Shane Lin
@shane.logoff.website
Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
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November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
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And fuck them all unless they do
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
And fuck them all unless they do
Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.
October 1, 2023 at 10:57 PM
They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.
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but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished
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November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished
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There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do
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"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people.
Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,
I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."
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Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,
I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."
theracket.news/p/how-the-ne...
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people.
Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,
I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."
theracket.news/p/how-the-ne...
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,
I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."
theracket.news/p/how-the-ne...
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
If I didn’t know anything about modern American politics, I would think that a former White House Press Secretary would have the best chance of coming out of a Chotiner interview alive. But instead, Jean-Pierre has maybe the worst interview that I’ve ever read.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I didn’t know anything about modern American politics, I would think that a former White House Press Secretary would have the best chance of coming out of a Chotiner interview alive. But instead, Jean-Pierre has maybe the worst interview that I’ve ever read.
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npr: so, no kings
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
npr: so, no kings
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
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A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-so...
After 35 Years, a Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Puzzle Has Been Found
After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final cipher
www.scientificamerican.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-so...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history
September 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history
So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.
“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”
NEH Collaborative research grant program now explicitly prohibits digital projects. Output should be a book or journal issue. FFS
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Collaborative Research
Supports groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities.
www.neh.gov
September 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”
It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.
This is the biggest self own Democrats have ever done. They handed control of the largest social media platform to far right regime allies.
Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock (NBC News)
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September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.