@ertruitt.bsky.social
she/they • professor • person • MEDIEVAL ROBOTS & NECESSARY INVENTIONS (coming out soon)
Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
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Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Finally. My god, all it took was exposing his long, close friendship with a known sex trafficker and child rapist. The difference between Summers’ treatment from Harvard and Gay’s could not be more stark.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Finally. My god, all it took was exposing his long, close friendship with a known sex trafficker and child rapist. The difference between Summers’ treatment from Harvard and Gay’s could not be more stark.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Copyedits are done and my book has a webpage and a pub. date.
NECESSARY INVENTIONS: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science will be out next September!
@pennpress.bsky.social @byjennytan.bsky.social
www.pennpress.org/978151282988...
NECESSARY INVENTIONS: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science will be out next September!
@pennpress.bsky.social @byjennytan.bsky.social
www.pennpress.org/978151282988...
Necessary Inventions – Penn Press
www.pennpress.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Copyedits are done and my book has a webpage and a pub. date.
NECESSARY INVENTIONS: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science will be out next September!
@pennpress.bsky.social @byjennytan.bsky.social
www.pennpress.org/978151282988...
NECESSARY INVENTIONS: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science will be out next September!
@pennpress.bsky.social @byjennytan.bsky.social
www.pennpress.org/978151282988...
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"Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees: After two former roommates in Philadelphia couldn't agree on who should keep the cat, the matter went to civil court."
Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees
After two former roommates in Philadelphia couldn't agree on who should keep the cat, the matter went to civil court.
share.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees: After two former roommates in Philadelphia couldn't agree on who should keep the cat, the matter went to civil court."
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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. @artcrimeprof.bsky.social I am riffling my memory to determine *which* small Northern Italian museum had a room devoted to forgeries and counterfeits. At present I'm convinced it was the Museo Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, but either my memory's wrong, the room's been dispersed, or they don't list it!
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
. @artcrimeprof.bsky.social I am riffling my memory to determine *which* small Northern Italian museum had a room devoted to forgeries and counterfeits. At present I'm convinced it was the Museo Amedeo Lia in La Spezia, but either my memory's wrong, the room's been dispersed, or they don't list it!
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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I feel so sad for the students, faculty, and staff of Texas A&M
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I feel so sad for the students, faculty, and staff of Texas A&M
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gentle reminder
There is no future for humanity under 2.6C of global warming. That is it. Nothing else matters.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
gentle reminder
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of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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The next march has to be against the Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The next march has to be against the Democrats.
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Flew Charlottesville to Charlotte last week low enough they didn’t even pressurize the cabin
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Flew Charlottesville to Charlotte last week low enough they didn’t even pressurize the cabin
Credit where it’s due!
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Credit where it’s due!
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Young women have had it with your shit.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Young women have had it with your shit.
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Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
He put out an ad in Arabic and one in Spanish, though fluent in neither. More politicians should do this! Just make an effort!
أيضاً اللغة العربية هي الأفضل وأحب
أيضاً اللغة العربية هي الأفضل وأحب
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
He put out an ad in Arabic and one in Spanish, though fluent in neither. More politicians should do this! Just make an effort!
أيضاً اللغة العربية هي الأفضل وأحب
أيضاً اللغة العربية هي الأفضل وأحب