I hear y'all already weeping for Haaland. It was good while it lasted, geeks.

Woke up grumpy and put this in the family WhatsApp after an onslaught of Christ memes and forwards: "Lo bueno de ser ateo es que no tengo nada que haya que respetar. Es a los que creen en seres invisibles que hay que respetarles lo que dicen, no queda de otra. Love you! 💚" It did not go well 😂😂😂

Working on archipelagos 2.0 for Issue 9. Calling the software Archie-Next (because geek). New stuff: Jekyll to 11ty migration (because 2026); moahr accessibility; full test suite; A SEARCH BAR (!!!); revised guidelines for authors (because authors); JSON-LD; new PDF pipeline. All coming soon!

“For Yale to cave in the face of baseless factual allegations and unfounded legal claims risks further erosion of public trust in Yale and in higher education at large.” #DefendHigherEd @yaleaaup.bsky.social

“Should the university choose to compromise its commitment to academic freedom by seeking to settle w/ the DOJ on the basis of these spurious claims, the Yale AAUP will not hesitate to pursue its rights.” — Attorneys for Yale AAUP in a letter sent this week to Yale president Maurie McInnis

DATA EMPIRE is on The Millions' Great Summer 2026 Book Preview! themillions.com/2026/07/the-...

Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/44FPvsF

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

They robbed Egypt.

This Thursday, tune into the @caseygrants.bsky.social book club, where Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau, authors of "P FKN R," are joined by Carmen Rojas for an online discussion. buff.ly/kZsGAJY

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Libro novo 😶 A lingua estranxeira, a miña segunda novela (!!), comeza a chegar hoxe ás librerías. En @galaxiaeditorial.bsky.social

The key argument in this op-ed is that "LLMs are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines." Sure. But... isn't it interesting that the mere existence of LLMs suggests that "Reason" itself is a probabilistic feature of language? That "Reason" doesn't come from us alone.

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

Very bad news -- Yale leadership needs to hear from you on this. If Yale wants to restore trust in higher ed it should not be Paul Weiss here - it should be standing up for higher ed and our students. Contact info below! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

I need to talk to the coach of those 50 kids on the goalpost. 😂😂😂

Word. Learn from them.

What gets measured gets managed is what I was told once upon a time. The grades become the point, the bugfix count becomes the point, the paper count becomes the point. The scholarship and community /should/ be the point, 100%, though, and AI will keep destroying both.

"As my placement year comes to an end at @openlibhums.org, I can attest that this is not only a radical vision to which open access academic publishing should aspire, but a practised and practical model for scholarly publication." www.openlibhums.org/news/969/

Just remembering how the first white gringo I ever met irl was Tommy Lasorda. Good times.

The Overton Living Room. Let's goooo!!

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

Very happy to wake up to the news that @darializaforny.bsky.social won her primaries. That old Dominican guard in the 13th was due for a shake up. See also, let the young lead with hope.

Latin America has lost its marbles again.

the key critiques of Third World feminism

Absolutely brilliant interview with @durba.bsky.social. This book paints an original picture of our world and our knowledge production, one we didn't know we needed, but now we do! www.publicbooks.org/seize-the-me...

If AI is sentient, then so is Age of Empires 2. A Microsoft AI researcher built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. Point is to show "sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong." www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...

This project on "Diaspora Players at the World Cup" from some of my UVA students in "Soccer Politics" is turning out to be particularly relevant. It's part of a broader guide to the #WorldCup2026. soccerpolitics.org/tournament-g...

I’m proud to be endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and I look forward to being a partner for him in Congress. Meanwhile, my opponent couldn’t bring himself to endorse Zohran as the Democratic nominee in the general election, even when the alternative was serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo.

Love this for us. I was happy to see so many good ones thriving in Paris a couple of weeks ago. Here in New Haven, we still have some mainstays standing tall.

"We did a fair amount of research, including research using new artificial-intelligence methods to survey large bodies of text and see what was in them"—Anthony "I did a DH" Appiah. This poor sod has no business using computational approaches to study large corpora, let alone outside his field.

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

The Department of Education logo is a bit disturbing. Just saying.

Just a reminder: the Carroll Report is the most important humanities report of our time

This is the story of one of the best students I've had the privilege of teaching at Yale. This is also the story of her father's autodeportation to Honduras two days after she graduated suma cum laude. We have to fight, people. This is no joke. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

“Bluesky-first” is an amazing position I wish all campaigns including @darializaforny.bsky.social would adopt. There is no reason to launch your takes in an AI sewer

Another good read on the new volume.

*Introducing: household AI powered by hand-cranks and bicycle pedals. #designfiction https://crankgpt.com

Probably the best critique of the limits of minimal computing for thinking about energy. Hard to disagree with. If you ask me, minicomp focuses on solving small problems and painting with a thin brush. The big ones might require what @javiercha.bsky.social et al propose here—inter alia.

Now available to read online. Here's my chapter, on Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...

I still insist that whoever becomes the first Anti-AI university will have record demand, and their graduates will most likely ride out the AI maelstrom better in the long term. It's so low-hanging fruit, it's embarrassing that no one has done it.

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Well, at least we knew the point of this match was prolonged suffering

I told you it'd be Raya

Current situation at The Irishman, Paris. 0-1. Ready to run! 🫣🫣🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Esto es de David Raya. Vamos!!!

Take a break and slide into the weekend with the May issue of #ReviewsInDH, brought to you by @jenguiliano.bsky.social & yours truly. Tibetan historical figures! The history of sex work! Black student protests in higher ed! We have it all. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n5

"Without trust that we won’t be disciplined or harassed for our speech, we can’t offer the best education to our students or do our best research or best contribute to public debates." -Amy Kapczynski, John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and AAUP Yale Executive Cmte member

🎵 "Everybody knows the boat is leaking, everybody knows the captain lied..." 🎵 #yalereport yaledailynews.com/articles/in-...

Endorsement or no, come out and canvass for @darializaforny.bsky.social