All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

learned today that renee good had tried to move her family to canada after the election, and when that didn't work they moved to minneapolis because it was somewhere she could see as safe for a queer family. i think that broke something inside me.

Every single local grade school in my city has community safety patrols to defend children & their parents against ICE. Most are founded by &/or partnered with school boards. These are not extremist, violent positions. These are working people protecting their loved ones from the American gestapo.

Please read and share. There is also widely-circulating video of the unlawful arrests of these Minnesota activists (and U.S. citizens).

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it. More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

…"Gen AI" is a bullshit engine, in the strict philosophical sense of the term. All it *ever* does is statistically correlate what you ask it for and how you asked it with the words, phrases, connotations it's been trained on, using the weights and instructions in its programming. …

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Uh-oh, Jurassic Park 😰

emo posting on main thinking about how the world would maybe be a better place if more people read 18th c Chinese morality books or seriously considered applying some/any daily moral cultivation praxis

#CFP: "Radical Ecology and Plant Studies". Special Issue of The Trumpeter, ed. John C. Ryan. Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2026 Info: trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/tr... #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist #ecosophy #environment #ecology

We do not have to live this way.

As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.

This is the last straw for me, @mozilla.org. If anyone has personal experience using LibreWolf or Vivaldi (top alternatives so far) lmk - especially if you use browser extensions and/or a VPN regularly.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

This entire weekend

1/Beijing is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the U.S., an @apnews.com investigation has found. Buckle up for a twisting ride through China's corruption crackdown... apnews.com/article/whis...

Are you looking to read read a new book over the winter break?! (and then send me a review afterwards? 😀) Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #anthropocene docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My irregular visit to BSKY for December has arrived; I'm here to insist everyone close out their existing tabs and read @johannawinant.bsky.social's latest in the @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Okay back to historian posting. Is it normal now for people to use AI generated images in conference talks? Because I saw a kid do this today and it felt really icky but also maybe I'm just old?

The second best thing I've ever seen at a temple parade doesn't relate to Daoism at all, but rather simultaneously manages to feel incredibly Taiwanese and also incredibly SoCal car culture in a way that makes me nostalgic af for car shows at the Azusa swapmeet or In-n-out parking lot circa 1998.

Probably my favorite thing I've ever seen at temple parade (tag teaming embodying a god ftw)

I'm from Minnesota. This is attempted murder.

I open this app. I type my message to send into the online aether. I proofread said message, double checking it looks good. I post for public view. Return later following notifications to GLARINGLY OBVIOUS TYPOS 🙈🤪🤡 Every single time, dudes, wth

Ended last week with a multi-day migraine and bad writing block. Did prep (translation, blocking) but word stringing hard. Not today tho. Today I got over 1k words down, above/including including large deletions. Finishing 1 of 3 chapter sections feels chemical alteringly good 😆 #acadecawriteathon

Saw on tonight's walk that a new 7-11 opened immediately across the street from another 7-11, only 3 storefronts down from a Family Mart. 😂 As much as I joke about this being Taiwan culture, I know it's actually Taipei tourism related bc this one has zero rice or cooking oil but many fancy snacks.

Got in about 90 min of good writing work before a migraine descended (about 220-odd words added to chapter even after deletions), with another 3 hours of light additions and offline quote harvesting much later, after the meds took effect. Day 3 of 31 #acadecawriteathon

2+ intense hours logged today (prior appointments + life maintenance priority day) but I got a really important piece of my chapter done and flagged out my immediate next steps for a hopefully easier path back in tomorrow. 2/31, #acadecawriteathon

Woke up this morning mentally bracing to finally draft the last pieces of my dissertation this month. 🥴 The serendipitous digital peer pressure of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's #acadecawriteathon plus some light dopamine farming ahead of starting got me out of monkeymind morass! 1 down, 30 to go 🤘

Imagine if Regan had stayed an actor. Imagine if AIDS had been handled like a major public health emergency instead of disregarded as “gay cancer.” Imagine how many people could still be alive. Now imagine how many of them might be in public office. #WorldAIDSday

Calvin unfortunate not to have Turning Point to do his bidding bsky.app/profile/jake...

I've spoken with a lot of people about this, and all of of them told me they were furious about this tragedy and the apparent corruption that enabled it. They want truth and accountability and justice for the victims, and they're not confident that they'll get any of that, which makes them angrier.

"While these patriotic elected representatives were MIA, grassroots mobilization provided support systems for victims."  Such a good overview of the chilling set of problems that are unfairly elided/ignored when Western media wrongly blames the fire on "bamboo scaffolding." Also, anarchy FTW ✊

🧵1/ For years, I’ve been trying to articulate my most basic tenet of editing, which I always practice as an editor, but which very few editors practice with me: I now name it the 90/10 rule, and I try to practice it on the micro and macro levels.

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

So, of trans children starting HRT, more than 98% stay on it, and of the small fraction that don't, over half identify as nonbinary. Less than 1% go “nah, turns out I'm cis.” From an N of four fucking hundred. Why the hell are we making children run a gauntlet? Some asshole's political career?

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Our researcher Cynthia Sadler defends her #PhD thesis on the practices of women loving women in #18thcentury Paris 👉 loom.ly/Hh6PNqE Interested in Cynthia's research? Read this #MyEUIResearch interview 👉 loom.ly/aPUTm3o 📚🎓 #QueerHistory #CulturalHistory