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that hitler was a fucking coward in the end is one of those details that his contemporary worshippers like to ignore

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There's a very smart student abroad in country that survived 20th century dictatorship & 21st century fascism who wanted to do PhD research w me on political bibliocide, but bc our country disappears grad students off the street they [rightfully] decided the US is too dangerous a place to study.

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we don’t talk enough about how much of an academic job is now downloading docs from 1 online system to upload to another in new format, for which i need 2FA to log into VPN to access remote desktop but service is down, and somehow THIS isn’t what managers mean by ‘we need to be more efficient’?

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Do you own research. Also DOGE purged all the real data. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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we need more humanists talking about ed policy

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Six Centuries of Type & Printing, my brisk and thorough look at the history of putting ink on paper, had a very successful Kickstarter campaign—but you still pre-order a copy at the project site! The book ships in June. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle... Spoiler: covers more than 1,000 years!

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We need everyone to hear these words, they meet this moment.

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They are just stealing babies - we are stealing children, in our name with our money. "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is part of the UN's definition of genocide. There must be international trials of US electeds & the agents who follow their orders.

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the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

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I don't think "your grandchildren will toil in the same plant you did" is the flex you think it is.

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$200k from Mellon to each of the humanities councils that lost funding from NEH (which is mandated funding in the NEH legislation). It's one time and won't fill the budget hole, but v good to see.

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Well worth a think: cumulative per capita contributions to #NEH funding vs. the incredible #humanities impact we bring to all 56 states/jurisdictions that we've been posting about here. NEH staff are responsible stewards of #taxpayer $$, and the benefits for the American public are incalculable.

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We're thrilled that Tia Blassingame will be our opening keynote at #arlisna2025! A renowned book artist, printmaker and educator, proprietor of Primrose Press, and founder of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, she amplifies BIPOC voices & histories in print culture and her work. 1/2

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AskHistorians has joined with thirty other research- and academia-focused subreddits to issue this statement condemning recent and ongoing efforts to undermine scholarly research and intellectual freedom in the United States. Please share widely! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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I will never not be salty watching other libraries and programs build and launch what a series of shortsighted UW-Madison administrators just cut and gave away a decade ago.

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Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

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Decades of building an informational universe in which loyalty and loudness are the central virtues has resulted in a president and a senior team unprepared for reality. Gift link: wapo.st/44ce0i3

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Finally something for the President's Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias taskforce to investigate.

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Blast from the past: In 1994 I wrote an “Ultrabasic Guide to the Internet -- For Humanities Users at UCSB.” 124 page. Self-published & sold through my university’s bookstore. Here’s a PDF: liu.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/d.... I can’t believe the effort I put into this back then!

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Great coverage from Last Week Tonight. Pairs nicely with this insider account from an anonymous NIH official about how the agency is being blocked from doing science: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

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that single sentence is going to drive me insane

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I played baseball with other adults for two hours today and it was marvelous. We all need things that aren’t work or obligations - even loving obligations. ⚾️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible stones here.

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Is Brandon Beane aware that there is a position called “wide receiver” in the league? Has anyone confirmed this with him?

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submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Same thing happened to me with the cancellation of my Bancroft Lecture, as the article recounts:

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

There must be trials at The Hague.

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The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they were used and what we can learn from them today.

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

Corollary: a lot of automation conversations are labor rights conversations pretending to be efficiency conversations.

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"At present, no miracle has happened. The WIU Librarians will be gone in under a month, as our layoffs take effect May 14." Western Illinois University will attempt to be a university without a library. It doesn't take a red state to destroy a public good. savewiulibrarians.org/message.php

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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No matter what messaging, slogan, issue, candidate, etc. The Left runs with, a hundred bald briefcases will lecture you about why it is wrong

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Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

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