Lock them up.

If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

I remember the first Christmas I worked at a little CD store in college, watching the owner stock up on boxed sets and fast movers, realizing for the first time the inventory risk that small retail takes on to be ready for the holidays. Go buy some books from EBB! They have the inventory for you!

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

Sounds to me like someone has just booked themselves a place in court.

Apparently there’s a new Dr Seuss Thanksgiving special

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I worked in the Flatiron Building for a decade and never noticed the statue of Chester Alan Arthur just across the way. Now I feel bad. Here’s to presidents who do LESS grifting when they get into the White House. Read this and tip your cap to Chet:

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

As we prepare for our Thanksgiving feasts, here’s a great reminder of our power as consumers. This weekend , don’t shop at Amazon , Target or Home Depot . #WeAintBuyingIt open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

follow, read and share beat reporting

Shattered Glass is not just a very good movie about journalism, but one of a small number of good films about workplace dynamics. (Margin Call is another.) Highly recommended. And Hayden C is terrific as the ingratiating fraud

The idea that Anything “2” is going to get your studio back on track sums up why Hollywood is off the track to begin with

NASA's Youtube channel has an 8-hour loop of a rocket engine fireplace that's captioned "[rockets roar cozily]" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cgT...

A wonderful essay about what we and our students can accomplish through close reading.

The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time

Keystone Kops, meet Trump Troopers

What if we thought of journalism as community service? @terryparrisjr.bsky.social is doing exactly that with his project to set up journalism practices in local libraries. This is exactly the experimentation we need to increase civic information and public accountability.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

“Errors”?? How can this article not mention a Federal judge already found Trump officials flat out lied about what’s happened in Chicago. Zero reason to believe these are unwitting mistakes

As historians I know have pointed out, we can still read Babylonian tablets and medieval pipe rolls. Lots of stuff that was published on the Web ten years ago….gone. I would save more than PDFs if you really care.

Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind? Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇

Now this is an overview worth reading #skystorians. I’ve been running table models with pre-trained German language models (with pretty high CER) and it still took my total data entry time down at least 60-70%.

High crime. Impeach.

this is the way.

Very useful volumes, especially for academic authors

I did this in both of my classes this semester. It was super successful. The students had to ask an LLM about a subject they already knew well, like their favorite musician, movie, sports team, or something else they had previously researched.

Strong agree, and I say this as a certified "AI" hater. Ceding that semantic battle was a mistake that by association obfuscates the virtues of useful tech and glorifies the abusive unfitness of unethical, inhumane, useless tech.

:The emails, in my view, together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom. Saying that isn’t extreme."

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Heads up: You should read David Ulin’s 2 cents’ worth on the penny

Congrats to the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards, and their agents and publishers. #NationalBook #writing #editing #publishing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Need instructions on how to create a nuclear bomb? Just ask your favorite GPT with a rhyming quatrain. Not making this up, see the link #AI #😱

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Bluesky hasn't noticed the contrast yet! Yesterday White House journalists sat meekly while Trump humiliated one of them ("Quiet Piggy"). A week ago the Miss Universe beauty queens, tougher and savvier, responded to a similar humiliation by walking out in solidarity - and got the official fired. 1/

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

This f*ing guy

Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"

“Director of the Weaponization Working Group” is certainly a perfect job title for a Trump DOJ attorney

If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...