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Korea added ANOTHER 7 years to President Yoon's sentence this week. He's already in for life but there's constantly new trials to set precedent for every single thing he did wrong to be worthy of punishment. Elsewhere, political standards are so lax no one can even check if a dude's dead or not.

Heading home from @imc-leeds.bsky.social after a good week of seeing research presentations, giving my own, and most of all reconnecting with my fellow historians and medievalists. Others (namely @drdragases.bsky.social) have posted about the IMC more eloquently, …

No better metaphor for our times than a wave of preventable explosive diarrhea.

A periodic reminder…

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Another month, another round up of new publications for #medievalsky

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Holy buckets!

Detained by ICE on her way to Mass yesterday, Sr. Letty is reunited finally with Sr. Norma Pimental, Pope Francis used called Sr. Norma his “favorite nun.” Quite a moment that shows the human face of rounding up people randomly.

As @jdiscenza.bsky.social and others have pointed out, that's 11 stars. Not 13, for the original colonies. You know where you can find 11 states? Seceding from the US to form the Confederacy. Nazi symbolism AND Confederate! A twofer!

Hoo boy… NED - MAR is like the old Bulls - Pistons in the 1990s NBA

‘Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future.’ @christophersmith.bsky.social anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...

51 recalls, 11 million vehicles, billions in costs. Another #AI success story!

Higher education is not a political weapon. It is a public good, essential to democracy and central to our shared future. Freedom from political interference is integral to a robust higher education system that works for all. @afthighered.bsky.social stateline.org/2026/06/25/p...

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” ~James Madison, 1822. Madison, 4th President of the United States from 1809-1817, died on this day 190 years ago: 6/28/1836. Image: Public domain.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

“Watergate pales in comparison to what we’re doing” is quite the thing to imply

Y’all. I *just now* learned that, in Pennsylvania Dutch, the month of February is called Hanning. This apparently derives from Hanne, meaning “horn.” This means that the Pennsylvania Dutch are continuing Charlemagne’s initiative, recorded by Einhard, of calling the month Hornung.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

No industry should receive a blanket exemption from accountability under the law. I'm urging Congress to reject Big Oil's immunity proposal and stand with states, taxpayers, and the rule of law — not special protections for powerful corporations.

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t... #USD #PB Out of sight will not result in out of mind no matter how hard Trump Regime tries hiding the Reflecting Pool behind fences. July 4 is right around the corner and DC is an utter disaster.All Trump’s fault. DC looks like an abandoned construction sight.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

Employees at Scientific American were told today that the magazine has been sold to LabX Media Group, the outfit that runs Discover Magazine and IFLScience. And that means -- of course! -- editorial layoffs. The media mass extinction rolls ever onward.

Holy smokes. This is troubling.

Monday Friends #9 @metaresistance.bsky.social @carlchri.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @blackkettle.bsky.social @shadowprofile.bsky.social @hosea6.bsky.social @unmitigatedgall.bsky.social @kelofchgo.bsky.social @jkeyes01.bsky.social @its-the-squirrels.bsky.social @taint9.bsky.social

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

The reason this hearing is being pulled is to get some in the DNI job who will use classified information to try to hurt Trump's political opponents. Republicans know this. And they could choose to stop it.

🚨🚨🚨 "Israeli airstrikes caused severe damaged to the archaeological site of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site" Quotes + pics 👇 from Green Southerners 🧵1/: www.facebook.com/share/p/17wX...

Wow, Trump finally got a crowd to show up at the Kennedy Center.

We have no idea just how far behind the United States will be in 2028. We'll have nothing: no national science infrastructure, no agricultural progress, no medical progress. The oligarch class has decided to hollow America out in a hedge fund takeover. We are being robbed of our future.

A lot of media coverage of screwworm misses that screwworm is a fly, and flies can move themselves around without livestock shipments. Cattle shipments are good for quick long-distance spread, but if the climate is right and there are mammalian hosts, it will arrive just fine on its own wings.

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)

Trump announces "maybe I'll seize the capital of the US if voters displease me" and it'll be nothing more than a blip on the news at best

Oh shoot… was there men’s basketball on TV tonight that I missed?

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

A married Ken Paxton having multiple affairs that led his wife to file for divorce on "biblical grounds"? Not a problem. A single James Talarico dating one woman and then, my God, later dating another? SCANDAL. (And as always: Paxton Pardoned a Pedophile)

That quote from her, given that they were both murdered, is disqualifying for being part of civil society, let along running CBS.

We’re losing all three of our instructional librarians in one go, and I am heartbroken. One of them I hardly knew and had always wanted a different job, which she now has. But the others had become good friends. I worked closely with them and will miss them dearly. I feel like I want to cry.

It’s because they’re very concerned about voter fraud. Yep.

Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Pete Hegseth cut women from a promotions list. Several female officers say they see the unusual intervention as a sign that their careers now have a ceiling and worry for the future generation of female military leaders.

In 1407, the canon of Wetwang (Yorks.) was Dick Winewick (reminded of this fact by a 2020 FaBoo memory)

JFC Just open censorship, siccing the cops on scientists, intimidation, and sycophantry. These aren't just signs of fascism, it's a goddamned neon explosion.