A really excellent piece (rare for The Atlantic nowadays). I was especially touched by this last passage: “We don’t always get to see what we plant,” Canaday said, nodding to a large oak to our right. “But that doesn’t mean that something doesn’t bloom.”

Almost everything I've seen about implementing AI in archives feels as though it was written in a world with neither archivists nor archival description

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

As UT alum (PhD program) and Latino Studies pressure, I find the choice to eliminate these programs to be horrifying. Texas public universities used to be held in high regard. Abbott and the TX Republicans are destroying higher ed in the state.

(Also, I apparently deleted my account when I decided to cut down on my social media diet, but I am back!) I'm looking to support public scholarship and to keep up with Latino and AfroLatino studies as well as news in academia and the games and comics industries.

Hello world! I'm a professor (currently in Texas but moving to Michigan) of Latine studies who publishes and teaches in AfroLatina/o/x studies, US-Central American lit, & video games and pop culture. One publication I'm proud of is this @theconversation.com piece: theconversation.com/across-the-s...