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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books “What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”

For our roundtable on “University Keywords,” Dan Nemser offers “revenue” and highlights four flows: 1) state appropriations; 2) tuition and housing; 3) research funding (whether public or private); and 4) distributions from endowments and gifts.

being unashamed of accomplishment in the humanities and social sciences would be a start.

idea for Dems: actual intellectualism in schools

Olympics has me wondering if South Africa and Zimbabwe have any Black people in them?

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

The worst people thrive and the best are taken from us. She will be missed and the influence of her thought felt forever.

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(what’s the betting that the answer to this mystery is LLMs and crawlers)

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand

"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"

The first customer for relational databases was the CIA. The surveillance program they tasked a Silicon Valley start-up with building was given the code name Oracle. That founder of that company, given the capital he needed to scale by serving U.S. intelligence operations, decided he liked the name.

“Virginity Rocks slides; gently used.”

Screenshot of a Facebook marketplace ad for “virginity rocks” sandals.

Move over Hemingway.

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

How many men mentioned in the Epstein files have vowed to “fix” U.S. education?

Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

"Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day." Octave Uzanne, "The End of Books," 1894.

Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...

Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

linocut print of the Virgin Mary with a crown and star-covered veil stepping on a snake labeled ICE, reading “Hail Mary Full Of Grace, Kick ICE out of this place.”

Remember O Most Gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored they help, or sought they intercession was left unaided.

Love, defend, rejoice in thy neighbor. Welcome the traveler. Crush evil under your feet.

Art: @kibbyer.bsky.social

“In our home / they killed and roamed / in the winter of ‘26.”

At the medium and lower levels, yes. Highest; usually not.

Me with my FM radio trying to teach intro to information science. [Context: Claude Shannon, “The Mathematical Theory of Communication.”]

It's now official: I defended my dissertation, was appointed an assistant professor, tenured and promoted to associate professor, and promoted to full professor ALL SINCE THE LAST TIME THE BUFFALO SABRES MADE THE PLAYOFFS.