I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028. Here's a link for $10 off premium. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Our 2nd talk of the fall term will take place on Oct. 24. We very much look forward to welcoming @andreloez.bsky.social for his talk, "Unsettled voters. Invalid ballots in the first elections by universal male suffrage in France"

Wonderful opportunity for scholars, activists, and artists engaging with early Black presences in Europe🗃️

Loved this book - congrats to Jack (and @yalepress.bsky.social)!

Share widely! We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026! The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website! frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social

FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)

Fascinating work of Dr. Sara Caputo will be discussed online next Weds evening (6:30pm London time)! My #posthumanistic research has been quite inspired by her views on the #tracks on the water and on #seacharts. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #HakluytSociety #maritimehistory

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

They didn't tell us they were going to slash the post office because they knew we wouldnt vote for that. Ergo, they shouldnt be doing it.

Please join us (in person) this afternoon!

🇫🇷 #18C 🗃️

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

As always, today's a great day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, play an indie game, go to a live theater show. You can also leave a nice comment, post a review, signal boost someone's work. Everything helps.

“Kimmel's return is a vindication for free speech... When people speak out to hold the powerful to account—it matters. We must all channel the same energy to fight the many assaults on free speech underway, including against those with less reach & resources"—Summer Lopez, PEN America interim Co-CEO

I've deleted my academia.edu. The new ToCs were totally unacceptable.

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

The lost building style I find most nostalgic is the rope-walk. In maritime cities like colonial Boston, huge sailing ships needed literal tons of very long rope. Rope had to be made all at once, in a straight line. So covered, protected rope-walks multiple city-blocks long were built to make them.

I don’t know how trans people are surviving in this climate. the efforts of the right to demonize & politicize their existence are terrifying & inexcusable. I will continue to fight for their representation, protection, & rights because they are human beings & that is enough.

💅 #HistArchives rather smashing it in the #EarlyModern. #YayArchives!

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800. www.nacbs.org/news/stansky... @uchicagopress.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

okay so we lost the Women’s Center AND the QuOffice AND UMRP??? it’s always been cringe to be an alum but I really do believe in the power and possibilities of a Harvard undergraduate education and it’s just been unbearable to watch them sabotage so many of the spaces that made mine better

#maritimehist #navalhistory

A grant I've been filling out has a budget item for "research cruises." I know they mean disciplines like marine biology BUT what if the best way for me to visit my archives is a luxury cruise around the world? Can that be an exercise in oceanic/global history? Please? 🗃️

We’re being hit from every angle—enrollment pressures, budget pressures, course cap battles, acad freedom, attacks on unions. TT faculty are pitted against contingent faculty, who are pitted against staff. We are not each other’s enemy. We need to fight for each/all of us if we’re gonna survive.

My cat protecting me from The Horrors as I try to work

A scribe’s wonderfully chaotic office, painted by Mattheus van Helmont of Antwerp. Today is his day.

🇫🇷 #18C 🗃️

Register here munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/search... & share with your networks, s.v.p.!

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner, the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

For the past eight years, I’ve been working on a project that connects maritime history to a library assembled by merchant Stephen Girard. His vessel the ROUSSEAU, seen here, reflects his cheeky approach to naming ships for controversial philosophes. #maritimehistory #bookhistory #libraryhistory

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 Edited by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, & Henrique Leitão www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Available for download as #OpenAccess - admin.library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Why do university boards of govs keep agreeing to these ill-founded, detrimental restructuring plans?

The 'reorganization' being planned at Waterloo looks like a complete disaster. Coming soon to a collapsing university system near you!

The Ontario Government is presenting cuts to universities as a pro-labour measure—but real support for workers means strengthening public education, not weakening it.

And it's live! www.history21.com/owit-module/...

Pro tip: for a First, you want to argue pretty much the opposite of what the AI is telling you.

As the fall term starts, here is the 2025-26 schedule of French History talks, all in-person this year. Please spread the word and plan to join us in Toronto! (More details will be posted munkschool.utoronto.ca/events/) 🗃️ #frenchhist