I can’t keep up. Is AI god or just a little scrappy company trying to revise its terms and conditions? Anyone have the latest on that?

More than 1,100 years old: Germany’s oldest tree discovered yenibakisgazetesi.co... #Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

Execution is much in the news these days, at least here in the US. By sheer coincidence my graduate seminar discussed Joel Harrington's excellent microhistory "The Faithful Executioner" this week. We had a lot to talk about. #earlymodern

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING: The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

We’re asking for your help to get Burnham’s Government to act on AI and copyright. Alongside fellow members of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, we’re sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation which outlines the fears and concerns shared by many creators and society at large. 🧵

Bruh

Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.

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Pennywise’s Donk@inayahb.blacksky.app · 4w ago

A FUCKING RECALL ON HAND SOAP IN 15 STATES?! WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!

Tapping the 1970s IBM training manual’s warning again:

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

Dutch Bros barista in Oregon: Hey girlfriend! How ya doing? What are your big plans for this beee-you-ti-fulllll day? Me: black coffee, please. **** Any barista in the UK: hiya, what can I get you Me: OMG, are you mad at me

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

"All In Together" by Galway poet, Patricia Forde

Dr.DreadPirate@pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · last mo.

Street poetry walk in Galway. Going to share the few we saw. 🌞

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

I’m on p10 and love it already #historyteacher ‘Local history is the foundation of national and global history. When we can recover a story from the past that’s linked to places we know, it’s likely we’ll feel that history personally.’ Quite SHP/HAU, no?

Can't say it any better than this

the only eclipse post you need

Ramin Nasibov@nasibov.me · 2mo ago

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

I feel like at this point you could just sub in "Lex Luthor" in any headline with Elonusk

Elon Musk reveals SpaceX plans to build satellite factories on the moon

Musk outlined his vision to investors after SpaceX posted a $542-million loss from its space launch sector in its first quarter as a public company

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youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements

"a country that worries abt declining birthrates cannot dismiss the material conditions under which women are expected to give birth, recover, earn money & raise children...Before asking why women are...not [having] children, America should ask whether it has done enough to deserve their motherhood"

Sarah Tuttle@niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 2mo ago

All of this and more. I wouldn't trade my children for the world. But this country has meant that I've traded a lot to be their mom. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wond...

Every American should read this article

The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026

Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.

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My husband usually gets up before me and hangs out with Caribou, the dog we've been fostering. Yesterday, the dog slept in with me, and I found this note with some cornflakes. Apparently, my husband "accidentally" spills cereal every morning, and he didn't want her to miss her a.m. treat #keeper

Public Service Announcement: Google "Jimothy" and he'll run across your screen 🦝 🦝 🦝 H/t @jshermanroberts.bsky.social

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.