Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Yet another demonstration that AI is not a labor-saving device; it merely displaces the cleanup and mitigation (in realms where care, caution, accuracy, etc., actually matter) onto other people

A lovely Sunday morning listen kitchensisters.org/fugitivewave...

JWS on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission: radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...

When you are excited to get a new book about the welfare state from ILL and then you discover it's a sociologist writing "history."☹️

My classroom requires me to either use the white board or power point slides, but I can't use both. I have just made 4 phone calls and sent an email to try and get this resolved. Because no one is actually responsible for anything.

This looks amazing

Amazing

Haven't read the book, but the podcast version of this family history is 🔥. Truly a fascinating story.

Raygun made us a shirt

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

reading some colonial archives I just got a hold of and the two men put in charge of fitting and manufacturing orthopedic splints for children with #polio during an epidemic were borrowed from the prison system. They later went to Europe to study prison management + orthopedics *at the same time*

I'm trying to imagine my mother's face if I had told her I wanted to design a "modern coquette" dorm room for $500-2k. But if your dorm room feels too much like home, isn't that a problem? What happens if you break up with the roommate you chose b/c she liked pink? www.inquirer.com/consumer/col...

Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online). Letter's wording is in the .alt element. #waccampaign

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

The British Raj in India depended on the cooperation of Indian civil servants, bureaucrats, and soldiers who massively outnumbered British officials. This is partly why the Independence Movement, led by Gandhi, called for *noncooperation.* This is what’s we’re seeing and what we need more of.

I am currently teaching in a classroom with only a pull down screen and no white board space on the sides. Last time I was in this situation, I asked for a white board to be brought to the room and was told it was not "pedagogically appropriate."

After explaining to my students why I think AI is destroying the environment, society, and their brains, a couple of them came up after class to say they appreciated my approach. I also challenged them to read for an hour with no phones and no background noise .... and to report back.

oh look, a politician is talking to the people about stuff that actually matters to them

Almost all of my French-language ILL coming from Canada now, and I wonder how long before that gets cut off too

in addition, these tasks are not always friendly to students with disability accommodations. Access is also a financial issue.

SAY THIS FUCKING LOUDER

I am that person who accidentally leaves one day off the syllabus, forgets to include a deadline, or leaves something on that I am no longer assigning. Without fail.

Honestly, why can't national Dems learn from this campaign's social media strategy? Mamdani's policies aside, I'd see this level of inventiveness as evidence of creative and serious, if playful, thinking.

Shorter headline: John Roberts is a coward

I spoke with @histoftech.bsky.social about AI hype, how tools are used to amass power and reshape systems, expertise, and more! www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

Sitting here doing historical work AI can't do. Namely, transcribing photographs from archives and organizing them chronologically. Before someone says "there's a program for that," thin, mimeographed sheets from the 1940s do not lend themselves well to scraping or to the transcription app I use.

Historians of radio/media - this is a huge blow to anyone working on radio & media history in the 20th century. FWIW this archives contain rich holdings about all regions of the world - not just the UK. Please add your name to this letter.

American exceptionalism blinds people to our reality & limits capacity to understand the horrors we may see/inflict.

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

Today, while getting a booster of a vaccine I somehow missed along the way, I asked the pharmacist if he had this year's flu vaccines (yes) and COVID (not yet). Does that mean we'll even get COVID vaccines? He thinks yes, but they have to be FDA approved before release. Will that happen?

The data package HHS offered to defend Kennedy’s decision is not the work of U.S. government scientists… “The compilation originated as material for a book titled “TOXIC SHOT: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines’,” an anthology of essays by prominent anti-vaxxers.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

"It's like having 5 PhDs in a room"

There's a lot going on here, but it also speaks to why it's ridiculous to ask for letter-writers to be from R1s when your institution is *barely* an R2 and certainly has none of the resources of an R1.

today is a day when this face is keeping me going

How is anyone getting anything done right now?

The WAPO is sending former subscribers a questionnaire to ask why they didn't re-up. I had a few things to say.

Great article from @juliametraux.bsky.social in @motherjones.com on the Trump administration ceasing to monitor disability inclusion & axing the 7% goal for govt contractors. After COVID, there are more highly-qualified working disabled people than ever before. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You don't say. bsky.app/profile/wire...

I'm already a member at this level but am planning to commit to a larger monthly donation. I think we can save PBS & NPR if we all chip in.

My high school mascot was a yellow jacket. Yesterday's news giving new meaning to the cheer "sting 'em, sting 'em, sting 'em, sting 'em, sting 'em, sting 'em." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

and yet here in Rochester, NY, rents are increasing exponentially, as are house prices. 🤔

is this why the professors are all so tired?

Any historians know of any secondary literature that deals with French accident/injury insurance in the early 20th century? I'm interested in marketing, whether the state tried to regulate the policies being sold, etc. I've asked this question twice on H-France & ... radio silence.

This is a wonderful idea. NPR and PBS in large markets will be fine—it’s small cities and rural areas that won’t.

Seems problematic

In a hotel elevator in Beijing in 1987, a tall, gray-haired man overheard my parents' southern accents and said "where are y'all from?" Then he stuck out his hand and said "I'm Ted Turner. Nice to meet you."