Mmm mm! Body-temperature beer. Yum.

Great sci fi movie, or greatest sci fi movie?

Pupdate

It’s class consciousness 101, first people need to realize that an antifascist class exists, then realize that they are part of it, then the collective action necessary to remove the fascists can begin in earnest.

Leave women out of this, you stunted editorialists.

Da Pope says that you can’t be anti-abortion and anti-immigrant AND call yourself pro-life.

somehow Charles I returned

Did Ross Douthat Ruin The Workplace

I haven’t flown in years. I have three major work trips coming up in the next few months. Flying to conferences in Chicago, London, and Toronto. The Trump Shutdown is going to mess with my plans isn’t it?

Striking evidence of the decline of the historian’s profession: the number of empty offices in my department

To be clear. This is a manufactured crisis. The actual discipline and intellectual vibrancy of history are alive and well. Department staff are doing a great job under difficult circumstances. But employment in academic history has collapsed. I’m a “lucky” contingent adjunct w three part time jobs.

Still wouldn’t want to go back to live in Virginia, but I feel it slightly less this morning. Good work, Commonwealth!

Not much to add really except UNPLUG IT

Q: How do you make a tissue dance? A: Put a little boogie in it.

An 13yo in his natural habitat

Striking evidence of the decline of the historian’s profession: the number of empty offices in my department

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They told us this was their plan. newrepublic.com/article/1788...

Post a birb announcing Dick Cheney is dead!

The U.S. govt could buy all the extra soybeans and give them away free to livestock producers, which would bring down the price of meat, eggs, and dairy, and support American consumers and farmers. But that’s not what Trump and co want. They want suffering. They want hunger. They want farmageddon.

Q: How do you make a tissue dance? A: Put a little boogie in it.

Bari Weiss < Barry White

🧵 Let’s talk about Chi Pu and Amber Liu, and why this performance hits so differently across Asian queer genealogies. For the uninitiated: that’s Chi Pu, Vietnamese pop idol turned cultural wildcard, and Amber Liu, Taiwanese-American K-pop veteran who’s been queer-coded since f(x) debuted in 2009.

The “blockchain” is just a spreadsheet on somebody else’s computer. Hope this helps.

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Did the USA win the World Series again!? for 122 consecutive years ?!

I see a lot of takes like “if we redistributed billionaires’ money it would be a trivial amount per capita.” This is dumb. No one proposes liquidating billionaires this way. Rather, we demand reform of the economic system itself to ensure an equitable distribution of the wealth created by our labor.

Steamed rice today to fry rice tomorrow or the next day. This is the way.

Steamed rice today to fry tomorrow or the next day. This is the way.

We have all known someone who was way too into The Doors.

Will the Epstein Ballroom have a Gilded Shitter?

Scicomms program I normally like: “Throughout history technological progress has been linear.” Me a historian of technology: *livid screaming*

You have family that died in a Nazi concentration camp? That puts you only two hops from Hitler!

Rereading The Road to Wigan Pier. It’s still a good book. I still like Orwell. But holy shit the class tourism! It has as much voyeuristic derision as it does humanistic pathos.

My youngest is 9yo today! Mbappe is his favorite soccer player. He’s also no. 10. He just got a new uniform to sport!

My Halloween costume is Dad in Plaid Nailed it

My fellow white Americans. Do not eat the shells of pumpkin seeds, you must crack them open and eat only the kernels. Thank you for coming to my Halloween talk. 🎃

culture itself is reduced to a contest for reproduction, regardless of the welfare of the people reproducing and transmitting it. Through the framework of selfishness, memeification reduces culture to virality, and reduces society to a passive petri-dish medium for the propagation of harmful slop 5/

UNDERWAY IN FIVE MINUTES! Panel 5 HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGIES Nancy Campbell, A Parochial Energy History of Nuclear Carbon Capitalism in Northeastern Pennsylvania Laura Stark, How AI Went Nuclear Karlyn Allenbrand, The Spectacle of Solar Aviation, 1976-1981 Comment: Jeffrey Manuel

UNDERWAY! Panel 3 ENERGY IN THE HOME BEYOND THE DOMESTIC Minseok Jang, Yeontan and South Korean Environmentalism Alexandra Quantrill, Women and Electrical Experiments in 1920s Britain Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, Gunpowder, Industrial Capitalism, and Tata at the Piano Comment: Chelsea Schields

This was the first time I picked up alcohol markers and I’ve not quite equaled it since

what do you mean? I DID take notes! The notes:

Meme-ification has screwed us. I blame Dawkins. Let me explain. Dawkins coined the word “meme.” In his book The Selfish Gene, he defined the SOLE purpose of an individual gene as self-replication regardless of the welfare of the living organism that transmits it. He likened this concept to culture1/

That’s it for DAY ONE! Join us tomorrow at 9:00 AM ET for DAY TWO of our Energy History conference!