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jacob riyeff

@riyeff.bsky.social
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translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate. ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new #cistercian #poetry just dropped. www.caldeyislandonlineshop.com/shop/poetry-...
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Caldey Island Online Shop
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a couple of gorgeous (half) lines that really encapsulate the matter of troy. totoque in pectore troia est. irrita uentosae rapiebant uerba procellae. #latin #poetry #statius
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
just finished _the achilleid_. as folks say now, i see you, #statius. i see you.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
just read the _ilias latina_ in #translation with some glances at the #latin. on to statius's _achilleid_, preparing for the next time i teach #epic in a long game crouch.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/2 fr. arrupe in the full version of 'men for others': "we need to form truly liberated men and women who are not slaves of consumer society—...
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
dreamt all night of playing cards on a playing surface made of craggly soil filled with earthworms, grubs, and so many small ants gathering and moving eggs. ????? my 5yo says: did you see the queen? me: no. my god, is that what it was all about?!
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
before school, walking down the hall, w/o context i sang "thanks for the filing cabinet, / i don't know what i did without it". 14yo: i bet anything that's a @themountaingoats.bsky.social song." dear reader, she was right on the money.
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Tanuki’s Ghostie Revenge @tanukisrevenge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Capitalism has fooled many into believing that consuming is a hobby
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i've never told you all this, but i tried making absinthe in my basement back in '02. it just felt like the right time to let you know.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
tom waits's _rain dogs_ on the stereo, some wuyi oolong, and second full time thru #magnificahumanitas, and breeze rolling thru the open windows for a thursday afternoon.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is as good as #wisconsin weather gets. beneath a nearly full moon to boot.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
done. a hell of a #poem. can't wait to return to the medieval and early modern reception and re-imagining of the material w/ renewed vigor.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
st. bartholomew's day. among other things, the anniversary of st. guþlac's move out to croyland in the fens to found his hermitage.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
also, a cooper's hawk was hanging out in the backyard for 15-20 mins. just looking. flew to about 6 ft from the window for a while. good sunday visiting.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
basil harvest day. and that means pesto making in the riyeff household. an adult friend from my teen years showed me that one can grow lots of basil and make your own pesto for the year. it was a real gift. #plantwatching
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if you need me, i'll be in the hammock finishing book iv, clinging to the last vestiges of summer break.* *please read "break" generously, as i'm part time admin and have three kids home with me during the summer. ;)
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
an impromptu re-reading of _the aeneid_ to end the summer. (lombardo's translation, tho it's making me want to get back to the latin sometime.) hadn't thought much of it the first time all the way thru, but it's got its claws in me this time. #epic #poetry
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I understand entirely why my own research area (the relation between the AI industry and museums/art) may seem untethered to the broader subject of our democracy and economy, we see everything I’ve been describing here happening to cultural institutions like museums. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
When I look at Eckhout's and Amaral's paintings, I see bananas. But what I also see are contexts that lie beneath and to the side of the subjects that they represent. When we charge an algorithm with processing these images, it can only tell us with some probability what lies on their surface, and it is frequently wrong even about that. Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education.26 It is only sight blinkered by a narrow focus on what computer vision does that cannot perceive this truth.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
having several nuns for friends, i take the stranglers' song "non-stop" without any irony whatsoever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqWe...
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Non Stop
YouTube video by The Stranglers - Topic
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
going on a #milwaukee bookstore crawl for the 14yo's birthday. didn't know there was such a thing, but i'm down.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
1/1 Deus, qui hodiernam diem beati confessoris tui Adeluuoldi episcopi transitu nobis honorabilem dedicasti, concede propicius ut cuius eruditione ueritatis tue luce perfundimur, eius intercessione celestis uite gaudia consequamur. happy st. æþelwold's day! litpress.org/Products/CS2...
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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict
Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo-SaxonistsSt. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester,...
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Celi senator inclite Sancte pastor ecclesie: O Adeluuolde supplices Tuos exaudi seruulos!
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
raag chandranandan for night-time rain dishes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ypf...
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Raag Chandranandan by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan at New Music America Festival 1981
YouTube video by Raga Rang
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"home is a black leather jacket fitting sweetly to my brain" --the stranglers, 'death and night and blood'
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
here's another sna poems installment for the summer! jacobriyeff.com/2026/07/14/s... #poetry #poems #wisconsin
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sna poems series supplementum #50: waubedonia
waubedonia park in ozaukee cty is a campground along the milwaukee river. “wauabedonia” is also a fun portmanteau of waubeka and fredonia, the two towns on either side of the park. we w…
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
also, i had gathered some holy basil earlier in the evening & as i finished the dishes my 14yo asked if i'd like to hear her read _twelfth night_ while i finished the dishes & we drank tea. this is peak dad time for me.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
just went to put the van in the garage (10pm central) and on the way back to the house heard a bird call i've never heard. it's an eastern screech owl. so that's cool. down here below the big dipper. #milwaukee #birdlistening
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
a semi-belated entry of the sna poems. #poems #poetry #wisconsin #wildflowers jacobriyeff.com/2026/07/12/s...
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sna poems series supplementum #49: bong state recreation area
went camping at bong state recreation area a month and a half ago. bong is a former jet fighter air base (named after richard bong, a wwii flying ace from wisconsin). after military priorities shif…
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
serious mist after the thunder storm. #milwaukee river.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#milwaukee river, up ozaukee cty way.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
searocket. #milwaukee #plantwatching #wildflowers
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
first glass of génépy the other evening.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ne ondræd þu ðe deaþ to swiðe for nanum wite. ðeah he ðe ful god ne ðynce, he bið ælces yfles ende, 7 ne cymð he næfre ma. do not fear death too much on any account. though you will not find all good in it, it is the end of every evil, and does not come again. -- #oldenglish dicts of cato
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
kalends of july. 16th moon. +aaron, brother of moses.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
listening to @wmse917fm.bsky.social's jazz show, deep cleaning the bathroom, & listening to catholic theologian taylor nutter's structural critique of the neocolonial, neoliberal, sociocultural project we call "ai": www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_dc... as close to my view as i've heard out there.
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Dr. Taylor Nutter, Dr. Mark Graves | "Theological Responses to Socioeconomic Implications of AI"
YouTube video by Orthodox Observer
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
it's incredible to me that the "the real reason that..." click bait thing still works after all these years. wild.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
yep: hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
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Should the Lion Lie Down With the Electric Lamb?
Can people whose judgment has been formed by AI still make prudent choices about its uses?
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
my 11yo has entered his first essay contest. i'm a very proud essayist.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
there are people of a certain persuasion for whom listening to #frankzappa's "dog breath variations" and "uncle meat" is an ideal state for their nervous system. i am of that persuasion.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
a laughable headline. as if there were ever a time reading wasn't sexy.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Barbie, from the Barbie film says "Do you guys ever think about majoring in English?" #Englishmajorhumor #Englishmajorproblems
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
1/2 with the repeated complaint from students about how frustrating it is to have different expectations in different classes for how/when generative software is permitted, i always come back to how frustrated so many teachers are.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
16th before the kalends of july. first moon. +blessed thomas reding, #carthusian martyr under henry viii.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
my latest at @jhejournal.bsky.social on higher ed, jesuit education, and the neocolonlial, neoliberal, sociocultural project we're calling 'ai': digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jhe/vol15/is...
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Academic Integrity, Generative Software, and Catholic, Jesuit Higher Education in the Context of Neoliberal Global Society
This is a reflection on different aspects of higher education and generative software (so-called 'ai') in light of Ignatian discernment, especially the key consideration of "context." Drawing on admin...
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Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal @jhejournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The new JHE issue will drop later this week! Find us at our new website: digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jhe/
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
no text of _magnifica humanitas_ in latin yet? anyone know where to find it?
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
ivy just made a play in the @Brewers @Cubs game. #plantwatching #baseball #milwaukee
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
some serious baltimore oriole action in the backyard the last week, especially the last couple days. a joy.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
just saw/heard a gray catbird, brown thrasher, flicker, baltimore oriole, house finch, and song sparrow on a short walk in #milwaukee. #birdwatching
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