Very useful information.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

"Over time and across fellowships, the high prevalence of winners from well-resourced, high-status institutions can understandably bring to mind Percy Bysshe Shelley’s adage that “the rich have become richer.”

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to [email protected] 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

The survivors have some thoughts for the First Lady. It's so much clearer without redactions. 👀📝⬛⬛⬛

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"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

Things are way off today. I ate 2 ice cream sandwiches and a chocolate eclair ice cream bar and drank 2 martinis.

Meanwhile....

I joked on here not long ago that the robot made things up 1/3 of the time, and boy did the robot defenders get annoyed with me.

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

Literally this tho. Every time some pro-AI educators says we have to teach kids how to use this bc it's already out there, my response is that kids are doing underage drinking too and we aren't advocating for putting bar carts in the classroom.

The opening sentence: "Whether you find AI exciting or frightening, its widespread use—including among students—means we all need to learn how to interact with it responsibly" is so obviously terrible on a pedagogical, political, psychological and basic human level. The @aft.org should be ashamed.

I just discovered an interview with my 11th grade history teacher done by the Yiddish Book Center. Here he talks about experiencing the Cuban Missile Crisis as a child. He is why I became a historian! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBO...

Please tell my university this.

On Jeopardy tonight, someone guessed that this image was from The Pitt

Celebrating because I finally got promoted to Full Professor after 22 years!

I keep giving myself emotional whiplash

The historical conversation surrounding birthright citizenship is very clear as noted by @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social There is no debate warranted. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Say what?

rueing the day I will have to explain to my daughter that, once upon a time before mobile phones, you simply had to agree to meet someone somewhere and then actually be in the place you agreed at the time you said you'd be there, and people actually made this work

Popehat basset hound @kenwhite.bsky.social

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

I know most people are just reacting to annoyingly vague headlines, but there's no mystery why old Klan items were found in a briefcase in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. They're old investigation materials, not evidence of modern klansmen lurking in the halls of MDPS.

Blueskis, THE WESTERNERS will be out in one week! (March 31) Here's an introduction to the seven westerners whose stories I tell in the book, and whose lives put the lie to the frontier myth. #skystorians #USWest @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

Significantly helps people with heart disease *and* makes people 16% less likely to develop dementia? There should be lines at the pharmacy for this miracle drug.

Hmmm, doesn't seem good. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/s...

This is what I have been saying. Forget about how AI affects college. It’s destroying public education at a rapid rate. Universities must stop pretending this is our problem to manage. It’s a society-wide crisis.

The second best Irish phrase I’ve heard, used to describe someone who’s always engaging in one-upmanship, is “if you’ve been to Tenerife, he’s been to Elevenerife.” My number one favourite Irish phrase, and one of the most crushing burns you’ll ever hear, is “he looks like his mammy knitted him.”

"Sixty-seven nuclear tests were carried out across Enewetak and Bikini atolls between 1946 and 1958."

I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social

Say what?? William Cronon is on there.

Sometimes I miss this world.

This is a must read by @jelaniya.bsky.social Citizens in the 1850s & in the mid 2020s didn't (don't) like it when their neighbors are seized or killed by those enforcing federal detention policies. What a spot on comparison. Community matters. apple.news/ARxn1jxzNTaC...

You know who really ought to pay attention the result in TX Sen 9? Democratic leadership in Congress.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

A holiday gift. Tricolor Ladybug Medley of chocolate.

TV news having trouble triaging an antisemitic mass murder on Chanukah, a mass shooting at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and the apparent murder of one of America’s most beloved movie directors

The RFK, jr effect.

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@flavorflav.bsky.social and @chuckdpe.bsky.social open the new Public Enemy hit with Ruby Bridges. ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6L...

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Hello Southern Historical Association annual meeting from St. Pete's Beach! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

The perfect lemon drop martini in New Orleans.

“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” — Langston Hughes