Joseph Howley

Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

Using my first bluesky post ever to say that if you follow me on here and you’re a member of NYC-DSA — or eligible to become one! — and you haven’t voted for convention delegates, please vote for the @socialistmajority.com slate! Get an SMC ballot ranked just for you: vote.socialistmajority.com/nyc

One of the girls I coached in basketball last year is in the middle of a medical emergency, on a ventilator. A GoFundMe was setup to help her parents pay for treatment and the hospital stay; if you can donate, thank you, but sharing it is also appreciated. Katie J's a real sweetheart.

Logging back on to share this specimen of leadership from some colleagues www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

ok if you see me back here I better be promoting something I’ve published or posting a manuscript wordcount

Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.

It’s probably older bc of variant Oliseus >Ulixes

I’m too tired to write this up but I got these screenshots together for a private chat and thought I’d just leave them here and you can work it out yourself. last one is from Wilson, I love that translation and this choice in particular

Nolan’s Odyssey is a gift to anyone teaching myth, Homer, vel sim this fall. But I’m interested to hear how folks make that pitch. The course where they read the odyssey is required of all first years here, but it’s not a classics dept course, so it’s not immediately clear we can recruit off this

"My field of scholarship had become a legal and criminal minefield." Arabic Literature professor Huda Fakhreddine on seeing herself unfortunately reflected in "Law and Order": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-order-racist-dick-wolf-middle-eastern-studies/

NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

If you've heard me talk about booklabs at any point over the last decade you've heard my bitter anger over a Vice Provost's shortsighted decision to shutter & give away our legendary campus press. A bunch of us never forgot. In 2027 Silver Buckle Press comes home. education.wisc.edu/news/silver-...

Not a scrap of Linear B in the film and he had the chutzpah to make Matt Damon say this

ICE thugs tackled and tried to handcuff a man at Las Vegas airport. When they realized they were being filmed, they simply walked away, leaving the man on the ground with a handcuff attached to one arm. The Las Vegas Police found no outstanding warrants for the man and removed his handcuffs.

I’m not giving up hope. If The Odyssey makes a gajillion dollars there’s still a chance we can get Nolan to make a The Iliad where Priam intones “Our bicameral mind is breaking down” and Achilles replies “But perhaps this will be the origins of consciousness”

well he’s read Eric Cline

This scam targets authors with LLM-generated personalized messages praising their work, which means this bookshop cat named Aeschylus has received an email about how great the Oreisteia is and how it should really be a bestseller

Do you think Christopher Nolan has read Julian Jaynes

The whole group chat loves when I do my “Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator” but with the sideways thumb emoji. It never gets old for anyone

@ztul.bsky.social do you still have the old posts from the bad website about how super Mario odyssey implies a super Mario iliad

‘Twas a good day to go on offense against universities and the US govt

Watch until 6:45 or so for a surprise

FILED! One year after his arrest, Mahmoud Khalil is responding with a landmark lawsuit against senior Trump administration officials and three anti-Palestinian groups: the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission, and Betar. Learn more: bit.ly/mahmoud-v-heritage-filed

And you can watch today’s press conference on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/live/BdpFuuf...

BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Issa Kohler Hausmann at Yale Law School. "What’s missing from the news coverage, and from universities’ capitulation, is that the legal rule supposedly compelling this surrender doesn’t exist. The whole campaign rests on invented law and distorted statistics." news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

holiday laundromat facade sign, dinosaur detail, route 40, vernal, utah, 1991

illustration, technopolis, magazine (1993) archive.org/details/tech...

historians can you confirm whether or not this is the original "t shirt raising a lot of questions answered by the t shirt"