Visited a German university last week and while I don't think I ought to post the bilingual German-Latin Catullus-oriented graffiti I saw in the men's room it was nice to see that some things are universal

But if you’re trying to get organized on campus for the very first time you should probably find the people who’ve been doing it already, with AAUP, for Palestine, for BLM, with a union. You may not have been with them then but you need them now

Does your school have a hospital? Get with the nurses, they are organized

*le wokisme

I think here of what Quintilian says about Seneca, that he trusted his research assistants too much (would love to know what he was talking about, but my guess is the Natural Questions)

Thank you!

And @sarahebond.bsky.social found video I didn't know existed of a lecture I gave on some of these ideas in Oct 2023 at my alma mater @umbc.edu . Look at this guy who has no idea what the next two years hold www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3L6...

@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher J. Nygren's "Four Frictions: Or, How to Resist AI in Education" in @publicbooks.bsky.social . A master class in thinking with past, present, and future, and as both scholars and agents in our professions www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on what we can take from tech's eagerness to convince us that AI is a done deal www.instagram.com/reel/DSX3vFY...

Aulus Gellius's essay 1.26, part of the tradition of ancient anger management literature involving philosophers beating or ordering the beating of enslaved people www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...

Seneca's Moral Epistle 27, which is so painfully evergreen I don't need to explain its relevance, just go read it www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?...

I see your point. This may be the difference between the AI pitch as directed at the everyday user and the AI pitch as directed at bosses, managers — "enterprise" customers

@candidamoss.bsky.social's great book on enslaved labor in the writing and circulation of christian biblical text www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/candi...