Markwayne? 😬

RIP (rest in potato)

Latest update this morning is not to expect restoration of service until March 13. They are replacing old infrastructure with fiber cable (finally). But, no internet at home for final two weeks of the term is brutal.

Yes, a whole area in San Jose has no AT&T internet service because of a copper wire theft last week. Service will not be restored for another couple of days yet. 🫠

Patron, beware.

Grateful for some flexibility in my schedule today to take my mom to an unscheduled doctor visit. 🙏❤️

Bernie proposes $4.4 trillion tax on ~1,000 billionaires, to fund: — Medicare w dental/vision/hearing — Teacher pay at $60K/yr min — Universal childcare — Housing www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So, day two of US-Israeli war with Iran. A phrase I never hoped to utter.

Beautiful

I guess there’s not ever a good day for an area-wide internet outage, but today really was not a good day for it for me. 😭

Just finishing up my normie 8 oz. cup of mid-morning joe.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

This is not teaching or learning. It is merely sorting.

students know they are being cheated

Now we see the misogyny inherent in the system*. *NYT Crossplay

good morning, keep fighting “local communities and their elected leaders really are finding themselves on the front lines of this fight and are finding that they do, in fact have some power to say no to Big Tech." newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Just plucking academic posts off the sidewalk like an errant dandelions.

RIP, Michael Silverblatt — astute reader of books and writers. ❤️

Chicago! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

Yes, I love my personalized YETI canteen, but I just ran across my ancient Nalgene flask with all its old decals from TreePeople and backcountry.com still adhering, and it’s making me feel some kind of way. 💙

Statistician: oof! Tough crash there; skiers go up to 50 mph on the giant slalom Poet: Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Concentration camps.

If yours in Santa Clara County in District CA-17, there are some resources being provided tomorrow afternoon by @rokhanna.bsky.social’s office during the Super Bowl in light of increased ICE presence.

Baby laughter and the emergence of a sense of humor? Fascinating and delightful. Deeply human-centered. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

❤️

Doomsday clock clicks down another tick as the world’s superpowers are led by the least rational actors to date and decades of nuclear arms control treaties are left to expire. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Common sense is to destroy it and salt the earth so nothing like it can ever grow again.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. •Art of the West: Ancient & Medieval •Early Germanic / Celtic Culture •Classics of Social & Political Thought •American Embodiments: 1855-1905 •Producing Gender in Early-Modern Europe

I appreciated Senator Warren unequivocally saying she thinks Congress needs to, “tear ICE down to the studs” and start over, during her interview with NPR on Monday 1/26/2026z

Good episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Friends in Boston, I’m reading at Boston University on February 4th at 7:30pm. Please come say hi!

There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.

Reminder that Congress still has the authority and ability to put a stop to all of this right now. That may not be the case in another 6 mos. to a year. The time to act is now.

Live your life in a way that Tom Homan tells your friends, family, co-workers, bosses, etc. about what you did last weekend.

"So much of the resistance is either carried out by women or coded as women’s work—unheralded, boring, unglamorous, and mostly undocumented."

Database of folk heroes.

teaching Whitman tomorrow, thinking about

And stay out!

Fuck ICE every single day. Taking folks who are the best of this city and the best of every city.

He can’t imagine a potluck dinner.

As we close out Betalevel this week, we'll be doing a number of events--tonight, I'll be hosting an absolutely stellar line-up of amazing musicians, writers & performers for a telethon-of-sorts. We'll be raising money for immigrations rights groups in LA. Come down and join us; it'll be amazing.

They say everyone should have guns. And that it’s our right to have them. And scream and fight for the right to carry them. Then the moment they shoot you as you lie unarmed on the ground with five men in your back, they say it’s because you carried a gun.

Star Tribune reporters covering everything in Minneapolis and their state heroically. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

those who’ve aggressively promoted impunity for the lethal lawless rampages of Trump’s ICE/border patrol masked militia should be held directly responsible for the crimes they are licensing and cheering on

This.

Look, there’s bigger issues with the White House posting meme slop about invading a NATO ally but. PENGUINS AREN’T NATIVE TO GREENLAND. OR THE ARCTIC. THEY LIVE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE YOU ADDLE-MINDED IDIOTS.

I love Mel Brooks. Looking forward to watching this well-deserved paean.

Electrical problems with the plane or…

Good read!

“To these seekers, the border between the two countries scarcely mattered: The cheese was the thing.” 😔