The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused."
Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.
Cool!
Despite all the redactions in the documents released yesterday, there is no question that Epstein’s trafficking was overt as was his language of “purchase” and “slave.”
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
An archival irruption is a "rupture in the narrative field an archival source that creates an opportunity to write an alternative narration about the past."
For those who want the full explanation, you can watch the virtual launch here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pbo...
An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃
I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social
The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Digitized b&w image of a manuscript page: 18th century copy of Fernández de Oviedo's sketch of a sloth (labeled "periquito ligero"), in Juan Bautista Muñoz's copy of Fernández de Oviedo's _General and Natural History of the Indies_, considered to be a faithful reproduction. In the collection of Real Academia de la Historia, Spain (M-RAH, 9/4786, folio 166 vº). https://www.researchgate.net/figure/18-th-century-drawing-of-a-sloth-perico-ligero-or-periquito-ligero-Juan-Bautista_fig1_306096083 OK, so Oviedo wasn't much of an artist LOL...so yes this sketch looks quite silly...and yet, in spite of the goofy tiny human-like head perched on top of the too-long neck, the rest of the body still manages to look more accurate than that ridiculous first published sloth image by Thevet in 1558: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/strange-nature-first-printed-illustration-sloth-180970944/
Happy #InternationalSlothDay! Fernández de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lost…but not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:
Thank you @scottktaylor.bsky.social !
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And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
It contained totally made up book titles and citations, it got the names of judges wrong, it attributed quotes to wrong people 😬 $440k report 🤯
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
TOMORROW: Author Jordan B. Smith will discuss his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which explores the history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, in a virtual event hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social!
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