This is quite absurd, of course. And unsurprising for an economist in a law school. But, it's also the same mentality that in 2017 gave us historians saying, "the confederate statutes weren't even put up until the 1920s," as if that fact, put in the right order, changed their meaning.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Fuck you Microsoft Word. I don't want to be more concise.

Police and thieves in the streets. Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition.

It really sucks to discover a typo in an article that has been out for a year.

And for some reason, Criterion Channel has stopped working on MacOS Safari for me. The trailers stream, but full films don't. I haven't changed anything. Just, you know, more impossible internet.

chad black@chadblack.bsky.social · 3w ago

Everyday, it seems more difficult to get normal websites to work on standard browsers. The internet just seems more and more maddeningly impossible to use.

There is no such thing as an “authentic” historical film.

*These* are the higher education stories that matter, not some half-assed report farted out by a group of faculty cranks at ivy and ivy-adjacent universities

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”

"This film set in the past isn't authentic" is the lowest form of historical film criticism.

I guess this is what happens when your best player is a part-timer in the MLS who stands still 63% of every game.

Everyday, it seems more difficult to get normal websites to work on standard browsers. The internet just seems more and more maddeningly impossible to use.

Lots of talk about Lindsey Graham this week but here’s an obit worthy of our attention. A life of service vs Lindsey’s life of self serving. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Mary Morello, Libertyville native, activist and mother of Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, dies at 102

In 1990, Ms. Morello founded Parents for Rock and Rap, a group that sought to protect the free speech of musicians in the face of a censorship movement.

chicago.suntimes.com

Goya's capricho No. 6, "Nadie se conoce," has that excellent ambivalence of meaning both "No one knows themselves" and "No one knows each other." The masquerade performs the way that the monstrousness of the neighbor mirrors the monstrousness of the self, and the other way around.

I want to teach a seminar built around Karatani's History and Repetition, Santer's The Royal Remains, and Marx's 18th Brumaire.

Fascism is the recreation and repetition by Capital of the conditions of its own emergence. When social reproduction starts to fail, Capital returns to, repeats its original crisis.

Watching all the bird drama in our yard in San Diego kind of makes me want a Watership Down except its birds instead of rabbits.

800,000 dead. @jackohman.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s USAID cuts. Make a former trillionaire cry. Share this cartoon everywhere.

Football. The disappointing game.

It's a hard time to be writing, what with the World Cup, Tour de France, and Silverstone over the last few days.

The FIFA fix.

feels like a 0% chance Senegal gets that called a penalty if positions are reversed

You’ve got to hand it to the Trump administration. They’re the most efficient government we’ve ever had at losing wars in the Middle East.

“They even fill their reflecting pools with Mountain Dew” — Some European, probably

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 2mo ago

Friend sent me this photo he took today of the Reflecting Pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hear every soccer player gesture in the voice of Luke Skywalker complaining to Uncle Owen.

Nothing I like better as an academic than having written. Nothing quite as hard as an academic than writing.

I don't know what irritates me more-- seeing the pair of blue lines of the grammar check on a Word document every time I use a comma before the word 'but' or the fact that Word insists this is an improper use of the comma. Do I change it to get rid of the blue lines, or stick to my stylistic prefs?

You can read more of Dr. Hora's research on the history of nineteenth-century Argentina in HAHR here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

The Making and Evolution of the Buenos Aires Economic Elite in the Nineteenth Century: The Example of the Senillosas

Using a reconstruction of the history of Felipe Senillosa and his family as a point of departure, this article examines the nineteenth-century Buenos Aires entrepreneurial elite, with particular refer...

doi.org

Hispanic American Historical Review@hahr21.bsky.social · 2mo ago

HAHR author Roy Hora discusses the life and trajectory of Julio Argentino Roca. youtu.be/4zGj4ctX9HA?...

Back to writing. 400 words yesterday. Hoping to double that today.

Let's torch the environment, world economy, and human creativity for instantly banal gimmicks. LLMs are terrible comics.