Yup it’s going to be a shitshow.

If you believe that not voting sends a message, you’re wrong. It just shows you’re out of touch. If you want change, you must go to the voting booth. Voting is your constitutional right to make changes to your government. Register to vote, help a neighbor, help someone get ID and register to vote

Well there’s a new phishing scam out there aimed at academics. Someone contacts you out of the blue offering to write a #Wikipedia page on you. The message is so obsequious that I knew right away something was up. Flag and delete.

Douglas Adams played with language like jazz: bending its rules, stretching its rhythms, and somehow making every wrong note sound exactly right. The same way a jazz musician takes a perfectly respectable melody and teaches it to misbehave. Happy Towel Day #TowelDay #HHGG

Recent reorganizations at the National Library of Medicine resulted in the elimination of its History of Medicine Division. The NLM is one of the largest libraries of its kind, critical for students and researchers. Please speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Musk doesn’t want people to see this so of course I’m reposting

This is so so so important. Take the few minutes it takes to read it and be prepared for summer swimming.

She made history for decades. Now she has a degree in it. Congratulations to Billie Jean King on earning her BA in history from from Cal State LA, 65 years after first enrolling.

"What would compel someone to do that? Jesus Christ." Here's the bodycam footage of the Cybertruck driver that intentionally drove into the lake to test the car's "Wade Mode." It got stuck. Read now: www.404media.co/heres-the-bo...

@cnn.com saw your report on teen drinking being down that included observation that 16 year olds aren’t getting drivers licenses. It’s because many schools no longer offer drivers’ education for free, teen drivers have to pay for private driving classes. Not all can afford that.

Just found out that the Sec of Transportation spent the past seven months reliving his Road Rules days by filming a new reality show with his wife and nine children instead of doing his F-ing job. Meanwhile many Americans can’t take road trips because of cost of gas. Can you say out of touch?

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Just heard on MS Now Deadline Whitehouse: “if Kash Patel had a uterus, he would be gone now.” Priceless!

This is not good for the future of the Internet

Archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was born 134 years ago today. She was a key figure in moving the discipline from its jaunty but often haphazard and predatory roots and making it a scientifically rigorous field of study, becoming Cambridge's first woman full professor in 1939. tinyurl.com/yub45yxh

Very Well Said….: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Theodore Roosevelt

MAY THE FOURTH ALWAYS BE WITH US, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social! We are still the sexiest liberals 🤘🏻

With today’s Supreme Court decision drawing attention to the Voting Rights Act, we’re revisiting a 2020 #AHAPerspectives piece by Julian Zelizer: “The right to vote is the most basic element of a healthy democracy… we have done immense damage in dismantling it.”

The Hilton understood the assignment

Spotted in Washington DC during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Source MeidasTouch

Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

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'The Big Bang Theory' is a major pop culture influence on #womeninSTEM I generally found it sexist and cringy...except for Amy's character arc. feministscientist.substack.com/p/amy-farrah...

Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning; www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

Why are so many people talking about The Strokes today? Here’s why. #musicnews

bluesky is down and it's going to stay down. bluesky is gone forever. it's gone forever and you're high. you're high and everyone knows it and you're going to be high forever too

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss.

We need more historians because history is one of the most powerful forms of knowledge. Just ask any autocrat why they want to control it! #TalkAboutHumanities

Swalwell has announced his resignation from Congress. It’s impossible not to ask why Texas Republican Tony Gonzales hasn’t done the same. And why the GOP doesn’t insist the Epstein files, which repeatedly mention the head of their party, be fully released.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

TFW you get in an argument over the meaning of capitalism on a Star Trek fan site. Any historians of capitalism want to help me out maybe @rlspang.bsky.social

your annual reminder that the algorithm used to determine the date of easter is known as "COMPUTUS", which really sounds like it should be the name of a giant steampunk computer in the basement of the vatican that spits out the date on a punched card en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of...

🧪 #CarlSagan said "we are star-stuff". The atoms needed for life were made by stars. He told us: "the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together.” I explore how life achieves the (im)possible 👇 #science #biology medium.com/@molbioandth...

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

Watching Vladimir on Netflix. Why are English faculty forming a committee about “historiographical artifacts”? 😂

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

I had a student with severe ADHD tell me yesterday that Claude was a game changer for them because it could help with executive function tasks. I, too, find that it helps with mild dyslexia. In all of the griping about Ai, I think inclusion should be considered too.

I watched this last night and it’s hilarious. Great send up of the absurdities in higher education today.

Question on a local radio station: can you wear a band t-shirt if you don’t know the band and don’t listen to their music. I say no. What do others think?

Rest in peace

Kudos to my senator

On the next season of Black Mirror

Judge rules the government overreached with transgender health care declaration | AP News apnews.com/article/tran...

Good news - Voice of America will return

Not good

TFW when tech bros encounter the Streisand effect

So I looked at the publishing guidelines for the press I’m reviewing for and they allow authors to use generative AI to assist with their writing as long as they disclose it. Yikes!

TFW you agree to review a book manuscript and find the first chapter alone is over 100 pages! Good thing I’m retired.