Been sitting with this all day. Mainly because once again, as a Native, this is not a shocking threat. For us, it's all too familiar.

Maybe it is not you who needs to hear this but: when someone has done the real work of showing how a journalist or newspaper or magazine is peddling misinformation or compromised, commenting that you don’t subscribe to that publication anymore is the height of useless self-congratulation.

Adm Rich Correll is the current commander Graff is referencing here.

Maybe it is not you who needs to hear this but: when someone has done the real work of showing how a journalist or newspaper or magazine is peddling misinformation or compromised, commenting that you don’t subscribe to that publication anymore is the height of useless self-congratulation.

I have no inside info on this. But I will note that the entire rationale for hiring a Milwaukee GOP lawyer with exactly <zero> experience in higher education to be President of the UW System was to be the Robin Vos Whisperer, & it/he completely failed in this one main task. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Fun times for political scientists

Well, it does make me feel quite prescient - obviously I wasn’t the first person to study the reception history of Thucydides, but I was the first to focus on his image in popular discourse, especially online, and the importance of an idea of ‘Thucydides’ rather than anything he actually said.

Hoping all my WPSA friends are out dancing to dj gabby gabby

Not really enjoying the 2026 remake of _Solaris_.

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

News from Spanish municipalism in the Berliner Gazette!!! berlinergazette.de/the-canton-o...

Este jueves santo a eso de las 20.00h tendremos el: ESPECIAL GIANT SIZE 19: Zot! de Scott McCloud

"In ancient times it was [customary] to learn from our elders [but suddenly] merit was under suspicion and apathy an asset, … officers lacked influence and soldiers respect, … there was neither authority nor obedience and the whole system was slack, disorganized, and chaotic." – Pliny (105 CE)

I have lost friends. I have made enemies. I do not care. I will never accept this as a legitimate form of scholarly conduct. I will spend the rest of my life working to make this unacceptable.

for my phellow bibliophiles

I’m an old, if not particularly nice lady, and I’d be happy to hand my clipboard, my excel spread sheet, and my “The only good ICE is crushed” poster to someone younger and more radical, because I could use a good rest.

Is theater part of the “experience economy?”

behind the reactionary centrist's who want to surrender on policy, anti-alarmists who dismiss liberals as 'hysterical', & the anti-lib-left there's this insane raging gender insecurity while these are different groups, the overcompensation in similar in all newrepublic.com/article/2042...

It's tragic how many of these students were punished for being right and for doing amazing work. They were beaten, arrested, suspended, blacklisted, expelled, etc. They deserved to be praised for their courage but instead so many in power despised them for it.

I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Red States: We are going to cancel all programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We are going to cancel all the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

Additionally, we are urging every single American with a federal student loan to open a case file with their member of Congress’ constituent services office to request all data in regards to your individual student loan balance and payment history. Now.

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

I think you should make your voice heard where you can if you have something to say. Even if no one is listening & I think you should listen to others from unconventional avenues that hopefully aren’t pre-curated because at minimum it gives you practice engaging in thought & refining your beliefs.

"Oh, and conversations. That’s what’s missing the most. Stories set on campuses tend to feature a lot of people talking at each other and not enough folks talking with one another."

Professor Wurman seems to relish in calling me a bad academic who doesn’t sufficiently extend good faith presumptions and scholarly charity. He also demands I produce evidence in real time. Fairs. So, Ilan Wurman, I’d like you to meet Ilan Wurman.

I would simply protect the FCC license by having it laminated.

THE PURGE: METAVERSE begins at midnight, June 11

Finally, an AI powered website that cares. I encourage you to check it out.

A Belgian aristocrat who served as diplomat and European commissioner will have to face trial regarding his possible involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese prime minister and independence leader assassinated in 1961. www.ft.com/content/16c5...

Bergson triumphant

Look! it is a “professor” who doesn’t know what a canon is

How many days a week did Wittgenstein just chill out at a double feature during the afternoon? The answer will surprise you!

Reminder that this lady regularly undergoes gender affirming treatment on her lips, even while pregnant.

The number of times I have confused Bernard-Henri Lévy with the Biodiversity Heritage Library from a headline or a short post … well, let’s just say it is not in the single digits.

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

Snyder is this generation’s Malcom Gladwell: fun to read, quotable, frequently wrong.

for better or worse

As Merritt says, “Have a fucking website.”

Is “end the war” one of the ways

New Czech lit haul!

If he’s backchanneling to the press that he was opposed to the war from the beginning, things must be incredibly bad in there.

What judge doesn’t love “an ironic twist?”