@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics /
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Job Announcement: Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World, Department of History, Georgetown University
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Has anyone else noticed that the latest #Google #Chrome has lost the ability to restore tabs? My laptop rebooted after an update and I lost all my tabs. Time to look for a new browser. I've heard good things about @kagi.com Anyone used it?
17.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone studying the History of human-water interactions? We're hiring a tenure track position opened to anyone whose work addresses water in the Humanities, chronology and geography are open.
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via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.
15.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 263 🔁 105 💬 5 📌 5
“Cease” fire
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For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
11.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 16307 🔁 4990 💬 287 📌 732I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵
Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.
My Representative @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE agents for locking away American citizens and veterans based on the color of their skin.
10.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.
“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”
club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce: The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland. After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias "Impossible Interview" come true. As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky. Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck. They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo - over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked. Parker didn't just happen to…
Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland
08.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 237 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 9It's the reason the Trump NEH is funding it. Everything needs to fit his model of the world.
07.10.2025 23:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And that bus comes only once every hour, so you're potentially leaving 2 hours before work and waiting another hour at the end of the day before you start the trip home making for a four hour commute.
07.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.
And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
06.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 15992 🔁 7045 💬 82 📌 492New legislation just dropped
02.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 216 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 3fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
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The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a position in the field Modern Iranian History, with a particular emphasis on the period spanning 1700 CE to the present.
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Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzee's grooming. The female one in humorless glasses says "well, well - another blond hair... Conducting a little more "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?" Iirc Jane herself found the cartoon funny.
RIP to an absolute legend.
01.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI.
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My Representative @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE for separating this family who was following every rule.
29.09.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My Representative @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank this ICE agent for slamming a woman into the ground and sending her to the hospital.
25.09.2025 22:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Guys, I've noticed this really weird trend. Like everyone who drinks water, and I mean everyone...
They have all eventually died.
I think we should look into this and stop drinking water.
Lecture: David Lelyveld (William Paterson University), "A Reflection on Muslim Identities in South Asia", Oct 24 18:00 JST, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo and the Japan Office of the ASPS. Both in person and on Zoom.
www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/news...
Now there's a web site with more info...
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My "Representative" @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE for disappearing more than 1800 people.
23.09.2025 17:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've started the migration from academia(dot)edu to hcommons.org It will take a while to get everything up there, but I'm starting.
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