Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social

Literature, digital humanities, aging, disability. Loves Catullus 4; loathes Horace Od. 2.10. she/her/hers

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[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

THE ANSWER IS ISIDORE OF SEVILLE

no really

We left out his first 2 ages: infantia (0-7) and pueritia (8-14)
Adolescentia's 15-28. This study ends youth at 29.

Gravitas is 50-69. i.e. middle age here, 48-69
And senectus/old age is 70 onwards for both

What's missing? Iuventus.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

Hi @Verizon, I'd love to know what's going on. You emailed me this deal to trade in any phone, any condition, and keep my current plan. But it won't let me do so online. I went to the brick and mortar store and they refused to honor it. I called customer service; ditto.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

I am over on bluesky and look forward to seeing many of you there. Committing to not posting here again.

https://t.co/fw5ZGNqK8j

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I can’t believe I’m saying this, as a guy who thinks picking up calls from random numbers should be against the law, but if you voted in Nevada, pick up your phone!

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@goingpostale The sentiments and well-wishes that can be wrapped up in the something old and something borrowed.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@graceelavery I can remember my parents vacuuming them off the walls one summer. It was a bizarre hyperlocal plague.

[Ololade Faniyi @lolamargaret_]

This is a consent issue btw. There is a sure line between disregard of consent and violation of women’s bodies and its current reflection in Gen AI systems. AI is a feminist issue!

@laurenfklein & @kanarinka talk more about this in Data Feminism for AI

https://t.co/Z1kxAYksl6

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@jasjiv @ZeeshanJaanam Anticipating the frequent counterargument—that she herself wouldn’t survive under Hamas—so that people can’t dismiss her stance as coming from a place of ignorance or rose-tinted glasses.

[Chris Riedel @medievalhistory]

I really, really hate that this is becoming a thing. The internet is not a safe place to store information; it is intrinsically ephemeral.
I often think that in a few centuries this era will be considered another dark age as so many of our records stored this way will be lost.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@Diane_Watt I still have two brass rubbings my mother did as a college student of Thomas and Maud Chaucer! They’ve wound up as very appropriate decoration when I’m writing about Chaucer, death and generations.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@mistresstailor Practicality of your gorgeous work aside, do they not realize that we have always made decorative/symbolic armor and weaponry, in addition to the more functional stuff?

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@n_hold Surely there’s a way to harness raised blood pressure and clenched teeth.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

A particularly appalling example of the flexibility in how we apply age categories

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

What the hell kind of phrase is this, @Reuters?! 🇵🇸

[nick @unionnick]

“If Cornell deports @MomodouTaal, we deem it an unsafe space for all Black students” — new statement from @Cornell’s Black Students United

[becca harrison @_beccaharrison]

When a university president can invite Ann Coulter to campus & watch as she taunts an undocumented faculty member, OK an upcoming visit by Ben Shapiro, & threaten the deportation of a pro-Palestinian grad worker without due process, Cornell is neither progressive nor “neutral.”

[NOH8 Campaign @NOH8Campaign]

BREAKING: Thai king signs same-sex marriage into law #NOH8

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@davidhogg111 There aren't easy solutions to these care costs, but we need to navigate it without framing the aging Boomers as a threat or enemy, and without continuing to isolate older adults from the rest of society.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@davidhogg111 I took a business school class on retirement homes/elder care and was the humanities grad asking uncomfortable questions. Like, okay, you have trouble hiring caretakers--can your staff afford your facility their loved ones, or eventually themselves? No? Awkward.

[Anna Fore Waymack waymack.bsky.social @annawaymack]

@vaccinelover666 Best wishes from Boston!