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I see discussions of using AI to restore inscriptions or papyri, presumably by using brute force to assemble parallels. I assume this could also work for classical art history, i.e. dating vases by style (vibes or Morellian). But can AI do good philology ? I.e. offer brilliant emendations to ms ? 1/

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 12h

I 100% believe that he has been talked down from nuking Tehran several times and may still do it.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026

Central to the push to reopen the rape case was Cornell’s independent student newspaper, which published an editorial shortly after Jane Doe’s September lawsuit — “Cornell Won’t, We Will.” The piece named the 7 men accused, and went on to condemn the university for its treatment of the case.

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Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case in Spotlight

“We have the right to demand safety from our university administrators,” said one student journalist.

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Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📖 I have a new article out! "The Forgotten Workers of Kish: Iraqi Archaeological Labour in Early 20th-Century Hillah", IRAQ 88 (2027), First View online preprint #openaccess 💰From the Forgotten City of Kish project (2022-25), funded by the Nahrein Network at UCL www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH | IRAQ | Cambridge Core

THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

Just adds another level to the story of Trump's illegal ads that he stole the money from what is purportedly his top policy priority (immigration enforcement) to run his tax payer funded campaign ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say

Congressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 22h

Trump calls his TV ad “the spirit of our country.” Funny, it’s got Trump’s face on it, nearly matches his 2024 campaign ad, and reportedly burned through $1.7 million meant for Customs and Border Protection. Your tax dollars, his vanity reel. #PayToPlayPresident

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 22h

Asked if he’ll pardon his top aides, Trump said: “Based on Biden I can do what I want.” We know in his world loyalty earns a pardon with the Oval Office running a protection racket. Everything with him is pay to play. #PayToPlayPresident

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Amanda Delcambre @amandadelc.bsky.social · 17h

As a Texan, I’ve seen MAGA acknowledge the prices are higher and witnessed them admit someone should be be held accountable, but they stopped short of blaming Trump. They will not admit their guy is to blame because it would be they deserve blame for voting for him. And they can’t handle that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Everyone thinks that the prices are high because of me, but they're not"

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You go, girl. An opportunity that shouldn't be passed up. www.newsweek.com/angie-nixon-...

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Angie Nixon Proposes Building Data Center on Mar-a-Lago

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026

In order to execute their illegal pocket rescission scheme, the Trump White House is breaking federal laws, “openly saying that they did illegal activities to get here,” experts tell TPM.

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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say

Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald...

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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Q: You're going to Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Alabama, and Nebraska. Why such Republican states if you're so confident your party is gonna do alright? TRUMP: I won all of them by a lot. I'm going just to make sure

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning Special Counsel Jack Smith confirmed yet again that the orange felon committed serious crimes beyond a reasonable doubt regarding the 2020 election and said he will not be silenced by threats and stands by his findings.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Creepy Nazi Mike Johnson says fascist republicans will do “exactly what we have been doing” if they retain their disastrous control of the House. Meaning they’ll continue their destruction of the United States. Mike isn’t a Speaker, he’s a terrorist and he can fuck all the way off to a jail cell.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s insanity that Special Counsel Jack Smith is once again having to confirm the orange felon’s seditious crimes to the Senate when half of the despicable scumbags who are questioning him are the same MAGA seditionists/insurrectionists who participated in those crimes.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

OMG: Republican Senator Schmitt accused Jack Smith of being in ATL to conspire with Fani Willis b/c he got a text from JP Cooney about a “Hawks” game (Falcons?). Schmitt had a big visual aid but didn’t keep it up long. BUT smith was at an IOWA HAWKEYES game to see Caitlin Clark in Maryland HAHAHA

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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Former special counsel Jack Smith, who led investigations into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and role in the Jan. 6 attack, made an opening statement Tuesday in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. youtube.com/watch?v=B1es...

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WATCH: Jack Smith's full opening statement in Senate Judiciary hearing on Trump investigations

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026

"Like propaganda in other authoritarian countries, Trump’s videos defy reality." And they're also paid for by you. New from @saletan.bsky.social:

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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor

Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m of two minds on these ads. They are clearly illegal. They are textbook examples of Trumps effort to push us into autocracy. They are also the last thing Republicans need when the albatross around their neck is Donald Trumps extreme unpopularity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 28/09/2026

The DOJ is squeezing former CIA Director John Brennan between two parallel criminal investigations, a strategy experts say is unorthodox and might be ill-advised, in pursuit of one of President Trump’s political foes. www.washingtonsun.com/courts/doj-jo…

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DOJ Is Putting John Brennan in a Pinch

Prosecutors made the former CIA director a subject in one criminal investigation while a target of another -- and it could cost them.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump’s White House Press Ban, Other Attacks on Free Speech Are Impeachable #Slate

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Trump’s White House Press Ban, Other Attacks on Free Speech Are Impeachable

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...

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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.

Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder if Yuval Harari weighed in on AI and the fate of humanity

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump's endorsement is becoming more like a kiss of death. When Nixon's approval rating fell, Republican leaders went to him and told him that if he didn't resign, they would impeach him. He resigned. Trump's approval rating is even lower than Nixon's was at that point.

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of the challenges in drawing students to humanities majors. Either the subjects are frivolous so why take them, or students are shocked that the teachers expect them to do work so they seek easier pathways that promise greater material rewards.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NATO could begin shooting down Russian aircraft and drones that deliberately violate the Alliance’s airspace, Czech President Petr Pavel said. According to him, such a scenario is possible if Russian aircraft continue to violate NATO airspace and ignore warnings.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We know from discovery produced in the Dominion litigation that Laura Ingraham literally does not believe her own bullshit and considers it simply political propaganda needed to assure the support of Trump and the MAGA GOP. Here's another great example: bsky.app/profile/deco...

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The wrong Alice @bethafus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for lifting up Aaron Swartz. The DOJ/FBI ruthlessly doused a very bright light - a brilliant, brave young man, using his voice, his skills and pointing to solutions we desperately need in this moment.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine being the wealthiest person on the planet and the biggest loser concurrently.

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T... @t-a-r-m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In 2029 that M0BSTER will be court-ordered to pay back every illegal dime he stole from the American people.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026

What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)

The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

“don’t elect a guy who will wipe his ass with the rule of law” is an insufficient guardrail here, the electorate has demonstrated it cannot be trusted with that task

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Journals should now probably be requiring peer reviewers to sign statements that they will not upload submissions they're reviewing into any external AI platform; wondering if any editorial boards are discussing this currently

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