of papyri, make provenance data accessible, and develop new material analysis methods
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‘Global Minds’ Funding: Brent Nongbri Joins UWA
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An important Bijan Robinson fact is that I asked him at his draft what show he was binge watching and he said THE MARVELOUS MS MAISEL. I think of this often.
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online. www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-...
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Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online - Medievalists.net
Nearly 600 medieval manuscripts from the German monasteries of Heilsbronn and Sankt Jobst have been digitised and made available to explore online.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Over on VoynichNinja (an excellent discussion board with lots of solid linguistic & cryptological work), someone posted this new resource based on my (credited!) work that lets you visualize structure & rearrange quires, bifolia, and pages! It's incredibly cool and really valuable. voynichviewer.com
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Maple Rodin @palindrometry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ode: We lure We rule We do -- #vss365 #lure #palindrome
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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hanging your smoldering cigarette cinder over priceless ancient papyrus scrolls? Bruh.....
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
David’s essay reveals clearly that this is not the priority of OpenAI. The “alignment problem” here is that the values of human wellbeing and humility are misaligned with the risk culture and social indifference of some in Silicon Valley. This is the first order problem.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Roman Water Channel Still Flows Beneath Ancient Greek City of Smyrna After 2,000 Years - GreekReporter.com greekreporter.com/2026/10/02/r...
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GreekReporter.com - Greek News from Greece and the World
Greek news from Greece and the world, get the latest updates on business, economy, Greek travel, recipes, Ancient Greek culture and more.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In case anyone is not familiar with the history, this is a direct reference to the Holocaust, which was the Nazi "final solution" to "the Jewish question." No one's existence should ever be a question.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026
Husband Still Faithful After 42 Years Of Trying To Cheat theonion.com/husband-still-faithful…
Husband Still Faithful After 42 Years Of Trying To Cheat
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sheil Kapadia is not only one of the best NFL analysts working today, he's taking a strong, common sense stand on this absurd lionization of Deshaun Watson.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/10/2026
Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Until recent decades, the monastery of Lios Mòr (Lismore) in Argyll, Scotland, established by Saint Mo Luóc in the sixth century, was attested only via historical references and local traditions. Community-led investigations have now revealed an early medieval cemetery, sophisticated craftworking of international importance and early structures around the island’s parish church. These discoveries underscore the site’s status as a high-ranking ecclesiastical centre of the Insular north-west and elucidate its significance and integral role within the early Christian networks of Dál Riata, offering insights into the material traces of early medieval monasticism in northern Britain in the first millennium AD.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/10/2026
Tips For Increasing Your Fiber Intake theonion.com/tips-for-increasing-yo…
Toast white bread to convert it to brown, fiber-packed wheat bread.

Incorporate eating a can of beans into your shower routine.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jay Feely is wide to the right. DOINK!!
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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hwaet! Winchester is advertising for a 0.5FTE, open-ended contract in English Lit (pre-1800). Deadline 14 October for applications. Please share this with anyone who might be interested! www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...
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Ted Nguyen @tednguyen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good stuff from Vic. This is exactly what I was wondering and thought this was the case. Shanahan likely calls the formation and dash motion and it’s up to Juszczyk to figure out how to execute based on the play. Rather than a have specific tag for every variation of dash.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p
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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My first outing in the New York Times, which hits different for this longtime Americaphile 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea
They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time. #palindrome
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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The FAS will increase Ph.D. admissions slots across its three divisions to 80 percent of historical levels, rolling back cuts that reduced seats by roughly 50 percent across divisions. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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FAS to Restore Ph.D. Admissions to 80 Percent of Historical Levels | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will increase Ph.D. admissions slots across its three divisions to 80 percent of historical levels this admissions cycle, rolling back cuts that reduced seats last…
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yale Library’s digitized Takamiya Collection helps solve mystery of medieval fragments library.yale.edu/news/yale-li... @yale.edu www.cam.ac.uk/stories/henr...
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Yale Library’s digitized Takamiya Collection helps solve mystery of medieval fragments
Scholars were able to "reunite" six lost leaves found in an archive in England with an important 15th-century manuscript in the library’s collection.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump Administration hid the injuries of 8 Marines in an attack in the Strait of Hormuz for 2 weeks. #FDT abcnews.com/Internationa...
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8 Marines hurt in ship attack in Strait of Hormuz
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Man Tries To Save Marriage By Complimenting Wife’s Jacket theonion.com/man-tries-to-save-marr…
Man Tries To Save Marriage By Complimenting Wife’s Jacket
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century B.C.E.” 🚨 allthatsinteresting.com/greece-ancie...
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Archaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Listened To Lectures More Than 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists excavating near Naousa uncovered a 2,400-year-old school that's believed to be where Aristotle taught a young Alexander the Great.
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gdawg714.bsky.social @gdawg714.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
all the guys who made harambe jokes 10 years ago later experienced complete emotional breakdowns, became born-again evangelicals, and are now enthusiastic fans of the liberty biberty commercials
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not necessary to use generative AI to create images of the #Voynich Manuscript, so why do people continue to do it? There is so much wrong in this online image. Neither of the pages shown here is actually from the manuscript. The verso is labeled "r" ("recto") & the language is not Voynichese.
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Near-90 year old pulitzer prize nominee and national book award winner who ethers people on social media in her spare time bsky.app/profile/tell...
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is defending furries fyi
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trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
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Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
11:14 AM • 9/27/26 • 5.1K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
3:54 PM • 9/27/26 • 3.3K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
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LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Or one of them could be a plumber, and his van has pipes in it.
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