my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

Look, the real problem is not one of weaponry but Caesar letting both Antonius and Brutus assume that they were his Apprentice when of course he already had a secret Apprentice in the form of Gaius Octavius. Also, Ysalimiri had been banned in the Senate since Sulla.

I'm frankly sick of this kind of ahistorical misinformation. Droidekas, while well-shielded against energy weapons, are notoriously vulnerable to melée weapons at close quarters. Actually Caesar should have used Ysalimiri to disable Brutus's and Cassius's force powers

today, 11/06! Book launch at NYU *Decolonizing Afghanistan* (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2025 )with MATTHIEU AIKINS, WAZHMAH OSMAN, ZOHRA SAED, MORWARI ZAFAR! Come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZG...

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

they know, they spent most of 2024 calling us kapos and trying to get us fired or worse

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

"They should be fighting with us. They don't see the federal administration as a threat — they see us as a threat. They don't see negotiating with bad-faith actors as an existential threat to this university and to education in general — they see us talking to each other as a threat."

"'Here we are, fighting for this university, and we have to fight against the university in the form of this administration,' Hock told a cheering crowd."

Mamdani’s win marks a rejection of the consistently Islamophobic weaponization of antisemitism. Diehard support for the Zionist project is, finally, not a sine qua non of New York City leadership... @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/04/z...

Our haters will NOT be our waiters at the table of success because in Zohran’s New York we do not see service work as degrading. Also because we don’t want to be around them

New discovery: A #bakery was unearthed in the Roman town of Sisapo, Spain. The town was part of a major economic center linked to mining in the Sierra Morena region. The bakery occupied a large complex of over 200 m² with five rooms, including a large circular oven, milling areas with stone ...🧵1/2

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

Off to Scotland! Social media hiatus begins now, see you when I see you

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

A clear vision of an ethical university. One that all university leaders should notice.

Good morning from the lion in the margin Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.64r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

habemus praesidentem 🏛️💨

This is the Western Alaska animal nonprofit working to rescue the pets in Kipnuk. The residents of Kipnuk are under a mandatory evac order but can not bring their pets with them. Supporting this group will help with charter aircraft, etc. www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

In light of the fact that students protested the university's participation in genocide, Cole argues that the university should reinstate disciplined students, ask NYC to drop criminal charges, and reopen campus gates to the public. All very reasonable points.

Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

"Glancing backward, we will find that students are most often on the right side of history." So much here that needed to be said—from Columbia professor and provost emeritus and scholar of the American university Jonathan R. Cole ’64CC, ’69GSAS.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Every student and faculty member now organizing against the ‘compact’ was paying attention when Ivies folded early for Trump and have correctly ascertained that without pressure their boards will be inclined to do the same

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

A British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation. John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, barrister and nurse, received no explanation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry: “I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.” “If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

This UVA rally — which is sponsored by student, faculty, & staff groups — will protest the Trump regime's efforts to take over American universities & demand that UVA not cooperate, as it did this summer. Friday, noon, at the Rotunda. C-ville community members are encouraged to attend.

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

“There is no place in American higher education for death threats against professors,” Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors and a Rutgers faculty member, said in a statement. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

a poem

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

Jairo Fúnez is a professor of curriculum studies at Texas Tech University. He was suspended after a campaign by rightwing media & a weaponized Title VI complaint over private social media posts. He received overwhelming outside support, offering key lessons on collective organizing & solidarity.

book bindings on both sides. people keep prying them open from the right side and snooping around. mind your own business

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

I’m a doctoral student at TXST. The feeling on campus is worse than you imagine. Faculty afraid to speak, grad students feel like they could lose their entire futures if they draw the university president’s ire, undergrads openly worrying about the complete loss of a fundamental right.

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Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

One effect of 'AI' is that it actually atrophies our stores of information and knowledge. Explain to me how this is progress 🫠

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Shameful on the part of my alma mater. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Fun to see @davidklion.bsky.social for the first time. Didn't know he went to college with Bari Weiss. Unsure which one is the other's Wario.