Rebecca Spang
@rlspang.bsky.social
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
See also "He had been knocked spang out of his Keds" (The Body), "knocking him spang out of his engineer's boots" (Christine) and "spang in the middle of the Town Common" (Needful Things)--three of the many usages in @stephenking.bsky.social's corpus
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
See also "He had been knocked spang out of his Keds" (The Body), "knocking him spang out of his engineer's boots" (Christine) and "spang in the middle of the Town Common" (Needful Things)--three of the many usages in @stephenking.bsky.social's corpus
I have had that thought too, but just recently discovered:
an acquaintance who appears (from social media) to still be with us (if not very active), in fact died in 2018;
somebody I assumed had been lost decades ago IS still alive, but she changed her name when she married (two common surnames)
an acquaintance who appears (from social media) to still be with us (if not very active), in fact died in 2018;
somebody I assumed had been lost decades ago IS still alive, but she changed her name when she married (two common surnames)
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have had that thought too, but just recently discovered:
an acquaintance who appears (from social media) to still be with us (if not very active), in fact died in 2018;
somebody I assumed had been lost decades ago IS still alive, but she changed her name when she married (two common surnames)
an acquaintance who appears (from social media) to still be with us (if not very active), in fact died in 2018;
somebody I assumed had been lost decades ago IS still alive, but she changed her name when she married (two common surnames)
From the less well known work of L. Frank Baum, The Sea Fairies (1911)
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
From the less well known work of L. Frank Baum, The Sea Fairies (1911)
That’s why I believe the correct formulation to be “eat your cake and have it too”!
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
That’s why I believe the correct formulation to be “eat your cake and have it too”!
Reposted by Rebecca Spang
“I didn't exactly panic, but here's what was going through my head,” Liz in Wisconsin, 43, who receives SNAP benefits for her and her adult daughter, explained. “We have to eat. This money will not last. What happens in December? What about January? Do I have to make this food last all winter?”
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“I didn't exactly panic, but here's what was going through my head,” Liz in Wisconsin, 43, who receives SNAP benefits for her and her adult daughter, explained. “We have to eat. This money will not last. What happens in December? What about January? Do I have to make this food last all winter?”
Reposted by Rebecca Spang
This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."