here is the second game, which I got my nyt spelling bee buddy to start playing so we could both quit. favorite mobile game ever. recalls my delight in sorites syllogisms as a kid and spatialized almost in exactly the same way I'd make a sorting-space in my head for the propositions back then

in honor of what may be my last queen bee day ever (I finally unsubscribed from NYT games), I'm posting here the first of two games that enabled me to quit. recalls intellectually formative moment: watching art historian Irene Winter achieve the lowest Minesweeper scores I would ever witness irl

I was too youthful still to realize that the helmet catch would be one of these eternal grudge engendering moments but I lean into my irrational abyss for this as a healthy sublimation of other resentments and angers

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Marius Mason has finally been released after seventeen years of a twenty-two year sentence! We're donating $2 to his re-entry solidarity fund for every item we sell at akpress.org in May. So far we're at $2432 (as of yesterday). Can you help us get to $3000 this weekend?

This little spine of mine*, I'm gonna let it shine... *Yes, it's from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social again, why do you ask? 😂

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

A rare absolute is that surveillance tech will *always* be used beyond the scope of how it’s initially pitched.

every month or so I see something that makes me wish my bestie Jean were still alive, just to hear her elaborate verbal condemnation, possibly accompanied by paradoxical enjoyment

cf Plato on Homer

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

506 years ago, on the 22nd of May 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place. During the festival, Spanish captain Pedro de Alvarado turned on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, killing performers, spectators and nobles. #otd #history 🗃️

Studied creative writing under Toni Morrison and has given billions to HBCUs. Somebody hand this lady a copy of the Communist Manifesto and get her writing checks like a modern Engles.

to donate:

“The Confederate monuments taught us that maybe men are just men and not great — at least not great in the sense that they can stand unchallenged,” Jones said. www.thebanner.com/culture/arts...

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

headed into an editorial board meeting this afternoon where we're trying to craft our "AI" policy. would love any thoughts about language that's worked for others, or pitfalls to avoid?

headed into an editorial board meeting this afternoon where we're trying to craft our "AI" policy. would love any thoughts about language that's worked for others, or pitfalls to avoid?

incredible opportunity for transpacific folks

So @devinfitz.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce a new program through @gettymuseum.bsky.social Connecting Art Histories initiative: “Prints across the Pacific, 1565-1815." (en español también)(1/7)

Thrilled that my @jhideas.bsky.social article ‘When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment’ has received the prestigious Förderpreis! Read my article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 (OA link below) 🗃️ #history #HistMed #HistSci

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. 
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.

Eligible for visa sponsorship per the ad

OK, NOW it's really happening Huzzah

If anyone knows of any weird little 1-month fellowships or library residencies taking applications for research in the humanities to take place in the coming year (26-27), please let me know!

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

I have to use a VPN to access the website for the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest from my home, fascinated by this and will test elsewhere. can I blame the trawlers?

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has never issued a notice of proposed safety order against Enbridge, while there were more than 1,068 spills across Enbridge’s system between 1993 and 2013.

my employer is already emailing us to make sure we put everything back on Canvas if we temporarily strayed

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

Hello friends! Do you work on early modern letters and/or books? Do you sometimes find early modern letters *in* your books? Do you have interesting thoughts about this? Then you should ✨submit a proposal✨ to the 🌟🌈special journal edition🌟🌈 @barrytorch.bsky.social and I are putting together!

Word and frankly they don’t need us for that. Their actual workplace will beat them into submission without my help.

"Kilcher only learned that Cameron had used her facial features so directly after an interview clip of the director began circulating on social media last year... Cameron stands with the Neytiri sketch: The actual source for this was a photo in the LA Times, a young actress named Q’orianka Kilcher"

do any other android users have a reaction emoji photomoji added to their available reactions in the messages app that is an ad for a local business? this is wild. I don't want to reproduce it to give the business more attention bc I now hate this business very sure I didn't create it by accident

Platonic Peepshow? (Gauffered edges on a 1546 Plato owned by 1890s collector Henry Probasco! (Case folio Y 642 .P525)) @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

Slightly diminish a book The Suburb Of God

I do know it’s silly to some people but I do believe in Joy as an act of resistance for the currently & historically marginalized & oppressed. It’s not the only thing of course. But it’s one important component. I don’t believe my ancestors, my direct ancestors were bled dry for me to mope around.

Well then...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500–1800) 🔜 Submission deadline: 15 June 📍 Warsaw | 📅 28–30 Sept Student workshop included :) #EarlyModern #History #BlueSkyStorians More info ⬇️

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I've got an MA student who wants to look into early modern surrogacy. Has anything been written on this? Was it even a thing / different name, perhaps? #histmed #histsex #earlymodern

per Nellie McKay: “the three critical problems that…hold African American literature hostage: the insufficiency of the black PhD pipeline, the efforts to discourage white graduate students from exploring black literature, and untrained white scholars' undertaking of scholarship in black literature”

#MayDay And there’s even more May Day events than this, bc one I know is happening in my city isn’t on this map. This site has a better map: maydaystrong.org

Caleb Lomu, on videoconference with Patriots reporters, says Will Campbell sent him a text message to congratulate him. It was one of the first messages he received.

really loved this overview of some districts' efforts to get LLM-driven / "AI" features out of K-12 education

Conference CFP. Early/Modern Connections: Academic and Applied Humanities. Deadline, June 1. #earlymodern