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Jeremiah Bailey

@ntecprof.bsky.social
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Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents. I do not speak for my employer.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Neat! There seems to be a pronounced interest in Clement in Pseudo-Isidor-related texts and in late 10th-/early 11th-century reformist movements in Rome.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Catechesis Celtica is a new one for me. Is this a Carolingian text perchance?
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seit fast zehn Monaten habe ich ganz kein Deutsch gesprochen. Ich frage mich wie viel habe ich vergisst. Ich will übungen, aber ich glaube dass ich mich würde blamieren. 😬
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*stage whisper* Aquinas is not a surname. Putting Aquinas, Thomas in your bibliography makes no sense.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I only know what your cat looks like
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Only if it scrapes enough tweets/posts saying it should do that!
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
By which you mean, I presume, that scholars are beholden to traditions of interpretation which influence their outputs. Of course, the AIs trained on those outputs and coded by a certain kind of nerd located in the US will all produce objective results free of our biases!
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Even if someone "invented" some new AI method with a trendy BS name like "Agent-Based Probabilistic Networking," all that would happen is the locus of discussion would expand to include this new type of data, and it would take its place in the perpetual methodological cycle.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Machine learning has its place in helping us assemble a corpus for study, but it can't do the analysis for us (the endless promises about what is around the corner do not make much of an impression on me either).
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Solving Math problems, even complex ones, is not very much like answering historical questions. AI might help us find, assemble, and sort data, but its assembled outputs are only pseudo-evaluative, being determined by probabilistic imitation of our speech/writing patterns.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The extreme servility and flattery of AI agents is telling me that a lot of people would really enjoy having slaves and lack the appropriate disgust response to (even simulated) debasement.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
After the smorgasbord wars of '93, all smorgasbords became Taco Bells.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Export Updates 2026-07-21: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 33 updated places. 1 new and 39 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 258c60e6 - updated json no […]
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I appreciated that at the end she made sure to point out how much his own attempts at strike breaking were responsible for his predicament. I also really appreciated the nods towards religious tolerance as well, some of which were surprisingly overt for a Victorian novel!
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. I see both why she is compared to Austen and why see has not quite the same following. All said, though, it was a solid Victorian novel, and if you enjoy them, you will likely enjoy this one.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The SSPX guys draw the line at an American Pope who loves baseball. This violates both traditionalist and French sensibilities.
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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The recent news on Sony giving up on physical media shows the strength of Ugaritic clay tablets. #reclaimphysicalitypreserveculture
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm reading the @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the editor has chosen to follow every explanatory note with plot spoilers. I would really like to understand these passing Victorian cultural references, but not if you are going to ruin the book.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I won't pretend there isn't a big learning curve here, but it is definitely doable with motivation and persistence. Issues do pop up. For example, Ctesiphon is in the wrong place above despite having correct lat and long in the associated table. Figuring out how to fix it took me forever.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Using ArcGIS Online, map tiles from the Coalition of Ancient World Mappers, and publicly available data sets from the Ancient World Mapping Center and @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I was able to create these maps with no artistic ability. Check out awmc.unc.edu! CC BY-SA 4.0
Map showing Roman Provinces after Diocletian's reorganizationMap showing Palmyra and important nearby cities like Jerusalem and Antioch
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They don't call it W(h)ine for nothing
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
SciFi Writers: Make up all the space pronouns you want. Go nuts, I don't care. There's no ideological resistance. But, for the love of God, just tell me how it is supposed to be pronounced. You have to decide anyway for the audiobook, so slide a footnote or parenthetical remark my way. Please.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The funny thing about removing Mormons from the list of Christian denominations and making them their own thing is that there is literally no reason to do that while also leaving JWs as a denomination.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Muss man Schweizerdeutsch verstehen? Bei Gott sind alle Dinge möglich...außer diesem.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Congratulations on your wedding Don Jr. Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My account was hacked and the hacker seems to have just placed a link in my bio and then liked every post that came across my feed in an indirect bid to get people to click it???? Bizarre.
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ge'ez
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I haven't read about this in years and years, but isn't this one of the core bases for the federation/"amphictyony" theory in older (German) scholarship?
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Time for the Dems to find someone named John American to run in the next election. We can't ignore this proven formula.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It would have to be a comedy
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The show could be called "Inquisition." Netflix, feel free to contact my agent at your earliest convenience.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We need a Swiss Guard themed buddy cop show about the Pope trying to get tough on crime
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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I’ve got two PhD scholarships for domestic students at Macquarie University. Topics must be related to Greek myth in contexts of communal crisis in antiquity. Always happy to chat about ideas! www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
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Greek myth networks and community crises in antiquity
Investigate the impacts of community change and social crises on mythic storytelling in antiquity, making use of the digital dataset MANTO.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Paying for NYT Connections is basically paying someone to troll you. I do not know why I play this game so consistently when I get annoyed by it even when I win.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Words to live by from an underappreciated leader. #AncientHistory
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You can cancel the book, but the window to your taste is not so easily broken.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
SLEEPER CELL
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I will not be submitting to SBL this year, but I did take a job at a UP so I will be present.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Breaking: Plagiarism Machine trained on all of our stories and articles about artificial intelligence regurgitates expected language!
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/02/2026
Unidos somos América.
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Reading Ursula LeGuin's novel The Dispossessed which was written in 1974 and the way one character justifies atrocious political violence by appeal to traditional masculinity is really underscoring for me how much the present situation follows an old script.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Quite against my will I find myself having to engage again with Wittgenstein for the first time in many years. I find that I am too cynical to find the puzzle charming but also apparently too stupid to understand the puzzle.
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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Autodesk Fusion is completely bizarre and inscrutable until you understand the internal logic of the program and then suddenly you realize it is packed full of quality of life shortcuts created by thoughtful software engineers.
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