A really fancy piece of cake from a bakery you love. Congratulations!

Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

A high res scan of Shakespeare's property plan is now available to view on @thelondonarchives.bsky.social collections catalogue. Just type in the document reference CLC/522/MS14570/001

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A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Finishing my tenure statement has made me simultaneously feel thrilled, lucky, exhausted, shocked at how much I’ve done but feeling like I haven’t done enough. I suppose that’s normal? Honestly, we need to start funding education so everyone can have this feeling about whatever they study.

I…

Wait. Technically he could, right? I mean TECHNICALLY.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

With my friends writing so many books, how do I have time to read those by strangers.

Are you teaching Arden of Faversham next semester? Do you just love the play? He’s a full audio recording!

Shakespeare in the Kitchen Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...

Good morning! I'm getting texts letting me know that people who signed up for alerts are able to preorder today!! Preorders officially open tomorrow.

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When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
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Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

The beauty patch business is about to take off

When you’ve not made a deal with Satan, you age well.

Is Bridgerton’s Diversity More Than Just Window Dressing? In the sixth episode of Bridgerton’s third season, Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) and her brother Lord Marcus Anderson (Daniel Francis) have a fraught and tender confrontation. She has been furious wit…

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I don’t think I’ll ever understand why we don’t talk about the training data used for LLMs. It comes from humans. Having another human explain something works just as well?

Movie poster for the documentary "The Empty Grave"

The Empty Grave: Screening and Discussion Thursday, March 26 | 5:00PM-7:30 PM CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC Posnanski Auditorium (concourse level) The documentary The Empty Grave (Germany/Tanzania 2024) follows the emotional journey of two Tanzanian families in search of their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads one family to Germany where tens of thousands of human remains from former colonies are stored in museum depots - a haunting legacy of colonial plunder in the early 20th century, taken for racist research and as macabre trophies. The other family locates their ancestor in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. The film unveils the enduring traces and traumas inflicted by colonial crimes on families and highlights their resilience while probing the complexity of identifying and repatriating these human remains. Konradin Kunze, an artist and researcher who worked with the Kaaya family, will be present to discuss the challenges of repatriation, and will deliver remarks on behalf of the family. Introduction by Marta Millar (CUNY), moderated by Jonathan Bach (New School). Admission is free. Non-CUNY participants will need to show a government-issued ID to enter the Graduate Center. This event is co-organized by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the African Studies Initiative and Global Studies Program at The New School. Link to register: https://forms.gle/V8S9cTfgArudazff8

The US just denied a visa to a Tanzanian man coming to visit to remains of his grandfather in the American Museum of Natural History where they're - bafflingly - still held.
You can still support him by coming to a free screening of this gorgeous doc about his quest in Manhattan on 3/26!

Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

and that's why when we took down our robert e lee statue here in charlottesville, we melted that bitch.

This place lives in my head rent free, so a pleasure & privilege to visit Almagro’s 1628 corral de comedias. One of world’s oldest surviving theatres, an uncanny analogue to the Curtain playhouse #CurtainBook. Grateful to the city & Councillor Genaro Galàn Garcia for their generous hospitality.

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday:
“I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

400 years ago people weren’t introspective? WHAT? WHAT?

It was a brilliantly researched film.

Michael B Jordan won an Oscar on Professor McDowell’s birthday. This is NOT a coincidence! Hooray!

I hope you had the most wonderful birthday ever! ♥️

We know that answer.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings