"Along the cool sequester'd vale of life/They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."

“a nineteenth-century man’s magnificent and pathetic attempt to think the twentieth century.”

Tell you what, Graziani would have loved social media. A man who never forgot a slight or forgave an enemy, infinitely petty, with an endless capacity to argue with other people's writing. A truly epic hater.

Here he is kicking off about an article he disliked & arguing with the editor's reply.

It's very good! But I feel like quality has declined at whoever is doing the actual printing for U Chicago

My copy (from 2018 or 19?) of Maza's Thinking about history (U Chicago) still has a relatively intact binding. But the pages are coming out of basically all of my students' copies.

Loool good to know

+1

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"oh chat I might be cooked" -13yo playing hearts online

65. Beff Jezos (@BasedBeffJezos), Twitter, June 16, 2024, 7:28 p.m. ET. 66. “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter,” Future of Life Institute, March 22, 2023. 67. Keach Hagey, “The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing from OpenAI,” Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2025. 68. Jeffrey Dastin et al., “OpenAI Appoints New Boss as Sam Altman Joins Microsoft,” Reuters, November 21, 2023; Jeffrey Dastin and Aditya Soni, “Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO After His Tumultuous Ouster,” Reuters, November 22, 2023; Luciana Lopez, “Economist Larry Summers Joins the Board of OpenAI as Ousted CEO Sam Altman Returns,” cnn.com, November 22, 2023. 69. Marc Andreessen, “The Techno- Optimist Manifesto,” Andreessen Horowitz, October 16, 2023, a16z.com. 70. Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (William Morrow, 1987)

had to double check the notes to remind myself if i cut that bit (i did not) and wow this was a cursed series of footnotes

Reading Williams!

human or non-human person!

They're expressing manly affection for one another

they have probably a collection of them somewhere

class photograph. 19 people in roughly four rows, mainly wearing suits and ties. a number of real faces. near the middle, simone weil.

Did I post this already? Maybe? This is what being 17 was like for Simone Weil.
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Would like to meet the person driving the subaru with the CORV1D license plate, just to know what they're like

It is!

My god

Loool I wonder! I don't remember that detail at all, but I wonder if there aren't quite a lot of things in there with basically journalistic sourcing, from memoirs, interviews and so on, stuff that just turns out to be wrong.

Book *Where the sidewalk ends*, with a paper label saying banned because "disrespect for truth and authority"

Dr Seuss Hop on Pop with label saying banned because "encourages children to use violence against their fathers by jumping on them"

I *think* this whole banned books display (in a Barnes and Noble) is a joke? Genuinely not sure.

Ahhh, yeah, that's an effective book -- been years now but I think the movie would be especially interesting after reading it.

What's maybe most demoralizing is that it's only four school districts. Although I also think there's some opportunistic enforcement happening here

Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,

"all four districts “had policies that were likely to prevent schools from notifying parents of their child’s so-called ‘gender transition,’ even if the parent requested their child’s records,” which violates FERPA."

Just realized I did the day on Battle of Algiers without mentioning that it makes a cameo in OBAA

What’s the most abject contemporary genre? I’m going with short-form video, with special shoutout to explainers filmed in cars

My kids, especially 12yo, *loved* princess bride

Man, scratch a liberal am I right

Can I use this for the poster the next time I teach games & history?