Timed my 24 hours in London to perfectly coincide with the heatwave.

Something I'm not sure we talk about enough is how editing and peer review of our fellow scholars makes us better at giving students feedback, and vice versa.

is it possible I just saw a teenage juggalo?

TFW a book says an interview took place in 1924, their citation says 1923, and the primary source is actually from 1925… (always check the sources, kids…)

Fell down a 6am research rabbit hole! HAPPY SUMMER!

Love living in a media landscape so consolidated that "How Healthy Are Peas?" is a NYT headline.

Texting my kid about this in the middle of his school day like a good parent.

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Among the books @standardebooks.org has added this month is Claude McKay's novel BANJO, which has been called a "queer black anarchist manifesto" (G.E. Holcomb) & a work of "dissident internationalism" (J. Nickels). Check it out — Standard Ebooks does a nice job. standardebooks.org/ebooks/claud...

Tonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch

Yes, Amazon Music, I agree that “my soundtrack “ should consist entirely of bands I’ve never listened to on purpose….

Help?

Let's say you were coordinating a fun summer activity around reading Middlemarch, and you wanted to "assign" your friends a certain amount of the book to initially read where they didn't get overwhelmed but did get hooked--would volume I suffice? Or would we need vol. II, also?

Say what you will about generative AI, but I do have to applaud the technology for finding a new way to horrify and depress me EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Google will be a hard habit to break (my freshman roommate introduced me to it in 2000!), but it seems like it's time.

You know you live in SF when the front page of your kid's yearbook is photos of ICE protests and teacher strikes ✊

There's lots to say about this practice and this piece, but what I can't stop thinking about is how reading "dated" books as a kid is what helped me contextualize the world I lived in, and introduced me to so much about the past.

For the first time in my life I've come up with a clever title for a thing.

No one cares about my thoughts on The Discourse, but I’m actually just here to hang out with my digital friends.

I feel like that lady 100 years ago and I have something similar to say to about surreptitious photographs.

Should my 6th grader and I watch The Mummy tonight?

I had a not-great teaching day! And then, independently, two of my favorite students from last year came to see me!

This is one of the clearest policies I've seen put forward and I LOVE it!

GARBAGE - dashare.zone ADMIN

CANNOT WAIT TO TALK ABOUT THIS WITH MY STUDENTS.

There's very little that brings joy in contemporary politics, but today I learned where the word "gerrymander" comes from and you should too! blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/07/...

🫠🫠🫠(I don’t know what this emoji is supp to signify, but this is how I feel)

I cannot believe I am only just now finding out about the Lost Boys musical. Real failure on the part of everyone who knows me.

I AM FINALLY AHEAD OF A TREND!

Legitimately excited to talk about this with students in my research writing class this week!

Almost 30 years after first encountering the opportunity to order a "dirty chai" I'm finally drinking one, and I think I've made a huge mistake (in not trying this sooner).

Doing my best to empathize with the undergrads this week (crashing my bike and losing my water bottle).

Feeling glad my middle schooler has no interest in participating in Spirit Week.

If you have time for a long read about AI writing and the internet this morning I highly recommend this.

The other thing is the robots are stingy with the porn and drugs. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Pretty darn excited about my Mother’s Day activity

Guys, I just went to Moviefone.com for the first time in a decade+ and it's still an operating website!

Contractually obligated (not really) to repost all Sinclair Lewis material in the run-up to this coming out! www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

Oh, the cruelty of Wordle!

Hello contingent and independent modernists! We're about 10 days out from the deadline of the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 's first annual CCIS essay prize, and we hope you'll submit! www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin...

12+ years into working on this book and have just become worried that a dissertation from 1966 scooped me.

I've been thinking about Jeeves (the first search engine I used) a lot recently, as the way people query LLMs feels curiously similar (after decades of the searchwords oriented model Google rewards).

Uh oh, we've reached the part of spring quarter where I'm convinced summer is almost here and it is not.

Throwing this back out for the weekend crowd!

Hello 20th c. periodical scholars! I'm looking for someone who'd be interested in writing a book review that would concisely cover several substantial edited collections. It's an ambitious project but also I think could be fun? DM me if you want more details! (or send your grad students my way)

Just thinking about how no technology has ever made me happier than my discovery of color photocopying in 1994.

I know there are often bigger bones to pick with the NYT, but I am going to lose my mind if they don't get rid of all the autoplaying videos on their homepage. Didn't we already determine that "pivoting to video" is NOT THE ANSWER?

Good news: here in California, the strawberries finally taste like it's strawberry season!

Student has defined people over 30 as "middle aged and older" 😭