"Be beige, not rainbow" is the outcome of librarians saying libraries should be neutral. We cannot and are not neutral, and we gotta stop insisting that we are. At this point, it is part of the book ban playbook.

#Juneteenth, n.d., by #KalundaJanaeHilton (American, contemporary), fineartamerica.com/featured/jun... #artherstory #womenartists

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

I'm stuck on surprise summer curriculum work, and just watched the dude who has been the least helpful argue with ChatGPT about the curriculum it's developing. Which. I'd prefer to have my goddamn summer back.

Speaking entirely to my fellow Locked Tomb denizens: Shades of Jod and the billionaires.

New print in the store (maybe you've tried blogging, but have you ever printed your AI vs art feelings w/lead+ink & nailed them to the data center's door) (ok i have not either)

Oh, this is the Leverage episode where the writers found out about the Stanford Prison Experiment. And hazing. What are you going to steal here, Nate!

Not that I'd watch, but shouldn't the UFC fight be on #cspan

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

Luqman Saeed, Ulster University, Belfast, in @lrb.co.uk blog: "we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment." 1/

On June 10, 1692, the first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.

No one should be surprised by finding that domestic abusers go on to commit racist crimes, riots, and mass shootings.

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

And the shirts say “This is not a jersey” on the back:

Quite literally ALL LGBTQ rights came under Biden and Obama. And Biden, along with HRC and KDH, convinced Obama it was time for the White House to officially support marriage equality. We were able to breathe for TWO YEARS before trump started taking our rights back.

Well, that is one way to pull me back from the edge. Everyone is an asshole!

Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.

The choice to feature another multimillionaire "healthcare" investor to drum up sympathy for the United guy is ... a choice Dateline made. You know who else is left to die in the street? People whose health insurance is for profit and makes basic healthcare unaffordable.

I am Yesterday, I know Tomorrow. (BDB)

What's hilarious is that I just saw a different post about a dude who wrote a book about Korean history using AI to translate the Korean.

Happy 250th everyone. The Founders’ faith is now disqualifying.

What cat doesn't like 4 HOURS of NAPPIN! If you like this and want to see more like it, throw me a follow and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com Thank you, Cats of Yore.

Why is everything so incredibly fucking stupid?

Reminder: We had a deal with Iran to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump tore it up and went to war.

When I was in PhD school, the department was hiring for an Aristotelian. One of the candidates was finishing up at Princeton and HAD NEVER TAUGHT A CLASS. And that was the day I realized Princeton was bullshit. So this 1000% tracks.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

Judith Jarvis Thompson laser eyes .jpg

WW2 is not my area of interest or expertise, but even I know people shouldn't be promoting any historian who advocates for a Holocaust denier, regardless of what the quality of their other research might be: www.reddit.com/user/Archiva...

ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR CHATGPT FRIENDS

Is there a nice way to explain to your colleagues that digital storytelling isn't just using digital film?

I think we all forget that in The Handmaid's Tale, store signs were simplified pictures because basic literacy is dangerous to authoritarianism.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Our 50% Off Sale is underway! 🎉 Enjoy 50% off nearly all PUP books (print, ebooks & audiobooks), with code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list? 📚

This is the worst time of year. I have no self control. My wife will notice all of these new books.

"I understand people want to do STEM. But if you don't know where you've come from, that's history,... and you can't communicate, you're really not going to be a very good engineer or scientist" bit.ly/4w6hONa

I was insulted and exasperated.

Remember when people said it was hyperbole that Republicans would cancel elections

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

Wife and I are watching some Nightline episode about Lookmaxing and I'm at a point where I'm actively cheering body dysmorphia in men. Fuck it, we're not making anything better? Let's burn it down.

Just so the #left is aware Kamala Harris advocated for a national, FEDERALLY FUNDED universal paid family and medical leave program, that aimed to provide up to 12 weeks of paid time off for workers to care for new children or sick relatives. btw 19thnews.org/2024/07/the-...

Here's the CDC report -- on how effective the Covid vaccines are -- that was censored by Jay Bhattacharya. Good for @jeremyfaust.bsky.social getting the leak: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

AI authors working on a novel.

Fuck yeah, Ypsi.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Sometimes my phone decides to autocorrect "said" to "Said," inadvertently reminding me to go read some postcolonial theory.

ICYMI - pre-registration is open for our three pre-conference workshops at #ACH2026: "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design" "Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data" "Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution" Reserve a spot by May 22 - bit.ly/ACH26-PCW