Rob Haug
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
Reposting one of the most egregious examples from a great thread on scams in Google ads and the enshitifcation of the internet.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h agoWhen Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/
Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
Rendering hundreds of thousands of people “illegal,” out of status, overnight, makes it obvious that illegality is produced by policy, an event version of something that has taken place over years and decades
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.
12 Monkeys: Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis Scene
ALT: 12 Monkeys: Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis Scene
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · last wk.Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Post a perfect album from the 90s.
Mindy Weisberger@laminda.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s
1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇
A thread on how the Trump administration and its DOGGIE bros took their policies from figurative explosive diarrhea to literal explosive diarrhea.
Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · 3w agoThousands of Americans are getting sick from a foodborne parasite, and federal regulators have still not publicly identified the source. So what's been happening in the federal government over the past year that might be a factor in this outbreak? 🧵⬇️
Thousands of Americans are getting sick from a foodborne parasite, and federal regulators have still not publicly identified the source. So what's been happening in the federal government over the past year that might be a factor in this outbreak? 🧵⬇️
Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.
When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.
Mitch McConnell is just out of frame also having the time of his life
Found some incredible AI generated maps of the Arab conquest of Iran... AI is truly the future!
So, who did I piss off at MESA to get the 8:30am slot on the last day?
New article alert! Humans use numbers to think about other humans in many contexts: demography, taxes, votes, and historically, slavery. Our latest article shows how early Islamic narratives about the Saharan frontier use the number 360 to represent the relationship between race, space, and time.
A Slave per Day in Perpetuity | Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
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#TURvsUSA In the 6th century, the Turkic peoples formed the Göktürk Khaganate. The Khaganate stretched from the Black Sea to Manchuria; it collapsed into civil war in 10 years. The Pueblo culture peaked at the end of the early medieval period, and in the east, the Chakoia complex was forming.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 25,1948
I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,
TIL: at the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, 13 of 15 jockeys were Black, and African American riders won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbies. …. By 1907, Jim Crow laws and threats from white jockeys pushed Black riders out of top-level racing wheninyourstate.com/kentucky/bef...
Before racism ended his career, this Black jockey won all six races at Churchill Downs in a single day
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Quality work from Atlantic Industrial Coatings. All it cost US taxpayers was $14,000,000.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
