Joseph “offline” Howley
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“imagine a classics professor” – The New Yorker
See y’all later!
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
See y’all later!
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The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
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How to See the Past Seeing the Past — Sonja Drimmer
When I ask the question, "why can't computer vision see the past?" the narrow answer is because computer vision is linear algebra, and as an art historian I reject the premise that math is sight. ...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
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A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
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According to these administrators, faculty should do this as a measure of self-protection. But they’re also telling faculty that they’re on their own: none of the institution’s resources will be brought to bear to protect the speech of faculty and staff. What deterrent effect will that have?
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
According to these administrators, faculty should do this as a measure of self-protection. But they’re also telling faculty that they’re on their own: none of the institution’s resources will be brought to bear to protect the speech of faculty and staff. What deterrent effect will that have?
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What’s interesting here is that, despite the best efforts of unhinged lawmakers, there’s no legal reason for any of this. It’s coming from administrators desperate to avoid a fight.
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What’s interesting here is that, despite the best efforts of unhinged lawmakers, there’s no legal reason for any of this. It’s coming from administrators desperate to avoid a fight.
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new episode of kill the computer where we talk about how the oklohoma university essay debacle was a planned political narrative targeting a trans professor from the very start
True Grift Ft. Parker Molloy
Podcast Episode · Kill The Computer · 12/04/2025 · 1h 16m
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December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
new episode of kill the computer where we talk about how the oklohoma university essay debacle was a planned political narrative targeting a trans professor from the very start
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Assume they’ve been deported for recognising Palestine in the original countries of the world song
Animaniacs please do something
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Assume they’ve been deported for recognising Palestine in the original countries of the world song
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AI Is Not Inevitable
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.
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for the record i am not actually that down on llms. but data science feels a lot less scientific than it used to.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
for the record i am not actually that down on llms. but data science feels a lot less scientific than it used to.
Since I read it I have not stopped thinking about Kenney and Lincoln's description of this as "a case of mutual but unequal reputation laundering" osf.io/preprints/so...
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Since I read it I have not stopped thinking about Kenney and Lincoln's description of this as "a case of mutual but unequal reputation laundering" osf.io/preprints/so...
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
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Look… I know very little about the show, but I DO know how our show was marketed, so maybe take a beat on the outrage and check it out when it airs. 🤷♂️
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Look… I know very little about the show, but I DO know how our show was marketed, so maybe take a beat on the outrage and check it out when it airs. 🤷♂️
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GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
October 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
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The last Pasts Imperfect of 2025 is out! The incomparable @toriflee.bsky.social has our annual ancient world gift guide. Then, saving Sudan's cultural heritage, cats in Ancient China, Indigenous canoe-making, ancient disability, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more!
Pasts Imperfect (12.4.25)
This week, the one and only Tori Lee returns with her annual ancient world gift guide. Then, racing to preserve Sudan's cultural heritage, a new study on domestic cats assesses the leopard cats of anc...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The last Pasts Imperfect of 2025 is out! The incomparable @toriflee.bsky.social has our annual ancient world gift guide. Then, saving Sudan's cultural heritage, cats in Ancient China, Indigenous canoe-making, ancient disability, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more!
has any Latinist had the fortitude to write the essay about this point and Vergil I wonder
The two things aren't contradictory at all, refugees have been colonizers in various situations. I think people have twisted themselves into knots in both directions on this point so as to not acknowledge that there's basically no tension here.
I agree. And yet the narrative in which Jews are cast as colonizers, not half the surviving remnant on earth is what vexes me and perhaps HRC also.
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
has any Latinist had the fortitude to write the essay about this point and Vergil I wonder
Can’t wait to share my Loeb Classical Library Online Wrapped with everyone 🤗
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Can’t wait to share my Loeb Classical Library Online Wrapped with everyone 🤗
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This is what the Trump administration should be investigating
This right here ->
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
This right here ->
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Is Rejecting More Tenure Cases After Departments Approve Them | News | The Harvard Crimson
The power to grant or deny tenure is a prerogative that faculty have long held sacred. But at Harvard, the final decisions to shut the door on tenure cases have increasingly been made out of departmen...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is what the Trump administration should be investigating
This right here ->
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
This right here ->
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
my most insufferable “have spent time in Europe“ trait is I think A4 is better than US Letter
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
my most insufferable “have spent time in Europe“ trait is I think A4 is better than US Letter
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They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
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We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We're doing pogroms in America now