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#18thcentury #eighteenthcentury
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
#BookHistory mutuals, pls do your magic. A student in my seminar is looking for sources on fingerprints in books. Other than Darnton's reference to inky fingerprints left on the plates of the Encyclopedie, & Folger blog posts by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, I'm short of ideas. Do you have any? THX!
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me
100% this! ๐
In an interview with a writer at the Dal Gazette yesterday I described professors' commitment to their students as the fumes the university is running on at this point and I really don't think that's an exaggeration, at least on my corner of campus.
โItโs okay to change your mindโ: Protesters call on Tim Houston to reverse cuts to arts, culture, heritage
By @suzannerent.bsky.social
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Iโve been notified about another death in ICE custody.
This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.
This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.
Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"
Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31.
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CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350โ500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine
Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing โreviewedโ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropicโs Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.
The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.
That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Text reading "Casket #MorbidMarch" against a backdrop of a dark smoky/cloudy graphic
#MorbidMarch Prompts 1. casket 2. veiled 3. dig 4. gore 5. sweet 6. strychnine 7. mystery 8. break 9. gilt 10. marble 11. low 12. revel 13. elder 14. iron 15. zeal 16. narrow 17. debris 18. urn 19. blanched 20. rasping 21. lost 22. caul 23. hatred 24. teeth 25. obituary 26. will 27. fantastic 28. anchor 29. jet 30. waters Illustration of four skeletons playing instruments and dancing from The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle
The first day of #MorbidMarch is here!
Prompt: CASKET
Use #MorbidMarch to share and boost art, writing, reading recs, music, folklore, history, science, etc. Whatever the prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to stoke morbid imaginings.
Please use alt text on images. No A.I.
As it always is throughout the month of March, Orlando: Womenโs Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is freed from its usual paywall and available for all to explore.
Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer.
If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! โฌ๏ธ
Be careful with this, particularly if you have COVID trauma or disability, because the headline is accurate.
An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...
Rรณisรญn Murphy @roisinmurphy Feb 8 OK so โqueerโ was reclaimed. It went from a slur - to a political slogan - to a broadened identity - to a market - to a HUGE industry. The first rule of markets is expansion, and I have seen the expansion firsthand, and the cynicism behind it in my industry; the music industry. As long as a market is expanding, it is very hard to to fight its negative effects. While the money is pouring in nobody wants to critique it, even its worst excesses, even authoritarianism and child safeguarding get a slide. Quote Rรณisรญn Murphy @roisinmurphy ยท Feb 6 Replying to @proudbiwoman @Brig_333 and @daniellismore No one even used the term โqueerโ unless it was to hurt someone who was gay. There were some brilliant drag queens but they never said they were actual women. Oh and the parties were fun then. ๐ Rรณisรญn Murphy @roisinmurphy ยท Feb 8 And I am not telling anyone what to call themselves.
So, Roisin Murphy makes the statement that 'no one used the term "queer" unless it was to hurt someone who was gay'.
I'm unable to ignore this.
The following isn't about making personal comments about Roisin and it's not about the merits of the word, it's about challenging a lie.
As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1:
Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed:
Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs
Text on the image: Topics of interest may include but are not limited to: Sports in romance narratives in a variety of media, including but not limited to: genre fiction, memoir, screen media, music, or in the teaching of these media. The significance of self-publishing in contemporary sport romance The relationship between sport fan communities, romance fan communities and sport romance fiction โBookTokโ and the impact of sport romance fan behaviour on athletes Precursors to contemporary sport romance such as Jilly Cooperโs Rutshire Chronicles and Susan Elizabeth Phillipsโ Chicago Stars Portrayals of gender difference and subversion in sport romance Class, wealth and celebrity in sport romance Queer themes and homophobia within sport culture as explored in sport romance Young Adult sport romance and the pedagogical interventions endeavoured by sport romance in young peopleโs physical activity
CfP ๐จ Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance!
๐ 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas (at839@cam.ac.uk).
๐ Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
We may have won silver but our players have a heart of gold ๐ unlike the disgusting US team and their behaviour in that locker room. The misogyny towards the female hockey team. Disgusting ๐คฎ but unfortunately this Canadian is not surprised in the least.
โA federal agent fired shots through the driverโs side windowโ.
Sound familiar?
Thatโs exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.
This 23 year old lost his life and ICEโs involvement was covered up for a year.
Theyโre killing people and hiding the evidence.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6โ3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? Weโre open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
