Jason Weidemann

The three precenters aren't going to like this...

I fucking love buying books.

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Very disappointed to hear quack doctor and failed gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen on @mprnews.org today. He would have been a dangerous governor for this state and MPR shouldn't be platforming his idiotic ideas.

My gig at @dukepress.bsky.social rules. I sell translation rights so our books end up translated all over the world, like these books on this table here. Japanese publishers make beautiful hardcovers with ribbon bookmarks, central and eastern European book designers are scary creative. Books are rad

Can’t believe this has to be said, in boldface no less, by an acquisitions editor requesting a review, but welcome to 2025.

I have many thoughts, and only a few of them show up on social media. Probably less than .001% of thoughts. If you are looking for a thought or opinion on my social media feeds and do not see it, the thought might be elsewhere, such as in my head. Or the thought may not exist.

Me posting "Thanks for the updates." in Slack with a period instead of exclamation point like a total hardass.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Everything Is Permitted An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchise​A hooded figure stands i...

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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura In the afterword to the first English-language edition of this wonderfully weird 1961 novella that inspired the classic kaiju fi...

Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋
www.publishersweekly.com/9781517920012

It's rare to see an elected official standing up for the people. Thank you!

Very interesting to see quite a few Becka Thompson signs in my part of Longfellow. Don't quite get that yet.

Can't get over what a loser this guy is.

Page photo of passage from book: “But it is simply not clear how language is grounded and what role sensory information plays for humans, let alone for symbol systems running on statistical pattern recognition. As in so many cases that we will see throughout this book, critiques of Al are too often made in the name of cognitive unknowns, presumed capacities that humans possess about which we hardly possess a scientific consensus.”

Glad to be getting to Leif Weatherby’s much-anticipated LANGUAGE MACHINES, wish he was here on Bsky. This slaps.

I live .7 miles and across Hiawatha from the Roosevelt High field and on some nights like tonight I can hear the loudspeaker clear as day.

The last few days I’ve been unpacking my childhood mammal skull collection, retrieved from the family barn in northern Minnesota last weekend.

The inability of some faculty to see beyond their own tenured noses enough to notice that it isn't business as usual around academia.

I've been thinking a lot about "debate" as a word and concept, as a stand-in. Lincoln-Douglas, debate teams, the guises of debate. Who gets to debate about whom?

These "Live Updates" the Minnesota Star Tribune keeps doing about events that really don't require live updates is so cringe.

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Let me guess. Inskeep.

Great picks. The Scenic Route is monumental.

Thank you @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social and Emily Holloway for so skillfully interviewing myself and my 3 coauthors! Nice summary of how we got to this decade long project.

It's almost like social media networks have tricked us into replacing our real communities, the strangers and real humans around us, with social networks.

I've been thinking a lot about how daily life in the city feels much more aggressive and antagonistic between strangers. Living at the expense of strangers.

It's only been a few months. And the dismantling has been shocking and mostly unopposed.

NYT GUEST ESSAY Barnard President: Now Is the lime for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.