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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-19 08:11:05
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c
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Athenian red-figure amphora depicting the god Hermes weighing souls (psychostasis). In Book 5 of the Odyssey, Hermes, messenger of the gods, is sent to tell the nymph Kalypso to allow Odysseus to leave so he can return home after several years of being detained on the island of Ogygia. Hermes is also known as the god of boundaries, and as such he is Psychopompos, or “soul-guide”: He leads the souls of the dead to the house of Hades. In a sense, Odysseus is dead, imprisoned on an island in the m…
@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-01-08 17:39:36

Texas A&M valiantly protects innocent college students from the woke works of Plato.
pen.org/press-release/plato-ha

Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-01-07 17:56:45

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous #philosophy #Texas

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-08 11:40:45

Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/tamu
memeorandum.com/260108/p12#a26

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-07 21:42:44

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it's too gay - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/univer

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2026-01-08 06:14:15

Oh, wow :-( Man wird wohl auch in diesem Fall keine #freespeech-Rufer rufen hören …
Texas A&M Bans Plato (with updates) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-07 13:50:38

Texas A&M Bans Plato (Justin Weinberg/Daily Nous)
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas
memeorandum.com/260107/p27#a26

@donelias@mastodon.cr
2026-01-11 03:29:45

Le llegó la hora a esta guanšbana 😋

Guanábana madura sobre un plato
Guanabana madura partida por la mitad
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 09:35:47

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (Cade Metz/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/02…

Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 11:34:21
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus
🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya

Terracotta statue of Aphrodite and Eros. Aphrodite is seated, a himation draped around her legs. Eros is depicted as a young boy, standing next to her, his arms wrapped around his mother's neck. He is smiling as he kisses her. Aphrodite holds him, her hand resting on his back, just below the wings.
@sergiofdezsaez@masto.es
2026-01-05 23:10:48

Ya les habéis dejado a los Reyes Magos un tentempié para cuando os traigan los regalos?

Tres copitas de moscatel con un pequeño plato con dulces navideños en frente. Al lado de casa copa, una figurita del roscón representando a cada uno de los tres reyes magos.
@hippyjo@c.im
2025-11-02 19:30:52

In Plato's allegory of the cave, so many people get hung up on the individuals who are chained at the back of the cave, and how those individuals are only seeing shadows of a reality outside their cave.
I keep coming back to the part where someone breaks free and then returns to try and free the ones in chains.
The ones in chains try to kill him rather than confront the reality they are avoiding.
They try to kill you if you insist on talking about the truth.
Fuck …

@buercher@tooting.ch
2026-01-08 06:26:11

Les taliban au Texas interdissent Plato. Trump est juste la surface d’une révolution culturelle aux USA. smnn.ch/@nohillside/1158580047

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-23 23:05:50
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b
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Roman bronze figurine of Jupiter as a mature, bearded man dressed in a himation that he wears around his hips and his shoulder, draped around his left arm. He is crowned with a wreath, possibly of oak leaves, his sacred plant. The right arm is, sadly, missing, as is his right foot.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-21 08:54:46
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Sokrates: 'Ares, then, if you like, would be named for his virility and courage, or for his hard and unbending nature, which is called arraton; so Ares would be in every way a fitting name for the god of war.'"
Plato, Cratylus 400d
🏛 Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
#DayOfAres

Roman bronze statuette of the god Mars. He is depicted in full armour, a helmet on his head and a sword carried below his left arm. A shield seems to have been placed in front of him, held up by his left hand, now lost. A spear likely used to be in his right, also lost.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-29 19:50:02

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Leonard Bernstein, James Ehnes, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson:
🎵 Serenade, after Plato's "The symposium"
#LeonardBernstein #JamesEhnes #SinfoniaofLondon #JohnWilson