Marta Kvande
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF
October 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF
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And here is a much longer story on the slow takeover of the party and, now Texas Legislature, by far-right forces -- most of them funded by West Texas oil tycoons Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn. (Dunn is now emerging as a major player in national politics; learn his name if you dont already know it).
“The house is on fire”: Texas GOP plots its next chapter amid civil war, depleted staff, funding drops
Under outgoing chair Matt Rinaldi, the party’s donor base has shrunk as it aligns with two far-right megadonors.
www.texastribune.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
And here is a much longer story on the slow takeover of the party and, now Texas Legislature, by far-right forces -- most of them funded by West Texas oil tycoons Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn. (Dunn is now emerging as a major player in national politics; learn his name if you dont already know it).
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Sam Altman also wants your biometrics for a worldwide identity service so I'm sure this is all fine
NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary
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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
futurism.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Sam Altman also wants your biometrics for a worldwide identity service so I'm sure this is all fine
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Also works for an academic
August 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Also works for an academic
@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social Happy birthday!!!!
July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social Happy birthday!!!!
From today’s reading:
“Virtue as an ideal is empty: it is meaningful only as action, in relation to other people.”
Katarzyna Bartiszyńska
“Virtue as an ideal is empty: it is meaningful only as action, in relation to other people.”
Katarzyna Bartiszyńska
May 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From today’s reading:
“Virtue as an ideal is empty: it is meaningful only as action, in relation to other people.”
Katarzyna Bartiszyńska
“Virtue as an ideal is empty: it is meaningful only as action, in relation to other people.”
Katarzyna Bartiszyńska
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"They are so afraid of us": trying to keep this in mind as the life of the mind is maliciously wounded over and over
They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"They are so afraid of us": trying to keep this in mind as the life of the mind is maliciously wounded over and over
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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
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Life-saving research, people’s jobs, tech transfer, the economy. The public benefits to supporting indirect costs are far-reaching.
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Life-saving research, people’s jobs, tech transfer, the economy. The public benefits to supporting indirect costs are far-reaching.
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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Came across this poem again today: UA Fanthorpe's "Atlas." I really love her plainspoken attention to the ordinary.
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#poem #poetry
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#poem #poetry
UA Fanthorpe, "Atlas"
There is a kind of love called maintenance, Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it; Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget ...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Came across this poem again today: UA Fanthorpe's "Atlas." I really love her plainspoken attention to the ordinary.
shandean.blogspot.com/2025/01/ua-f...
#poem #poetry
shandean.blogspot.com/2025/01/ua-f...
#poem #poetry
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Whenever I feel bad about missing deadlines:
A catalogue of the MSS at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, was conceived in the late eighteenth century, and work began in earnest in 1814.
The first of many volumes (described in reviews as “much-anticipated”) was published in 2015.
A catalogue of the MSS at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, was conceived in the late eighteenth century, and work began in earnest in 1814.
The first of many volumes (described in reviews as “much-anticipated”) was published in 2015.
December 30, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Whenever I feel bad about missing deadlines:
A catalogue of the MSS at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, was conceived in the late eighteenth century, and work began in earnest in 1814.
The first of many volumes (described in reviews as “much-anticipated”) was published in 2015.
A catalogue of the MSS at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, was conceived in the late eighteenth century, and work began in earnest in 1814.
The first of many volumes (described in reviews as “much-anticipated”) was published in 2015.
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A first map of the territories of Indigenous peoples and local communities in Europe! Bebbington et al., Ambio. doi.org/10.1007/s132...
December 22, 2024 at 10:35 AM
A first map of the territories of Indigenous peoples and local communities in Europe! Bebbington et al., Ambio. doi.org/10.1007/s132...
I've just come across the insult "cucumber-headed men" in an 18C text, and I kinda love it.
December 18, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I've just come across the insult "cucumber-headed men" in an 18C text, and I kinda love it.
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I'm super excited to let you know that the WallCAP WallGIS is now available on @ads-update.bsky.social! Every feature of Hadrian’s Wall has a record in the WallGIS with detailed info & spatial data, which can all be searched/viewed online! shorturl.at/FSr2z #Archaeology 🏺
December 10, 2024 at 10:14 AM
I'm super excited to let you know that the WallCAP WallGIS is now available on @ads-update.bsky.social! Every feature of Hadrian’s Wall has a record in the WallGIS with detailed info & spatial data, which can all be searched/viewed online! shorturl.at/FSr2z #Archaeology 🏺
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What the current cuts to the Humanities demonstrate is not about career success for students but rather a new bet being placed that Humanities skills (languages, critical thinking, composition) can be turned into service departments staffed by contingent labor at extremely low cost.
October 10, 2023 at 2:17 AM
What the current cuts to the Humanities demonstrate is not about career success for students but rather a new bet being placed that Humanities skills (languages, critical thinking, composition) can be turned into service departments staffed by contingent labor at extremely low cost.
Here's a small good thing. Last night during my online class, one student saw something in another student's setting that made them concerned about the other student's welfare. They messaged me about it and I saw it too. So I contacted the second student to check on them.
November 26, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Here's a small good thing. Last night during my online class, one student saw something in another student's setting that made them concerned about the other student's welfare. They messaged me about it and I saw it too. So I contacted the second student to check on them.
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I made a Google quiz using the poems listed on the paper’s OSF site if you want to try your luck at guessing which are human and which are LLM. forms.gle/nGCGawDb9c6f...
November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
I made a Google quiz using the poems listed on the paper’s OSF site if you want to try your luck at guessing which are human and which are LLM. forms.gle/nGCGawDb9c6f...
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Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
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“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick," published on this day in 1851
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick," published on this day in 1851
November 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick," published on this day in 1851
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick," published on this day in 1851
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Worth pointing out that at least on windows and android there are several "connected experiences",and includes features like accessing stock photos or downloading templates.
The one that's most direct about feeding your stuff to the slop machine is "connected experiences that analyze your content".
The one that's most direct about feeding your stuff to the slop machine is "connected experiences that analyze your content".
November 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Worth pointing out that at least on windows and android there are several "connected experiences",and includes features like accessing stock photos or downloading templates.
The one that's most direct about feeding your stuff to the slop machine is "connected experiences that analyze your content".
The one that's most direct about feeding your stuff to the slop machine is "connected experiences that analyze your content".
Last night my students were mildly horrified to learn that "book" and "novel" aren't synonyms. One of them joked that they needed a flowchart to decide whether something was a novel or not . . . . so I made them one. 😂
November 12, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Last night my students were mildly horrified to learn that "book" and "novel" aren't synonyms. One of them joked that they needed a flowchart to decide whether something was a novel or not . . . . so I made them one. 😂