Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/

Map Classical Mediterranean

Color map of Pompeii

Map of Roman Forum

Cut out plan of the Parthenon

Recently learned that you can do "blueprint" printing quite economically. Large scale color Pompeii (36x48) for $12. The rest under $10 each.

They are already making great teaching aids!

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Art by flaroh illustration. This piece depicts Scylla, complete with a sea-dragon’s tail and belt of viscous dog heads, holding her trident and devouring some hapless sailors.

Scylla 🐺👹🔱

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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Screenshot of Bloomsbury's website showing my book Charles Dickens and the Classics.

There it is! Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception will publish my book "Charles Dickens and the Classics" next year.

Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class.

+90 images

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Thank you!

Hi! Could you tell me what this is from, please? I've got a bit on tableaux vivants and Bleak House in my book.

And my thing IS Dickens!

The Statue of Liberty is for the emancipation of slaves, but it was changed to immigrants to make it palatable to the American public. The tablet in her hand was supposed to be broken shackles, those were moved to her feet. The crown was supposed to be a Phrygian cap that freed Roman slaves wore

The French "In the year 2000" postcard series (produced in 1899) was only 25 years off.

oh, also: fuck this guy. i have wanted to crawl through the tv and disembowel this fictional man for 25 years now. i hate him more than most of the actual killing spree villains.

Subway-style map of the itinerary in The Hobbit. The main journey is show in three different lines: red (Hobbiton to Goblin Town); green (Goblin Town to the Elvenking's Halls); and blue (Elvenking's Halls to Erebor). There are multiple stops on these lines. There is a yellow line going back from Erebor to Hobbiton, making stops at Beorn's Hall, Rivendell, and the Troll's Lair. There is an orange line directly from the Iron Hills on the map's right side to Erebor, and a purple line from Gundabad directly to Erebor. The map's title reads: "Hobbit Transit Map" and there are directions for both There and Back Again listing the lines and transfer points. A key shows the names of each colored line: Red: Western Lands Line Green: Mountains and Forests Line Blue: Barrel Line Yellow: Gandalf Express Orange: Iron Hills Business Line Purple: Orc and Goblin Reserve Line Text at the bottom right reads Surprised Eel Maps, 2025

I woke up this morning with a map thought in my head, and here it is:

AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

Our emergency meeting was a beautiful, and powerful, success. We've recorded it so watch out Everyday Orientalism's post on the event for the recording 💚 and make sure to join the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social (it's free!) everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...

Frankenstein - Edge Hill University This is a world premiere sung in English and is performed by an international cast of musical theatre students from Dankook University, South Korea and Edge Hill University, UK.

Book your tickets here now: www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/franke...

Please share widely, and see you in August at Frankenstein’s lab!

Giles in his wizard hat.

We are in a new March of Intellect.

"The legs with which it strode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence fell ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the earth."

(Robert Seymour, the March of Intellect, 1828)

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.

these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Here are some photos I took in 2021, obviously not the same, but there is no glass.

Congratulations!

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

DOJ’s pressuring med journals to offer viewpoint diversity under Robert “autistic people can’t write poems, transsexuals are sick, & neither should exist” Kennedy’s HHS, so it’s a good day to explore the dozen studies threaded below. every reputable medical org endorses transition for trans folk.

Are you going to do a QA for season 8? My poms wonder why you think the Reds didn't stand for Elaida.

#wotshowspoilers.

I think another way of understanding this is in the common joke of the educator proudly making "out of date pop culture references but sticking to them no matter what" that was a mainstay on twitter. Everyone that liked those tweets spoke the Latin equivalent of Clueless/Simpsons/Buffy.

Full text April 3, 2025 Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”

They are so afraid of us.

Having won an award for the first time for a seminar for k-12 educators on "Great Expectations in the Global Imaginary" and reading dozens of applications brimming with excitement to spend three weeks with like-minded curious teachers, this is deeply upsetting.

Help us protect the NEH.