Al Duncan

@emollick Not sure whether it is "smart" or "flawed"  that NB2 disregards the high probability that the odd page will be to the right of the fold — therefore requiring two different books/images to display. Certainly a "tell" for AI — at least for era of frontier models.

Nano banana 2: "Show me a photo taken of pages 113-114 from the books": "Eldritch Horrors as Pets: A Guide" "How Womblenauts Work" "Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds". "Cakes shaped like fish shaped like cakes"

Very Stanford

Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.

@emollick Haven't cracked this book open, yet, but the premise/post-colon title, "Style in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," is interesting update on Strunk & White: press.umich.edu/Books/A/A-Way-…

The issue isn’t that AI work is bad, its just ubiquitous in the way no other authorial tone has ever been, which makes it more subtly influential. Heck, even that last sentence, 100% written by me, sounds AI.

As an author, I feel I am lucky to have had a chance to establish my voice through trial & error before the invention of LLMs. Even if you don’t use them for writing, unless you are very careful, you start to pick up ambient Claudish or GPTish phrasing from all the other AI work

I'll have more posts to share in the coming week about the show, but as folks make plans for the conference, make sure that TANTALIDS, THURSDAY 1/8, 7:30PM YOSEMITE, are part of them. See you there and then! #Tantalids #AIASC2026 #AncientDrama #Classics #SCSCAMP

There's so much to say about this innovative, shocking, and emotionally powerful production — but who could say some of this better than the brilliant dynamo behind this revival, Vanessa Stovall, whose recent SCS blog-post is well worth reading in full. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/vstov…

Classicists! It's just over a week until the annual AIA/SCS meeting, this time in San Francisco, and that means preparations are gearing up for the annual CAMP production. This year, CAMP is proud to present "Tantalids: take ii," under the direction of Vanessa Stovall!

***(Did I mention I'm not on the search committee?)

I'm not on the search committee and don't have/can't give any inside information, but I'd be happy to field any general questions about the lovely NC Research Triangle area, campus culture, etc. I encourage every Latinist who thinks they might fit the description to apply!***

It's official! My department, UNC Classics, is hiring for the Paddison Professor of Latin: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/306994

Congratulations to my colleague Josh Ober for winning a Balzan prize — almost $1m — for his transformative work on Athenian democracy: Josiah Ober - Fondazione Internazionale Premio Balzan balzan.org/en/classics-at…

I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.

Grateful to all who support humanistic inquiry — with their donations, tax dollars, words, actions, and other in-kind contributions!

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities recently celebrated a major fellowship program fundraising milestone. 🎉 Thanks to the generosity of #UNC donors and friends, @iah_unc now has sustainable funding to support at least 18 faculty fellows each year college.unc.edu/2025/07/iah-fe…