Wow I am tired of writing detailed human feedbacks on AI generated texts

El meu fill (5é) està fent la hidroesfera i això és el que els han donat com a dossier. Trec foc pels queixals. Abandonar els llibres de text va ser un error No hi ha ni un puto nom de riu bé No sap escriure glacial Els va dir "té faltes perquè ho he fet amb gemini" AGHHHHGGHHHH

Some (ultimately optimistic) musings about the AI scare in the humanities: crookedtimber.org/2026/05/12/t...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I’m sorry but “why is a lit review needed?” is a where the for-profit motive of trade book publishing meets the anti-humanist capitalist slop of the robots. Scholars do their work. The rest are charlatans.

📖 #Newbook curated by EMoDir members This interdisciplinary volume examines free speech and religious expression in early modern Europe, showing how freedom and its limits shaped religious life from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment. 🔗 brill.com/edcollbook/t... #EarlyModern

Intelligent

The long shadow of the New World Information and Communication Order—the sibling of the NIEO

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

Next week a crew from Barcelona will be dropping into a Helsinki that’s averaging 0°C and getting about six hours of daylight. Not out of masochism, but for a conference with dozens of intellectual historians — which, admittedly, isn’t that different. I’ll try to bring back a Rudolph on the way home

My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On the Pull of Transitional Despotism on the Plebeian Left. McCormick and Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli, Agathocles & Glory (with a shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Look, this is an abomination, void of any grasp of humans or humanity. Kalshi should not exist (which is why there are lawsuits in 11 states against Kalshi for illegal gambling etc. this alone should spook investors 🤷‍♀️). But let's not forget: all venture capital is about making bets & wagers. 1/

Croquetas a todas luces congeladas, chistorras y morcillas del Mercadona, bollo precocinado, huevos fritos mal hechos (yema rota, cuajada, puntilla tamaño enaguas). Y sin cubiertos porque se conoce que usar tenedores es de maricones. Tanta pasta para comer peor que un estudiante.

We live in a funny world - this little book is now apparently "out", though I haven't seen physical copies or so. Instead, I was alerted by a Mastodon bot written by a colleague that notices new publications by our faculty members. Well, there it is :) www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!

CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University. The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'. Deadline: December 30 www.univiu.org/campus-servi...

El jurado propuso otorgarlo ex aequo a David Guerrero Martín “Reframing expressive freedom: free speech libertarianism, republicanism, and the political economy of communication” (dirigida por @davidcasassas.bsky.social y @lisamherzog.bsky.social)

On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...

🎉 @david-guerrero.bsky.social, doctor en Sociologia per la Universitat de Barcelona i en Filosofia per la Universitat de Groningen, ha estat reconegut amb dos prestigiosos premis internacionals per la seva tesi sobre la llibertat d’expressió. Enhorabona!

Due to Academia(.)edu licensing agreement, which permits the use of your likeness, voice, and publications in any manner they choose, I, like many others, have decided to leave the platform. You can now find my research on ResearchGate instead.

Thanks to the warnings by my colleague Titus Stahl (who is really well-versed in these things), I've just deleted my academia.edu account. Their new terms and conditions are horrible in terms of data use. If you're on that platform, reconsider, or at least read the new conditions carefully...

Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:

Congratulations to #CAISfellow David Guerrero! He received the Sir Ernest Barker Prize (PSA) and Leo Strauss Award (APSA) for his 2024 dissertation: research.rug.nl/en/publicati... @david-guerrero.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Hot of the press, new article "Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly: Liberal, Associative, Radical" co-authored with @bpoppmadsen.bsky.social, and available Open Access from Politics and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/3

De vez en cuando creo que está bien recordar la somanta que le dio Joaquín Reyes a Soto Ivars sobre el tema de la cancelación youtu.be/a-59YwvuvZM?...

Carl Becker (1922) on Bentham's utilitarianism as anti-revolutionary

(1/6) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067.... Self-promotion is not my thing, and yet today I’ll engage in it a bit - because The Democratic Marketplace is officially out today, at least in the US (the Dutch version will come out later this month).

Hugely important topic in media criticism Via @brianstelter.bsky.social: The Financial Times recently dubbed it "the great crime paradox:" Violent crime rates are falling, both in the US and the UK, "but a growing share of people think levels are rising." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

✨CfP✨ Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies 12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025 @rosariolopez.bsky.social

As if concerned some reader-in-the-know might mistake his op-ed for error, rather than fraud upon a reading public, here Vermeule is to be seen conspicuously capering & clicking his heels, in evident mischievous self-delight at such achievement of sheer sophistry. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...

I cut this image out of a sale catalogue years ago. Never been able to find its source since (and I have tried a lot!). If you know where it is from, I'd be thrilled to find out.

Un fenómeno interesante del que habla @juanrevenga.bsky.social hoy en @elcomidista.bsky.social: los políticos, medios e influencers que minimizan los efectos de las bebidas alcohólicas en connivencia con su industria. Lo hemos llamado "populismo ebrio" elpais.com/gastronomia/...

This article is now freely accessible online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

One of the funniest things I've read in an early Gothic novel. Our henchman has found the persecuted orphan he's been sent to pursue. He stops to write a multi-page epic account of his discovery to his master. Meanwhile, she escapes. An early example of the villain monologue gone tits up.

Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain. Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods... 🧵 #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature

The first ever collection on Sidney. Chapters in French & English. Merci beaucoup: François Quastana, Jamie Wheeler Cessna, Alberto de Barros, Luís Falcão, Cesare Cuttica, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, Jean Terrel, Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, @thehistorywoman.bsky.social, & my co-ed. Christopher Hamel.

Sánchez ya no es solo el líder del PSOE: fundió el sentido común de los ciclos de impugnación del 2011-2015 y 2027-2019 con su figura. Por eso, Sumar y los nacionalistas lo respaldan más que el propio PSOE. Las izquierdas han ligado su suerte a la suya.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Sorry, kids. Prepare to be SHOCKED and OFFENDED by the high levels of rural proletarianization in seventeenth-century England.

En su etapa como director adjunto de El País, este señor me censuró una columna y me presionó repetidas veces para que dejáramos de hacer artículos críticos con las grandes empresas de alimentación en El Comidista. Que le echaran fue una auténtica liberación (en el diario le llamaban "King Joffrey")

I'm really looking forward to presenting this paper at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King's. Especially excited for the discussion, so if you're in London and are interested please come along, next Thursday 19th June, 6pm. csgs.kcl.ac.uk/event/republ...

This Friday! 💥

Molt contentes amb la noticia!!

*smashes bookmark button* lpeproject.org/blog/democra...

Any historians of political thought based in Barcelona or Madrid on here? If so, please do get in touch!

"To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it" -William Morris, Hopes & Fears for Art