Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD!

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

KEEP GOING

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

New second career for me!

Deadline coming up to apply to take my summer week long intensive seminar “History of Censorship from the Inquisition to the Internet” open to anyone interested, through the Rare Books School.

👏👏👏

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!

“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet

This will result in dead children. It already is.

What a great answer

Oh I definitely want to read that! It's earlier than my current "get this dang thesis written dear god" tight focus, but it's absolutely a book I will pick up after!

HOW DOES THIS GRIFT KEEP WORKING

🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?)

File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.

The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇

As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.

The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada.

Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

This is obviously incorrect as a description of fact but it is a forthright expression of MAGA goals and aspirations: they believe it should be illegal to not like, agree or associate with them bsky.app/profile/bern...

David Roberts: it is really unfortunate that it’s not possible to have a reasonable discussion about AI on here

Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

it's literally impossible for an LLM to do a historian's job

it's not even LLMs sucking it's that they need data input to do anything and where's that data supposed to be coming from without historians

never met a computer that can dig through a thousand year old book in a library

Reporting requires relationships and therefore it fundamentally can't be performed by LLMs. The reason why tech vultures and media CEOs talk about AI revolutionizing journalism is because they see journalism as a set of slop mills rather than newsrooms that produce new information

Attempting to do the most base level academic history using primary sources on well documented subjects in a time period as recent as the 1980s will quickly dissuade you of the idea that everything is online.

*rubs hands together gleefully* My favourite part of writing, niche Latin grammar!

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd of hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews have gathered outside ICE headquarters in DC for the largest ever Jewish protest against ICE’s violence and crimes. #jewsagainstICE

I miss how silly England can be about food so much.

I don’t casually compare stuff to China’s Cultural Revolution but this reminds me of 八个样板戏

“Art” created under authoritarianism will always be rotten because creativity is killed at the very inception, so that the work is devoid of beauty, wit, and anything else that makes art great and engaging.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

I do not shame anyone who's still on Substack and I am still impatient with Patreon's newsletter features but here's a good reminder of why so many of us are putting up with the various difficulties of *not* using Substack

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Part 1 of my limited series on true crime and disability is out now.

Part 2, dropping on Feb. 26, features Dateline royalty @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social.

You're not going to want to miss it.

Detail of wormholes below printed text, one of which has been decorated by hand with a small doodle around the hole

When life gives you woodworms, go ahead and decorate the holes!

#bookhistory

Droits : Perrin

Justine nous viens de Poitiers & est passionnée par les voyages, notamment en Italie. Au bureau, on trouve à côté d'elle une tasse de café & une pile de livres : Il s'agit de sa monographie sur le quotidien féminin au Moyen Âge qui vient de paraître.

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