I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I can’t imagine buying another Boar’s Head product for a long, long time.

My husband is smoking a turkey this year but forgot to get pellets for the Traeger so I went out at 5 pm to the grocery store to get some expecting chaos and it was absolutely dead. No line at checkout levels of dead. Idk if that's a recession indicator or what but it was weird.

Lunch with mom at McGuire’s this afternoon. Cornbread is baked, cranberry relish made, pecan pie in the oven. Sweet potatoes and stuffing go in the oven tomorrow morning. The bird gets cooked tomorrow afternoon.

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Oops. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Terrible news. Broadcast giant Sinclair makes bid to buy out EW Scripps for $7 per share apnews.com/article/sinc...

Bookmarking to (hopefully) order at some time in the very near future. Love this.

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The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)

During the Cold War, crusades against domestic enemies focused on alleged communists. Today, any kind of dissent is a target. By @gregorydaddis.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/pentagon-inv...

You can tell they are Protestant at heart because real Catholics who disagree with the Pope acknowledge his authority, say thank you Holy Father, and then just quietly ignore the guidance.

Grab two credits, Chewie. We've got some reading to do. Buy this book!

this is pretty solid spiritual advice tbh “Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”

Vietnamese food has a concept I don't often see in western cuisine - "ngán." It's translated as being bored but applies when your palate is dulled by the sameness in texture, taste. We want our food to hit different notes. A bánh mì is simultaneously soft and crunchy, spicy and cool, fatty and sour.

They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

I also call everything that irks me the tool of the anti-Christ

Created the Final Exam for my United States since 1877 class this morning. We’re required by the college to use Proctorio (due to fraud), so I’m running an experiment. For the short essay questions, I’ve given them a link to a document to analyze and set Proctorio to allow only links I provide.

They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.

If you post about AI and don’t specify that you’re actually referring to machine learning or expert systems, we are all going to assume you mean LLMs and generative AI because that is incessantly marketed to everyone. The responses when you praise AI without being specific are on you.

If you write articles about library collection usage (university or public) and don’t discuss the issue of budgets, you’re doing it wrong.

Look I don't enjoy losing respect for people who've decided to boost "AI" and throw away whatever credibility they may have earned in their field, but they're making their choices, and being nice to them isn't going to change their minds

This piece leaves out an important issue: many university libraries have had their collection budgets reduced to the point they struggle to maintain access to subscription databases. If you can’t buy large quantities of print materials, the collections age to the point that they aren’t useful.

"Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s." boycott the supporters of authoritarianism and also punish the quislings

Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026. See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Especially since none of the development or marketing of LLMs is done in good faith.

The entire episode highlights the risks of space junk in low-Earth orbit, especially tiny debris fragments that evade detection by tracking telescopes and radars.

KSTP meteorologist posting AI videos on Twitter of what he says is what Minneapolis will look like if his forecast is correct is really something… not a valid weather news source going forward imo

Ethiopia says death toll from Marburg virus outbreak rises to 6 reut.rs/49G3HWf

Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social Security Administration, was the person who first calculated the current poverty line back in 1965. Her estimation was $3000 for a family of 4 (or about $31,000 today). As she wrote, this low number ought to be temporary and only for "an emergency."

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online

Out of curiosity, what is the motivation for creating AI slop recipe pages? Surely there’s not enough ad revenue in it.

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

Just realized that I need to write and record an entire semester of new lectures for Western Civ II.

Super interesting thread!

If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. #academicsky

From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities. If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.

This lawsuit is gonna be insane.

THOSE ARE NOT CONCESSIONS!!

#Breaking: Trump administration quietly unveils new round of Medicare-negotiated drug prices www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/t...

The number of people who have frankly bizarre understandings of how libraries function is honestly amazing.

About 99.9% of you who pirate books live in an area with a public library, and that library almost certainly has some sort of digital ebook platform. Go get a library card and a Libby account and just wait your six weeks for your free copy to borrow like the rest of us.

It’s very cool to see how different library systems handle ILL and book suggestions.

This is the argument for "pre-existing conditions." Like being a woman.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.