Tr*mp benefits because he is not expected to be empathetic. In fact, his cruelty is expected and seen as par for the course. This is true for GOP politicians for the most part. Other politicians are held to a different standard. Mamdani (for ex) must DEMONSTRATE care for feelings at all times...

My thoughts are that if data are sourced and presented by a company with a financial stake in a particular interpretation of those data, they should be treated as public relations material until verified by independent researchers, however plausible the findings might seem.

Did you check out The Polish Review 70.4? Contributors include Ola Sidorkiewicz ( @ox.ac.uk ), @zacharymazur.bsky.social , Wanda Dzwigala ( @utoronto.ca ), Michał Schwabe ( @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social ), and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/issu...

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Incredible lol

I think that some of you are mostly venting. And I get it. But venting is not organizing. And I'm sorry but I don't think people know how to get 10s of millions of people to do anything besides voting in this country.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

everyone knows that Starbucks workers are on strike and until there's a contract, don't buy anything there, right?!?!

I think every university needs to institute a policy requiring either a Human Intelligence seal on all grants and publications. And everybody who gets caught with a hallucinated reference gets fired.

#MCWrapped25 Und ebenfalls in Mai gab es noch das virtuelle Panel "Nazi Concentration Camps: New Research on Jewish Prisoners" vom Western Galilee College, wo ich einen kleinen Rundumschlag zur #HASAG und dem #Holocaust beisteuern durfte. Das gibt's hier anzusehen:

No one is reading long form. The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.

At DAIR, we have heard MANY AFT members who are very pissed about this. Several large locals have passed state resolutions against the national AI center. There are several open letters, including this one: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kelly Hayes' work is a lifeline. I'm a paid subscriber & hope you join my ranks.

one of the major problems with our political system is that in liberal world u need four Harvard degrees to even so much as touch a campaign trail meanwhile in right wing world it basically takes less than nothing for a simple lumpen-grifter to ascend to chud Valhalla

In case people were wondering how Brown’s $50 million dollar bribe to Trump that threw trans people under the bus was working out for them

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There's a bizarre sleight of hand here where professors resisting implementing AI into the classroom via ed-tech (a very winnable battle) is being equated with making all Gen AI "go away" (a much bigger fight).

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Pittsburgh blocked parts of the Justice Department’s invasive subpoena seeking personally identifiable information about those minor transgender patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who are or have received gender-affirming medical care.

When Ojibwe harvest wild rice, they sing to it. Gratitude before taking. The rice grows better next year. Science can't explain it. The elders can. Everything you take without gratitude eventually becomes poison. Everything you bless multiplies. Ancient physics. Via @projectkim on Threads

nativenewsonline.net/opinion/nati... “One hundred percent of maternal deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native women were found to be preventable.”

Thank you for this, Karen Nelson--there is so much more to Sherman's project than preserving "tradition"-- lots about recovering relations to the more-than-human--

Belarus-- political prisoner release in exchange for weight loss drugs for Lukashenko? www.wsj.com/world/belaru...

Belarus-- political prisoner release in exchange for weight loss drugs for Lukashenko? www.wsj.com/world/belaru...

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Excited to announce that McMaster Humanities is looking to recruit established international researchers to our institution. Please see the following link for details of the government of Canada’s Impact+ program and reach out to me if you are interested. www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/2025/12/22/m...

My first year on the job market, someone said I must be getting a lot of job offers because I’m a woman. They were shocked to learn all the jobs I interviewed for went to white men that year (5 in total, not all TT).

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

Habt einen gemütlichen Sonntag

Great in-depth Article in NY Times today about Netanyahu regime backing Israeli settlers who are driving Christian and Muslim Palestinians from their land to create Jewish only settlements. Ethnic cleansing in real time: Here is gift link to read: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."

This would be about as useful as simply reading the summary on the back of the book. AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.

if i'm being honest i'm not really sure how we reckon with the fact that every republican under 30 is one of the boys from brazil

An important text by Marina Solntseva on what anticoloniality and solidarity is not, and the mattering of indigenous lives in each and every context. Glad to see a link to our text with Selbi Durdiyeva that critically analyses selective anti-imperialism on the left berlinergazette.de/why-russias-...

Pitch it as a mix of the presidential library funding AND support for the existing university library which is constantly getting its budget cut to the bone. Then talk about how important libraries are.

We're at it for the next few hours. Last minute gifts, handmade, by angry queers. Many around $20, free US shipping over $25. www.peculiarityshop.com

UC Berkeley’s Austrian Studies Program seeks a Visiting Professor to teach the 5-week Botstiber Compact Seminar in Spring 2027. Topics on Austrian lit, history, or culture welcome. For More Information, see the Link Below: ies.berkeley.edu/austrian/bot...

My story from May in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social: Why isn't anyone investigating the child sexual abuse scandal being revealed in lawsuits against Maryland's juvenile detention system? baltimorebeat.com/thousands-of...

The French really love bandes dessinées (comics). Here is Le Sympathisant, written by Antoine Ozanam, illustrated by Jai Baek, colors by Greg Guilhaumond, from Phileas. It's huge and beautiful and I thought it was spectacular.

I loved the love in this

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Maryland tenant friends -- if you're facing eviction, you may be able to seek assistance through the Community Schools Rental Assistance Program. Go here for more information: econaction.org/tenant-advoc...