Same. Those with actual "AI literacy," meaning who've looked deeply into its history/contexts, the hype around it/claims made for it, research on its actual (bad) effects on education, & tech companies pernicious aims, refuse to be "literate" in this misleading sense. "Education Accelerator" - gag.

I'm afraid this March 27th I'll be celebrating National Al Literacy Day.

Well, call me an illiterate because I’m never touching that shit.

ELITE

I finished a draft of another chapter in the Atlanta book. Five more to go (plus an epilogue). Please clap. 🗃️

Someone who just started listening to Sufjan Stevens when I gush about “The Only Thing”:

Yeah, TSA is and always has been bad. Please don’t salute those folks.

Just a cheeky five-miler this evening. Wore some of my Iowa gear to antagonize the Gator fans in my neighborhood.

Stayed in this kitschy and dated yet fabulous central Florida hotel last night.

Go Hawks.

Have for years.

Syracuse is a private research university in a northern blue state. The attack on higher education transcends tidy public/private, regional, and partisan/political classifications.

“Sunsetting”, “reimagining”… Don’t let hand-wavy bullshit language distract you. This is the elimination of fields of academic study because the admins are afraid of the weakest and most disorganized president in modern history. Do not forget who the cowards were. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Good morning from Buenos Aires.

Detroit-style ‘za in Buenos Aires.

SB2K26 Buenos Aires. (No foot pics for free.)

I am currently trying to synthesize Lassiter, @renfro.bsky.social, @kyleriismandel.bsky.social to set up a discussion of metal, riot grrrl, and teenage violence in the 1990s... it's dark here but the soundtrack is good

Go Hawks.

Casa Rosada facing Plaza de Mayo, where the Mothers of the Disappeared congregated in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Truly honored.

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and intensified a culture of white grievance and racist vigilantism.

Saigon (Vietnamese restaurant), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Here's my review of @historianheather.bsky.social's excellent new book FEAR AND FURY in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Many thanks to Meagan Day for the edits, and many thanks to Heather for writing yet another monumentally important book.🗃️ jacobin.com/2026/03/goet...

The Carpenter with the largest following in the world.

Men I Trust—ZERO men, am I right?!

Interpol—a middle-class man’s National.

Paula at Lolla

Lollapalooza Argentina 2026. Please ignore the similarly clad dude behind me.

An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

My shrink also seems to think this.

León Ferrari, La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana, 1965 (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Already got my first “Go Hawks” of the trip.

We ain’t in Ankeny.

America is great because America is good.

Guess that’s why they’re called rat snakes.

I'm quoted in this @sun-sentinel.com piece on "pred catchers" and the long shadow of "To Catch a Predator." www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/03/05/a...

Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Rodney King's beating at the hands of LAPD officers. George Holliday's video capturing the vicious assault helped inaugurate a new era in police sousveillance, which would ultimately give rise to some of the most vital protest movements of this century. 🗃️

George W. Bush watching the Trump administration launch “major combat operations” against Iran:

Tapping the sign once again.

What a huge loss. NOT STRAIGHT, NOT WHITE was such an inspiration for me and many other historians. "Without an acknowledged heritage, at any moment one’s voice may be drowned out, one’s social standing is disabled, and one’s chances for civic belonging plummet."

Interzones was one of the best books I ever read that combined gender and urban history. What a huge loss to the field. His work was such an inspiration

Deeply saddened to learn of Kevin Mumford's death. His 2011 Journal of American Hist. article, "The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969–1982," helped inspire me to become a historian of race and sexuality. 🗃️ history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...

Full by forty, as they say. 🗃️

Norma Desmond-ass

Now watching: LBJ’s final interview (conducted by Walter Cronkite on January 12, 1973). 🗃️

Now watching: LBJ’s final interview (conducted by Walter Cronkite on January 12, 1973). 🗃️

Found the least objectionable Cybertruck.

Happy sixth birthday to Huey! I love this little man with all my heart. Y’all send him some birthday love!

This went really well. Solid turnout and great questions from the audience. Many thanks to the good folks @cphatsmu.bsky.social for inviting me back.