the soccer vibes went less vibey

One of the owners told me that they get really excited when people from out of town order one of their signed books. It makes them feel loved. Don't you want to love one of our great independent bookstores?

Did a book event at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and saw many lovely people. IN RELATED NEWS there are now signed copies of my book and my books with @profgabriele.com there and you can order them and they will mail them to you AND YOU PROBABLY SHOULD!?? moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...

ChatGPT told the Wolves to trade Naz Reid is what I heard ...

The Knicks in Five and hating data centers has filled the small talk void that COVID disrupted and then Trump/partisanship poisoned. however temporary, people have things to talk about again in the grocery store line.

Is this a vigil for Naz Reid?

You know that friend who always has great book recommendations? Well, you can be that friend, if you sign up for the Porter Square Review of Books monthly newsletter. 4 (or so) reviews written by PSBers everyone for you to impress your friends with!

I actually gasped. Impressively hateful.

Everyone in the western world right now does not want ... THIS. Whatever it is. Whether churning 7 PM's in Britain in a decade or the anti-incumbancy wave that caught Harris and 12 other leaders, they don't want ... *how this world makes them feel.* 5/x

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

Lavender Magazine, which told the stories of the Twin Cities LGBTQ community for three decades, has ended its run. (🎁 link)

University of Exeter is a serious research institution, roughly equal in world ranking research output to Ohio State or University of Florida. Imagine if OSU suddenly cut all of its humanities programs?

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

I have finally reached the "man-o-warts" in @moudhy.bsky.social's wonderful history of Mesopotamia. IYKYK.

It is also bullshit? The idea that Julius Caesar had a vision for a new Rome or a new world is this persistent thread in his reception and even in scholarship that really doesn't reflect the evidence. Caesar didn't have a single coherent program, but a collection of disjointed ad hoc decisions.

"Do you want LaMelo Ball on your team?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

Going to spend the new few months considering that my belief that LaMelo Ball is just flashier D’Angelo Russell is a me having a “no, it’s the kids who are wrong” moment. I’ll give the new Wolves 30 games and check back in.

this looks like such a good book in addition, had a conversation with @jtpmedieval.bsky.social couple years ago and suggested a conference/ set of sessions on Carolingian regionalism and boy howdy am I glad people are working on this #medievalsky

Timberwolves content

Holy shit

This is Blusky, nobody reads a thread after post number 2 so why not go on! The problem is not the application of the LLMs and ML to this. Actually, this is a possibly sensible *experiment* for those tools. The problem is how do we frame the results of this experiment.

Let me correct this headline slightly: Large portion of the text contained in a carbonised Herculaneum scroll has been approximated based on the known corpus of ancient texts again. The probability increased compared to previous attempts but the scroll remains, very much, locked

I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

What machine learning is actually for

Book reviews are disappearing from newspapers. Porter Square Books decided to publish its own. Sophie Culpepper reports for Nieman Lab.

"In the past, “you could just encounter [book reviews] in your world” via the physical presence of local newspapers..." Incredibly cool that @portersqbooks.bsky.social launched The Porter Square Review of Books and I can't wait to follow it.

What a delight, hearing geniuses @isaacbutler.bsky.social and @emilynussbaum.bsky.social discuss Isaac's must-read new release. I HIGHLY recommend checking out the Books Are Magic feed, cuz it was a FANTASTIC conversation about art, politics, and recent history. www.youtube.com/live/GxalnT8...

In 2021 the current leadership of the Democratic Party had an opportunity to take radical steps to protect this country from trumpism. They failed. There are lots of reasons they failed, and maybe they would have failed regardless of whether they did this thing or that thing. But they failed.

Yesterday’s election in NYC says interesting things about what voters seem to want. Reminds me of a similar moment in the 1850s—when Northerners elected different kinds of leaders who promised to push back against the Slave Power. Give a listen.

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

Sadly this is scotlands best performance of the day.

This is what AI was supposed to be used for

THATS RIGHT

This is so cool and I’m furious one of the coders behind the early breakthroughs joined DOGE and helped to ensure children died.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

It’s the same job.

O pupper of scottlanddddd

This is awesome news!!

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

can it haul my boat? then yes. (note: an old minivan can haul my boat).

THIS IS TOMORROW AND I AM FIRMLY IN NOBODY WILL COME AND THOUSANDS WILL HATE IT MODE SO ... please come and don't hate it.

Today marks four years since the Dobbs decision—a historic injustice and assault on women’s dignity. My solidarity forever with those who need abortions. Find your local abortion fund and donate today: donate.abortionfunds.org/give/323375?...

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From @bloomberglaw.com - Stephen Miller behind DoJ memo arguing for re-institutionalization of disabled Americans (because he wants to incarcerate homeless folks). Miller/DoJ deny it. Good reporting here on why this memo came out.

I like seeing demanding Trump personally pay things back because seizing all assets of Trump, his family, his organization, is a key part of fixing this country.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade four years ago today simply because it had the votes to do it. People were denied abortions long before 2022—thanks to insurance bans, viability bans, and Catholic hospitals—but a lot of journalists and politicians acted like that was an acceptable status quo

Mildly amused to see people grimly warning that the blood-dimmed tide of populist unrest has swept aside all bonds of civil government and unleashed the power of the Mob on an innocent and unwitting nation because the outgoing New York City Comptroller won a congressional primary.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

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