Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

"By shortening the time between asking a question+getting an answer these tools are actually undermining curiosity — + paradoxically threatening our ability to understand the world. Curiosity requires a gap between what you want to know+what you find out." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

we could just pay teachers

Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

Summer sunset baseball at Camden Yards

The thing to know about the elderly is that they lose the ability to sense heat with age. So they are likely cooking to death before they realize they are hot. It's why you often find dead elderly heat stroke victims with the windows closed and no AC on. It's why check ins are so important

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Thanks to UC San Diego Latin American Studies for the opportunity to speak at my alma mater alongside @kevanaguilar.bsky.social about the intersection of Latin American Studies and History!

Never not taking photos of @uminnpress.bsky.social books in the wild. (In this case at Wallace Books in Portland.)

Part one of an multi-part series on the franchise culture industry and Andor

Print is a rent strike.

Getting a head start on reading for an upcoming seminar, the problem w the modern novel: The Booker Prize. I’m only 2 chapters in but I’m enjoying this one.

That Kendrick Lamar song is in my head

I got to nerd out with the printing press yesterday 💅🏽 had the best time

Attending the grad student adventure at UNR as a prospective PhD! Such a nice campus

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 shortlist announced #LiteraryAwards #Fiction www.writingafrica.com/pen-faulkner...