Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Caseyin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”
Helen KennedyRead it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One NoticedThe next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.www.bloomberg.com1. historians don't get the luxury of "slow work" in this day and age. 2. Many of our objections are centered around the fact that WE need to be the ones reading and thinking about our sources, not some LLM. Its about understanding and owning the process. 3. Using gAI is cutting corners.
Ill admit American Historical Association rolls off the tongue better than American Fact Sorter Association; or consider also, Social Fact Sorting of Medicine, Journal for the Fact Sorting of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Disability Fact Sorting
Torsten KathkeY'all why did no one tell me? When is the next fact sorting meetup?
Das klingt ziemlich erschreckend für die @bpb.de www.rnd.de/politik/poli...
Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant KurswechselDer bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...www.rnd.de
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David HoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
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Steffen Rayburn-MaarupI don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.
Peterit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.
Joseph RezekSUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS
I've been left alone for the night in my parents' house so y'all know what that means time to finally turn off the motion-smoothing on their TV
I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway
The Fig EconomyOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat KerlinSome avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...theonion.com