I’m still trying to figure out which AI informed a scholar that I wrote a dissertation at the University of North Carolina in 2023 that they cite in their new book, but I at least would like a second doctorate now.

I am opposed to Specs Pests.

This special section runs alongside Camille Owens's review of "Transoceanic Blackface," which shares a review essay with Chinua Thelwell's "Exporting Jim Crow," Bethany Hughes's "Redface," and Danielle Roper's "Hemispheric Blackface."

The new issue of TDR is out now, featuring the special section I co-edited with Doug Jones on "Blackface Geographies":

The next ASTR conference will feature a battle royale over who gets to title their next book: “HOW DO YOU LIKE THE PERFORMANCE?”

As George Orwell once said, “You have to shoot an elephant. Or, a dog. My point is, go out and kill something.”

Abraham deLacey Guiseppi Casey Thomas O’Malley: O’Malley the Epistemic Ally Cat

This special section runs alongside Camille Owens's review of "Transoceanic Blackface," which shares a review essay with Chinua Thelwell's "Exporting Jim Crow," Bethany Hughes's "Redface," and Danielle Roper's "Hemispheric Blackface."

The new issue of TDR is out now, featuring the special section I co-edited with Doug Jones on "Blackface Geographies":

This is just the plot of the movie Congo (1995).

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

This is the most important thing on the internet rn 🤣😭

Why is my baby’s elephant rattle Jigsaw-from-the-movie-Saw-coded?

What’s amazing about our technological moment is that you can be a smart, highly-functioning individual, and you might still find yourself typing, “I can’t find my phone” into a social media app on your phone.

My high school senior quote was: “That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!”

Abolish ICE is the moderate position. We need tribunals for everyone involved in these DHS operations, and we need to raze the entire DHS structure.

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

“One of the most concerning findings of the study is the longer-term effects of X’s algorithmic feed. The study showed the algorithm nudged users towards following more right-leaning accounts, and that the new following patterns endured even after switching back to the chronological feed.”

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

The two-year-old’s current favorite movie is The Arisocats, a 1970 Disney product that gazes nostalgically (and anachronistically) at Belle Époque France in Paris in 1910. A similar film made this year would look back to the ancient history of…1966 Paris.

When the edible kicks in just as Knee Play 2 gets going and it could be Franky it could be very fresh and clean it could be it could get some gasoline shortest one so all these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends

I wrote a whole essay, and he just…skeeted it out.

Sympathy for the downtrodden is a prerequisite but nor a guarantee of an emancipatory politics. Everything depends on who you think is doing the treading.

This is basically the Silicon Valley version of the @ifbookspod.bsky.social thesis that all “how to get rich” self-help books are essentially pyramid schemes that only work if everyone who reads one turns around and writes a grifty one of their own.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

An idea for a website that allows faculty to write back to student evals to respond to their harsh criticism and rejection. It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.

An idea for a website that allows faculty to write back to student evals to respond to their harsh criticism and rejection. It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.

Season 5 of The Wire has now been rewritten with McNulty using AI to fabricate a serial killer that the local newspaper uses AI to “report” on. There is no Dickensian moral quandary anymore because everyone agrees that “AI is inevitable.” @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

Somewhere, my Buffalo-born and -raised two-year-old picked up the phrase “morning tea.” So now every first meal of the day is definitely *not* breakfast anymore.

Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2

(whispers conspiratorially): “Jump the shark” caught on as a popular expression not because everyone watched the same episode of TV but because as a locution it closely resembles and replaces “jump the track,” which relied on a dated locomotive metaphor instead of a TV reference.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

They are tools of mass sousveillance.

That MAHA ad was BLEAK. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a good omen for the Seattle Seahawks.

“The censorious left wants to tell you which pedophiles you can seek patronage from. It’s cancel culture to ask journalists not to serve at the whims of petty sex tyrants!”

“This is how men behave” (citation needed).

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Last night, I did an interview with the Context of White Supremacy podcast where we discussed my book, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance. We got deep into the book and the complex, global history of racialized performance. Check it out:

New tagline for @ifbookspod.bsky.social

I picked these five because they are in general *not* what I research and write about now, but also because in oblique and indefinite ways they had some formative influence on my thinking.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Introduction to Human Evolution 2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent 3. Old English Literature: Beowulf 4. Human Use of the Earth 5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development

Congratulations to third-year theatre and performance PhD student Teya Juarez on the publication of her article, “Fat Suits and Fat Futures: Ob*sity Drag in The Whale,” in the latest issue of the Journal of American Drama & Theatre. www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/fat-sui...

For those who still think that higher education is some hoity-toity ivory tower: When it snows outside, in Buffalo, NY, it snows a little bit inside my campus office.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

John Roberts has no peace that citizens and subjects of the United States are bound to respect.

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.