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taoish

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Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar.
Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.

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pluralistic , (edited ) to random
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For Father's Day next Sunday, my 16-y--o daughter has agreed to watch a movie of my choosing with me.

I want to get her excited about one of the movies I love, but which she's been uninterested in watching thus far.

Should it be:

taoish ,
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@WolfeSuccinctly @pluralistic
Also great music treated respectfully, for the most part. They hired a great band, the Stax Records session myusicians iirc.

taoish ,
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@joncruz @WolfeSuccinctly @pluralistic

Some SNL band members but perhaps more importantly, several Stax stalwarts + LA session legend Tom Scott. Steve Crooper is shouted out by Sam and Dave in the original "Soul Man"!
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/blues-brothers-band-members/

ElleGray , to random
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If I was a university prof and a student's parent contacted me demanding that I change their grade I would get my mom to write back to them & tell them to leave me alone

taoish ,
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@ElleGray
Dear Mrs. Mom:

You should let your college age student live like an adult, and fight their own battles.

That's what I did, and my daughter became a college professor!

Cordially, Marina

taoish , to random
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Microsoft Recall is even worse than you think.

It has apparently been snuck into the Edge web browser even if you don't have the Windows version that adds it.

h/t @laimis who pointed out to me that starts with Windows 11 24H2; I only have 23H2.

BUT I found it in my Edge Browser which updated today to Version 125.0.2535.51.
The setting is:
{3 dots button} =>
Settings =>
Privacy Search and Services =>
Save screenshots of sites for history
(all the way down, default on).

nathanlovestrees , to random
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Are there any myths, narratives, stories, etc.—religious or otherwise—about men as caregivers? I’m very ignorant of what’s out there. The only ones that comes to mind, strangely, are the Homeric Hymn to Pan (19) and the way Jesus talks about children in the synoptic gospels. Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome!

taoish ,
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@nathanlovestrees
Don't know if you're interested in modern books, but Dave Eggers "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is excellent.

ml , to AcademicChatter group
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Let's get this @academicchatter moving with a question every academic can chime in on:

What are the top websites/blogs you go to for news of what's going on in your field? #AcademicChatter

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@IanSudbery @ml @academicchatter
The websites I like in medieval and classics studies tend to be individual blogs of musings:

Armand Angour, Little Latin and More Greek
https://armanddangour.substack.com/

And @mssprovenance has the wonderful Medieval Manuscripts Provenance
https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/

taoish , to histodons group
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Early medievalists: does anyone by chance have a copy of Frank Carey's typewritten list of MSS from St. Germain d'Auxerre? I've seen a dozen footnotes citing it but only as a photocopy at IRHT in France or the Vatican Library
-- Catal. I. 26.9 (int 22).

"MSS from the Scriptorium of Saint-Germain d 'Auxerre" (1956) 5pp

WorldCat doesn't know it. Not in IA or Google Books. Thanks!

@medievodon @histodons @bookhistodons
@chaprot

taoish , to Medievodons group
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Is anyone considering presenting a paper on some kind of wordplay at the Medieval Academy of American conference at Harvard next year? -- aenigmata, flyting, kenning, acrostics, word squares or ???

I'm thinking about proposing a panel, have one of the three papers ready, on palindromes.

@histodons @medievodons

Kent , to histodons group
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Just registered for #Kalamazoo! Any other mastodonian medievalists attending this year?

#medieval #middleages #medievalstudies #history @histodons @medievodons

taoish ,
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@Kent @histodons @medievodons
I'm considering attending online if it's not too expensive.

pluralistic , to random
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Your periodic reminder that if you:

a) Dislike long threads and;

b) Follow someone who routinely posts long threads;

that is a YOU problem, which you can solve by unfollowing, and, if need be, blocking that user so they don't show up in your federated timeline.

taoish ,
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@pluralistic
I'm a fan of @pluralistic and I like (many but of course not all) long threads.

When I make long threads, I feel like it's courteous to set the 2nd and subsequent toots to "unlisted" instead of public, so that people who choose not to read that one thread don't have to scroll through a bunch of CW toots.

Anyone who does read the long thread by clicking on the first toot will still see the whole thing. Others see only the first.

flexghost , to random
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This is insane

The news shouldn’t be Alina Habba being removed from the Allen Weisselberg case

The news should be how she illegally groomed a former Trump employee who was sexually assaulted to sign an NDA then settle for nothing

Media priorities I guess.

taoish ,
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@flexghost
this is a super sketchy toot [a November article from Newsweek, which has been clickbaity since its sale years ago.] Anyone can file a lawsuit claiming anything as Trump and Alina Habba have shown. If you don't have a better, more recent source, this is nothing.

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    taoish ,
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    @ElleGray
    Sufjan Stevens it is, then! (See also "Casimir Pulaski Day" but this one's sadder.)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuepo6DP4k

    taoish , to Medievodons group
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    Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!

    @histodons @litteracarolina @medievodons @chaprot @mssprovenance

    taoish OP ,
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    @matz @histodons @medievodons @litteracarolina @mssprovenance @chaprot

    Sure! Be forewarned, the MS is very hard to read (which is why it remained for us to decipher.)

    Line 1: the start seems to be "Versus in baptisterio" but after that -- "Petri deleti"? maybe. Extremely hard to read.

    Line 14: we read "De petra manante"

    Line 1 of BL Harley MS 2735, fol. 1r

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Dirk Obbink loses a default judgment, in Hobby Lobby's fraud suit against him.

    Why has he not been prosecuted? His fall from grace is otherwise near complete. But the question of why??? still remains.

    @histodons

    https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2024/03/judgment-entered-in-favor-of-plaintiff.html

    taoish , to random
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    Great archeology + an amazingly well-preserved site = a sharp picture of a British bronze age Fen village circa 850 BCE.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/science/archaeology-britain-must-farm.html

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Does anyone else remember this toy? (1970s, maybe 80s). When you lift the plastic sheet, it erases your writing.

    Turns out that ancient Romans used something very similar (wax tablets for erasable writing). Some say that the word verse (versus) comes from the stylus "turning" in the wax.

    @histodons

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    @DemocracySpot @taoish @histodons
    Cool, but before my time.

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Does anyone know of any codices where the main text of a book begins on the pasteup -- i.e. on folio 1v, where fol. 1r is invisible because it's glued directly to the binding board?

    I am research one such book and trying to understand if this is unique, rare or common. And in particular, might this have been done to hide the text on folio 1r (which is now visible since it was pried up, if you can see past the paste marks).

    Thanks!

    @histodons @medievodon @bookhistodons

    litteracarolina , to histodons group
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    This afternoon we went hunting for inside the bindings of printed books, with the help of an endoscope. We made some very interesting finds, from ninth-century strips to Gothic music.

    @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen

    taoish ,
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    @matz @histodons @historikerinnen @medievodons @litteracarolina @HistGymBib
    Bindings?

    taoish ,
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    @matz @histodons @historikerinnen @medievodons @litteracarolina @HistGymBib

    The most obscure of these related English words is the "paste-up" -- there might be a better term -- which is the sheet glued directly to the inside of the cover board, usually with the leather of the cover tucked under it. And they also are sometimes made with fascinating .

    taoish , to Medievodons group
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    Anyone else going to the Academy of America conference at Notre Dame this month? A mini-Mastodon hangout might be fun.
    @histodons @medievodon @medievodons

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Here is a wonderful blog retracing the steps of the Einsiedeln Itinerary, probably compiled in the 7th century for pilgrims walking between Catholic holy sites in Rome, especially shrines to martyrs.

    If anyone has walked these streets around Testaverde in Rome, please get in touch as it might relate to some exciting research I'm doing on Roman tituli and church inscriptions.

    https://annablennow.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/itinerary-vii-porta-s-pancrazio-to-porta-maggiore-first-part/

    #roma #Rome #catholic #classics @histodons @medievodon

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Youssef Nader -- one of the 3 who won the Vesuvius Prize by reading a charred, unopened papyrus scroll from 79 CE -- from his blog breaking it down.

    "The ink detection Journey of the Vesuvius Challenge"

    https://youssefnader.com/2024/02/06/the-ink-detection-journey-of-the-vesuvius-challenge/

    @histodons

    taoish , to histodons group
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    In progress now but you can probably still join in:

    a ground table organized by the Bodleian on how medievalists can prepare for and recover from loss of online data, such as the British Library has recently suffered.

    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-sustainable-access-in-a-digital-age-tickets-811234834227

    @histodons

    taoish , to histodons group
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    The very exciting news today in #classics is that Brent Searles' team read several column-inches of a scroll charred in the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

    The bad news is that it's a deathly dull treatise on pleasure by #Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher of little note.

    The worse news is that he was Philosopher-in-Residence at this villa. The scrolls could be mostly or all his writing. Maybe even his drafts.
    @histodons
    @bookhistodons

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Apparently a big announcement is due today on the -- 12 columns of text by the Epicurean philosopher Nicodemus.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-ai-unlock-ancient-world-secrets/
    @histodons

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