Timothy M Teeter
Classicist, historian, papyrologist, Christian, Democrat, concerned citizen
- Mother's Day thought: Why is there no good movie about the Titanomachy?
- It might involve lopping off a god's genitals.
- This is predictable when you put teenagers in charge of the government whose main qualifications is ability to do Grok AI queries
- Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Has anyone pointed out that Robert Heinlein, who invented "grok", would probably be offended by its appropriation by Musk? And that the idea that a machine could actually "grok" (by Heinlein's definition) is probably impossible?
- I can't believe I'm looking forward to this, but I am.
- This is a fun article. As it happens, I still have a copy of the original Hazan cookbook that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/d...
