My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

one of my oldest friends sends totally random monday memes. i thought the skyline would appreciate yesterday’s:

LA's homelessness crisis is a humanitarian disaster - and our response isn't working. I have a plan to fix this.🧵⬇️

I hate the all-party primary in California. I’d love to be able to cast a vote without having to worry whether a Democrat will be on the general ballot. We need to end this.

Trump: the pope is weak on crime Pope: [descends to his cave, pulls cowl over face, Batman-growl voice] we’ll see about that

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

This is so well done. 👌

To all who celebrate

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

In all seriousness: this is the fellowship that changed my career/life. If you have questions/are considering and want to chat, hit me up, these are magnificent institutions filled with the best people.

My book preview (not AI generated)

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

adult catholic converts continue to be embarrassing

Honestly a dummymander will be the funniest possible outcome

New project- 出口🏃🏻‍♂️ Shinjuku Station has over 200 exits, I'm going to draw all of them wrongly, not where they actually take you, but the many worlds that they could take you to.

you would never have to wait 6 hours in line at LaGuardia or JFK. Because here we say waiting ON line. "I was on line at TSA for 6 hours" is what you would say.

HOWLING

yep, i'm still mad about syracuse's new "center for content something or another." imagine knowing you have faculty who can teach akkadian and you're like, "hey, let's lean into content creation," as if i'd ever go to college for that. know what i'd go to college to learn, though? akkadian.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

lamenting all the tiny deaths of scholarship we’ve seen over the past few decades: folks being pushed out of abusive PhD programs; schools refusing to hire full-time faculty; “austerity” measures designed for program cuts; general defunding of education; forced AI adoption; etc.

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

For Gilgamesh feels, if you needed them: In the epic, Gilgamesh and Enkidu refer to each other as mostly 'my companion' (ibri, in Akkadian) rather than by name; after Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's first preserved speech is a lament for his fallen companion, which begins by calling out Enkidu's name

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

“This [AI] technology disrupts humanities-trained — largely Democratic — voters, and makes their economic power less…” right, now can we stop buying the “humanities aren’t lucrative; that’s why no one majors in history” nonsense?

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

Listen, I am only half joking when I say this If you can manage not to use AI and not to gamble for the next five years, you will be among the most capable people on the planet

The academic equivalent of "you can judge someone by how they act with the server" is "you can judge someone by how they act with students whose success isn't tied to them/doesn't reflect on them" or maybe just "you can judge someone by how they act with students"

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Why DS9 holds up so well.

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders." — Terry Pratchett

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

I’m done hearing about the Epstein files, I want to hear about the Epstein trials.

However much we love this, remember it definitely hurts Vance more.

The Supreme Court:

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Okay, I admit not everything can be related to sports, but boy, writing can, hear me out There's a thing called chronic training load, and slowly increasing it, and maintaining a relatively high CTL, is a key way that human beings adapt to get better

For those looking for background: the group is called The First Amendment Troop, and the piece is entitled, "ResistDance." This appears to be their original Instagram post: www.instagram.com/reel/DU1-DrF...

Roses are red Violets are blue If you’re born here You’re a citizen too

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le