The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

With UK universities slashing budgets and doing redundancies left and right, I am really worried about the survival of many of the digital projects that were funded in the past decade or so, many of which were already a miracle that they were being maintained after all this time.

seek answers that come from a culture of peace

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Thanks to AI, Google is about as reliable as asking your older brother in the 80s.

Two weeks of DuckDuckGo and it's functional enough for me. I already had all the AI shit turned off on google so they're not missed features.

An obituary worth reading [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...

Right now, the average repair time for a wheelchair is two to four weeks, and it’s common for people to wait 6 months or more for repairs. My FAST Repairs for Wheelchairs Act would speed up repair times by cutting down on the red tape that insurance companies use to slow down repairs.

Israeli forces killed seven-year-old Zeina Al-Habeel’s father and younger brother while they were filling up water containers on their rooftop. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes and gunfire in Gaza on Monday.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

This one making me feel all the things

HELP ME BULLY THE NY PHIL! @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

The only finals game they lost was the one Trump went to. That's amazing

we have solar. i just looked, my bill this month is on track to be about $8. i live in virginia and this includes charging an EV.

After Edward Moretus sold the old printing establishment to the city of Antwerp, it became the best museum in the world: the Plantin-Moretus Museum. #OTD, 150 years ago, it was opened as museum! Congratulations with your 150th anniversary! 🥳🎈🎊 📚 #bookhistory #plantin #MPM

rolling up to the hottest Friday night party in Washington lol

More footage of what seems like the moment when they took the letters down as best as anybody there could tell

The professors who wrote that terrible report accusing the humanities of being terribly biased are admitting they used AI to "analyze" texts for bias, and defending their conclusions based on a right-wing caricature of postmodernism that no actual postmodernist would ever defend.

Announcing a new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Connected Worlds in Early Modernity Series Editors: Christina Lee & Julia Schleck brill.com/page/518510 Pls contact me - [email protected] - with questions &/or book proposals! Image: 1700 map of the world by Paolo Petrini

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

In "Silencing the Past" Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot says "silences" enter the production of history at four moments: 1) the making of sources 2) the making of archives 3) the making of narratives 4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)

The Germans have a word for this: "verschlimmbesserung." To make something worse by trying to make it better.

THAT’S TWO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF FOR TEAM USA

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

oh shit it's Loving Day hooray for Loving v. Virginia, my marriage, and inclusive constitutionalism, and fuck originalism forever tinyurl.com/originalismt...

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

The most destructive effects of the right's reinvigorated culture war on higher ed won't really be felt at Columbia, Oberlin, or other elite private universities, or at least not immediately. Rather, right-wing legislatures will use these reports as "evidence" to justify defunding public higher ed.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

#poetry #Lebanon #tyre #war #invasion

St Augustine writing his name in an initial 'n' BnF MS Latin 794; Homeliarum (winter part); 12th century; Tuscany (Pistoia? Lucca?); f.195r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

People have been asking, so I will once again share my Free Stuff Thread. Thousands of silent movies to stream for free thanks to archives, national libraries and nonprofits. Sweet deal!

It’s true! Art produces the non-existent, not just the not-yet but also the still-not, art is beauty art is truth but art is also inkling!

📣 #CallforPapers 📣 Working on how Central and Eastern Europe participated in #EarlyModern global exchanges? Check the #CfP for the conference Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500-1800) 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026

'What appears as declining demand is more accurately understood as the result of uneven access to language learning across the school system.'

Claude Lorrain, An Artist Sketching with a Second Figure Looking On, 1635-40, Brush drawing in brown wash, over graphite (British Museum, London)

This is evil collective punishment.

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

UBI is right there. Then you tax it back and more from the people who don't need it. It's so simple. Put H&R Block out of business.

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @sethdklein.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is so dumb. When I was a medical student at Oxford, the insightful Regius Professor introduced a new grading system: pass or fail. Monitored the actual scores - they didn't go down. What did go down was students point-scoring off each other. #academicsky

permit me to observe the grotesque delight that 'luminaries' such as Schm*dt take in donning academic regalia 🙄

Universities will fund AI without limit, even as...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

counterpointmaxxing - will write a think piece on this extreme trend

Overhaul of my blog on Anna of Denmark's household servants and expenses in Scotland, with new and better references: vanishedcomforts.org/2019/05/20/v...

Scream it from the freaking rooftops: "The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself. Today’s decision is a step toward honoring the will of Congress and our mission as a nation — to seek the truth, know ourselves, and build a better future on that knowledge.”