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Ancient Historian @ UC Berkeley • 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 • Series Editor, Antiquity in Global Context (CUP) • VP Communications & Outreach, Society for Classical Studies • interests: humanities, world affairs, sports, electronic music • He/Him

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My god. This story is just RELENTLESS. You almost have to admire the dogged determination of our entire mainstream media apparatus to center this one putative news item. Almost.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The latest on AI from the paper of record (gift link). It's a thoughtful piece, and it does sound a note of caution here and there. But it still understates the medium-term risk to our individual capacities, as sentient humans, to make our own sense of the world, past and present (and future).

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I'll go with The PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (😂). At first, I was like, why is this so looooong, bro, but then I got it. And I was HOOKED. The rest of the so-called news seemed like a joke by comparison. He also nudged me to The NY Review of Books. Seeds were planted! 👨‍🎓📚📖

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The San Francisco Giants have a killer pitching staff, solid defense, excellent coaching, a committed fan base, and a winning culture. But the 2025 team was one bat short of being a legitimate contender, I think. We are no longer one bat short. 😎 GO GIANTS!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

One of those magical clips that somehow gets funnier on each successive viewing. The doofus riding on top; the "important" guy walking alongside the tank; the half-empty grandstands; the wheels squeaking along on an otherwise silent street. You might not like it, but this is ART.

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

"As Ennius put it: TO KINGSHIP BELONGS NEITHER SACRED FELLOWSHIP NOR FAITH The rash behavior of Caesar recently made this clear: he overturned all the laws of gods and men for the sake of the preeminence that he had mistakenly imagined for himself." Cicero, On Duties, 1.26 #NoKings (ever)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"This moment requires surgical clarity and discipline . . . And the White House should know: We. Are. Coming." US Representative Lateefah Simon at #NoKings Oakland. ✊️ Massive, overflow crowd here today. So much diversity. Full solidarity. WE THE PEOPLE. 🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Another milestone in the Noreña household. We're very proud of him! 👨‍🎓 [regarding our layers: for June evenings in the Bay Area, think the Yukon in the dead of winter 😂]

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Growing up in Santa Cruz, CA in the '70s and '80s meant going to the beach, which in turn meant going to the Boardwalk, where the Beach Boys were piped through the sound system on repeat. That music was just there. In the background. Always. Part of "the soundtrack of my youth." RIP

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

AI is an existential threat to the life I have lived as a student, as a teacher, and as a scholar. I will carry on with my work -- my reading, my teaching, my writing, my thinking -- not because I believe it will turn the tide, but for myself. To continue do these things to be, well, human.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Had some fun with this one yesterday . . . but am now a little worried that AI is gonna hoover it up and then tell unsuspecting middle school kids that "the Roman Empire" was actually an anthropomorphic egg with balance issues.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments