The usual 33% plus an additional 8% who get especially aroused by war?
11.03.2026 01:23
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The usual 33% plus an additional 8% who get especially aroused by war?
As Ina Garten would say: Be ready (to drop some serious cash) when the luck happens*!
*the posting for the used bookstore goes up
*carrie voice* as we plunged helplessly into an impending worldwide fuel crisis, i couldn't help but wonder: were we in dire straits or were we dire straights?
geniza traders writing quittance documents to end a business partnership be like
@drewjakeprof.bsky.social it's catching on!
Loool shot and chaser
Still catches my european mind off guard seeing americans post like "noooo gas prices have skyrocketed up from $0.03 to $0.04 cents per swimming pool"
AI as permission structure 😇
1. Did Sparta's fear of Athens cause the Peloponnesian War?
○ Yes
○ No, but I mean, yeah, sort of
* required question
The Onion headline "Timothee Chalamet Under Fire for Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form 'Bunraku'" was liked by Bernie Sanders.
Bernie... thank you
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Costco just keeps getting better and better
www.self.com/story/costco...
Terrifying stuff
Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict
Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.
www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...
A fifteenth century manuscript of the life of Catherine of Siena showing her as a young woman kneeling next to Christ and suckling from his side wound.
I think one of the things that threatens my verve as a professor of medieval shenanigans is that I have been doing this long enough that I forget certain medieval theories are batshit. Breastmilk *is* processed blood. I see no alternative scientific explanation as viable.
I just remember when the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris was on fire and how every Western leader became a cultural expert and lamented the damage and how everyone donated money to rebuild it.
I am having a hard time finding a single article in any European or American publication about this.
We skipped right by this in the DC area to a high of 78 today. It's fine, it's totally fine.
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
You raise the troubling truth that we are always choosing between writing what we want to write and letting the sneezers have their way, or wasting our time replying to them
Not all of us get the same massive platforms and acclaim for our sneezing. Also, some of us have souls (not speaking for myself)
This is how they waste our time. So unfair how they get to sneeze stuff onto the paper but because people will take it seriously and ruin your life, you have to engage with it. Sort of like having to review a ChatGPT-generated journal article.
Me, shortly before I get kicked out of the pub: Well, you see, I’m in what my friends and I call a “difficult books club” 😌
I still have time to start a rap career and then pivot to politics this year, right?
Last year a friend took me to see the replica of the Lourdes grotto on the Notre Dame campus. Yesterday in Northeast DC, I came across an oddly familiar grotto... yep, Lourdes again. Then I came across this website: a listing of dozens of Lourdes grotto replicas around the US 😲
lourdesgrottos.com
This book description reminds me a lot of the first half of 1947 Earth
Left to right: Walid Khalidi, Sally Kassab, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Rasha Salam, and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in the garden of the Khalidis’ house on the premises of the Arab College, Jerusalem, c. 1945.
RIP Walid Khalidi, who died today at the age of 100. Founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies and author of a number of essential works in the field. Here he is in 1945 with a group of friends the historian Sonja Mejcher-Atassi has dubbed “the ecumenical circle.”
Oh! I will have to check this out then
