👻darth jericho👻

I am incapable of replying-all intentionally unless it seems necessary on an almost life-and-death level. even tho every time colleagues' reply-alls pop up in the wake of my reply-to-sender, my ghastly otherness rises up and offers itself for shaming to my Inner Critic,

nonetheless I never change

shohei's 10 strikeouts and moonshot home run distances were really just for style points. short of pitching a complete game he completely maxed out all channels through which he could deliver objective value, so he poured his leftover brilliance into knocking out side quests. it seems impossible

I am thrilled that we're hiring a tenure-track archaeologist in my department, focused on Great Lakes / Midwest US archaeology. My department is amazing and we'd love to have you as a colleague. I'm not on the search committee but would be happy to answer questions. Share widely!

Critical to mobilizing “AI” resistance is understanding that corporations now know that the marketing term “AI,” is becoming toxic. That doesn’t mean they’re going to halt their data extraction & prediction business. It just means they’re getting sneakier about how they’re punching it into products.

I’d go only if there’s an option to play Vesuvius.

just made my first purchase based on a bluesky commercial account post. now officially confirmed fallen

lol

95 Reese's nailed to a door next to a pumpkin carved to look like Martin Luther

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

I am completely certain that 70% of my gray hairs are a delayed response to microfilm sessions from before the pandy began

the ancient art of barbachronology

Looking forward to join this year's Michel Sittow conference in #Tallinn on art at his time from the Baltic sea region to the Iberian Peninsula. #medievalsky #arthistory #earlymodern #skystorians

PS: how to edit your settings to remind you to add ALT text.

Please consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of Japanese American incarceration history, and the Wakasa memorial site and stone at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah: t.ly/jh2dE

I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Philadelphia skyline seen from the south with electric blue sky mostly covered by alternately whooshy and faint crimpy style clouds

it's amazing to have a zoom with a colleague that refreshes and energizes you at the tail end of a series of zooms. that said it's also time to sit on the roof and let the wind write these recommendation letters with me

TT architecture job at Binghamton!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

send love to my haunts of old

We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes

154 Freed Palestinian Prisoners Reportedly Being Forced Into Exile by Israel “Exiling Palestinian prisoners is the continuation of captivity by other means,” one legal expert said.

Israel is reportedly forcing 154 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile and deporting them to an unknown country. Experts say the move is a violation of international law.

A "Personal Curriculum" for Native American Literary History Seven units to guide you through Native American literature from 1800 to 2025.

ok its five am but I finished it

wow thank you and congratulations on finishing it!

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

which is to say you can craft poems, and many do, and they can be rather good, but there is a something else that appears when a poet is attuned to a communal state of listening that can be described as magic and no amount of art can get you there

I'm no early modern historian or expert on indigenous peoples, but I am a medievalist who teaches modern medievalisms, and Indigenous futurism often starts with precolonial eras. Here are a few of my favs, my small attempt to lift up some indigenous voices on Indigenous Peoples Day #medievalsky

“American kleptocracy is built atop a system of extraction which requires nearly universal and largely voluntary participation in an attention economy activated by mountains of debt”.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

In most other universes, this is a strip sack.

But Drake Maye lives in this one, so it's a 9-yard gain.

Living between the abject horror of state violence and the sweetness of the solidarity we are all building to face said violence—canvassing our neighborhoods with KYR literature, migra watch shifts, signal chats full of love and outrage. Thank God for everyone stepping up to meet this moment.

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.