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Ertuğrul İnanç: Ancillus matris. Used to perform & composes music; studied Classics & co-wrote a book (TR): https://bit.ly/3ha7lLU ; Tolkiendil. Culé. 💙💔 - ⚽🏐 (He etc.) 🌻🍉
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This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought.
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos
This week (and next) we’re looking at hoplites, the heavy infantry of the ancient Greek poleis in the (early? mid? late?) Archaic and Classical periods, into the Hellenistic. In particular, I…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"
(via @Variety)
(via @Variety)
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I would "ethical AI" edtech companies to stop pitching me. I despise you. I want you to fail. I want you to go out of business. I want you to sell all you own and walk the earth like Caine on Kung-Fu.
This message will repeat.
This message will repeat.
September 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME? 😀
I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22...
... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER.
If you need to hear a reason why... here are seven 😅
I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22...
... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER.
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Seven reasons to subscribe and support the Roving Ranger
Let's get this newsletter to 1,000 subscribers by Frodo's & Bilbo's Birthday - September 22, 2025.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME? 😀
I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22...
... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER.
If you need to hear a reason why... here are seven 😅
I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22...
... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER.
If you need to hear a reason why... here are seven 😅
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Increase a band.
Anthropodes
Anthropodes
Increase a band.
R.E.M. & Non-R.E.M. Sleep
R.E.M. & Non-R.E.M. Sleep
Increase a band.
The Cee Ach'es
The Cee Ach'es
August 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Increase a band.
Anthropodes
Anthropodes
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About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”
No. Fuck you.
I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
No. Fuck you.
I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Everyone hates AWS (ok not everyone)
but
"Self-hosting is steeped in a vision of an internet that's personalizable, private, and individualistic. A kind of internet suburbia where everyone keeps a server in their garage right next to their lawn mower and their car."
so what's the alternative?
but
"Self-hosting is steeped in a vision of an internet that's personalizable, private, and individualistic. A kind of internet suburbia where everyone keeps a server in their garage right next to their lawn mower and their car."
so what's the alternative?
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Hey friends 👋,
A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Everyone hates AWS (ok not everyone)
but
"Self-hosting is steeped in a vision of an internet that's personalizable, private, and individualistic. A kind of internet suburbia where everyone keeps a server in their garage right next to their lawn mower and their car."
so what's the alternative?
but
"Self-hosting is steeped in a vision of an internet that's personalizable, private, and individualistic. A kind of internet suburbia where everyone keeps a server in their garage right next to their lawn mower and their car."
so what's the alternative?
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46. Local residents Darmok and Jalad were not present among the personal names listed in the inscription.
July 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
46. Local residents Darmok and Jalad were not present among the personal names listed in the inscription.
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21. Thucydides invented the “…and if anyone else likes it, that’s a bonus” riff beloved of artists making their difficult second album.
July 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
21. Thucydides invented the “…and if anyone else likes it, that’s a bonus” riff beloved of artists making their difficult second album.
Hittite Cuneiform. Too bad little if anything remained from it though 😏
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hittite Cuneiform. Too bad little if anything remained from it though 😏
Welcome game! 😻
@officiallotro.bsky.social
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May 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Welcome game! 😻
@officiallotro.bsky.social
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Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
May 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
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"there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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April 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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If you aren't following my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social, you're missing out on some great caricature.
Support artists, not AI.
Support artists, not AI.
April 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you aren't following my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social, you're missing out on some great caricature.
Support artists, not AI.
Support artists, not AI.
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“Make no mistake: the language of ‘terrorism’ is easy to mobilize, and has long been the go-to tool of authoritarians seeking to repress opposition.”
As pro-Palestine students & faculty around the country are increasingly being tarred with accusations of terrorism, universities must protect their community members, as well as their missions, by refusing to operate on the basis of fear
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A Call To Defend Free Speech From Weaponized Allegations of Terrorism Ties
When students, staff, or faculty are accused of being associated or "aligned" with terrorist organizations, universities may be pressed to take immediate and harsh action, if only to quell media…
lpeproject.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Make no mistake: the language of ‘terrorism’ is easy to mobilize, and has long been the go-to tool of authoritarians seeking to repress opposition.”
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those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least
The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.
Elon Musk's AI platform has been retrained to generate a "both sides" response to whether climate change is a threat. One is the view of science, while the other is fossil fuel industry waffle.
February 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least
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If the media won’t call it a Nazi salute then they’re definitely not going to say that someone was fired because they are Black or a woman. These outlets are complicit.
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
If the media won’t call it a Nazi salute then they’re definitely not going to say that someone was fired because they are Black or a woman. These outlets are complicit.
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Everything I have said about this wretched war perpetrated by this murderous country from my very first utterances on Oct. 8 was correct. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing.
February 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything I have said about this wretched war perpetrated by this murderous country from my very first utterances on Oct. 8 was correct. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing.