AI data centre projects like #WonderValley in Alberta "are not data centres in any familiar sense of the term,” writes Utah State University's Dr. Robert Davies. They're "Gigascale AI Smelters, smelting data and material strip-mined from people and planet.” www.theenergymix.com/breaking-ole...

Just want to add to this great thread that any attempt to frame "postmodernism" as the problem of the humanities, in the midst of widely-documented crises of replication and faked research across the quantitative social sciences and professional schools, is both nakedly ideological and really dumb.

welcome back, Gilles Deleuze

One of the authors of the humanities report sat across a table and said, through a smile, that me & my writing instructor colleagues are not teachers. Still, he is welcome in my seminars on evidence, reasoning & warrant since he seems to not understand those basic aspects of academic argument.

They should make the entire NBA season out of the NBA Finals.

HOOPS HOOPS HOOPS

Landry Shamet…the NBA’s John Turturro

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

are you just going to do this for every generation

i’m breaking into cooper flagg’s house to steal his roty award and give it to dylan harper

Let’s start a school where we can abolish higher education but in the good way.

loving this interview with @seanobrien.bsky.social & @lalouverouge.bsky.social about their new book, The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I’m gonna be muttering “If you don’t have a plan miami gonna make a plan for you” all day

First, I will be giving a paper at @monstrousat15.bsky.social—gratitude for the invitation and to share new work!—alongside friends and colleagues on Tuesday, June 23 at 1p (check the link below for more info and to register). www.eventbrite.com/e/monstrous-...

8 years of “NBA is doomed” takes and we’re about to see generational ratings for Wemby against the power of friendship Knicks on NBC

this is an incredible game of basketball

Coming to Calgary for Sled Island 🖤🖤🖤

One assumes they asked Sir Mix-a-Lot

oh wow it's that thing that was only happening in everybody's heads

This coming out on the same day as MIT announcing the closure of its libraries makes it hard to read it as anything other than yet another instance of the frankly exhausting story of sciences abandoning LIS/humanities/ed/social sciences. Posing as progressive 'resistance' makes it doubly gross.

do you think Chet hates Josh O’Connor or do you think he thinks they look alike

I'm really proud of this section of Golden Goal, which includes: --Salar Abdoh on Iran --Dmitry Elias Léger on Haiti --Andre Pagliarini on Brazil --Hamid Ismailov on Uzbekistan --Gabriela Alemán on Ecuador --Francesco Pacifico on Italy --me on the United States bsky.app/profile/gold...

Probably more worried about Djed Spence playing with a broken jaw than I am about Spurs

even when I agree w him it’s still like stfu man

Errol Morris did it better youtu.be/BvSSPy-EA3I?...

I SAY-I SAY, YOURE TAKING TOO MANY DAMN SHOTS FROM OUTSIDE THE ARCH BOY, LIKE YOURE SLINGING MUDPIES OFF THE TOP OF A PEACHTREE WITH THAT SIZE OF YOURS. YOU HAVE TO STAY IN THE PAINT LIKE A FOXHOLE, MON FRÈRE — PUT THE FEAR IN EM TIL THEY HAVE TO SMOKE YOU OUT

Public Service Announcement If you somehow have not yet purchased my acclaimed book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, the good folks at @orbooks are for a limited time selling it with Ed's collected short stories! You'll never need to buy another book!

Had no idea that this would’ve been his 75th birthday when I pulled this record out. A one of a kind artist, music personified

💼 We are hiring! We are looking for two Commissioning Editors to join our Edinburgh team on a full-time, maternity cover contract, working on either the Literary Studies or the Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies list. Apply by Monday, 8 June. More details:

marx is pretty explicit

Believe it or not, this is actually for work.

“Conspiratorial thinking is unable to process contradiction, irony, contingency, or simple happenstance.”

Happy birthday to Sam Selvon, who is, inter alia, the man. I'm mad at all my professors for never telling me about him!

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

love @joshgondelman.bsky.social’s That’s Marvelous newsletter and today’s — about Charles Barkley and about how it can be nice to have a phone call — was especially good

My latest on Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive is now open access: doi.org/10.1353/AFA....

the war on postmodernism will continue until Robert Coover’s ghost opens the straight of intertextuality

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

imagine getting to curate the Criterion Channel’s Anne Hathaway collection

Make Mother’s Day mean solidarity. Help bail out Black moms and caretakers: www.nationalbailout.org

I do not think academics should be using generative AI for refereeing.

ok

A garden of the flowers that appear in Swann's Way for #WorldCollageDay.