Saw someone make it to the top of the pole!!

I got the Victorious soundtrack CD for my kid and now she claims she will never listen to any other CD

The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

Instead of sleeping in the morning after the semester ended my children have woken me up at 3 am and then been incredibly wiggly and restless for the next few hours before giving up entirely on sleep before 7 am wtf

Wow bicycling home on a clear mid 60s evening on empty streets cradled by charming south Philly row homes is amazing, a feeling that can’t be captured

If our elites can’t do crimes with impunity then our children won’t be motivated enough to work hard so that they too can strive to be elites doing crimes someday

I found a product I want to be an influencer for

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

I am pretty annoyed at the arms race of parents who have moved fall after care sign ups to freaking May and who have now boxed me out of the aftercares my kid has been doing and wanted to continue doing

Excited to be part of the Made by History launch with the long history of weather gambling, featuring rain betting, illegal "weather pools," and attempted bribery. TY @carlygoodman.bsky.social for terrific editing and @jmburns.bsky.social for reading and our many prediction market conversations!

Because it is our launch day, we have a second Made by History piece up today, by Jamie Pietruska, on the long history of betting on the weather, a practice now supercharged by phones, betting apps, and climate change. Everything has a history! 🎁 share.inquirer.com/XFrZX1

According to this great piece, George Washington “presided over a nation in which more than one in six residents was an enslaved person of African descent.” 1 in 6!!

For my birthday this year, I had the honor of helping launch Made by History at its new home with the Philadelphia Inquirer. I'm grateful to the editors for helping me shape the piece. In short, what we need now are more historical markers, not fewer.

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

I have one conspiracy theory I adhere to and it's that Philly remains the fifth largest city and that Phoenix cheated by acquiring more territory. San Antonio is trying the same sneaky sunbelt trick, but we held them off for now. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Omg 4 yo thinks the show is about Nibbler and Leela and the others are all Nibbler’s friends

Among other things an academic freedom issue; instructor knows best how to set parameters and course goals, admins shouldn’t be able to supersede that autonomy

It feels bad that I am spending so much time hoping we can hang on to reading

Someone AGAIN has posted on another platform that "reading is elitist" and I am sorry but NO. That's ridiculous and it's actually INSULTING. The end.

My kid just looked up from her highlights magazine and looked startled asking “Is Louisiana a real place?” She thought it was made up for an episode of Sam & Cat, I love her so much.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Getting to visit the @inquirer.com today was so cool. Tomorrow made by history launches! 🎉

Back when I was mostly an early Americanist in the early 2010s I started collecting "fake founders quotes" on this tumblr blog. All of this fabulism was coming from the "originalist" right. And that's what started me down the path to what I'm doing now. www.tumblr.com/fakefounders...

Student refers to 1980 as “nearly 50 years ago” which seems to me to be a form of violence

Call this chapter “Ballroom Blitz”

Kid just mentioned to me that they DO have to write down where they got their information! (She said this unprompted, so I guess my nagging broke through? Am I an amazing parent AND professor??)

I bet people don’t whistle anymore because the internet

"Instructure ensured us that as part of this agreement, all impacted data has been returned to Instructure, and the unauthorized actor has confirmed that all copies of the data have been deleted." LOLOLOL what?

What a great day, I bought my summer pool passes and it looks like there’s a new in bed with the right Patreon episode alerting me to a good previous episode I had missed

It's no exaggeration. Here's "Imperial Wizard" Hiram Evans in 1926, explaining the Klan's Tuberville-ism:

Feeling bad all the time is great!! Feeling bad all the time is progress don’t you love it??????

Both the criminals who hacked canvas and the criminals who are canvas are rich in stolen data and are unlikely to hurt us again

So many accumulating disasters in our time have Chekhov’s gun energy

All the bullshit lately feels particularly low effort

IIRIRA — the 1996 immigration law—makes this legal. The more people understand this, maybe they will pressure their MOCs to get serious abt legislative reform. And not just pass laws subjecting immigrants accused of shoplifting to mandatory detention, the only immigration laws Congress now passes.

ashamed to have had babies, inadvertently contributing to anything these ghouls might want.

If you were a 3rd grade teacher would you be annoyed if a parent messaged you and ask you to add a citation element to the group project so that students consider and acknowledge the sources of their information? They aren’t even noting the URL of the websites they are using

I am enjoying this whole thread/conversation about all the frictions and inefficiencies—and serendipity and relationships—involved in finding new music to love. We need these chances to discover.

The saved by the bell reboot that aired exclusively on peacock was incredible and its treatment of the pandemic should be taught in both history and television courses

I wrote this in 2021. Funding for Humanities + AI has one main purpose and that’s to offer a positive image for an antidemocratic project of power consolidation and upwards wealth transfer grounded in the use of this technology. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

From a pretty weird NYT oped. I don’t think the war is between those who think women are chattel and think US policy should reinforce that and leftist cat colonies.

The WP editorial board is transforming into the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission before our eyes

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

I live for being pandered to by the Philly ikea

The waning of the academic year means I can devote even more of my energy to doing an outsize amount of domestic and childcare labor 🎉

Incredibly weird to get Prince Eric a giant monument of himself as a birthday gift.