Dad, what were you lyke yn the 1390s? Well:

I need them to take Elon with them though...

BREAKING: Pete Kegstand IGNORED the CENTCOM chief and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs opposition to GUTTING offices that limit civilian casualties, calling them "stupid." He fired and replaces all opposed. Politico with the exclusive: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

If you're wondering how AI managed to render a building consistently from two angles, it's easy: the building is unchanged, that's just the literal Kennedy Center. It didn't get the plantings consistent, of course, because it was making those up.

📢 I’ll be at Yale University giving a 3-lecture series on the origin, concept, and practice of Africanjujuism. I’ll discuss masquerades (mmụọ), Nsibidi, the role being Naijamerican played, and the overlap of the mystical and mundane.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

My fellow Catholics, learn from the past. Also, even if you aren’t a potential target, CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. Live God, love your neighbor. All are our neighbors.

And some people refuse to call PhDs “doctor”! Or refuse to call people of color and women “doctor.” Don’t be one of those people.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

“i can help with michigan,” Epstein wrote. “i=dont want your money.” (Narrator: he could not help with Michigan.)

i genuinely do not understand why *anyone* would want a phd if they're trying to outsource their thinking to claude. like, there are no jobs, no work-life balance, no resources (for most of us), and the work gets tougher every year. the thinking is the only fun part, i promise.

Officer suffering anxiety attack given ambulance intended for shooting victim. “A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took the first one that arrived..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Link to a search for "Can this be a solution?" I am cackling.

Answer: any of the dozens digitized and online in October 2023 that are not yet available again in March, 2026. Anger aimed at: 1) the lack of legislation of crypto that directly enabled the attack and 2) the shoddy funding of a national library that directly resulted in insecure digital footprint

How it’s playing in France. 🤡

He claims that he was qualified to terminate grants because he had read books. "What books would you have read that would have informed your opinion?" "There were no books."

Has … anyone whose NEH wasn’t canceled? Anyone who subsequently got funding? … been willing to go on record and talk about it? My email is Lollardfish at gmail if you’d like to.

Here's the link: niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h.... Deadline for applications: 31 March 2026.

Can confirm: best thynge evir. I sometimes teach from these, and I'm constantly recommending them to students who want to read more. And yes, I just realized: I don't say often enough that I HAVE STUDENTS WHO WANT TO READ MORE. With all the bad things happening, I still see much good.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Can this be a solution?

My column this week speaks to this point that Trump is plainly incapable in acting in a way that isn’t self-destructive. (gift link)

Can you imagine what we could do with $11.3 billion for healthcare? Or education? Or housing? Of course, $11.3 billion wouldn't solve all the problems. But remember: that's just the first week, and we're about to finish the second.

Marco Rubio used to be my senator. I did not want him to continue to be my senator, but I wanted even less for him to be Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, U.S. Archivist and Head of USAID. I would not have wanted him to be ANY of those things.

What. The fuck. Trump wants to institutionalize homeless veterans. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

That’s one of the guys in part 2 of Carmina Burana.

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

This Companion is excellent! If you teach Chaucer at all, ever, you should look!

That ys me yn the corner That ys me yn the spot lighte puttinge lyke fyve paragraphs of texte on an individual powerpoynte slyde

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

I'm still trying to figure out how to check. I will definitely be using this term!

Grateful to Alice Jorgensen and JEGP for this lovely review of my first book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Full bibliography for the talk is now posted: doi.org/10.17613/xex...

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

@umich.edu Center for American Dialogue inaugural panel. Or rather the Center for White Americans who mildly disagree with each other. this would have been unthinkable a year ago, and it’s heartbreaking how quickly my university has fallen

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

My best hope changes today making sure people know that in all the ways their lives are getting worse, Republicans are doing it on purpose.

We can all guess what kinds of people they will and won't hire with the new "hiring push"

Years of teaching material here!

I listened to this for minutes. I think normally I'd have shriveled up and died in sympathetic shame, but I have no sympathy for this man. I want to remember his name. We should not forget what he did. He should never have a job that gives him power over people.

Good thread (on something I tend to forget myself):

holy shit

24.5 trombones led the big parade With 43 corners close behind - Metric Music Man

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

"distance between the battlefield and the living room has been drastically reduced. The moral crisis we are facing is not just a matter of the war itself, but also how we, the observers, view violence, for war now has become a spectator sport or strategy game." www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

GIFT LINK

To mark International Women's Day, meet Lt Cmdr. Madeleine Barclay. First Officer on HMS Fidelity. To my knowledge, the first woman to officially serve as First Officer on a Royal Navy vessel deployed on combat duty. Achieving this involved a three-way war between Navy, SOE and the WRNS /1 🧵 #IWD

Your Data Will Be Used Against You (and not just by ICE/CPB). All these technologies will make their way to ordinary law enforcement.