Any clothing historians etc recognise these glass buttons?

CONCAF teams have only ever been round of 16 teams. And that's still all they are. I don't think the FIFA/Trump shenanigans helped, but in the immortal words of Rasheed Wallace, ball don't lie.

I’ve seen worse first hand and also heard the same from colleagues. The number of students admitted to PhD programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year. What Trump has done to US science will impact us for at least a generation.

It's true that lifting Balogun's suspension is not even in the top ten most corrupt things that have happened in a world cup. May not even be top twenty, if we're being honest.

I'll add that he's deprived the team of the opportunity to achieve an epic victory. Winning despite missing their best goal scorer due to terrible officiating would have been a legendary moment for the USMutantNinjaTurtles. Now the best they can do is win a game people will see as rigged.

That Italy is no longer a proper football nation anymore is shocking. But not half as shocking as the fact that it is suddenly a tennis powerhouse.

As a historian of early modern Europe, I just want to say how grateful I am to get to see an actual schism. I'm hoping we get to see a full blown interdict before this is over. Also just wondering how many of the Swiss Guards are from the now schismatic congregations?

The kid is unbelievable. And he was first up too. You have to feel for the rest of the field who watched that and knew they were all just fighting for second place at that point.

I think the only reasonable conclusion here is that you should never turn your back on a Sorloth.

A great one has left the stage. A brilliant historian with the most mesmerizing and expressive eyebrows I have ever seen.

This whole thread is ... enraging is the best word. It's not hard to figure out who the guy is. Somehow the fact that he's in linguistics makes it worse. But my initial reaction was that this was a Sokal Hoax that got exposed before the self reveal was supposed to happen.

Those metrics aren't going to help him shake the lazy label.

Are we sure they didn't find them in San Verso? I'll let myself out.

Three NYU professors and a Princeton professor walk into a bar...

Reminds of the time Sheldon Adelson came to Venice and wanted to meet with the mayor because he was about to open the Venetian in Las Vegas. When the mayor said no. Adelson said that it was a missed opportunity for Venice to promote its image globally. Unfathomable arrogance and stupidity.

I get that Scalise is dumber than a box of rocks, not to mention a total hack. But I really have no idea what he thinks he's saying here.

The whole thread is worthwhile, but this point is key. AI is, to the degree it engages with the potential sum of human knowledge, restricting what we might know, not expanding it. And to the degree that it is killing the skills required to read what it can't, it's killing knowledge.

What a time to be writing about the history of veterinary medicine. We've spent 200 years building up the capacity to (not always successfully) track and control epizootic and zoonotic diseases, and some ignorant low-effort bros just flushed it all away with some string searches.

Niche post warning. Teaching a summer course in Florence, and I would like to use the Hidden Florence app for an assignment, but I can't get past the fact that they obscure the identity of the scholars who actually did the work of creating the walks. So, yeah, fuck those guys.

Merge two movies: Slacker John Wick

Hey, look! They finally finished the Italian translation of "A Forest on the Sea." I even like the cover: www.debastiani.it/catalogo/una...

Well then that wolf should get off its lazy ass.

On a bus in Rome with a large group of very handsome American priests. One of them is earnestly and enthusiastically trying to explain art nouveau the others. And the others so clearly dgaf. I am resisting the urge to tap him on the shoulder and tell him that he's never going to get them to care.

Prime Wilt the Stilt vs Wemby would sell so many tickets.

Bullitt and Grogu.

Nine is JJ McCarthy? I thought it was the name of a rogue secunit. Either way, that's just nuts.

My Uncle loved to talk about his vasectomy because he got it on September 20th, 1973, the day of the King-Riggs "battle of the sexes." He never stopped thinking that was hilarious.

From my cold, dead hands, Bobby. From my cold, dead hands.

Trump has really made nationalizing industry a low-key pillar of his policy dreams. I feel like we've settled the "is it fascism" debate. Can we move on to "is it Stalinism?"

Whenever I am reminded of this, it makes me proud. Both as a Californian, and a UCSD alum.

Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?

This is absolutely insane framing. Whether Leo is soft-spoken or not, he's the head of a global institution that (supposedly) embodies, among other things, the ethos of responding to aggression with compassion and love. Punching is not in the job description.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Does it come with Lewandowski?

Jesus knows how to hit the crossing route.

Negotiations with Iran is the new infrastructure week.

When I think of Trump, I think of a man who possesses an intuitive mastery of Hegelian dialectics.

Between this and "we can't fund medicare" and "fuck your gas prices" I'm starting to wonder whether Trump is deliberately trying to destroy the GOP in the midterms. To be clear, I don't think he is, but if he were, would he do anything differently?

"He has an able team of lawyers." Does he though?

Hegseth is dumber than a box of rocks. It's always been this way. When I was in the Army in the fucking 1980s we weren't allowed to keep personal weapons on post. A bunch of us went in on storage locker off post, and when we wanted to go hunting or whatever, we had to go get them.

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Thoughftul piece about a great but complicated man thebulletin.org/2026/03/unde...

Dave Winfield

The ADHD presidency...

There are some really great examples of historical work in which scientists have collaborated. Our knowledge of plague, for example, is exponentially greater than when I was in grad school. Climate history is another. But you need scientists and historians working together, or you get this slop.

From my cold, dead hands.

I've got a history joke. But it needs revision.

Uber

When you definitely didn't do the reading.

I have a non-hoopty 2008 Fit. Am I emperor now?