Kagan’s short dissent is unanswerable.

Vaccine mandates are bad because it's a matter of personal choice, but a woman's pregnancy is the government's business. Race as one factor in a college admission is bad because it's affirmative action, but race as one factor in ICE raids is acceptable. WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK?

Here’s another in DC.

Reposting this because these protests are going on all over the country all of the time but, since you don’t see it in media, you might think nothing is happening.

Star Trek celebrates Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

People of Connecticut and regions nearby. Come on out on September 16! Free and open to the public.

This is very exciting! I’ve been impressed with his work, especially Harlem Unbound.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

I spent this summer reading a lot more than I’ve done in some years, and I remember how much I’ve missed it. I recommend Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi!

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster. cnn.it/4705B2t

The TLL is a vital resource for Latin and is in need of funding (thanks Republicans). There’s a link to donate.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

I think about this more often than I should have to. At least the Romans wanted to keep the machinery of government functioning despite the crazy.

Too old to work, too young to die. Pensions now! Undated graphic from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social collection.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Picked this up at the local library (always exciting when a new sci-fi book comes out that isn’t fantasy) and it’s maybe the best set of stories I’ve read all year. Big recommend!

This looks like a fun little game. Be interested to see how it explores the archaeological / historical / culture space and how the dialogue / story is.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

Imagine suggesting we should partner with cell phone companies to modify teaching styles to encourage cell phone use in classrooms. Cell phones are similarly present and disruptive to learning, but few think we should accept that. I really think branding it AI has made people turn their brains off.

You can download the window/door sign the UFW is displaying at our offices at ufw.org/noaccesstoic... 2/

Don’t forget the joy the internet can sometimes bring! I have @dailybunnies.bsky.social in my feed and it never fails.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Reminder: Planetes is getting the hardcover Deluxe Edition treatment from Dark Horse Manga, beginning later this month! Both volumes are available to pre-order now: bit.ly/42O3ex3 By #VinlandSaga creator Makoto Yukimura, translated by Yuki Johnson

This was certainly true of most of the kids in the games club I advised!

“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.” Jean Cocteau for #BookWormSat

“Socialism? So you don’t want us to own anything?” No, that’s capitalism. The vast majority of people don’t own their house. They lease their vehicle. Hell, we don’t even own the music we play, the movies we watch or the video games we play.

"This is a Classicists List not a political one." A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

Some great stuff here about the tension between religious and scientific meaning in Indiana Jones, and why some movies work better than others; and also about archaeology as a field and seeing (or not) material culture artifacts as living partipants/exemplars vs mere objects.

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

These are wonderfully creative; the Greek shards are my favorite but it’s all good. I’d be conflicted about eating them though!

It's final paper season.

That initial is bigger than the man’s head!

You can buy the ebook & audio of #AmarantusAndHisNeighbourhood, a story written for middle school kids about a real Pompeian slave who became a freedman, but you can also read (& listen) for free: www.cambridgeamarantus.com/story @greekmythcomix.bsky.social @pompei79.bsky.social

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

If you run a school gaming club, or are thinking of starting one, these tutorials have a lot of good advice, particularly on how to ‘read the table’ and work to keep everyone involved.

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

This joke making has been making the rounds; they’re all quite clever but I’m particularly fond of this one.

If you like cyberpunk at all as a genre and you want something that’s not just aesthetic and violent, but in depth, creative, and with actual community and social themes, you’d be hard pressed to find a better game. Plus it’s like $40 plus shipping!

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

Who doesn’t appreciate some art therapy? These are wonderfully done (and don’t worry the cat is back home).