OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

A reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual discussion with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM in two weeks. Registration below!

Can’t wait for my swing through the UK to talk about queer women in Nazi Germany

“Melania, on the other hand — a new documentary about Melania Trump, wife of President Donald Trump — is more like Triumph of the Shill” 😂 www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Proofs! I’ve been working on this material for years. I’m thrilled that it’s seeing the light of day in Journal of Contemporary History. It asks what ordinary Germans made of the democratization imposed on them by the Allies, analyzing the paradox that democratization is fundamentally undemocratic.

Every time I despair that the democrats are the most incompetent, feckless center left party in the world, I remind myself that U.K. Labour exists

Every time you opt out of a democratic fundraising email, they send you two new ones.

This disturbing logic (which seems to suggest that if someone commits a crime then they deserve whatever happens to them) is, unfortunately, nothing new -- it was the exact same logic used by the postwar German government to deny reparations claims of survivors and their next of kin.

Did not realize my job made me qualified to nominate folks for the Nobel! 😳

The murder of unarmed civilians is nothing short of evil. But a single election isn’t going to clean out the rot in our system that is allowing these murders to take place with impunity.

Spotted in the wild! Register for a virtual conversation with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

Advance reader’s copies of I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU have arrived!!! If you’re interested in reviewing it shoot me a DM.

Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The addressee of Dr. Peterson's email, Dr. Sweet, who was the conduit of these complaints. You cannot make this stuff up. The cowardice of so many academics just blows my mind. 😭 Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.

Come to Texas A&M where we’ve stamped out the woke gender ideology of *squints* Plato

What are we even doing here

I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social

Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh... www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/ utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Forcing AI on students will create a generation of functionally illiterate and innumerate adults.

Christmas came early! I’m blown away by the endorsements for I Will Not Abandon You. It’s a gift to have such generous colleagues.

Grades are DONE

I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk

Anyone who promises to actually enforce traffic laws as DC mayor gets my vote. I’m sick and tired of having to worry as a pedestrian and cyclist if some crazed driver is going to blast through a red light.

I give monthly. It's a treasure.

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

I’ve actually experienced the opposite over the last year or so — students being very diligent about showing up, asking questions, studying for exams, and so forth. It’s still a struggle to get them to read much for class, but in my experience it’s not worse now than it was five years ago.

From a student essay: “After World War I, Germany was a hot mess.” Yes, yes it was.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Irrelevant detail given the grotesqueries they reveal, but it is sending me that every single one of these Epstein emails is marked high impotence

I’ve just officially signed to become one of the next co-editors of Journal of Social history!

Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30. @conteurohistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm always delighted to hear from @schuneke.bsky.social whose research remains alarmingly pertinent. Thanks to him for writing about Weimar with nuance, political violence, and the portents to pay attention to these days. time.com/7321664/poli...

I wrote about what the Weimar Republic tell us about political violence: time.com/7321664/poli...

excellent placement 😬

The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social

Come listen to @ankahajkova.bsky.social and me discuss her new book on queer people in the Holocaust!

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

Sex and the Church, by @schuneke.bsky.social

I had a great conversation with @schuneke.bsky.social yesterday about his recent article in The Baffler "The Fruits of Rank." It is baffling, but historical. AND, it leads to a huge opportunity for the Left. Give it a watch. thebaffler.com/latest/the-f... youtu.be/NPQIObgpYYs?...

For @fxnewsletter.bsky.social I got to review Diarmaid MacCulloch’s monumental new history of sex and Christianity!

The proofs have landed 🎉

My review essay for Archiv für Sozialgeschichte is out!! 20k words taking stock of where queer German history is and where it is going. DM if you’d like the pdf (it will be available open access only after a year).

If you rolled your eyes at the New York Times’s reporting on the GOP gays of Washington, DC, you’ll love my take in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

We took a DEEP dive into fascism yesterday on the show with @schuneke.bsky.social. How do we even describe MAGA? And given US LGBTQ history, is it accurate to describe MAGA as a *return* to a fascism? I could talk to Sam for days. podfollow.com/the-gaily-show www.youtube.com/live/Qe_ffkv...