So many people are so careful about posting pics of their kids online, blurring faces etc. And then you have Altman suggesting that it's just delightful to pump all sorts of details about their personal lives into Chatgpt in order to make fun little podcasts about them.

"As it always was" is a glaringly obvious problem. Education has been many different things, even if we (as Tate likely would) limit ourselves to "the west." Its purpose, content, and methods are, like everything, historically specific. Arguments framed like this always means you're being lied to.

Which academic muppet are you? I’m either of these guys, trying to control my need to snark loudly and openly about everything.

I like how my typo makes this seem to be a dialogue by this guy:

I enjoy Peter's work, but for me the true poet laureate is Nael (who, to be fair, has a year on him):

I have always found the dna kit things kind of fun, in theory, but this one is extremely off-putting. You cannot have Ostrogoth DNA. What is this weird nineteenth-century insanity?

Hot off the presses from Cambridge University Press, a new book from an old friend. Delighted to see it! Historians of Italy, of the Mediterranean, of migration and empire, take note. This will be a very good book.

The article contains a photo of some of the coolest street art I've seen in a long time:

Post a non-religious photo you think is holy.

People who are talking "global middle ages" often bring up Barlaam and Iosaphat, which makes perfectly good sense, but I always find myself thinking about...

Thanks to Robert Hymes and Monica Green, I know that I need to take marmots seriously, but when I see the word "marmot" I, honestly, can only think of one thing.

New book seems cursed.

A new book that looks great! Guillaume Calafat and Mathieu Grenet, Méditerranées: Une histoire des mobilités humaines (1492-1750).

Thinking of investing in one of these to wear when getting the kids (1 and 3) out of the house in the morning.