@willdalrymple.bsky.social in case you miss this lovely review of The Golden Road in El Pais in Spain. elpais.com/babelia/2025...

This view happily weds aesthetics/taste and morality

That clip of Bannon circulating rn where he admits he's going to prison if Dems ever regain power should actually be DEEPLY ALARMING bc it outlines stakes & desperation that will likely *escalate* regime lawlessness & violence. Taking action now could help prevent that.

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

My book has a publication date (June 9, 2026)! Follow he link for a 30% discount. White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life. uncpress.org/978146969484...

I think, Dr. Oz, you may have misplaced your tongue up Trump’s ass. #Trump

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

i have questions as to why due diligence didn’t happen when school admins signed these massive contracts, endangering their students

This needs to be a thing, yes. OpenAI has a literal body count at this point

NEW: New York has been quietly preparing for a potential Trump deployment of troops & agents to NYC. Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago. + New details on Canal Street raid. W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...

"Don't give up until we've burned the Republic to the ground, sowed salt in the ashes, eradicated the villainous ideology of Enlightenment, and ripped out the Scientific Revolution's poisonous weed root band branch!" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

New this coming January, my #OnlyinBirmingham podcast on culture, history & society with Raj Pal. Trailer below:

Drumpf seems unaware that the 'American Dream' is to have him spend the rest of his miserable life as the sole occupant of a padded cell under careful (but remote) observation by mental health professionals

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

the other ways include foster care, jails, and emergency rooms. an indictment of Governor Ned Lamont's greed. His failure to fund basic services is costing us

The yearbook of the GHI Rome Rome, rather austerely called Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, has published some of my thoughts on how to write European colonial history, moving away from national narratives. Here is some recommended reading for a rainy weekend 😁

He spent Biden’s entire presidency calling him ‘Sleepy Joe’. Still does. But this guy nods off in the middle of the day in meetings almost every day. Fell asleep in court all the time too.

Bring criminal charges against the heads of all AI companies. At best they were woefully, incalculably negligent; at worst they were knowingly complicit in suicides, and god knows what else.

Two can play at that game. Paramount subscription cancelled for being pro-genocide.

#maritimehistory #earlymodern

This is great actually, in the sense that the AI is also wrong about the nature of historical reasoning in this quote. It describes causal reasoning as schematic, they are not the same thing to a person, but seem to be for the model. That explains a lot of the stuff I see produced by it.

Here's the Doom painting on the north wall of its north chapel. I photographed another one in Wycliffe's church at Lutterworth a few years ago.

Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas? #skystorians

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

today's niche #foodhist query - can anyone recommend a book/chapter/article on the history of sugar that covers PRE-COLONIAL use, e.g. in country of origin Papuan use etc. (We don't have a copy of Abbot's Bittersweet in the uni library & I can't figure out if she covers it eno' to warrant an ILL) 🗃️

“It really has not been the case that there has been a single political voice or political bloc among Jewish New Yorkers, from the earliest period when Jews lived in this city... There has always been a diversity of views about what is best.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Writing for The Conversation is great for many reasons - one of which is that you can see how many people have read your piece. Am amazed to see that my recent article about a 17th-century woman’s account of domestic abuse has had almost 30,000 reads! #earlymodern

Booked!

WaPo editorial page: It is not our job to endorse a candidate in a national election Also WaPo editorial page: It is our job to complain repeatedly about a mayoral candidate in an entirely different city

the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

🚨BREAKING: More than 200,000 Missourians have signed a petition supporting a referendum to block Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map. But GOP officials are working to thwart them at every turn. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

All Democrats (including Fetterman this time), plus Rs Paul and Murkowski, were not enough to put the brakes on a possible US military intervention in Venezuela. Thanks to everyone who made calls and tried to pry away moderate Republicans who remain glued to Trump even after Tuesday’s vote outcome.

Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Question: Why do people have instant hatred toward Ted Cruz? Answer: It saves time.

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth. Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

This might’ve been the moment the fainting man’s soul left his body bsky.app/profile/atru...

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

It was his idiotic policy, introduced without congressional approval, so if anything it should make him personally liable to pay back those sums, with all the coin he has scammed through his very own crypto-corruption.

Metaphor is not only merely dead, it’s really most sincerely dead. www.themirror.com/news/politic...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

but isn't this 'Sir Ke*r's usual modus operandi: 'no heavy (ed. or light) lifting, please'?

This is from Oct 29 so I'm a bit late. Very little coverage out there on KU & the compact. Telling that yet another uni said no to this effort at a federal takeover & it barely registers a blip. More institutions can do this esp after yesterday's election results! www.kansan.com/news/ku-won-...

well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm

why does ross do(u) that?

For those who are interested in intellectual history and early modern Ottoman world: Don't miss this extraordinary book by Marinos Sariyannis! Published open access today!🎉 #OttomanHistory #EarlyModern

Not a single university would remain standing for more than a week without administrative assistants who are women 99% of the time

The tired old man. (After the election results were in.

📚 We are exploring the #2025SHA exhibits in search of new work by recent Journal of Southern History authors (1/n) 📚