The TLDR for today's New Look lecture. What I ordered vs. what I got:

Teachers and admin can cry that parents nowadays are disengaged and don't pay attention to notices from school but if my dad had gotten 34 letters by pony express every single workday from my school? I can tell you right now, he would have beat my principal to death with a hammer

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Ooof. Just heard this: Using Claude is like letting your dog lick your dirty dishes instead of using the dishwasher. The plate will likely look clean, and you’ll probably get away with it for a while, but the crash will come with pain and recrimination you will deserve.

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

#Caturday with my blue-eyed crew:

So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty

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One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Imagine believing that being "a very visual thinker" makes you different from every other author.

I had to do a 2-hour, one-on-one tutorial to learn how to use Canvas as an instructor and the kind tech support person training me readily agreed that it's a clunky, fiddly system that does not fit our university's needs AT ALL. Students seem to hate it, too. Bring back bluebooks and course readers!

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

Our sitewide Spring Sale ends this Friday. 40% off all UC Press books with the promo code SPRING40 www.ucpress.edu

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

Back to @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections today and they had some Bonnie Cashin boxes out. Reader, it smelled like a Coach store in there!

Parents, don't let your minors use tanning beds (but do encourage them to study dermatology because yikes).

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

This is the kind of artistry I like, the epically hand stitched detailing of an early 1820s figured silk gown in a rich milk chocolate shade. It includes a myriad of self coloured embellishments consisting of sooooo much couching. Via #coraginsburg #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Spotted elsewhere.

Field trip to @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections with my History of Couture students:

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Madonna wears a Saint Laurent slip dress with a translucent violet organza cape carried by seven models, and a shipwreck hat. The look was inspired by “The Temptation of St. Anthony" (1945) by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

Russell Wilson and Ciara #MetGala2026

The Queen has arrived

Is she channeling the Costume institute's Samar Hejazi-inspired mannequins...?

Sabrina Carpenter in custom Dior In streams of the film “Sabrina”

Sam Smith in Christian Cowan at the Met Gala. More red carpet later on our site.

a m a z i n g

LAUREN GET OUT OF HERE WITH THIS YOU LOOK LIKE IF SOMEONE LEFT MADAME X IN THE SUN

Nancy Drew! Girl detective reporting for duty. contingentmagazine.org/2022/12/19/t...

American artist Keith Haring was born #OnThisDay in 1958. He collaborated with fashion designer Stephen Sprouse on this A/W 1988 black and red velvet bubble dress featuring Haring's recognizable line imagery. Indianapolis Museum of Art collection. #art #fashionhistory

The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

"Mrs. Sánchez Bezos’ clothes don’t demand that the public pay attention to her story. Or even the stories of the designers she wears. Or really, even fashion. She has assembled a tote board of Bezos wealth. And if it tells any story at all, it’s his." 🔥🔥🔥 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...

Recession tornado siren.

This stuff is so benign that tons of it is for sale on Amazon. Anyone arresting Bezos?

In 2020, curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum began working with the Honolulu-based Poakalani Hawaiian Quilting group as part of a contemporary collecting project at the Museum. See the vibrantly coloured quilts and read their accompanying stories before they come off display on 7 June. bit.ly/46UZ738