What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

'... Final 😀', '... Finally final, absolutely no more amendments, v. 11 😭'

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400: memorients.com/news/univers...

⚠️ 🦌 🚗 Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.

Really disturbed seeing my high school do this.

Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…) openletter.earth/petition-to-...

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

One of the main architects of our present descent, and just because he didn’t like where things headed doesn’t mean the he ever took responsibility, much less faced justice for his crimes.

I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme. #CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

If our economic system is so brittle that it can be destroyed by free buses, maybe we should try for something more resilient.

Il est encore temps de vous inscrire pour écouter Laura Moncion parler des reclus médiévaux ! Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇

There's still time to register to hear Laura Moncion talk about medieval recluses! Wednesday at 11 EST on Zoom, 👇

I don't care about hockey in the slightest, but Vladdy Guerrero Jr. walking into Game 7 of the World Series rocking a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey makes my heart swell like the damn Grinch's on Christmas.

If you have or have had Tri-Council funding you, too, may be concerned about this Parliamentary Committee request for confidential data. Also, these clowns asked for 5 years of data on applications from everyone from MA students to Canada Research Chairs in... an excel spreadsheet. 15 days notice.

RETALIATORY TARIFF TO THE SHIN

Also open to and important for any Canadian researcher concerned with the Tri-Councils' mandates.

This is a marvellous book: so nuanced and humane www.cundillprize.com/news/lyndal-...

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

Yes yes yes

there are only two genders online: Abelard & Heloise

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Historian here: it can indeed stand the test of time if by time you mean centuries

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Our department is hiring! Assistant Professor and Ruby Heap Professorship in Women’s History universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Dante has a specific section of Hell for people who commit crimes on behalf of a monarch (the pope) knowing the monarch has promised in advance to pardon them.

Making sure everything is on the up and up

This is fabulous

I mean a) I've been hearing 'people will live in space in the next 20 years' my entire life and I am not 20 something but also b) absolutely nothing here about where anyone not super rich fits into this vision. He says robots have all the jobs. How does anyone make rent in this future?

The CSM Online: Tune in Wednesday 5 Nov. 2025, at 11am EST to hear 2025 Boyle Prize Winner Laura Moncion talk about her dissertation, "Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice." Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...

La SCM en ligne : le mercredi 5 novembre 2025 à 11 h (heure de l'Est) on écoute Laura Moncion, lauréate du prix Boyle 2025, parler de sa thèse intitulée « Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice ». Inscription : forms.gle/n6LJh7JYKvRD...

CFP - CSM Sessions at ACCUTE's 2026 conference in Montreal, 4-7 June Submit your paper proposals on • Medieval Magic • Medieval Masculinities for two CSM-sponsored sessions. Deadline 15 Nov. 2025. Details here www.canadianmedievalists.org/CSM-at-ACCUT...

AI can pry Oxford commas and em dashes from my cold, lifeless, and dead hands—and I dare someone to say something to me about it

Interesting that in this edition the gender of the witches has shifted from the original feminine (maleficArum) to masculine/neuter (Orum). Any ideas when that shift was made or what it means?

Not at all problematic

I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.

I'm pretty sure there were Indian spices in England before potatoes.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

The pervasive reduction of human knowledge & understanding to 'information' in GenAI discourse is astounding. Trying to explain why we don't just need 'information' to AI zealots is like playing chess with a pigeon except the pigeon is the size of Texas & uses more electricity than a small country.

The professor should be forced to pay back the money she forced her students to spend buying her AI-generated textbook--this is such a scam. And she should never teach again. And this is exactly why universities should have calmed their jets before heralding gAI as the next coming of Christ.

So glad not a single politician on the planet has the intelligence to perceive how massive a con this is (AI will cure cancer we are told, instead we get this) or the political will to regulate this company and sector.

#Handcrafts as a scalable (fun!) therapy? Knit one, purl two on the way to #mentalhealth healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi... by Jane Caulfield (yep, might be connection!) via @healthydebate.bsky.social Studies show #knitting has many potential benefits for "mental health & general well-being.”

The only actual use case here is perverts putting themselves in sex scenes with Daenerys but the key to this whole industry is that everyone must pretend to have been born yesterday. The naivete is load bearing.

Try saying “Profefforis” five times fast

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed