according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"
www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
a highly anticipated volume! expect it to make a major impact
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
The Herald has also written a news item about the letter, here: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2551943...
Without paywall: archive.ph/9gPsg
Glad to see the Herald has published our letter (from the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network) in today's paper:
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...
Archived version (no paywall): archive.ph/BRTCY
SUJSN: www.jewishstaffnetwork.co.uk
As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised
I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...
The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK
very excited for this next week!
terrible news. now I have to update my mental picture of caesar et al in egypt to costume them all in bucket hats.
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.
The UK government is blocking Palestinian students in Gaza from taking up UK scholarships.
Some have been killed while waiting @theguardian.com
We’ve written to the Home Secretary demanding action and @drjogrady.bsky.social will be on @lbc.co.uk at 4 PM urging the govt to step in.
tr.ee/HjzPtS
It's publication day for a project I'm so glad to be a part of. Candida, Jeremiah and Joe have done a spectacular job as editors, & I've learned so much from them & the other contributors to the volume!
It's publication day for a project I'm so glad to be a part of. Candida, Jeremiah and Joe have done a spectacular job as editors, & I've learned so much from them & the other contributors to the volume!
Was already looking forward to this - and all the more excited to see that @talithakearey.bsky.social is part of it!
oh you two, stop being so nice about me! 💕 it's an absolute banger of a volume — I'm so glad to be a part of it!
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
(never stop)
actually, for #portfolioday, please enjoy this narrative event from Civ 7 with its corresponding inspiration (both by me)
frankly this is bullying
It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.
the answer is me, I am TK (this is why I use '[[/]]' instead)
Delighted to see this up online, *with* the cover image:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Ooh, thank you!
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
![Proof page of an article on 'Editing', reading:
Rome was a slave society; accordingly, its literature was sustained by enslaved workers. The unspoken backdrop to the individual authors who move through the canon of Greco-Roman antiquity—the Ciceros, Vergils, Ovids, and Plinies who sit on our bookshelves and monopolize our university courses—was a gargantuan quantity of labor performed by unfree literary workers. The influence of these laborers on Roman literature went far beyond “mechanical” or “technical” assistance—unusually for slave societies, where literacy is more often with- held from the enslaved as a means of control. In Rome, enslaved workers’ intellectual expertise was as valuable to their enslavers, or even more so, than their performance of physical labor and routine tasks.
Nonetheless, if we were to seek a history of enslaved editorial labor from Roman sources, we would come away all but empty-handed. As Sean Gurd has shown, discussions of the process of revision in Roman antiquity almost all center around the interactions of equal-status Roman men of the wealthy enslaving classes. For these authors, editing becomes a medium of social exchange and community formation, linked directly to an individual author’s tactics of navigating the social and political pressures of his day. Cicero’s idealization of the republic is mirrored in his attempts to instantiate a community of letters driven by common goals and mutual critique; Pliny the Younger speaks openly of editing other elite Romans’ work as a means of social climbing; and paranoid Horace portrays self-revision as [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wqnnaxg37zwailqjigwvwmzz/bafkreihy4qztekuhnyf4td55rohv2rxhjyek35gantnq3wsvhp7r27zou4)
Proof page of an article on 'Editing', reading: Rome was a slave society; accordingly, its literature was sustained by enslaved workers. The unspoken backdrop to the individual authors who move through the canon of Greco-Roman antiquity—the Ciceros, Vergils, Ovids, and Plinies who sit on our bookshelves and monopolize our university courses—was a gargantuan quantity of labor performed by unfree literary workers. The influence of these laborers on Roman literature went far beyond “mechanical” or “technical” assistance—unusually for slave societies, where literacy is more often with- held from the enslaved as a means of control. In Rome, enslaved workers’ intellectual expertise was as valuable to their enslavers, or even more so, than their performance of physical labor and routine tasks. Nonetheless, if we were to seek a history of enslaved editorial labor from Roman sources, we would come away all but empty-handed. As Sean Gurd has shown, discussions of the process of revision in Roman antiquity almost all center around the interactions of equal-status Roman men of the wealthy enslaving classes. For these authors, editing becomes a medium of social exchange and community formation, linked directly to an individual author’s tactics of navigating the social and political pressures of his day. Cicero’s idealization of the republic is mirrored in his attempts to instantiate a community of letters driven by common goals and mutual critique; Pliny the Younger speaks openly of editing other elite Romans’ work as a means of social climbing; and paranoid Horace portrays self-revision as [...]
a nice way to start a Monday morning: going over proofs for my chapter in 'Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean'!
don't get mad at me for saying this: trump cadence