seriously, get rid of your crap

Thanks @asianstudies.org staff for putting on a great #aas2026 in beautiful Vancouver! So delightful as always to see friends like @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @xiaoshuoing.com @devinfitz.bsky.social @dcporter.bsky.social @tristangbrown.bsky.social @matthewmosca.bsky.social @jeffweng.bsky.social!

Super excited to discussant for this panel tmrw! Thank you @damiandamiani.bsky.social for inviting me. #aas2026

Very moving memorial panel for Prof. Janet Theiss, a sore loss to #qinghistory #genderhistory here at #aas2026 w a wonderful roster including Profs. Tobie Meyer-Fong, Paola Zamperini, Stephanie Painter, Wen-hsin Yeh, and Maram Epstein. What an exemplar of the generosity w which we should live.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

an entire administration illustrating the pitfalls of binary gender roles and vilifying drag

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Well, that Reading Week break went by quick.

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.

It's so little, too little, but little has got to be better than nothing... chuffed.org/project/1368...

I don’t believe the whole “shut up and vote” thing is compelling or helpful but it sure as shit is definitely not helpful until a primary happens and there’s a nominee. Right now those people are just saying “accept transphobic shithead governors without question”

We’re apparently at the point where anonymous Facebook smack talk that exactly nobody is going to follow through on counts as news.

Alternative view: no they're not

5 years married, disgustingly happy, horrifyingly lucky. 🥰

Just so delighted to get out this much this summer. There must be flowers as well as bread. 🌹🥖

hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says “oh shit that was just not true” in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court???

Another beautiful weekend in and on top of some mountains. Reminds me of why it’s all worth fighting for.

Back on my BS (blue sky) after a month in Asia. Will never get tired of having Rocky Mountain NP in our backyard

the republic has fallen

so the Signal clone that Michael Waltz used was made by an Israeli company and some hacker found it trivially easy to own. in fuckin credible www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I think there’s some college students who would disagree that the president believes we can “say whatever the f*ck you want”

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history: 興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦 “Rise: the little people suffer. Fall: the little people suffer.”

🎻: spent hours today trying to move 6k mp3s from my ancient laptop using iTunes (yes, by not upgrading the OS for 4 yrs) to new (to me, 2ndhand) iPhone. Best option for Mac/iOS is Doppler. 1-time payment, $39 to hook up a phone + up to 3 computers. Enshittified subscription-based apps are evil.

✊ desperately need in Toronto too.

The reason for the season:

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

I dressed up like this as soon as I'd seen the book cover

this would be encouraging if I weren't so skeptical of the ability of the Institutions That Be to stand firm, make noise, and stare them down.

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

Love to know about history

Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.

It’s very “only Nixon could go to China,” in the sense that Democrats who call for general strikes and say “abolish ICE” are scolded by a broad swath of other Democrats and journalists, but when Brooks or Kristol say it, they’re treated seriously.

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Ezra Klein, 2010s: President Obama has no power to do anything, and liberals saying he does believe in a fantastical “Green Lantern Theory” that is false Ezra Klein, now: President Biden shoulda moved even faster than he did, because presidents can do anything

I mean it goes without saying that they are just lying about this. My boss told me “AI is going to be what gets us to UBI” as though the thing holding us back is technology rather than political will. It’s a child promising to do their homework if you let them play videogames for hours first

The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries. It was the largest one-day jump ever.

a lot of you seem to have a view of the typical american servicemember that has more in common with some dystopian YA novel than it does the men and women who actually volunteer to serve this country

The typical pattern (nearly universal) is consultants come in, enhance/confirm admins' fixation on program and personnel cuts as the Only Solution, lay waste to the uni, collect a giant check, and leave. And a few years out, those places are still limping along, as precarious as they were before.

Headed up to Buffalo to speak at the SUNY “AI” conference about use in health and I’m gonna bet dollars to donuts in the only one whose presentation is “don’t” LLMs are a good tool in health and PH in a very narrow use case: brute force data collection and giant data pattern identification

I think I’m going to be thinking about this quote from Gordon Hirabayshi on the walls of the museum for a long time.

Thankful for our little old Steve in these bad times. #catsofbluesky

You know The Economy is real when trillions of dollars can move up and down based on a tweet of a made-up quote

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

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