And for the conclusion of the CTA Thorndale Red Line series, we bring out the game balls.

still haven't regretted my decision to buy chicago pope fridge magnets, coasters, tote bags, etc.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

“Researchers that have attempted to make the university’s connections –and potential obligations– to the Caribbean explicit say their efforts have been stymied. …“The conversation is not happening,” said Carla Martin, a Harvard professor of African and African American Studies. “We all have tried.””

we just bought a dinosaur rug for our nursery so can confirm we are doing our part as millennial parents, sharing dinosaur love with the youths

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

excuse me

Since I’m trying out being more clearly opinionated here: I think every Signal user who wants actually private messaging should do this right away

my uncle brought over a homemade strawberry compote last night, and this morning i added it to my oatmeal

For the first time in 30 years, one of the extremely unusual Market Square buildings in Pullman is for sale. Four matching buildings were constructed a decade after the original Pullman factory town, initially housing guests of the Pullman Company during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

Player pianos The music studies literature has over 100 years of relevant literature on automation there may be many lessons for the broader humanities there

This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

i wonder if she used all 100 tampons

incredible

Also colleges restructured the way they function in response to the last waves of protests. My niece’s college did all they could to ensure no large groups could gather on campus for any purpose. Meetings / gatherings for organizing shut down. Kids punished academically.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The push to move the international mathematicians conference came even before Sharif University of Technology in Tehran was bombed, destroying and damaging multiple buildings. Its alumni include Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics.

great news, great city

I'm beyond thrilled to see Watermelon Truck in the @chicagotribune.com. Thanks @ninametz.bsky.social for highlighting this really special part of our collection. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/t...

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We didn't deserve this day.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

I like how NASA is using this mission to do a little PR on behalf of the value of distinctly human observation in the scientific process.

"we will always choose each other"

Simultaneously live-streaming a Moon flyby and what seems to be a plausible threat of the use of nuclear weapons, as if we needed any more evidence that sci/tech has no intrinsic moral valence

Agree; it’s heartening to see @inquirer.com meeting the moment while serving the best city in the world. I’m really excited to share that Made by History is partnering with @inquirer.com & will be publishing again soon. Historians, pitch us at [email protected].

not to be all historian of technology but i am developing an intense love-hate relationship with this goddamn spectra pump

another year, another medieval cat cake

I started this thread because some folks had suggested that Historians could do their research using LLMs, and anyone who disagreed was ignorant. I wanted some stories that illustrated why that's not true. The results exceeded my expectations. Most of the replies are in the form of quote-skeets.

This thread is a balm. So much inspiring work.

Okay here’s a fresh AI angle: current CS student just wants to learn to code

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

There are two versions of Microsoft Outlook on Artemis II. Last night, neither of them worked, and Houston had to remote in to address the problem.

I’m 100% team Earth, but what an extraordinary advertisement this is for the power and wonder of publicly funded science, and how better to demonstrate the preciousness of our own world than to view it from the cold loneliness of space.

dissertations could be written about this breastfeeding t-shirt

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Some “conservative legal experts” more craven than once thought. “Conservative legal experts” less tethered to the the historical record than once thought. “Conservative legal experts” more platforms by elite credentialing media than once thought.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I wrote about women doing their husband's job-searching — there's truly so much going on here: www.patreon.com/posts/154012...

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

From my kid’s markers to god’s eyes

The way education reporters are cycled through the beat means nobody has the historical context to examine, for example, what the location of this school might tell us about the city's attitude towards public education

seattle! my brother's pdx-based magazine shop will be doing a residency at glasswing this weekend. do i know exactly what that means? no. but look at these photos! don't miss the chance to go buy some print mags glasswingshop.com/blogs/places...

I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind

tech ceos in the 90s: a computer is a bicycle for the mind tech ceos in the 2020s: remember that c0ldplay_mp3.exe file you clicked on a few decades back? it’s now asking for root access to your laptop and a $1B valuation

I’m currently obsessed by Boston’s early C19 sewage infrastructure, which relied heavily on the labor of African Americans. Here’s an 1803 map of sewers in Middle (now Hanover) St in the North End & an 1802 receipt from Peter Virginia for emptying septic tanks. This is literal History from Below! 🗃️