The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor chotiner: sure. go on

In the early morning/late night aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Lindsey Graham gave a speech on the floor of the Senate denouncing Trump and saying he was done with Trumpism for good.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Newgarden and Duke winning on the same day: cursed. And we lose an hour of sleep tonight. Gross.

This game is a nightmare, and the refs are not helping at all

This is a helluva framing for "Celebrates war crimes and crimes against humanity multiple times a day"

This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no? there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps the burning of the PA governor residence and now this?

instead of overruling civil rights cases what if we overruled The Civil Rights Cases (this is a deep cut. for the real Reconstruction-heads, and potentially 1Ls taking con law)

Bluesky is a sports app 😌

Short track racing

Seriously that 26 car is cursed

“THAT’S how you do allegro!”

In the past 4 years I've taught: -Writing the South -Forward/Freedom/Formation: the Civil War in History and Memory -America to 2025: History and Expressive Culture -Gender and Sexuality History: US and Europe, 1800-Today -Capstone in Humanities -American Popular Music: A People's History

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Hilary Herbert's first chapter of Why the Solid South? begins with a similar argument: "The death of Abraham Lincoln was an appalling calamity - especially to the South."

Right! He's just talked at length about the violence, injustice, & sin of 250 years of American slavery. Who's been treated with more malice & less charity than the enslaved? You can only read those closing words as exclusively meaning "hey, let's give the rebs a break!" if you ignore its context.

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be

Donald Trump slowly turning every Evangelical into an idolator and every liberal into a believer in Satan is a pretty good bit.

You know, for all that I've read and thought about the address, it's only Stephen's thread that makes me wonder if we might also perceive the "malice toward none, charity for all" as being addressed *to* former rebels and not only about them.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.

Pretty sure nearly every student at Evergreen is in one way or another countercultural. And most faculty and staff tbh

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

This is Spin Doctors erasure

I just keep thinking of that line from M*A*S*H where Klinger says “ if it’s a police action, why didn’t they send the cops?”

Today's essential reading about history.

Henry IV Part 1, As You Like It, The Tempest, Macbeth

anyway, certainly Gertner or Platner or people who know them can correct if this is wrong but Peter Brimelow (who you may recall is the professional racist behind VDARE) has as evidence identified that a different Amy Gertner is Jewish, and I don't think Platner's wife is

This is the risk with using “partisan” as a stand-in for “black.” Maybe the Texas electorate really is too racist for a statewide candidate like Crockett. But that has very little to do with whether Texans will be ready to check Trump in eight months. www.offmessage.net/p/jasmine-cr...

and if you say this they get huffy about it, like you're supposed to accept them lying to you as part of the gig bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

This is awful on many respects but does Huckabee know what bugger means????

100000%

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

Oceans are now battlefields

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

(I always think this "If people had tried to trans me as a teenager, I MIGHT HAVE TAKEN THEM UP ON IT" argument says more about the unexamined inner life of the person making the argument than trans people, but I suppose I would think that.)

Given the day's discourse, I am thinking back on conversations I had with friends in certain social sciences who wondered why I a) didn't have a research assistant to go to the archives for me *while I was a grad student* and b) why I recoiled at the idea of it even if it had been possible.

I say with sympathy and solidarity,

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately