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Kevin Solez
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Humanities Instructor & Researcher | PhD (UBC), DAAD Doctoral Fellow (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), MA (Johns Hopkins), BA Hons. (Alberta) | Currently teaching Anthro, English, & Classics | kevinsolez.ca
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
I dub this firepit "Burning Ilion," and Homer is the rainbow speaker.
#Homer #autumn #epic #Iliad #Wilusa #Ilium
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h
Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
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“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 13h
We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library | New Scientist
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We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library
A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 17h
Genau
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 18h
Not entirely related, but I'm reminded of what my friend Neil Ashton (also another student of Selina's) used to say to me: "Matthew, you are a *philologist*. You're allowed to invent new words if you want."
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 18h
This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 13d
The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 18h
Ach, @mattitiahu.bsky.social , you are a free user and master of the language!
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 18h
This post brought to you by me trying to write a sentence using 'archaeobotany' and 'zooarchaeology' next to each other and suddenly feeling an impending existential dread.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 18h
My parents' cat, Lucky, looking fine in the fall foliage. Photo by Kim Solez. Alliteration by yours truly. #yeg #yegcats #Edmonton #cats
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
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🌀🌊🌲C H E R Y L 🐾🌻🫏 @cheryldogmom.bsky.social · 1d
This is Portland today.
Show up on October 18th.
Oh, and #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

#MyCity
#Portland
#FuckTrump
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Sep 1
Babrius is right: the union makes us strong!

Happy Labor Day!

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#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
Divided and Devoured (Babrius 44)
Read 'Divided and Devoured' by Babrius in Greek and English.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
Got to keep the little grey cells happy!
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · Sep 13
“Virtue relies wholly on its use.”

“virtus in usu sui tota posita est”
(Cic. Rep. 1.2)

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
tibi congratulor!
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 1d
In the end, justice always arrives.

πάντως ὕστερον ἦλθε δίκη.

(Solon, fr. 13.8, ed. West)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
I dub this firepit "Burning Ilion," and Homer is the rainbow speaker.
#Homer #autumn #epic #Iliad #Wilusa #Ilium
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
Dusk in deep southwest Edmonton with its characteristic white silt forming cliffs which these creeks have carved. #yeg #edmonton #rivervalley #ravine
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d
#MosaicMonday - An interestingly themed mosaic panel from Antioch, dubbed the 'Peddler of Erotes': ca. 3rd Century AD. An old man seems to be out-and-about capturing Loves 'in the wild'. #Archaeology #Art 🏺

Image: Baltimore Museum of Art (1937.128). Link - collection.artbma.org/objects/2481...
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 1d
I look forward to your forthcoming publication in GRRR.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 3d
My daughter, the Halloween fashionista.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 4d
Woof! Woof! Let us invoke Apollo Hylates: ὑλακτέω !
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 6d
Good news for Deutschland
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6d
🇩🇪 Germany will give police the power to shoot down or disable rogue drones threatening security or air traffic, - Reiters

The new law, awaiting parliament approval, allows methods like jamming or lasers and follows major disruptions at Munich Airport.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 7d
You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 7d
I was at the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion in Edmonton! #yeg #yegarts
#Edmonton #nathanfillion
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 16d
"The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt,
All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out:
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land."

--- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
#satire #poetry #Literature #Sirius
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 8d
Herzlichen Zum Gratulieren!!
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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 8d
A proud moment for FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Our Board of Trustees begins its new term with fresh vision. I’m thrilled that Siemens CEO Dr. Roland Busch will continue to guide us, and equally excited to welcome Dr. Patricia Flor, Germany’s Ambassador to China, to our board.
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Neue Amtszeit: der Universitätsrat der FAU
Dr. Roland Busch, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Siemens AG, ist für die Amtszeit vom 1. Oktober 2025 bis zum 30. September 2029 erneut zum Mitglied des Universitätsrats berufen worden. Der Alumnus der FAU...
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