Voting early, Kansas don't forget to say No meant No.

Starting on a long journey home, hope I haven't angered any gods

Could we find a way to put some daylight between the worst person in the world and the richest person in the world? Maybe something with distribution?

With a lot of world cup visitors in the states this summer, the timeless topic of American "portion sizes" came up again. I agree that it's a real contrast

I like it. This post is zuzai.

Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI

About the word zuzai, coined to denote things made or done without artificial intelligence.

zuzai.org

The American people are concerned

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago

IMPORTANT

An outrageous anti-intellectual attack, in which a president who holds unearned tenure vetoes the achievement of a scholar on what can only be ideological grounds. This institution was so important in my own formation but now, actions like this negate its legitimacy.

UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.

American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.

expressnews.com

Photo by Marike, Szentendre, Hungary

Centrist panic is because Mamdani is sitting there in office saying we can have nice things while the likes of Brooks and Chait have built lucrative careers and unearned prominence on saying we can't.

Really exciting in form and content

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

airesistlist.org

The smiling angel

greatness excellence exceptionalitude amazingation 110-percentanity

Something about being near moving water

holding onto 2-0 must be one of the most difficult feats in team sports.

100 years ago.

Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · last mo.

Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

DSA LFG

This all day

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

Everyday colors

📯Join us! The roundtable brings together Marie Beyrich (Regensburg), Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg), Marike Janzen (Kansas), Livia de Souza Lima (Regensburg), and Marta Vicente (Kansas). Chaired by Ben Chappell (Kansas).We are delighted that UR's strategic partner, KU, is represented so well!

Academic freedom panel in Regensburg this week.

Australia is the unofficial football world champion

I hope everyone is ready for the Unofficial Football World Championship match tonight, when Turkey defends against Australia in that other tournament.

When the Germanist in the family brings home a postcard from the archive- Benjamin's note from 1940 that maybe revolution isn't the locomotive of history, but when the people try to pull a handbrake.

Reading for work, aestheticized. Yes, a compromise to reduce book luggage

30 years since seeing this view for the first time. Lots has changed, some hasn't.

There was a big windstorm the other night and I wonder if that was what took down this grand old chestnut, almost a meter in diameter