FYI the states that generate the most wind power are Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

John H. White's stunning photographs of Black Chicago, taken as part of the DOCUAMERICA project which sought to produce a visual record of 1970s US: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Care Bears Cookie Bake Set (1984-1985): A baking kit from Betty Crocker, made for use with an Easy-Bake Oven. Each kit contained two Care Bear-shaped molds, 4 packets of cookie mix (2 vanilla, 2 chocolate), a mixing bowl, rolling pin, baking sheet, and 10 candy "tummy graphics"

Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Academic authors: For a fee, I will read your book on the NYC subway looking very engrossed. Extra for if you want me to point, and say very loudly, "THIS is what I'm talking about!"

Well-Pleaded Complaints@timorous.cishet.net · last wk.

spotted: man on the uptown D reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social’s “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship”. that’s what we call a blockbuster hit folks

The thing you can do to counter this is to play a Disney or Taylor Swift song very loudly so that when the “evangelist” posts the video they be hit with a takedown order

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

loath to spread this but it has so many likes so: "black power" is a response to centuries of systemic oppression and inequity, a call to empower from disempowerment. "white power" is an expression of racial supremacy. thinking them the same because they share a word is how babies think

Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I don’t think that wondering if a song made with AI is good serves any useful function, beyond self-flagellation for daring to be so clever as to consider the offered hand of the devil.” I wonder if I can work this into my History syllabus…

The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 2w ago

“If they can convince you a song produced by such a beast is good, then what use is there for any of us? Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge; may we dance and clap at what meager pleasures it can conjure." An empty bit of good:

In 1907, a Penn law professor writing a biography of a 19th-century attorney felt compelled to remind his readers that the slavery cases he was describing were not about southern fugitives, but rather "the institution as actually embedded in and existing upon Pennsylvania soil."

In winter, I spoke at a faculty event about AI. I was alarmed by the range of faculty awareness. Some believe our students are so "good" they'd never cheat. Yes, cheating's wrong. But systems that explicitly or implicitly incentivize cheating--AI does both--will produce cheating. 11/

Just heard from a friend who got a review back with the first line, "write this up to a review of a paper - include 3-4 mild typos as a human aspect" at a respectable journal. You know that you're allowed to decline reviews, right?

mayor mamdani bring your film to brooklyn’s only film lab Full Spectrum Photo staffed conveniently by only transgender women for develop and scan starting at only &$9.99

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.

can't stop thinking about this Chicago Defender headline from 80 years ago

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

Thomas Paine quote from the last letter of his life, addressed to Thomas Jefferson. See more at thomaspaine.org

Safe travels to all my @shearites.bsky.social friends traveling to Philly. If anyone is presenting on Friday and is down a panelist, I’d love to sub in! DM/email me if you need a pinch hitter to talk about governmental slaveholding and public safety in Philly and Albany.

Rescinding a prize - if indeed that is what happened - is a big deal and I think the discipline deserves an explanation. Especially at a moment when the integrity of humanistic scholarship is being unfairly & wrongly attacked & cases like Greenidge will be used as ammunition by the center-right. 🗃️

Noah Shusterman@ncshusterman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The AHA, AKA @historians.org, doesn't list the people who choose the winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize. They awarded it to Greenidge, now they seem to have taken it away. Anyone - but especially historians - need to say why they did so. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Whenever I start to stress about my stupid book manuscript, I simply remember that Gary Nash described Richard Dunn’s 2014 book as “nearing completion" in a 1997 festschrift. And then I remember that I'm not Nash or Dunn and the cycle begins anew.

Barack Obama had no right to nominate a new Supreme Court justice after Antonin Scalia died. And if a senator from Kentucky has died recently, Andy Beshear has no right to choose a new senator. by Mitch McConnell

My @shearites.bsky.social panel fell apart :( If there are any Early Americanists presenting next Friday who want to adopt a paper on governmental slaveholding and public safety in Philly and Albany, let me know!

As @kevinvrevich.bsky.social notes, it’s actually quite explicable and has everything to do with employment history and abolitionism historiography!

Cory James Young@coryjamesyoung.bsky.social · last mo.

Courtesy of the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Society papers inexplicably at the University of Michigan's Clements Library. name.umdl.umich.edu/rochester.00...

The Weld-Grimke papers were found in a trunk in Ohio Wesleyan by Barnes at some point in the 1920s. He sent them to Michigan with Dumond, who he knew through their shared doctoral advisor: U.B. Phillips. The actual history of abolitionist historiography is fascinating and explains a lot.

In his glorious 1852 speech, Frederick Douglass explains "the papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th July oration." Here's one of the placards. It describes him as "Once a Slave, but now a free supporter of the principles of the Declaration," & notes that refreshments would follow!

I can't believe people are openly rooting for england considering He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

RIP to all the catholics excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope