Carlito’s Curds & Whey

Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden identified more than 500 places in the city where water used to be, where it still floods and where flooding is likely to get worse due to climate change. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/01/f...

The federal law prohibiting federal armed agents from polling places has been on the books since the Civil War. If ICE shows up to the polls, voters should report it to their local election officials or call 866-OUR-VOTE if they have any issues. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

Apropos of nothing I was wondering about the etymology of 𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢 yesterday, thinking maybe it had something to do with us (Latin 𝘯𝘰𝘴). Surprised to learn it's of Greek origin from 𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴 (homecoming) and 𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘴 (pain). Let's make up a Latin alternative ... retropathy?

Getting rid of Trump *is* a solution

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

AI as Fuck Shit Stack

I think this is the question. I put up three images for my students at the start of the semester. 1) On the left: In a purely transactional situation, when getting paid for output, get the work done by any means necessary – bracketing external concerns (like environmental impact). Here, an eBike

Sad, beautiful, and true 😢 Thx to the students who made this

*sigh*

Hating on Elon Musk’s milk son story (milk dunking?) is funny but isn’t the burger sushi story already months old? Did he just post this story again like a bad joke he can’t stop telling?

The #SCMS26 decision to forego tote bags & swag in favor of providing free headshots is genius & so thoughtful. Thank you!

"My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what passes for the new. You will not find it there but in despised poems. It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there"

Beyond the legality, I hope cases like this aid in disabusing us of the illusion: these things can produce as good as us because they have stolen everything we’ve ever produced and are feeding it back to us

Re-upping this question because I still have not found any answer. Academic colleagues: what do you do when ePub is the only digital version available? They are unusable right? Do you scan hard copies for students?

This is what AI gave me when I asked for a visual metaphor of what it will be like to get rid of ICE during the next administration

In this era of Silicon Valley brainrot, I think the best way to save the humanities & liberal arts is just a really good acronym, so I propose to you: SHWARMA PLLATE: sociology, history, writing, anthropology, rhetoric, media, art, philosophy, literature, languages, and technology & economics

"The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it." 💀 #DHMakes

It's like a 21st century, Gen Z version of "free, white, and 21" (If you need context: www.jezebel.com/the-rise-and...)

Nice piece (2023) about academic labor & mobility "Perhaps because faculty members have accepted these intrinsic, destabilizing conditions of work, we do not talk about their effects, nor … acknowledge how both home & work communities are impacted by academic transience." slate.com/human-intere...

Bored of peace

What do you do when the only digital copy you can find of a book is epub? These things have no page numbers. Are they even citable? It’s like they’re trying to make scholarship impossible.

Thousands of years into human civilization and we’ve invented the ultimate brain smoothing machine

Why would anyone choose this LMS? “When you create “content” on Canvas…you grant Instructure a…perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free…right…to use, license, distribute, reproduce…Your Content (in whole or in part) for the purposes of operating and providing the Instructure Properties.”

Some truly inspired pedagogy here from a brilliant colleague. I definitely plan to incorporate some of these ideas into future teaching!

Anthropic's model was ready to kill someone. Wow so AI is even coming for the jobs of health insurance executives

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Finally googled this latest batch of meme culture neologisms & now unfortunately know what looksmaxxing is. I’m sorry, brain, I will try to be kinder to you …

oh this is very good. Will be especially useful for grading papers

The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism. This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.

I have been having the same conversations. Even with comp sci colleagues. I’m here for it

Had a dream I was driving with the fam, made a U-turn & saw a line of cop cars coming toward us so I pulled over. Then they surrounded us, pointed at our heads & verified our IDs. They claimed that I acted scared when I saw them so they had to investigate. So that's where we're at

I love that their "Taking my marbles and going home" move was Kid Rock. It's just, yup ...

R seats are going D and D seats are going DSA or Working Families. Go Analilia in New Jersey's 11th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7d5...

I thought getting rid of immigrants was supposed to save us money

So Zohran endorses Hochul. Totally predictable, still disappointing. Obviously a strategic move. But after also throwing Chi Ossé under the bus, how should we understand his approach? Move up & close the door behind, or ruthless realpolitik? Certainly not prefigurative. Hope the tactics succeed

Yes and … I’ve found there’s as much solidarity as mistrust. In Feb 2017 when Yemeni deli owners shutdown their stores to protest Trump 1.0’s Muslim travel ban, we put up a sign in Crown Heights & got dozens of signatures of support from folks in the neighborhood. (Pic from still early in the day.)

The manifold layers of horror & trauma … I visited the George Floyd memorial last week & just learned about the shop worker at the Palestinian-owned store who called the cops on him for a counterfeit $20, and had to process their guilt, regret & contrition for that.

Congrats to @akstuhl.bsky.social! It’s been a pleasure watching this develop from a distance. Grateful for all our chances to work together

Epstein dump has so many horrors. But one bit of levity is Elon being exposed over & again as the pathetic nebbishy dweeb that he is. Repeatedly begging to get invited to the rape party & getting dissed. Disgusting

Jose Huerta Chuma is a man in hiding — and he's also a man in distress. He's been replaying the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti over and over again in his mind, wondering if he could have done something differently and if there's something that "would have saved that life."

Just back from a visit to the Twin Cities. All the best & worst of humanity pushing up against each other in one place. So many abstract things became concrete for me, driving past abandoned cars in the street, visiting the memorials. A situation I never imagined seeing in this country.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And they didn’t even need an elaborate secret code language about cheese pizza and toppings to talk about it

Belarus has arrested several HAM radio hobbyists and is threatening them with the death penalty, extremely wild situation: www.404media.co/ham-radio-op...

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

wow a story at the center of my Ridgewood / humanities / political corruption Venn diagram of interests

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.