Amen

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

They shut-up-and-dribbled the pope

A functioning democracy is a gift to be guarded jealously, protected fiercely and never taken for granted www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

This is superb—esp the climate change, hammer, and gun analogies!

My senator is cool with war crimes 😑

One Belichick = four Scaramuccis

Was there anyone in the meeting brave enough to say “Yeah, people are going to call us the PhArt Museum, right?”

everything is terrible, but at least it's all really fucking stupid too

This is pretty common across several books I’ve been reading/re-reading: Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts Anita Lobel, No Pretty Pictures Elie Wiesel, Night Hanna Krall, Shielding the Flame The Stroop Report

Very useful—for here in PA and across the country 👇🏼

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

The reason a hillbilly scholarship kid like me got a great public education at William & Mary was because they invested in teachers, not bullshit computer magic. I guess that has changed.

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Will absolutely do my part to help launch this guy’s senate career into the sun.

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Been saying it for awhile now. I have assigned this in 3 consec semesters tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

Reading through this as I’m about to engage my university’s faculty survey on GenAI in teaching. Woooo buddy “defense of actual education” is challenging in the face of the AI cult of inevitability.

“Professor Monsignor”

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

Gives permission to do a lot of GWoT-style damage.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Told my lecture class today that the New Deal's National Recovery Administration's "Blue Eagle" logo inspired the owner of the Philadelphia football team to rename the franchise as the Eagles. Voice from the back of the lecture hall: "Go Birds!"

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Robert Pape has been begging for this for a decade. He needs to phrase it this way.

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Years ago I scrapped more structured sessions, moved lectures to recordings available online, and built class time not around "debate" but at least offering students provocative things to read, putting some context around the provocation, and then encouraging them to express their own ideas in class

It's so crazy that you can monger both war and fish.

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

I've been listening to Long Shadow, which is Garrett's podcast about 9/11, and it's first rate narrative history. Garrett is our best chronicler of that day.

Secretary Seuss

This person should try 5 in a day, 2 campuses.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Yep. Burn it to the ground.

A superb read before you tune into tonight’s 🦅 game!

On Friday Miller called this guy an expert in public health so y’all can just take it from there.

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

This is an inevitable byproduct of automation. The AI boosters have been selling us that deskilling in some areas will result in upskilling in others, but we have no evidence of this. We don't even have a particularly good theory. We have salesmanship B.S.

Absolute 🔥

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Catching up a bit, so backtracking to highlight this superb thread, worth reading every day

Cars, like guns and the internet, tell us that other people aren’t real. The subway, bikes, books tell us that other people are real, the basis of community and a new imaginative horizon

“We are using money for the wrong stuff.” Then and now.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes