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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾 Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME? 😀 I would love to have my newsletter get to 1,000+ subscribers by Frodo's and Bilbo's Birthday on Sept 22... ... but for that I would need your support in sharing this and letting people know about THE ROVING RANGER. If you need to hear a reason why... here are seven 😅

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Increase a band. Anthropodes

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Everyone hates AWS (ok not everyone) but "Self-hosting is steeped in a vision of an internet that's personalizable, private, and individualistic. A kind of internet suburbia where everyone keeps a server in their garage right next to their lawn mower and their car." so what's the alternative?

46. Local residents Darmok and Jalad were not present among the personal names listed in the inscription.

21. Thucydides invented the “…and if anyone else likes it, that’s a bonus” riff beloved of artists making their difficult second album.

Hittite Cuneiform. Too bad little if anything remained from it though 😏

Welcome game! 😻 @officiallotro.bsky.social

Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!! All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai

"there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you aren't following my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social, you're missing out on some great caricature. Support artists, not AI.

“Make no mistake: the language of ‘terrorism’ is easy to mobilize, and has long been the go-to tool of authoritarians seeking to repress opposition.”

those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least

If the media won’t call it a Nazi salute then they’re definitely not going to say that someone was fired because they are Black or a woman. These outlets are complicit.

Everything I have said about this wretched war perpetrated by this murderous country from my very first utterances on Oct. 8 was correct. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing.

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Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

17 states are literally suing to make it okay to kill me and people like me. Abled allies, please show up. I haven't seen much from you in the last five years. I want to believe you'll be there now. Will you be?

US Wikipedia editors are starting to use strategies to protect themselves and the site that were first used under authoritarian regimes www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

Dear media, No, Trump isn’t “signaling” that he “might” ignore the courts. He. Is. Ignoring. The. Fucking. Courts. The end. Do your damn job.

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This goes at the institutional level, too. If you're at a flagship saying "isn't is sad" when regional comprehensives get slashed and shut down, know that eventually they will run out of regional comprehensives

If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.

Anyone who has studied the fascism, violence and pogroms of the post-reconstruction era of America would know that white humiliation / Black progress has long been this country’s ticking time bomb. The historical parallels are 1920s Oklahoma, not 1930s Germany. But this history is often buried.

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

Our friend Mahmoud Muna has been arrested, he runs bookshops, wonderful places of curiosity and knowledge. With love and solidarity to the Muna family x www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Imagine marketing a product that is famous for providing inaccurate information and not one person on your marketing team says hey we should fact check our ad before we spend millions of dollars demonstrating our product’s uselessness.

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Thank you to Rafi Greenberg for his open letter to his colleagues participating in next week's grotesque occupation archaeology conference taking place in Jerusalem His letter was shared via @EmekShaveh's newsletter. It is quoted in full here (# 72): everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/c...

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I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

Thank you for your work!!! My own attempted contribution to this argument: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Meanwhile grad students at Ohio State get paid so little that some of them literally have to sell their blood plasma to pay for food and rent

Last year’s crack down on campus protests was extremely effective at frightening college communities into line. Consequently we won’t see much campus protest against the loss of democracy. The fear is palpable; in the fall when I scheduled my class to reenact a 60s campus protest I was warned not to

Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"

* a whole chunk of world's population 😏