Reading Simone Weil’s Need for Roots today, wondering if we need to talk more often about boredom as a political concept.

Hey everyone, just fyi I’m a pretty big deal and they’re devoting whole podcasts to discussing my brilliant ideas.

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

Boy I hope they liked it.

typical corrupt science

I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational

It’s 2025. Sovereignty is winning.

The thing is that anarcho-capitalist secretly really love the state.

modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it

No one told me that Ben Affleck played an accountant with a gun named “Christian Wolff”

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Columbia Ph.D. and faculty member here. Completely gutted by this decision. And as a researcher of autocracy, not challenging these charges in court and in public opinion is a great mistake.

a dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history

Follow art historians and journalists. They’re interesting people.

When buddy decides the day is over.

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

Give these fine folks a follow

A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist. When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question." @courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...

So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."

the protein arms race has taken a turn: 45g per protein bar. next thing we know we'll have 17 blade razors

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.

Me getting that email from the Chronicle this morning about a useless tool that nobody wants

I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> doi.org/10.1080/0191... (msg me for a copy)

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I guess democracy died

Our newsletter includes round-up of recent JHI Blog posts and a some of the year’s most-read journal articles, which are freely available for the next few weeks: mailchi.mp/742b2d4d8001... Have a look—and resolve to submit an article or blog post to the journal or JHI Blog in the new year!

This is trench art, made by a soldier living the unbearable in 1916. When we face cataclysm, humans make art. It’s how we cope & protest, every kind of art, including ephemeral arts from rage baking to a game night. Hobbies are human hobbies are self-care hobbies are art hobbies are resistance!

The King of Physical Media reveals all. #TracyLetts #MovieNight open.spotify.com/episode/3ffw...

UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔 newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...

In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site: www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

If you know you know

bsky.app/profile/vote... Follow these folks

There is glory in the unexpressed thought.

Follow these brave souls. go.bsky.app/LpYSbPT

Gearing up for end of the semester grading...

Being a content and medium purist is, I think, a professional hazard that I've accepted.

How much are creatives being paid by AI companies to use their work to be trained on? Full Podcast: youtu.be/CAw0VvCvavA

We spent months diving into Instagram's AI influencer problem, where accounts get hundreds of thousands of followers by deepfaking the face of their AI influencer onto the bodies of real women. Meta as you'd expect is doing nothing about this ... www.404media.co/inside-the-b...

Friday! Super excited that @jcblibrary.bsky.social & Brown U. History Dept are hosting an event on my wonderful colleague @sethrockman.bsky.social's important new book, _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_. Join us online if not at the library! jcblibrary.org/events/book-...

Not unlike cruelty, unserious incompetence is the point.

Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

Also consider: 'Here's when it all went wrong'

I published this article in the journal Metal Music Studies two years ago today, and I’m still quite proud of it. I have more work on this topic coming over the horizon.

Finally, a place for my professional and occult practices to collide.

I feel like we all just picked Bluesky and didn’t even give MILF Messenger a chance