Leah

Leah

@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

Linguist in LA. Vitam faciunt balnea vina Venus.

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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social

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Tom Collins resigned from the board of Anthropic after the release of Fable. He has a very active bluesky account

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Buttadeus
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Mark Cohen lived in Scarsdale after inheriting his parents’ house. He produced two shows for Quibi and now runs the TikTok account for AIPAC.

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Rey
@rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social

江雪 / River Snow 柳宗元 · Liu Zongyuan 千山鳥飛絕 萬徑人蹤滅 孤舟蓑笠翁 獨釣寒江雪 A thousand mountains: no birds come or go. Ten thousand paths: all human traces gone. A lone boat, a straw-clad old man, fishing alone in cold river snow. An instrumental film; English rendering mine.

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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

While traveling across Italy I've visited a few museums that have these walls with (mostly) Latin inscriptions set into them. At the Museo Guarnacci in Volterra today, I was particularly delighted to see that many of the inscriptions have the corresponding CIL references written next to them.

Leah
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The sobering thing about these walls, of course, is that they are a little of child death. Over and over. I think if we could experience life in antiquity it would feel suffused with so much grief every day, compared to the world now.

Leah
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And of course slavery and patriarchy and the whole spectrum of kinds of unfreedom. This funerary stone is for a freedwoman Varia Severa. It was erected by her husband who has the cognomen Philadespotus ("master-loving"). Apparently this is attested as a name given to freedmen or enslaved people.

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Katuwestākos Göransson
@seadogdriftwood.bsky.social

A computer/online game in Hittite? Where you *learn* introductory Hittite? And with advanced options to read it in Cuneiform?! It is real. And it is free. @kaimonster.bsky.social, you've surpassed Suppiluliuma. You deserve all the laudation of a Labarna. May Istanu shine blessings upon you.

Word Family Friday@wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social

This year's Interactive Fiction Competition includes an entry in Hittite! ifcomp.org/ballot#entry...

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Ted Underwood
@tedunderwood.com

Putting all the magic phrases on my own mirror so I see them every day: “Start with ontology. Think step by step. Do a breakthrough. Adversarial review. Unreal Engine. HD!”

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net

Wow. Telling Astra to consider/make a strong 'Ontology' really does juice its ability to plan a sensible architecture. I forgot who mentioned this before but thank you!

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

I haven't heard "Orange Day" before but what else could we call this? This was my view looking out at my back yard in Berkeley that morning.

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Ennius
@enniusredloeb.bsky.social

Rosh Hashanah in 2026 begins at sunset on 11th September. Here is the initial-word panel for 'Melekh Amon' (Steadfast King). Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays, Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, vol 3); 1320–1330 CE; f.53r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

I have never used tags before but I'm desperate here. Calling out to the universe for anyone who knows what is going on in this apparatus #ancientsky #🐦🐦 #minoansky

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Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/)

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

Frances and Joseph Gies' book "Life in a Medieval Village" quotes some texts where people wrote ecstatic religious visions of paradise, and they mostly were just descriptions of getting to have butter every day and maybe even some meat

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Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

These people were driving a team of oxen from sunup to sundown, or caring for kids (and spinning cloth every minute the kids were asleep), on like 1500 calories on a good day

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Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/)

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/)

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Leah
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My only guess would be that the authors of the apparatus are unclear about whether a reading is suggested in the cited source. That would be fair enough except that in this case, Po4 was written by one of the authors of this book! He surely can't be uncertain about how to read his own work. (3/)

Leah
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So, I have no idea what else this could mean. The book's list of conventions has a few characters with subscript dots but all basically the same meaning: "identification douteuse" or "peu sûre" or "incertaine". Any ideas that could explain this? (4/4)

Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social

Very niche question, but maybe one of my very niche (complimentary) followers will know. I'm trying to understand what's going on with the use of subscript dots in the apparatus for texts in this book (Raison and Pope's "Corpus transnuméré du linéare A") (1/)

Leah
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Generally in this book, subscript dots are used in the regular way: to indicate an uncertain reading. What I can't figure out are cases like the underlined bits here. Those are authorities from the bibliography. This is certain; they do not correspond to anything that could be part of the text. (2/)