It’s funny how some of y’all just handle the fact that there isn’t significant Dem infighting after a primary Buddy they ran against one another and now they’re not. That how this mostly works

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The Independent@the-independent.com · 6h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

hi all. I'd really appreciate it if you listened to, shared, and perhaps even left a (good?) review of my podcast. the point is to highlight the amazing work in medieval studies being done right here in the US, as well as how the medieval continues to haunt modern America --> AmericanMedieval.com

American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · 4h ago

Friends, Romans, skeeters, its new episode Wednesday. CONSPIRACY THEORIES!!! @elisewang.bsky.social joins the pod to talk about medieval origins and modern myths. #medievalsky 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

ok this sucks but it is kind of interesting how people use "medieval" when they actually mean 19th century the actual structures of university life - the things faculty, for example, actually DO - would not, in fact, be recognizable to William of Ockham

Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · 2h ago

This Clay Shirky essay about AI in HE uses the word medieval, so we are all obligated to ping @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com . It's just the rules.

dunno, just gonna share this by me and @lollardfish.bsky.social again. you can not LIKE a thing for no reason whatsoever and that's fine. but if you're gonna come for historians you have to do the reading. buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

You Gotta Do the Reading, Man

Why does the idea of the "Dark Ages" mean so much to econobros?

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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men should be able to have hobbies

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3h ago

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

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Sorry but the OP is so funny. "Oh you hate AI? Well what if all these things that suck and burn natural resources, and that also stole from you, which you have never used even once went away?" What point is this meant to prove?

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 10h ago

I have one answer.

Friends, Romans, skeeters, its new episode Wednesday. CONSPIRACY THEORIES!!! @elisewang.bsky.social joins the pod to talk about medieval origins and modern myths. #medievalsky 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Medieval Conspiracy Theories with Elise Wang

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · August 5 · 56m

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Replace CS with any number of Humanities disciplines here and now perhaps you understand the need for solidarity

Stop Telling Students Computer Science Is Dying (opinion)

The data says otherwise.

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Just saw a take that was “well, we never get pols right so polls are actually useful” and man I don’t know what to tell you

“Let’s do what fascists do but over here” is never good and the author should feel bad

Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · 2d ago

He spent one year visiting schools. I’ve been teaching high school and writing about this issue for years and I don’t think this is a good idea.

A strong and correct opinion

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 20h ago

Society really started going to shit once restaurants normalized calling sandwiches “sandos”

It’s really funny to me how many anonymous internet randos are so sure that Professor Emlily Wilson is actually the dunce

If you are talking about “lab leak” in 2026, I genuinely think you are an unserious person who does not deserve the respect of a debate

so, medievalists get ready - Santa's a Viking (again)... youtu.be/Jag1_exhelM?...

VIOLENT NIGHT 2 Trailer (2026) Kristen Bell

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That infernal @profgabriele.com has another good interview on @americanmedieval.bsky.social Give it a listen and learn about hell with a fiery @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Let’s go to Hell with Stephen Hopkins

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · July 29 · 57m

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Worth noting that the person quoted is an economist and lawyer, so doesn’t know shit about doing historical research www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/prof...

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Megan Stevenson is an economist and criminal justice scholar. She conducts empirical research in areas such as bail, algorithmic risk assessment, misdemeanors, sentencing and juvenile justice.

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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.

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...

New Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t Over

The Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their...

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As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

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

traitors

Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The presidents of WashU, Arizona State, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins, in concert with the Association of American Universities, helped draft a new version of last year's White House compact. “We’d much rather be a partner than play the guessing game as we have been,” Kansas' president told Bloomberg.

If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

My take that we’re speedrunning the 19th century remains undefeated

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d ago

‘In recent years, the fraternity has also put resources into a network of university lodges and freshers’ events’ www.ft.com/content/edf7...

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This rules

Rachel@rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m playing “Quartet,” a video game in which the ghost of Maimonides (living in a golem) lectures a Nazi about ethics using teachings from the “Shmoneh Perakim.”

The university was made by solidarity between faculty and students against outside political pressure. We can remake it and must www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/o...

Opinion: Student protests are what created the university as we know it | CNN

Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians Davi...

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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...