The left is winning the AI debate. Really outstanding piece by Brian Merchant. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...

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… innit island. SIR.

This would seem to be an implication of the study they did where upper management were much more likely to report LLM use as helpful and time-saving and the actual workforce finding it not helpful and time-consuming. Cut the entry level positions and any opp for advancement.

85% of babies in 2026 will be born in Asia and Africa.

Truth(is)Social: “people are saying”

I don’t think I can do away with feudalism-as-a-concept because I feel it would be unfilial to the spirit of 1789. Even if feudalism never existed I have to hate it… for the ancestors

I am cooking quinoa in my rice cooker right now. Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done.

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

It's not my medieval historiography, but I detect an undercurrent of "gee golly Marxists are stupid" in the deconstructing "feudalism" conversation (Euro or Japanese).

did not realize feudalism had lasted so long yikes

What's good on the neoliberal "medieval"? On the one hand, they hate "the State," fetishize anarchic "shattering the map," and Milton Friedman's son likes to dress up like a Duke. On the other, the very title _Road to Serfdom_ suggests they think feudalism is the worst.

What's good on teaching young adults who have been or still are _intensively parented_ (parented by either a helicopter or a tiger)? What is the role of liberal arts-style education for young people who are _closer to_, maybe more explicitly _overly identified with_ their parents, than we were?

I cannot touch grass today. It is covered by several feet of snow. 😔

Warring States Period (Far Occident): 476-1945 CE eautbc.hypotheses.org/212

US politics-wise, are you on team Gavin or team Kevin? Sure Newsom is a creep but think about Warsh, Roberts, McCarthy (plus wild card: Rudd).

Imagining an alternate reality where Bloch's _Feudal Society_ was used to explain the inscrutable behavior of Occidental "Western Civ" man, as _The Sword and the Chrysanthemum_ was used to explain "the Japanese"...

Religious Studies as an academic field has long insisted on its privilege over devotional expressions (from uni-sponsored theology to whatever your uncle says). How does History “pull rank” on non- para- or quasi-academic engagement with the historical?

In the social justice social mediaism “[X public figure/elected representative] understood the assignment” is The People a classroom teacher or, like, the director of a spy agency?

I would like to know what people think pyramids are. That's it. That's the whole tweet.

Does anyone periodize a "long 1990s" or "short 1990s"?

whoa i'm cited by an australian, in _american anthropologist_. living the dream. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I skimmed _True Peace Work_ (2019) over the weekend. Interesting as an anthology -- a rehash of _The Engaged Buddhist Reader_ (1996), itself built on the bones of a third anthology _The Path of Compassion_ (1988).

"as little as 0%" absolutely sounds like something an LLM would have written lol

Via Helen Teixeira: At Brazil's Carnival, the country's religions fight for respect on a global stage —> religionnews.com/2026/02/20/b...

I read _Politics of Piety_ (2005) over the weekend. It was even better than I thought it'd be. Is it just me or is understanding "nonliberalism" on its own terms no longer on the agenda any more?

What is your most Gen X coded trait? For me I like to yell “I like beer” at my Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing

In the first few chapters. Struck by the returning motif of imagining the US as an uncivilized site of cowboys and Indians, a settler colonial periphery, from a childhood in 1940s Jerusalem.

What are your favorite Foucauldian accounts of the rise and rise of ADHD in the global contemporary? What if it’s less genes, toxins, phones and diet, and more about narrowing regimes of acceptable (marketable) sociability, and more capacious hermeneutics for clocking sociopathy?

“Kid in the principal’s office takes over the announcements” vibes

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Young Sheldoblanca

Do other world regional historiographies have a “high medieval” or is Western Europe like that only?

Not difficult to imagine a near future where Google has been shattered, Chinese becomes the global language of prestige, and all baked goods are Bing.

Omg. I feel like every Asian person just now collectively flinched, and had a "yep, been there!" moment. I have a NOT THAT ASIAN pin for this very reason.

Sovereign is he who decides for reasons inscrutable, perhaps even to the sovereign

It’s sad how gadget biased the idea of innovation is. Like MRNA vaccines and ozempic and sickle cell treatments and aids treatments and electric cars and solar panels, these must all pale in comparison to da phone robot that talks

‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you squint just right, you can begin to see a pattern.

How do you know the joy of vloggers? I know it by streaming the vlogs

me when the students have done the reading

How well does Hayek understand actually existing serfdom? Not pretendsies serfdom, I’m talking serfdom qua serfdom? Does he have _any_ training in medieval European social history?

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Singularize a Band: Grime

“Treat others like you want to be treated” — but racists want to be treated like they are better than everybody! Billionaires want to be treated as billionaires, not ordinary people who just happen to possess tremendous wealth and power!

Why did pick-up trucks get bigger? You’d think they’d be getting more energy efficient and with greater carrying capacity over time

If King Charles tricked Donald, Elon, and the whole Epstein gang to come to the palace for super special prizes, and then surprised them by whistling for the bobbies and placing them under ROYAL arrest... would you still be clamoring for "no kings"?

Looking for conversation partners/historians doing contemporary history, broadly defined. I’m especially interested in discussing methodology now as I just finished rereading William H. Sewell Jr.‘s “Logics of History.” What does it mean (empirically) to do source work in 2026?

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!