Tom (Anne) Brinton

Harpoons Carved from Whale Bones Confirm Ancient Whaling Culture 5,000 Years Ago How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

🐋 #Whales #whaling #Brazil

"...they discovered evidence from a museum in southern Brazil that indigenous people 5,000 years ago were hunting large baleen whales like the humpback before they’d discovered sailing, and before metallurgy."

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A Discussion of Bigfoot with Todd Stashwick That Gets a Bit Too Exciting But Then Calms Down | Maximum Fun Actor Todd Stashwick’s IMDb page is miles long, with appearances in Laws & Orders OG and SVU, Angel, Buffy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Riches, Phineas and Ferb, and Star Trek: Picard and the upcomi...

Our host @johnmoe.bsky.social is a Bigfoot obsessive, as is the wonderful actor @realtoddstashwick.bsky.social.
Join them for a talk about the big fella, how to do leisurely investigations of him, and whether he's a transdimensional traveler. So you can sleep.
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Nodders are heroes, no question about it.

The Martin Luther King Jr. We Don’t Know His work with gang members in Chicago shows how much he valued the part played by young people in the Black freedom struggle.

Probably my favorite part of researching KING OF THE NORTH was discovering all the work Dr. King did with gang members in Chicago--how much he saw their potential for leadership & how much they respected him (even if they didn't always agree). A King for our times: hammerandhope.org/article/mart...

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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

-W. H. Auden

I figured out a good way to describe good academic writing to geeks:

Write The Hobbit, not The Silmarillion.

Tight, readable narrative over rambling scope, and strong characters over sprawling mythological significance.

“…Long is the way/and hard that out of Hell leads up to light.” — Milton

Super delighted and honored to have a new piece out in Modern American History, which I’ve coauthored with my friend and colleague Brent Campney. Best part—it’s open access! 🗃️

I look forward to hearing about the large literature that shows the Fourth Amendment wasn't actually designed to protect homes from warrantless entries.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

*From “Who Goes Nazi?” by Dorothy Thompson, Harper’s, 1941 (read it, it will blow your mind) harpers.org/archive/1941...

if i ever take a really long time to get back to you it's probably because i got in my head about writing a reply somehow and then had to go die

Concurrence Each day's terror, almost a form of boredom--madmen at the wheel and stepping on the gas and the brakes no good-- and each day one, sometimes two, morning-glories, faultless, blue, blue sometimes flecked with magenta, each lit from within with the first sunlight.

Denise Levertov, from Candles in Babylon (1982)

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

this is deeply satisfying to read. just masterfully done www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Gourmet Magazine Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.

huh. Conde Nast failed to renew the trademark on "Gourmet" for magazines. So a journalist collective has swooped in and grabbed it.

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Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country.

That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

Videos ▶ 3 Minuten, 3 Fragen: Anna Elisabeth Gehl Anna Elisabeth Gehl is working on a PhD project on female medical volunteers during the First World War. In this video for ‘Three Minutes, Three Questions’.....

Woman ambulance drivers in World War I? Battlefield hyenas in the Franco-German War of 1870?
Indeed!
If you want to hear about these from young researchers working on these exciting topics, check out the new MKGD video series featuring new #research in #milhist!
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🧵As I'm prepping my class meeting on Native American genocide (example: Sand Creek Massacre), it strikes me that the sheer moral heroism of US Army Captain Silas S. Soule is particularly relevant in our current times.

Perfidy is an interesting word.

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

With this resurgence of scary events happening in the world, remember this...

Don't stop creating.

The world need it now more than ever. Creation is not to be ignorant to the horrors happening around us, it's a silent protest against it. They want us to feel guilty for finding joy. Don't let them.

The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the JCB invite applications for a postdoctoral research associate position focused on historical scholarship around racial slavery and/ or Indigenous dispossession and slavery.

Details at apply.interfolio.com/175378.

Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor

BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.