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diet soda sommelier | hater | MS/LIS student @ischoolui.bsky.social | @uuehum.bsky.social alum | substack: https://substack.com/@prolegram
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This man is a fascist in his heart, whether or not he's accepted that he's one in his head
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
This man is a fascist in his heart, whether or not he's accepted that he's one in his head
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We are saddened to share that #iSchoolUI PhD student Fobazi Ettarh has passed away.
On behalf of our community, we send our condolences to her family and everyone who knew her.
Read about Fobazi’s life and significant contributions to the field of LIS ▶️ bit.ly/4tnjXTj
On behalf of our community, we send our condolences to her family and everyone who knew her.
Read about Fobazi’s life and significant contributions to the field of LIS ▶️ bit.ly/4tnjXTj
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
We are saddened to share that #iSchoolUI PhD student Fobazi Ettarh has passed away.
On behalf of our community, we send our condolences to her family and everyone who knew her.
Read about Fobazi’s life and significant contributions to the field of LIS ▶️ bit.ly/4tnjXTj
On behalf of our community, we send our condolences to her family and everyone who knew her.
Read about Fobazi’s life and significant contributions to the field of LIS ▶️ bit.ly/4tnjXTj
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As an academic, I feel strongly that it’s unethical for me to sell subscription-only content in a newsletter. I am already being paid to do intellectual work and share it with the world. Asking people to pay me for my analysis would be a kind of embezzlement.
February 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
As an academic, I feel strongly that it’s unethical for me to sell subscription-only content in a newsletter. I am already being paid to do intellectual work and share it with the world. Asking people to pay me for my analysis would be a kind of embezzlement.
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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👀"Central estimates suggest that losses from climate change could already reach 12% of U.S. income. These estimates are comparable in magnitude to the estimated impact of proposed revisions to trade, monetary, and immigration policies"
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
👀"Central estimates suggest that losses from climate change could already reach 12% of U.S. income. These estimates are comparable in magnitude to the estimated impact of proposed revisions to trade, monetary, and immigration policies"
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Don't confuse decorum with democracy.
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Don't confuse decorum with democracy.
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In which Texas A&M announces it is not a university
"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:33 PM
In which Texas A&M announces it is not a university
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It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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If you give a single fucking penny to the DNC or any senator who hasn’t said “Abolish ICE” after their spectacular display of complicity with the forces that have invaded city after city, destroyed communities and families across the country, you are complicit. No quarter, no forgiveness.
🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.
January 30, 2026 at 12:55 AM
If you give a single fucking penny to the DNC or any senator who hasn’t said “Abolish ICE” after their spectacular display of complicity with the forces that have invaded city after city, destroyed communities and families across the country, you are complicit. No quarter, no forgiveness.
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So the Fugitive Slave Act again
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
So the Fugitive Slave Act again
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The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
www.thetimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
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Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
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Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
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ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 AM
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
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Lolololol who could have seen this coming except literally everyone who was not in the tight little airless anti-woke circle jerk?
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Lolololol who could have seen this coming except literally everyone who was not in the tight little airless anti-woke circle jerk?
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This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Homeland Security wants to know who's anonymously posting about ICE
www.politico.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech.
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights.
This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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girl who keeps a light gas leak near her bed so she posts better
January 16, 2026 at 4:45 AM
girl who keeps a light gas leak near her bed so she posts better
Scraping the scriptorium
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
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Scraping the scriptorium
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster as inverted allegory
substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Scraping the scriptorium
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
substack.com/@prolegram/n...
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Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
January 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
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We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
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I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
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I look forward to SCOTUS explaining why Trump has legal immunity qua president, but foreign presidents like Maduro don’t
January 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I look forward to SCOTUS explaining why Trump has legal immunity qua president, but foreign presidents like Maduro don’t
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2025 was pretty good but I think if we really make an effort we can destroy the west completely in 2026
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
2025 was pretty good but I think if we really make an effort we can destroy the west completely in 2026
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.