have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

’Tis the season 🎶

10,500 diesel generators backing up data centers in Virginia!!! The state hosts *one quarter* of all data centers in the country 😳https://apple.news/AZLSfcRd6QpC4UnoCVK2Haw

Will it actually ever stop raining though

Happy spring 🥴

go off big papa!

pope bob said media is nihilism 🫡🫡🫡

Read Magnifica Humanitas. My thoughts from a humanist, academic (i.e. neither Catholic nor theological) perspective…

It's heeeeeere www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Consoling myself as I research with a running list of all of the different kinds of WPA-style projects I’ll get to work on after it all goes to shit

tis the season 🥳

Same. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

Never thought I’d be waiting for a papal encyclical like a record drop, but here we are. Unprecedented times indeed. www.npr.org/2026/05/15/g...

Exciting day! We have our first MBH piece up @inquirer.com! Cory James Young writes about George Washington's deep entanglements with slavery in Pennsylvania, beyond the president's house site, centering what historians know about these individuals. Please read and share! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/1BSWa8

In all of this point-of-no-return discourse re New Orleans, let’s consider the massive GAS POWERED data center construction boom hellscape. Electeds just pushing it off a cliff.

Come work at the coolest university library in the US! library.tulane.edu/news/Seeks_T...

re the Canvas outage: nothing like a swift kick in the ass to jump start our move to device-free classrooms and paper materials this fall (we had already voted on it this spring, but this should hasten the transition and convert the laggards and skeptics)

This drives my students nuts I’m sure because they don’t have immediate access to the gradebook but…you can’t hack this

A single clerk for civil and criminal courts?!!!!!!!

France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Hits differently after last week‘s ruling, but this Historic New Orleans Collection piece on Louisiana v. Voting Rights, Then and Now is still (maybe even more so) worth the read hnoc.org/publishing/f...

This will all make sense once you read Grégory Pierrot’s Decolonize Hipsters orbooks.com/catalog/deco...

Hoping to get a thread going here @nytimes.com with recommendations/thoughts on good readings on Haitian history! www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

The Bravo universe has broken containment. Ugh and VPR at that. It’s not safe out there!

"The novel is not a prophesy, nor is Raspail a prophet. It is a discursive and cultural script that includes a “deeply predictable” trope that Dara Lind (@daralind.bsky.social) has called, in shorthand, IACATBTKY (Immigrants Are Coming Across The Border To Kill You)."

instead of reading this horrible thing, read @chelseastieber.bsky.social's 2019 essay in @africasacountry.bsky.social

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Louisiana's numbers don't show it--yet--but it feels like the epicenter of data center hell. The scale of production and the environmental consequences are staggering. It's sealing the fate of this fragile place financially and climatologically thelensnola.org/2026/04/14/m...

“The point is, I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

When today’s far-right pundits use concerns about natural resource scarcity to push the anti-immigrant “great replacement theory,” they’re using a playbook created decades earlier by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton. (Published Oct. 2024)

So far in 2026, 80% of big tech's power procurement has been fossil gas (a bit more if you go by gen) Desperation, ideology and material, deepening relationships between big tech and fossil fuels gets you the exact situation we have been warning about for years.

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

Not to put too fine a point on it but Altman and ChatGPT stole knowledge and are actively trying to privatize it and make you buy it back from them

Aaron Swartz rightfully identified Sam Altman as a sociopath but this article hardly does justice to Swartz’s activism and how diametrically opposed it is to what ChatGPT became. Swartz preached—and acted upon—radical open access to knowledge ia800101.us.archive.org/1/items/Guer...

🎶 “No retreat, baby, / No surrender” 🎶

The means-testing thing is so pernicious man. Designed in a lab to sow resentment, degrade the public good, shrink services and transfer costs away from government coffers and to individuals’ post-tax income

I’ve moved onto the 7th stage of scandoval 2.0, which is feeling bad for Carl (!) He really had a storyline cooking with Bailey (and maybe even just tried to hard launch?) and this just incinerated it all #summerhouse

This 👏🏻 is 👏🏻the 👏🏻 energy 👏🏻 I’m 👏🏻 talking 👏🏻 about

EVERGREEN but also…wtaf

Holler if you see me out tomorrow!

via @chelseastieber.bsky.social -> bsky.app/profile/chel... If this bubble pops, the fossil fuel infrastructure will stick around for decades to come

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s now up to SEVEN gas powered power plants. From 3. To power Meta’s largest $27 billion data center in Richland Parish, LA www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2...

Preparing taxes and just being like, ah and we’re paying them to do it 🤡

This translates as “cat I farted” for the uninitiated. Tell your kids!

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people