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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion. 🏳️‍🌈
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"Electronic Concert Not Very Amusing" -Boston Globe, February 27 1966

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

A meal for me, O butcher! A meal for me, O butcher! A meal, O you who are in the eye of Ra! A meal for me, O fowler who is in the Eye of the God! O butler, bring water and light the fire, for the calf of leg is with the roast meat. (PTF)

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

"We shall have a sallad."

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a really dumb article. LLMs do not lie any more than they tell the truth. They *generate plausible sounding text*. They are not thinking engines. There is no black box. It's all surface.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Amazing historical ignorance from MAGA's chief court philosopher, going with the - apocryphal! - Louis XIV quote and thinking, "yeah, the *Bourbon monarchs* are a good example of how a ruler would never ruin their own country out of incompetence or vain ambition."

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

The #BJRL is unlocking!🗝️ With thanks to @manchester.ac.uk‬ library, people all over the world can now explore this distinguished @thejohnrylands.bsky.social‬ journal free of charge. The first OA issue (101/1) will publish in July. Read about the switch to Open Access here: tinyurl.com/626y7ere

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

May there be given to me bread from the House of Cool Water and a table of offerings from Heliopolis, my toes being firm-planted in the Field of Rushes. (BDF)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In traditional English culture, academic success must be divorced from any suggestion you are doing anything so vulgar as "trying".

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Repeat after me: education is not training.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Was the 'Mary' instructed not to touch Jesus in the garden, Mary his friend or Mary his mother? Which Mary was who, and which Mary was where? Were these two Marys separate Marys at all? New linked article on how late-antique gospel retellers used the muddle of the Marys in various and creative ways.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Principles aside, what's fascinating about this is the implication that children are a burden on the state rather than the people who will keep it running, and the complete failure to consider whether we might need more such people. The assumptions at work are stuck 15+ years in the past.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Does anybody have any pieces on the failures/deficiencies of collaborative projects like Wikipedia which lack a central organisational principle or real expertise behind much of what they contain?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Contrary to the impression given in their press release, Languages in Cardiff University are not being saved. In fact a number of departments are due to close...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment