oh this is going to be a very interesting world cup competition

Nobody can convince me that bluesky is dying when an offhand comment about medieval farming can lead to a two day informed discussion on 14th C mining conditions, comparing Swiss nobility recruitment methods, and periodizing Roman enslavement.

I am continually confounded that anyone is treating this has anything other than a worldwide economic crisis.

I am continually confounded that anyone is treating this has anything other than a worldwide economic crisis.

Someone get these gen Xs out of the room when they're being pitched shitty AI tools or so help me god. Especially when they are politicians! They're not going to save you time and money. They'll COST you. You'll need to hire back everyone you fired. PLEASE LOOK AT ANY RESEARCH I'M LOSING MY MIND-

all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds

Most "science fiction" is actually "engineering fiction"

37. If this list has done anything, it’s convinced me to read Middlemarch.

This could be 6 cars instead.

The point is to move public funds to private, for profit companies.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has the best map collection in America (seriously). In-state tuition is just under $12,000, enrollment is around 23,000.

Reminder: if you are an academic, your institution's library would profit greatly (in both the short and long run) by having this book. Request it be purchased! Librarians like requests; they show our interest in the use of the library.

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.

I feel entitled to plug an ongoing project here... www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps

the best map of Europe

People who think these post-nominals are academic qualifications and various medals and honours would be surprised to learn they’re actually the graffiti crews he’s affiliated with

You know what’s pretty great? National Parks.

As a Black woman I routinely experience discomfort. And my existence as a Black woman forces me to understand where that discomfort is coming from. Is it because of my own personal comfort - or is it because of racism/sexism. Discomfort isn't an inherent sign of things being bad - it's feedback.

I’m looking forward to the made for TV movie where the FBI and the Canvas hackers spend 94 minutes trying to outsmart one another.

New take on Ungrading just dropped

Every second of time is the strait through which the Messiah might enter.

At graduation time, my heart is with the students and faculty of the Black studies and Gender studies programs/depts closed or consolidated this year. Sending ongoing solidarity

officially pronouncing the word "oligarch" with a hard r until further notice

Could be talking about the US military, could be talking about football

Oh, Chip, you have _no idea_.

Truth/American Legacy Foundation dropping a 2026 anti-smoking ad

I'm reminded of the ancient SMBC comic about aging scientists.

Can people please stop referring to the U.S. Venezuela decapitation as a "success?" It's replaced an unpopular, torture-based, economically-disastrous dictatorship with a Trump-controlled unpopular, torture-based, economically-disastrous dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/w...

I'm kind of sick and tired of seeing privileged (mostly male) senior scholars take advantage of their own privileged positions to mainstream and normalise the far right, seemingly without any shame (or consequences). Your work is harming us all (collectively, societally, and within the discipline).

New discovery by computer scientists claims “this is the face of the real Anne Boleyn.”

You know what could really make a university stand out? To deliver its majors with zero AI. No matter the college, one that guaranteed its students hadn’t used AI as part of their education would be immediately appealing to a wide swath of employers!

A good rule of thumb: you can tell someone is going to be 100% if they quote the congratulatory puffery that an AI model is giving them in the course of their analysis.

It’s been 4 decades and – still – when someone mentions “Toni Braxton” I assume they are talking about a posh London suburb.

in the 1990s if you were a freak you had to carefully reveal it over the course of many instances of gradual line stepping and feeling out around acquaintances and contacts and if you got it wrong you were indelibly That Guy and had to find a new rec center to play ball at or whatever

The Warren-Burger court (1953-83) — even given the Republican framing as an activist court given to creating law — never overtly overturned a clear congressional act.

“Beyond anything else, that colleague in a blue state is a fucking idiot.”

Here I thought I was working in a restaurant for a decade, turns out I was employed by the mob.

If you ever give a lot of money to a college, RESTRICT THE HELL OUT OF IT! Make sure it’s dedicated to something you care about: poetry, Chinese history, gender studies, political theory. Then get a lawyer to make sure that if they ever don’t fulfill, they have to pay it all back to your estate.

They've also invested in Silicon Valley - AI, data centers, etc. And this is all just the stuff we know about - there's plenty of dark money sloshing around and doing things like propping up Tesla's share price and Bitcoin valuation, only so many places that might have come from - mostly oil. (5/n)

Arendt notes that this failed miserably cos it just allowed the Nazis carrying the atrocity out to position themselves as making Hard Choices and exemplify Sacrifice for the Fatherland. Whereas when faced with simple moral condemnation they often faltered or baulked. Their own hearts condemned them.

I know there’s a lot going on, but people and the national media are sleeping on the absolute collapse of water reservoirs from the Colorado River to Texas

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

spent the day with charles burnett as the city of los angeles honored him with distinction and friends from across his life sung his praises. deeply honored to co-present the award and be in the number of those singing his praises.

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

Emily Oster’s childhood is essentially a version of Six Feet Under’s Brenda Chenowith’s.

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

The problem for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s opinion section is that the central truth of academia - there’s a group of politicians out to destroy it and an administrative class which is happy to help - can’t be said to their subscribers.

The problem for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s opinion section is that the central truth of academia - there’s a group of politicians out to destroy it and an administrative class which is happy to help - can’t be said to their subscribers.