The use AI to simulate art, whether visual or musical, is evil. Humans and other animals make art. But without art, what is the point of living? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Regarding Today's Starbucks Strike: Which Side are you On? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKM...

Quote tweeted by the Merl? Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

We want you to study with us! Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere. Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum

Ah, this looks like a good #envhist job for someone a bit more inclined to move to the UK than I am at the present moment.

Wild game description: "Live the life of a wild wolf! Form your own pack and watch your adorable pups grow into adults and disperse, year after year, until your wolf dies. End your story on your deathbed, or select an heir to continue your legacy." store.steampowered.com/app/926990/W...

Had a great time watching of my IU Mongolian studies friends Kathleen Kuo and @songsforhorses.com play the demo for @playkhiimori.bsky.social, a game where you play as a rider in the post road (jam) in the Mongol Empire as part of Nevada Humanities. #mongolsky #tengri www.twitch.tv/videos/26116...

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Zhao Mengfu's round sheep and goat, 1300, Mongol Empire. asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

A quick reminder to apply for a range of @aseh.bsky.social environmental history research prizes by 20 November. See the link below for more info! 🌿🐂🐏🐄 www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...

"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...

Simpsons joke from 1994. 31 years and still accurate.

I loved reading Star Wars Insider when I was a kid. Not sure when I started, but it was definitely before the special editions of the the original trilogy in 1997, and I read it all through the prequels, devouring every detail of prerelease content before the films came out. RIP.

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

Truly wild that less than a week after a nationwide decisive victory Senate Democrats cave in return for getting absolutely nothing in return.

"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.

Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Darth Vader has assured Lando Calrissian that Princess Liea and Chewbacca will be left under his supervision in Cloud City and that's good enough for Chuck Schumer.

Here is the prettiest yak in the county two years running that I paid to "ride" on (a young girl walked me in a circuit of two yards).

But I’ve got the touch… :(

Oh man! This game launched a whole genre of games. Pbta is exactly the sort of system that I would love to run. Sadly also never got a chance to play any pbta systems (other than Ironsworn... does that count?) but I hope one day I can run Apocalypse World. And if I do, I'll have the 3rd edition!

So exciting! I have got all the Free League The One Ring 2e books. I have to run a single session with them, but I love them and they are so cool, I can't help myself. And maybe some day I can wrangle people together to run an adventure in Middle Earth. A man can dream...

Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.

Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Kathleen and Kip are two of my good friends from the Indiana University and studying in Mongolia days, and they will be talking about Kip's new book on horses and music and video games! I can't wait (even though I will be a bit late!) #tengri #mongolsky

Mongolian National University of Education (MUBIS) last year posted a series of videos about reading Classical Mongolian on Youtube. Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi... #mongolsky #tengri

the editorial board said before the primary that Mamdani "seems to lack [...] political savvy and [an] instinct for compromise," a take that has aged like milk because he proved them dead wrong by exhibiting precisely those qualities between then and the general election, as chronicled in this piece

If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028. by Rahm Emanuel

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

A+ Chinese history joke right here.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Victory. Very glad and relieved we won the NJ and so many other elections.

New book by He Bian and Mårten Söderblom Saarela: "The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing #China" 📙 The volume examines how the Qing court sought to codify Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants throughout the eighteenth century. 🔗 bit.ly/4qpE #EnvHum

Threats against NYC and insane ranting aside, the fact that Trump says that Mamdani is a communist and then says "his principles have been tested for over a thousand years, and never once have they been succesful" really makes me wonder when Trump thinks communism was invented.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

N. Jagwaral on need to reform herding in the Mongolian People's Republic.

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!

We no longer have raven biplanes around... sad.

I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

On Wednesday, we are co-hosting the Arctic at the Crossroads with a truly amazing roster of guests. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-oxford...

Looking forward to traveling *all the way up to Evanston❗* next Wednesday to speak on my book, Pious Labor, at the new Languages of Islam workshop through the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Details here!

This will be a fantastic opportunity to study environmental humanities and put it into practice with an internship partner. Pass this masters study opportunity along to all your students!

$4.4B in a quarter. That’s about what LFL sold for.

wanted to boost this again since, unsurprisingly, nothing has panned out (remember this isn't normal!) open to contract and full time work, games-adjacent or no

An interesting counter argument to the prevailing wisdom against grad school. As an advisor to undergrads who has a PhD and did not get a professor or even teaching job, I often struggle to walk a tight rope when speaking of grad school. www.chronicle.com/article/ther...

A delightful carving from the Mongolian People's Republic from 1960 by Namkhaidagwa in the Arwaikheer, South Khangai museum. It shows a cat Buddhist monk who is preaching to his mice parishioners. The anti-cleric and anti-religious message is of course quite clear. #tengri #mongolsky

Happy National Cat Day from my crazy and violent baby.