This point and many of the responses to it also illustrated why we're seeing so many politicians in general, and state legislatures specifically, trying to exert control over what is taught in college now too - they don't trust teachers at any level.

And there it is, Nathiya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt. After today’s drop, Raman is certain to head to the general election runoff in November for Mayor of Los Angeles, offering a pro-housing and urbanist option for voters. The remaining ballots are trending strongly for her.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion.

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

We will be back in your mailboxes for the inaugural installment of Rhea Receptions in a month, but in the meantime check out this article thinking through paying (article) reviewers as academic labor! It's the entire model of which Rhea runs 😎

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“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Mikie Sherrill campaigned on "I'm a tough military pilot who isn't afraid of Trump and will stand up to Trump!" The first time she's tested, she works with ICE to beat up her own citizens. And her backers explain "she's working with Trump STRATEGICALLY, because she's scared of Trump." OK, got it.

🚨💣🏛️🩸ISRAEL JUST BOMBED TYRE'S ANTIQUITIES AREA! 📸 from a clip recorded in the site's ancient hippodrome area. Source (shared w permission): www.instagram.com/stories/nell...

Are we mostly at summer break yet? Relax into the fun books you've been meaning to read all year but never quite had time for. Start with this one 👇 Martha Shillaker reviews "J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics" by Hamish Williams (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 2023)

Today, Carrie Schroeder reviews Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri's Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/26/working-with-manuscripts-a-guide-for-textual-scholars

What if taxing the rich works?

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

"We don't have money to fund public education."

"The data on 2.9 million Albertans was loaded onto an app built with US funding, shaped by US political strategists, and deployed by a Canadian separatist organizer who spent nearly two years cultivating US partners before launching the Centurion Project."

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Kat Abughazaleh has the chance to do the funniest thing

///BREAKING/// The feds are DISMISSING all remaining counts in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case days before trial, marking the final collapse of what had been one of the marquee criminal cases to come out of Operation Midway Blitz. Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/07/b...

The framing here - “graduates booed b/c worried about job prospects” - is reductionistic. No, I think the boos also reflect students’ ethical sensibilities about what “AI” and its aggressive rollout represent: corporate greed, environmental destruction, & dehumanizing exploitation, to name a few.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Oh wow, amazing, thanks for telling us what medieval people had for lunch Al....

Ancient Roman footwear exhibition at Bata Shoe Museum offers a glimpse into Roman life - The Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

A stunning crocodile 🐊 mummy mask with traces of its original paint still visible and eyes inlaid with glass, which initially contributed to a lifelike gaze. From Egypt, Roman Period, 1st or 2nd century AD. Crocodile mummies are closely associated with the cult of Sobek, in which...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

I mean, to state the obvious (…but sadly, apparently not so obvious to many of education’s gatekeepers who’s job is to, well, guard the gates)

“AI Literacy” and “Ethical AI” are marketing slogans serving as Trojan horses for the colonization and ultimate ransacking of the education sector.

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Apparently this just happened TODAY. If you search here for the keywords, it's RAMPANT.

What voters want vs. what they get

"[T]he real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context.” More details on a find of some of the Iliad with a Roman-era mummy. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

NEW: Orthodox Christians in Gaza celebrated Easter at the Church of St. Porphyrius amidst an atmosphere of prayer, faith, and resilience despite Israel’s war and siege on Gaza that has prevented them from reaching Jerusalem for the Holy Week of festivities. [Video]

yeah the math ain't mathing but fun fact—authoritarian regimes quite often assert that alternative-to-reality math and science exists; the Nazis invented "Deutsche Physik" because they were so big mad about Albert Einstein www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

It's proof day! Getting my first edited volume chapter ready for printing!

🚨The last time Senator Wyden raised the alarm this urgently, it was in March 2013 when Wyden asked DNI Clapper in a public hearing about the NSA surveilling the phone records and emails of every American. Three months after that hearing, the first Edward Snowden mass surveillance story dropped.🚨

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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

Over 1,000 major names in Hollywood signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros/Paramount merger. This includes Denis Villeneuve, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Cranston, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Ted Danson & more

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Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

First the city council in this Missouri city approved a $6 billion data center, despite massive pushback. Then, during yesterday’s election in Festus, MO, residents overwhelmingly voted to kick out the incumbents who voted for the project. America is fed up with data centers.

Nobody Absolutely nobody D’s when there is a special election on a random Tuesday: