Amanda French

Thank you for this fascinating thread! This is the question I find interesting: did he use AI because he was lazy or because he wanted to fake evidence to support an argument? (Or of course both)

You can now access individual discovery documents, including emails, grant spreadsheets, and deposition transcripts at www.mla.org/NEH-Discovery.

*supernal

Deprecating co-access: Crossref plans and timelines - Crossref To date, there are about 100 Crossref members who have made use of our co-access service for one or more of their books. The service was designed to be a last-resort measure when multiple parties - bo...

Co-access is probably going on there, a colleague tells me, and there are plans and ongoing work to rectify that this year www.crossref.org/blog/depreca... (btw I have only the vaguest idea myself of what co-access is)

Lawsuit to Restore the NEH - AHA Major Update in our NEH Lawsuit Discovery in NEH Lawsuit Reveals How Humanities Grants Were Cancelled On March 6, 2026, the American Historical Association and our co-plaintiffs filed a motion for sum...

Tons of source materials here from the American Historical Society from their lawsuit that reveal DOGE's activities against NEH and other agencies. Going to take a while to enter these on DOGE Track www.historians.org/why-history-...

For the Monday crowd — a deep insight into how DOGE tore through federal small agencies like #NEH detailed by the NYTimes based on discovery from the MLA, AHA, & ACLS lawsuit. See second post for a link to all discovery materials

Enraging. Grateful that @modernlanguage.bsky.social, @historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social and Authors Guild are fighting back.

TIL. I hate my ugly countertops anyway so I’m tempted to keep on in order to destroy them tho

Stood in line for coffee behind Sam Shepard at the brand-new Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville

Me! White vinegar and water, to be clear, most often, for stuff like my quartz kitchen counters. I don’t mess with ammonia or bleach or peroxide. Vinegar is great for getting rings off wood furniture, too. I use commercial products in the bathroom.

Every time I see someone mention AGI I think they’re talking about UBI at first.

I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!

I’ve had the Slow Horses season premiere on my calendar for weeks! Can’t wait

Picture of Dorian Gray | The Art Institute of Chicago Ivan Albright, 1943–44

Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography.

www.artic.edu/artworks/937...

I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Anyone assuming that any data is perfect is revealing that they know nothing about data

I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Gotcha, thanks!

Does "private" in the graph title mean that this data is only for private industry? I'm hearing a lot about job losses and hiring freezes in the education sector, and of course much of that is "public" (govt-run)

SAME for AirPods

Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back

I adore Shattered Glass. The DVD commentary is awesome, too, because it has the director talking with the real Chuck Lane.

Everything is wrapped in two spans and has inline CSS?? Bwahahaha

My cousin used to work at a Game Stop next to a Crumbl so he brought me some and I tasted one and had exactly that thought: How do you fuck up a COOKIE?

I’m actually thrilled to learn from this that other people hate Crumbl cookies too! I thought I was the only one. To me they just taste full of chemicals, way more so than even chemical-rich things like Skittles and Little Debbie cakes, both of which I think are delish

Brayed laughing out loud

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets - JSTOR Daily Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.

Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social

This is cool -- I think that #metadata creation is one of the best uses of #LLMs