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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 11h

this kind of thing drives me nuts

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I loved being with my friend Congresswoman Terri Sewell at Women for Alabama this week! Terri and I made a great team when we served together in Congress, and I know we’ll make an even better team when she’s reelected to Congress and I’m elected Governor. Let’s get it done on November 3rd.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.

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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, you know what'd be cool? Professional political cowards Tommy Tuberville and AL-5's Dale Strong getting up on stage to face off with their Democratic opponents! "We're askeert!"

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 12h

New #PleiadesGazetteer bloggage: Writing in Digital Classics Online, Laura Soffiantini compares place-modeling strategies across Pleiades and Trismegistos Places and examines the data architectures underlying current Named Entity Linking projects. Also Pliny! pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/pl...

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Pleiades in Use: Geo-Semantic Annotation for Ancient Textual Sources

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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 19h

All areas of Knowledge Commons and our network nodes are up and running again. ❤️ Late last week, Knowledge Commons experienced a cybersecurity incident. As soon as members of our team discovered evidence of intrusion, our team took the site offline and began emergency investigation and remediation.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 18h

#ancientmagic This was a wonderful seminar. Looking forward to Jessica Lamont and Jaime Curbera's full publication of these tablets and other votive texts from the Fountain of the Lamps.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14h

Curious question: has anyone compiled a decently large sample somewhere of the white supremacist and Nazi imagery used in social media by official Trump administration accounts (esp. official department accounts, rather than individuals)?

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 13h

Our NEH grant to continue development of VCeditor, which had been rescinded by DOGE, has been reinstated! So that's good. More information about that coming soon...

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👋 Hello, this is the Digital Orientalist again, still on our takeover week! We share our digital toolbox with medievalists: same HTR, the same pipelines. What changes, once you turn those tools on non-Western manuscripts, is the method. This thread is about where these approaches meet and part.🧵

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What was it like to use Roman wax tablets? Anna Willi (British Museum) Wednesday 7th October 17:00 BST, Institute of Classical Studies, London. In person. Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... The Cutting Edge: Conversations in Epigraphy

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What was it like to use Roman wax tablets?

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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

_(Re-)Uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-Topographical Structures_ Open Access now available: if you click on "Leggi le prime 20 pagine +" you should see the option "Scarica volume intero" (download entire volume)

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Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Colab python notebook to move from structured text template to .ttl RDF for a human figure (or group): colab.research.google.com/drive/1W9vwP... Very raw and very vibe coded. Slow w/o (free tier) API key but works. Run setup cell, 2nd cell shows entry form, try "Example template". Go from there.

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Google Colab

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

✨Version bump✨ latincy-readers v1.9.0 Corpus readers for Latin & Greek texts with LatinCy/spaCy integration New features—added correction layer for annotation; improved caching; new collection support github.com/latincy/lati...

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GitHub - latincy/latincy-readers: LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections

LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections - latincy/latincy-readers

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Kutlu Akalın kutkut16 @kutkut16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s right. And also in summer my university offers in-person Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Syriac intensive courses. This year will hopefully be the fifth year in a row. Three weeks in Caria!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026

The starting point for any discussion of declining public trust in higher education in the US has to be that since the McCarthy Era, the center-right has systematically misled the public about the purpose and practices of higher education as well as underfunded it.

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 06/10/2026

On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

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The Slow Formation of Durable Software

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Online class on classical Syriac!

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨Version bump✨ latincy-lexicon v0.13.0 Whitaker's Words as LatinCy component Improved word-sense coverage based on Perseus Lewis & Short data github.com/latincy/lati...

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GitHub - latincy/latincy-lexicon: Whitaker's Words lexical data as LatinCy pipeline components for Latin NLP

Whitaker's Words lexical data as LatinCy pipeline components for Latin NLP - latincy/latincy-lexicon

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨Version bump✨ latincy-vocab v0.4.0 Latin vocabulary list builder Improved handling of missing glosses, better POS-based lemma resolution, and more github.com/latincy/lati...

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GitHub - latincy/latincy-vocab: Latin vocabulary list builder powered by the LatinCy spaCy ecosystem

Latin vocabulary list builder powered by the LatinCy spaCy ecosystem - latincy/latincy-vocab

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Tracy Quan @tracyquannyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't delay getting the new covid booster. The surge in NYC covid 19 cases is real. The booster will make a difference to your symptoms, recovery, and ability to function. Get it asap.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm running another round of "Getting Started" training in November for the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. Details below. Please boost for visibility!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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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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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alabamians don’t live in a pretend world. We are living in the Trump/Tuberville reality of a rush to build data centers, high gas prices, high grocery prices and high electricity prices. Alabamians deserve better.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CDC have stopped recommending seven vaccines for children, including vaccines that protect against hepatitis B, RSV, and meningitis. These vaccines have kept millions of children out of the hospital and saved countless lives. I'm suing.

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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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Digital Scholar @digitalscholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Birthday, @zotero.org, strong and steady at 20!

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (28 September - 5 October 2026): over the course of the last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 98 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Fabio Carminati […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from the British Isles and Atlantic coasts of Portugal and Spain in the north and west to modern Uzbekistan and the Horn of Africa in the west and south.

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Will be at #CAAS2026 this week—hosting a workshop Friday 10/9 @ 10:30am on the computational methods behind generating Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext passages #digiclass #nlproc diyclassics.github.io/automating/

Program text: "Workshop 1: Automating Vocabulary List Production King Sullivan Room. Organizer: Patrick Burns (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU). Hands-on introduction to state-of-the-art computational text analysis for Latin pedagogy using the example of
generating publication-quality vocabulary lists from plain text."

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And with #CAAS2026 coming up at the end of the week—some new LatinCy releases coming today... readers, lexicon, & vocab...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Starting in 45 minutes: Geographical and Spatial Data in the Digital Classicist Wiki (with @geophilologist.bsky.social and @paregorios.bsky.social) Sign up at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Geographical and Spatial Data in the Digital Classicist Wiki

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Firefox downloads are still horked for me on latest version, and for another person I found online (who is also running Sequoia). I've opened a bug report: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

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2077619 - downloads failing with 157.0 on macOS Sequoia

UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Firefox - Untriaged. Last updated 2026-10-02.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.

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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump’s not coming to Mobile for Tommy. That’s just an afterthought. Pretty clear that he’s in Mobile to campaign for another personal vanity project to have the new Mobile Bay Bridge that Tuberville voted against, named after him. At least Trump didn’t divert bridge funds for self promo TV ads.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Visit pleiades.stoa.org/events for details on two information sessions about recent improvements to procedures and documentation for bibliography in the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places.

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Upcoming Events

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Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center @classicsgc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our department's second lecture of the fall semester! You MUST RSVP for this, whether you plan to attend in person or online. #ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics CUNY Graduate Center

Tan and black flyer for the CUNY Graduate Center's 2026 Classics Program Lecture Series, featuring Prof. Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Associate Professor of History at Borough of Manhattan Community College, titled "Goths, Huns, and Romans: Race and Gender at the End of the Western Empire, in the Historical Writings of Ammianus Marcellinus and Jordanes," with her photo, a talk description, and event details for Thursday, Oct 23rd, 5:30 PM EST, Room 3114 or via Zoom, RSVP to RKousser@gc.cuny.edu.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It looks like some entries e.g. roman-gardens.github.io/id/ac3df48e02/ include documented plant names among the registered keywords. Clicking the keyword will do a search for that plant across the dataset. So you can search for plants of interest. For many gardens there is insufficient evidence.

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Grove at the shrine of Aiakos - Gardens of the Roman Empire

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a super exciting time for the GRE project and I am THRILLED to shout from the rooftops about my amazing graduate student Amelia Lamis who worked tirelessly over the summer to get 131 of these gardens digitally published!

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Gabriel Mckee @secret-terror.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ONE MONTH TO GO until the submission deadline for next year's meeting of the Popular Culture Association! We're seeking abstracts for a special session series on "UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, & the Paranormal."

Bright pink background with clip-art images of a UFO, ghost, sasquatch, and a pyramid-topping eye. The text reads: One month left! Send us your abstracts on weird culture! Proposals due October 31. (Ooh spooky.) Popular Culture Association 2027 Special Topic: UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) Boston, Massachusetts Organization: Popular Culture Association Event: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Categories: Popular Culture, 20th & 21st Century, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies, Film, TV, & Media, History. Event: March 24-27. Abstract deadline: October 31. Days left: 30.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TEIFriday Can anyone give examples of magical texts (spells/curses...) encoded in TEI XML? Any language, date, etc. #digitalhumanities #ancientmagic

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you ever have trouble with Pleiades, please let me know

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026

ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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