Utterly deranged.

Importantly, he's wearing a sailor's uniform, so he would probably have gone naked if he hadn't enlisted.

DID WE LEARN NOTHING FROM WARGAMES? FROM CIV’S GHANDI?

a US senator was pepper-sprayed for protesting ICE in Newark today right around the time that we were recording a rundown of the dismissal of charges brought against a congressional candidate who was thrown to the ground by an officer for protesting ICE

Sonny was the last living individual from this legendary 1958 photo. Now they're all ancestors 🙏🏾🎷🕊

On the one hand, the Pope presents a series of carefully structured and persuasive arguments, but on the other hand billionaires keep saying introspection is a scam and that we need to get on a rocket to the future without asking any questions, so it's really difficult to decide which side to choose

I got curious about this quote, so I looked it up. It's a paraphrase. Here's the original: "When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." —George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins. #SonnyRollins #Jazz #Musicsky

Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

This is the best hot take of all time.

Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt people in politics. Texans should be sending him to prison — not the Senate.

Brian Thompson killing thousands of people by denying medical care to boost the stock price of UnitedHealthcare is just good business Luigi Mangione killing Brian Thompson for denying medical care is The Worst Crime In Human History

Gonna die on this hill but efficiency is the opposite of education. Learning is not efficient.

I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.

They literally paid to put a bust of this woman in their office.

Trying to speak Spanish but can't roll your Rs? Trill issue

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

“As Black women are prone to do, they have charged me with not only advancing myself, but finding new Black librarians to mentor and to lead in librarianship wherever I can.” —Kat Baxter #BlackLibrariansGathering #LibrariansLookLikeMeToo #BlackLibrariansLead

And now nonfiction publishing is on life support. I believe Gladwellism was an accelerant. People loved this annoying shit for awhile! “Experts”! Lots of subtitles that begin with “how” or “why”! Explainification. But it grates soon enough, and then it took down real nonfiction with it.

One notable pro-gAI voice on here, who goes by the "Reverend Howard Arson," and has vicious followers, had the delightful cheek to post that my work amounted to "assistive technologies are oppressive" because I refuse to accept the argument that its "ableist" to critique gAI. Its actually ironic.../

I'm just resharing this bc I'm still losing my mind over it On July 4, 1776, John Dunlap printed ~200 copies of the Declaration of Independence Only 26 are known to survive today And I really got to see one of them! One day I will see the democracy they purported to establish

This is the opposite of what scholarship is supposed to accomplish. Instead of seeking truth and conveying it clearly, he’s taking a page right out of the motivated/selective reasoning playbook of, eg, big tobacco and big oil.

I now have tenure in his discipline

MOOCs, NFTs, the blockchain, ChatGPT, the Segway, and about a thousand things I can't even remember atm: youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8?...

Gilbert and Gubar would shred Dawkins and “Claudia” to bits

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Me *desperate to sell some bullshit I made a bad investment in*: This will make some folks mad :). The best thing you can do is use this bullshit that I have a stake in.

A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He got out in 30. This is MAGA's vision for the USA. Full story from our Texas State Director Saadia Mirza. letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ken-paxton...

#OTD in 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_W... Books by Oscar Wilde at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #Books #Literature

Look, my experience was that in order to get tenure, people are told to pipe down and let it ride and the end result is that the process of getting yourself across the finish line selects for people averse to speaking up.

This is one of the reasons why you will find me talking about the evils of civility culture until the day I die.

people were really getting on Paul, Evan, and Anthony's case for being too 'mean' or 'inappropriate' or whatever when they tore Wurman's "work" to shreds meanwhile, here's this asshole

the way every law professor who actually gives a shit about being a law professor and intellectual honesty is immediately reacting to this like, hey quick question: what the fuck Ilan Wurman should not be treated as a serious scholar ever again

And let me say, the lack of Any mention of LGBTQIA2S+ people in an encyclical which goes out of its way to explicitly call out "harm to the most vulnerable" in everything from labour exploitation to women's rights parity to child welfare to environmental racism is pretty damn glaring & disappointing

This. But then I tell myself “baby steps” but then I think of the Catholic Church’s wealth & power & what it could be doing right this fucking minute to change & come back to this.

"It’s a fantastic feeling to type in a search query and once again get useful, relevant, non-AI results (that I can customize!). It’s a bit of sanity returning to my Internet experience, and I’m grateful." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Canadians, write your MPs. We can't be doing this kind of evil stuff. A country that locks up its refugee claimants is not a "Safe Third Country" under any definition. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

To ask someone to call you by a name suggests that it is not in fact your real name. In Moby Dick, the fictionalality of identity runs in parallel to the shallow truth of metaphor. In this paper, I will show...

The fact authorities over the years have pivoted at will between “I trust your documents over you” and “I trust my own judgment over your documents” reveals that government information and documentation is only useful when it serves the existing intentions of police.

Real data proves that immigrant workers are the backbone of the Texas food sector: 400,500 immigrants work across the state's entire food industry, which is one-quarter of the total workforce. Undocumented workers alone make up 14.5% of that workforce.

Gonna put this picture in the syllabus for my Moby Dick class in the fall

congrats to the first major dem politician to figure out the winning strategy of being normal about it

We did not actually have to burn all that coal!

Would I be against the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Homestead Steel massacre? Goddamn right I would be.

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic] And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults, they chose this, & they should live with the consequences of their actions."

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.