En honor del día sin reyes, un bello helecho…

I don’t say nasty things to Siri or Alexa— not even when joking. I’m always polite to machines (I say “please” and “thank you”.) I don’t do it because I think machines have feelings, I do it because being cruel and insulting would say bad things about me.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Journalists stand together because they know that signing is also signing their jobs out existence. Academics know that too— I wish it were as obvious to their administrators…

Felicidades!

El precio de entubar los ríos del Valle de México: “En el momento en que se abrió la cuenca, empezó el desequilibrio”

La doctora Natalia Soto, investigadora de la UNAM, explica que la capital mexicana era vista como una ciudad sucia, desagradable dozz.es/7pa5j10

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

With so much to be upset about these days, here’s my monthly reminder to watch this 🔥 Mexican classic about ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶g̶e̶d̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶l̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶p̶l̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶e̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶p̶i̶v̶o̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶e̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ going on a sex trip with your best friend:

I bet all this crazy talk about the antichrist has something to do with Schmitt’s katechon.

Thinking about Machado and how standing against a dictator makes — must make— strange bedfellows.

The Committee Room at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. I wonder what they’re saying in there…

(I gave a talk at the Institute earlier this year, and they let me take a look…)

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!  

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

So many things feel like they are straight out of the 70s. I have a strange reaction to “new” takes, because they are so similar to passé stuff from my teenage years…the kind of things that older guys (sad creatures in their 40s with gray streaked pony tails) couldn’t let go of…

I couldn’t agree more. I read the Muqaddimah recently. I think I hadn’t learned as much since I first read Weber (when I was 20).

Bad Bunny during his SNL monologue: “Our footprint, our contribution in this country — no one will ever be able to remove it, or erase it.”

TIL about the Explore Fall foliage tracker. It has maps with foliage color reports and peak timing forecasts. Cool stuff. 🍁 🍂 🍃

The flow of the Colorado River has shrunk about 20%, and its depleted reservoirs continue to decline. But talks aimed at addressing the shortage are at an impasse, and environmental groups say the lack of information about the closed-door negotiations is a problem. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Total St. Crispins day stuff, right?

Yes! You can access JSTOR and get all the papers you need!

Si. También somos un misterio para nosotros mismos.

Mexican Repatriation was deployed during the Great Depression.

Local thugs helped the federal government deport Mexican Americans—40-60% of whom were US citizens.

We have a long history of making Mexicans the scapegoat at times of economic uncertainty. 🫤

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...

"We’ve looked at the Ganges and the Caspian Sea, but this could have been about Lake Victoria, or about drying rivers in Europe, or the disappearance of Bolivia’s second largest lake.

It’s not just water that disappears: it’s entire ecosystems and ways of life." theconversation.com/vanishing-wa...

Bloomberg did some great video journalism about the oil wastewater crisis in Texas.

If nothing else, you need to learn about Hawk Dunlap. If you were scripting a movie about the oil industry, you couldn't come up with a better character.

A mi lo que me interesa es la nota chiquita, arriba, a la izquierda.
¿Qué orden va a poner la ley de aguas? ¿A quién va a beneficiar? ¿Cómo?