Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Sarah E. Bond
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I walk & travel a fair amount. So I often listen 🎧 to PDFs either in English or—if I need to practice!—in Italian. Note that your iOS has a built-in accessibility feature you can turn on to read any document by highlighting it and, after adding the speech button, then listening highlit text. No app!
the White House's UFC arena is all lit up tonight
Got a digitised collection that needs OCR? uv-scripts is a set of single-file Python scripts that OCR a whole image dataset to markdown in one command — 20+ open VLMs to pick from, nothing to install but uv.
github.com/davanstrien/...
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Hello, if you need a timeline cleanse: my 6-year-old painted this. ☀️ 🌈
Hello, if you need a timeline cleanse: my 6-year-old painted this. ☀️ 🌈
Wrote a satirical thing with @sentantiq.bsky.social this week and even if it never gets published, I really love co-writing with my friends—and not co-writing with AI.
That’s all! 💕❤️
June 10, 323 BCE: Alexander the Great dies in the nighttime (/11th). I am not a huge Alexander girlie, but a few years ago, Jodi Magness & her UNC team at Huqoq found a great new late antique synagogue mosaic possibly of Alexander hyperallergic.com/discovery-of... + hyperallergic.com/mosaic-possi...
As a (former) classicist, I just have to say… yesssssssss I desperately want to eat popcorn from this Trojan horse! 🍿 🐴
(Would be even better if I could share it with @sarahebond.bsky.social.)
Lots of famous men like Robin Lane Fox (of Alexander movie fame) who study old Alex, but my favorites are actually Jenn Finn at Loyola and @mathetria.bsky.social. Jeanne and Jenn are both in the new. Netflix doc: www.netflix.com/us/title/813...
Alexander is indeed leading a bull by its horns but it’s happy because the rule was that sacrificial animals had to go willingly. See Aldrete: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
