Taulby Edmondson
@taulby.bsky.social
US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
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Taulby Edmondson
@taulby.bsky.social
· May 16
It's worth noting that a lot of the "historic homes" you see in southern locales are not antebellum at all. Many were built around the turn of the century in neoclassical antebellum style to demarcate wealthy white neighborhoods from segregated Black communities. I wrote about it here:
Unfortunately, I have experience here and can attest that this is a worthwhile suggestion. I research/teach Confederate memory and have been attacked by students, donors, and neo-Confederate orgs as a TA, adjunct, and faculty.
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Unfortunately, I have experience here and can attest that this is a worthwhile suggestion. I research/teach Confederate memory and have been attacked by students, donors, and neo-Confederate orgs as a TA, adjunct, and faculty.
So the prof is trans? The odds of this being a premeditated attack are going up.
Finally was able to read the essay and honestly it could've been submitted like that with the purpose of eliciting outrage. A junior in college knows better than to submit that
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So the prof is trans? The odds of this being a premeditated attack are going up.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.
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we were driving around and my wife said ‘this looks like a place you could get a Chipotle’ and i laughed so hard because damn if that doesn’t summarize the basic urban geography of America in a nutshell
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
we were driving around and my wife said ‘this looks like a place you could get a Chipotle’ and i laughed so hard because damn if that doesn’t summarize the basic urban geography of America in a nutshell
Good luck finding a compromise position.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Good luck finding a compromise position.
Finally was able to read the essay and honestly it could've been submitted like that with the purpose of eliciting outrage. A junior in college knows better than to submit that
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
In the essay, she wrote traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. What do you think? Read the full essay and professor responses here.
www.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Finally was able to read the essay and honestly it could've been submitted like that with the purpose of eliciting outrage. A junior in college knows better than to submit that
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
Great pull from the archives.
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great pull from the archives.
The centrists in the Democratic Party want to signal toward being tough on Trump and some sort of safety net while appeasing billionaires, big business, and taking their donations. It both misunderstands the problem and assuredly will not work.
the problem with "strong floor, no ceiling" is that we should absolutely have a ceiling
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The centrists in the Democratic Party want to signal toward being tough on Trump and some sort of safety net while appeasing billionaires, big business, and taking their donations. It both misunderstands the problem and assuredly will not work.
My sense is that the average college football fan dislikes the idea of paying players and hates the transfer portal. But coaches? They make millions every year and abandon their commitments whenever without much comment.
Ole Miss has promoted defensive coordinator Pete Golding to head coach after Lane Kiffin's departure for LSU.
Ole Miss promotes defensive coordinator Pete Golding to head coach, succeeding Kiffin
Ole Miss has promoted defensive coordinator Pete Golding to head coach after Lane Kiffin's departure for LSU.
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My sense is that the average college football fan dislikes the idea of paying players and hates the transfer portal. But coaches? They make millions every year and abandon their commitments whenever without much comment.
Leaving the building roofless like it was hit by a tornado is honestly what Jeffries' approach is producing.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Leaving the building roofless like it was hit by a tornado is honestly what Jeffries' approach is producing.
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And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
Looking to venture capitalists for cues on how to appease the billionaires and elites revolting against democracy is nuts. Jeffries has to go.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Looking to venture capitalists for cues on how to appease the billionaires and elites revolting against democracy is nuts. Jeffries has to go.
If you take the argument that college athletes are exploited and unpaid labor all the way to its logical conclusion, then second-tier professional sports should not be part of universities. Lots of people are deeply attached to D1 sports, tho, so it's very difficult to get them to reason that far.
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you take the argument that college athletes are exploited and unpaid labor all the way to its logical conclusion, then second-tier professional sports should not be part of universities. Lots of people are deeply attached to D1 sports, tho, so it's very difficult to get them to reason that far.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party could not be more clear about its desire to kill and oppress Americans.
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Meanwhile, the Republican Party could not be more clear about its desire to kill and oppress Americans.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
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A lot of people are saying "why don't you just fail them?" which absolutely makes sense as a solution if you don't understand university teaching as (often precarious) labor done by humans within a system with really effed up dynamics.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A lot of people are saying "why don't you just fail them?" which absolutely makes sense as a solution if you don't understand university teaching as (often precarious) labor done by humans within a system with really effed up dynamics.
Shit like this is going to get worse the next three years.
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
In the essay, she wrote traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. What do you think? Read the full essay and professor responses here.
www.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Shit like this is going to get worse the next three years.
A spread so dry it can only be appreciated by Ben Shapiro.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A spread so dry it can only be appreciated by Ben Shapiro.
"Wikipedia isn't reliable enough to cite but ChatGPT is fine." What an industry.
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Wikipedia isn't reliable enough to cite but ChatGPT is fine." What an industry.