The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.
The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.
Or, hear me out, you can ask the help feature to show you how its done in the same natural language and evade the kinds of errors produced by spicy autocomplete.
The meaningful innovation is being able to query the program in natural language, not having the error prone machine do it for you.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is based in Montgomery, Alabama, was founded in 1971 and used civil litigation to fight white supremacist groups. The nonprofit has become a popular target among Republicans who see it as overly leftist and partisan.
This paragraph is a master class in media complicity in obfuscating the GOP’s racism.
Republicans don’t hate the SPLC because it is “overly leftist.” They hate it because white supremacists are their constituency and the SPLC points that out.
SPLC partisanship is incidental to antiracism.
Not by coincidence, "white supremacists are the Republicans Party's constituents and they don't want it pointed out" is the real reason why those of us who study and teach it are losing our jobs.
all gave some
some gave all of five minutes and then got on with their lives, reassured by the absurdly successful record of modern medicine
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
This is 100% true. And from a fighting perspective, it's not just about mortality rates. Sick soldiers in hospitals = fewer men fighting. This is the reason why the military went from an abstinence only STD platform in WWI to handing out condoms in WWII.
Essential reading, by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
We WILL reach a post-Trump, post-Bhattacharya, post-RFK Jr, post-Vought world & we WILL rebuild, but, as Gregg says, the task will be mammoth because the destruction has been massive & designed to inflict the maximum pain on those least advantaged
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
And "post-Nazi," Native artists still use it. (You can see some examples if you search "whirling logs")
My point is you're making a bad argument in order to ignore harm you don't want to acknowledge. That's not great.
It has been part of several Native Nations’ artistic traditions for thousands of years. Do you only mean its use by settlers in this country?
"1st, we outline how anti-Blackness informed...psychological diagnoses...Next, we discuss how contemporary...forensic practice & police involvement...maintain historical harm...We conclude by calling on psychologists to recognize their...responsibility to interrupt...pathologizing of Blackness..." 👀
Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.
And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.
Also, if you have a BA in English but you wind up writing partisan propaganda that is based in the past, that does not make you a "historian"
We historians actually spend a good bit of time actually learning how to do this stuff, and it saves us from making these kinds of whoppers in our work.
This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.
Pure hackery.
if you will only go as far as making their business more "responsible" w/accountability & transparency reports, then you must fundamentally be okay with the work they do, as long as they do it "carefully" and in a documented manner, subject to later auditing ofc.
do you hear yourself? see yourself?
look at palantir (and other AI) dipshits talk about the work they do - ie identifying, monitoring, & facilitating the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world - and tell me you defend a corporate structure's right to exist, or a "kill chain's" right to exist.
and MY work scandalizes you?
I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
You know, as a parent, I made sure my child knows they do not have to comply with torture.
My child would have walked away and gotten me because they know this is abuse.
Teach your children to disobey like their lives depend on it.
This is America, their life does depend on it.
the please stop referring to homegrown christofascism as American Sharia law challenge
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Salute to an all-time tweet
The History, Archives, and Records Preservation Project (HARPP) by OAH is engaged in crucial work to safeguard and preserve historical records in these perilous times. 🗃️
www.oah.org/resources/ad...
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story.
If you didn't read it already, read it.
Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
Got to see him in Urbana earlier this year and he’s incredible. You’ll have a great time.
Cool OER resource on disability history useful for survey courses I learned about in the last panel of the #OAH2026
www.weteachnyc.org/media2016/fi... 🗃️
