its cool and reassuring how the only actual rule in the rules based international order is “get nukes as fast as possible”

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

Phenomenal thread:

"The desire for signs of resistance can also be a form for resistance to hearing about racism. If we want to know how things can be different too quickly, then we might not hear anything at all." – Sara Ahmed, “Phenomenology of Whiteness,” pg. 165

<The vast majority of college students [are] attending ... night classes in community colleges.... [O]nline learning has been an enormous boon for those students. “If there’s no credibility to that, then you’ve just ruined the[ir] investment...,” Mills said.> 2 ppl I love have gotten these degrees

this whole thread on the long turn away from thinking as deliberation in cognitive science is great. here is the associated preprint (gril): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Is this bad

The HU Berlin is closing the department of archaeology to save money!! Please sign the petition if you have a spare moment!

A hand made of bronze and gold. It has been interpreted as the earliest proshetic hand for a casualty of conflict, a symbol for the status of the bearer. However, the solar symbols on the cuff suggest that it had also a cosmological significance. Found in Prêles, ...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺 📷 me

Important update: Local news outlet in Illinois says that kid who punched the pro-ICE jerk even though he was told he would get in trouble did not face any charges but served a two-day suspension from school. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...

Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.

If HE institutions are dropping their deals with publishers for access to journal content, then what's the market for a "research-grade AI workspace" platform designed to milk universities' budgets even harder? Unis won't subscribe just for the AI summaries, right? Right? researcher.elsevier.com

"Was it a person in rags muttering about how all his movements were being controlled by shadowy powers working out of a data center somewhere, or was it a car?" harpers.org/archive/2026...

I went and stood before the blossomed almond trees and watched them open themselves to bees and drop their petals at their feet

incredible papers by Jennifer Saracino on two maps of Teotihuacan and Raz Chen-Morris on the melancholy of the New Science and an absent presence of Mayte Green-Mercado of the futurities of conversos and Morris is 😍

sad to have my RSA panel put in the tiniest possible room and then have multiple people having to sit on the ground or in the hall, especially given what an ableist c-f conferencws already are, but also gratifying to know that the lovers win

They haven't found the technology to stabilize Meaning to take it in you must take it personally -- Dobby Gibson, from "After Mehretu"

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looking for recommendations of someone who can rebuild a Dreamhost-hosted WordPress site from a database

Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social

www.newberry.org/calendar/rec... looks like an incredible program!

get your war on 22 - #3

Mellon funded my first postdoc. My work consisted of annotating copies of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth; each morning a fresh copy arrived in the mail; every evening a courier removed it, and by decoding my markings Mellon learned the secrets of Left Straussianism.

A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖 Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others! brill.com/edcollbook-o...

Today’s moment of calm, is this commission that I’ve just finished this morning. A tiny icon/triptych of a mouse clutching a stitchwort garland. A gift for a very special person. I am now opening my commissions diary for the next few months should you be interested?

This is basically Erasmus's colloquy "The Godly Feast."

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

Bust Waist and Hips measurements for Blanka is very funny for some reason

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...

it also bothers me that "equity" has been the driver of mandating these kinds of things in schools. we educators should always be suspicious of reforms toward greater standardization and monitoring of anyone but especially children

This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers? Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

this is the level required for me to acknowledge this trend on a day of today's importance

GenAI is a wonderful technology for generating infinite toil. We will be painstakingly undoing its damage for generations. We’ve already made a superfund site of our collective knowledge.

without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work "you're not done; keep looking"

We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration for the 2027 Franz Steiner Prize! The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations. Application details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fra...

this has been my favorite news source for more than a decade, you shd consider supporting

Just a reminder that when you become a @truthout.org sustainer, you not only support Truthout's independent journalism but also the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, which is helping to cultivate and maintain the ecosystem of indy journalism we need in these times.

Vrabel asked about the unlikely Super Bowl matchup based on preseason odds, and why he thinks Americans like an underdog. Vrabel: "I think I would say the majority of Americans, or majority of people probably are more underdogs than they are favorites."

I encourage @umich.edu students to embrace our new “center for american dialogue” with the same fervor. record.umich.edu/articles/dia...

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It is not just a meme; it is a stigma-plus violation under Wisconsin v. Consteneau, 400 U.S. 433 (1971), and she should have some basic due process before the government altered her expression.

I swear to god if I see a single Celtic foot in the new Odyssey movie I’ve gonna fold Chris Nolan in half

in lecture writing purgatory/heaven/hell and deeply saddened that the chair chase ICE protest video offered to me in another feed was AI slop but glad I'm still sentient enough to have fact-checked it

Actually this is an important point, Minnesota is not primarily engaged in expressive protest but in direct action. The W for Minnesota isn’t make a statement or demonstrate the cruelty of the state, it’s to prevent kidnappings or impose greater costs/friction

intense flashback to palaeography class

Puerta de las Platerias and the moon

<<“Quality of life” mechanics are secularization.>> amazing piece