The cloud isn't floating in the sky; it consumes massive amounts of local water and power. Tech companies need to solve their energy greed before expanding further.

What two tier racist policy looks like

Diocesan Museum of Cortona - Fra Angelico, Luca Signorelli, and Giorgio Vasari.

I agree with Margot. "Ironically" should be "predictably."

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

I love the single footnote on this artcle and hope to shamelessly appropriate it at an appropriate moment. "I hate that I even have to bring this up."

Some heads at the Archaeological Museum of Capri, located at the former Charterhouse [Certosa] Monastery. Remarkable exhibition. [Drusus the Elder, Athena, Apollo, "An African"]

The fact that health inspectors weren’t allowed in gives cause to shut it down. Force the confrontation. Private security is running the joint. Arrest them.

The poll shows that trust in historians has risen since 2017, up from 71% to 77% - ranking the profession third after nurses and doctors for the trustworthiness of their expertise: bit.ly/49I9NV7 2/4 #Skystorians

Late night Sorrento.

Call for Proposals! I’m co-editing a collection on “The Extractive Midwest” with @brianleechphd.bsky.social, Jeff Schramm, and Sarah Mittlefehldt. We seek 300-500 word abstracts for book chapters between 6,000-8,000 words (not including notes). Send us your submissions before August 30, 2026!

Palazzo Publico in Siena.

Part of Diocletian's Baths that was used for a Planetarium for much of the 20th Century. (currently in Italy on a big family holiday)

"Reading the New York Times does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves." By Michal -- There, I fixed it.

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

Completely wild. "Under the terms of the agreement released by the Justice Department, a group of five people selected by the attorney general will oversee the $1.776 billion compensation fund" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

I guess this means he can do it as often as he likes.

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

Trump is funding another insurrection with American tax dollars.

I read recently an article that said that CDs are coming back. For me they never went away. I got this haul of discs in a Kalamazoo Library Used Book sale for just $5.

Ridiculous that in 2026, there are only men representing these 2 superpowers.

Leadership comes from the top. No surprise that Pete Hegseth made a last-minute decision to cancel the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland, catching Pentagon staff and European allies by surprise. He changes his mind as often as Trump switches tariffs.

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

MeidasTouch: What grade would you give Trump on the war with Iran? Sen. Marshall (R-KS): I would have to give him an A.

"BYD is coming to Canada, Volvo is pulling its EV out of the US, and Kia is launching a cheap EV that won’t be available in the US. Trump has cemented us as a technological backwater" - @markgongloff.bsky.social cleantechnica.com/2026/03/17/b...

Wrenish in Kalamazoo: Stetson Chapel (on the Kalamazoo College campus): where yesterday I heard a remarkable by the virtuous virtuoso Marc-Andrè Hamelin. Here in KaZoo for the Gilmore Piano Festival.

“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”

Andrea Kowch, b. Detroit in 1986.

So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.

A bit of Kansas in Michigan. John Stuart Curry's Tornado at the Muskegon Museum of Art.

Clearly the only way to protect voters and defend democracy is to reject anything that was decided democratically by the voters themselves

"Jews and Black people" is how you say "cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers" in English.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

Confirmed! For the first time in more than a decade, for a Final Exam in an Intro course I had students write an in-class essay using a Blue Book. And I found that most students generally have good handwriting!

'Die Zeit has described an extraordinary response from the public, reflecting intense interest in unearthing long-buried family secrets more than eight decades after the end of the second world war.' 1/2

My dad was a theater professor and his mantra was always that college is for learning how to learn. I have an MA in medieval lit and work as a software developer.