When you want to give fascist zillionaires a squillion pounds for dreck, but you aren’t sure how to go about doing it

Glad someone else thought this too. This is pretty much the green dress from the 2005 P&P, plus all its hand / nature / morning tropes.

New forecast from EPRI: data centers will consume 9% to 17% of U.S. electricity by 2030, up from 4% to 5% today. This is a 60% increase from last year's projection. Under existing policies, "incremental [power] supply is dominated by natural gas." powering-intelligence.epri.com

The long 2010s are finally over

The nicest thing about a snow day, and working while the college is officially closed, is that it's a snowbody bothering me day and I get more done.

a friend of mine posted this to me on facebook, god bless her...

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

So lemme tell you about @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance, which came out last year and absolutely blew me away. I'd replace half the 1st-year curriculum with this book. Reading it made me a better historian, and also the kind of person who underlines books. Plus, it's hilarious.

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean

Did you see this? I chose the decade of my late teens / early 20s too!

“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage. There was no answer.

Holy shit. This is extremely relevant -- like, it's eerie how relevant -- to a story called "Lily the Immortal" by Kyile Lee Baker, that I narrated for It's Storytime last week.

Heathcliff is only written as 'dark'. In Bronte's day, that could have applied to Roma, black Irish, Welsh, Mediterranean, north African, western Asian, Indian, Black, and many more. Jacob Elordi is half Basque, a Spanish ethnic minority that would have been called 'dark' in Yorkshire.

Judging by the sound from the dudes in the apartment next door, something significant just happened in the Super Bowl

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1911 Mourning ensemble with hat and veil and muff. “The Grace that Lacks any Harshness of Line Makes Mourning Distinctive.”

Look at Norma Shearer in this get up. An absolute scorching knock out. From The Sketch, 1925.

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Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify, it may be 39 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

Reform genuinely out here arguing Suella Braverman can’t have a mental health condition because *checks notes* she’s well-educated and has a successful career. Try again, lads. Your bigotry is showing.

ARTE

Late Afternoon On The Wolds. 4°C and heading home. Blackbirds in hedges.

My take on this in NYC is that people have suddenly realised they can't order anything in on Sunday and will have to cook for themselves.

"Newly filed internal documents show how Google viewed its work with schools as a way of turning children into lifelong customers..." www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

As our Bluebells wake it’s worth pointing out the rules 1 - Bluebells ring when fairies summon their kin. But if a human hears them your death will follow 2 - It is considered unwise to trample on bluebells, because you would anger the resting fairies & your death will follow

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

#QueerEye is going hard for its final season, and I'm here for it.

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Huge news for our understanding of Australian archaeology! theconversation.com/humanitys-ol... "... the people who made these hand stencils ... were very likely part of the population that would later cross the sea and become the ancestors of Indigenous Australians"

New York is cold but I like where I'm living.

My part time job is now authenticating myself by multi-factors.

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

An excellent exhibit display and a reminder to make sure your library has a copy of The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives! Fashion history! Organization history! CRIMES! This book is FULL OF POCKETS.

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If only there was a luggage rack.

Why Viking clothing was so bold and colourful www.medievalists.net/2024/01/viki... #vikings

Not sure whether to let a lovely local organisation know that an upcoming speaker's talk is 1) completely based on someone else's book and 2) that book is wildly inaccurate.

Women in Melbourne wear so many more dresses than Sydney women. I haven't seen this many in summer since London.

Well here's an incredibly niche product - a reproduction French artist's smock. #DressHistory

There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education. It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.

true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

No one expects a Spanish Exhibition!

How does Good King Wencelas like his pizza? Deep pan, crisp and even.

these three ghosts could've been an email

At Harvard’s Houghton Library, I found a letter with salt crusted onto it. When I read the letter, I realized it was the guy’s dried tears because the letter was about the death of his young daughter