Gorgeous gorgeous special issue on queer bibliography... www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/42/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - lih: Vol 42, No 2
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Jonathan
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Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.
John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoA reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
Senate leadership on Sunday released the text of a bipartisan government funding stopgap measure that would block the White House’s proposal to give political appointees control over federal research grants. www.statnews.com/2026/08/02/s...
Senate measure would block Trump plan to politicize federal grants, for now
A White House proposal to subject research grants to political scrutiny meets at least a temporary roadblock in the Senate.
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We got some Wisconsin Sandlot baseball games coming up if you want to see a bunch of amateur adults do it for the love of the game! Two games in Milwaukee and one in Madison!
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.
Enjoying the extent to which our campus' iteration of Workday is configured to make our profiles look like personalized packs of Marlboro Reds.
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
If the left doesn't enthusiastically turnout for centrists, it's the left's fault If the left sucks it up & votes for an awful centrist, it's proof that moving rightward was correct If centrists refuse to turnout for a left wing candidate, it's the left's fault www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Some Wisconsin Democrats claim they'll vote Republican if democratic socialist Francesca Hong wins primary
Hong's rise in the Wisconsin Democratic primary has exposed a sharp divide, with some voters saying they would cross party lines in November rather than support a DSA-aligned candidate.
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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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That’s a bargain to achieve the lofty goal of every university administrator: to destroy their own university.
I think I hit this point later in the summer than I usually do, but I’m fully there now.
I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.
Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 7d agoIt’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
i was on vacation/a writing retreat for the past week and change, so i didn’t get a chance to hold the ARC in my hands until early early early this morning and i am so grateful! look at it! it’s so thiiiicccccc (a baddie, forreal! lol) … !
Our classes are creating publications that we'll share publicly, and we're exploring layers of GenAI protection: hosting everything behind a web AI firewall, using CAPTCHA + Glaze, managing email requests (rather than posting openly). I RESENT the Labor of Avoidance these assholes have necessitated.
“I am embarking on a project to explore perception when reading, to revive my capacity for it.”
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2w agoOne thing AI can't do: experience the world through my sensorium sinykin.substack.com/p/to-make-th...
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
tech companies are going to respond to the growing anti-tech backlash by re-branding their AI pervert glasses & wearable surveillance tech as "helping you get off your phone and back to real life" - please quote this post when it becomes clear that i was correct
“Printing, now practiced with such elegance and accuracy, was invented in my lifetime by divine inspiration, just as, by contrast, artillery was invented through diabolical suggestion.” Rabelais, Pantagruel.
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
I’m sorry, but fuck anyone who drives a single one of these into the ground.
Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
Every accusation is a confession. As a former theater operator, I can tell you from experience that the current right-wing conspiracy theory about The Odyssey’s ticket sales has currency because this is, in fact, how small ideologue studios juice their own numbers to make their sales seem strong.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2w agoI love how insane everyone is becoming.
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Not that anything I write will ever make any list, but it must feel like ass to make the “best books of the year so far” list but then be left off the “best books of the year” list.
The older I get the only thing I’m certain I know how to do - the only way I know how to contribute - is to put letters on substrates.
Jonathan@jsench.bsky.social · 2w ago