I don’t know a lot about this but welcome info in Duolingo’s use of ai and possible alternatives (yes, I know books and classes and respect those options, too, bien sur). I’ve worked on French and Portuguese. Thanks!
Interesting to see this Daniel Efferts’s article in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on a conservative reprint press (linked in @publisherswkly.bsky.social email) which covers exactly what Greg Pftizer was talking about in his @umasspress.bsky.social book History Repeating Itself.
This is about a play in workshop going up on Cape and also in fact a great profile of a fantastic writer and performer, Cody Sullivan, who can often be found (said with gratitude) performing and just being in Provincetown. But increasingly, well beyond, so look out for him.
I celebrate this butch working class representation of #Boston by local author/journalist @emilysweeney22.bsky.social who is clearly just being herself. She’s not some endangered species - the NYTimes should visit UMass Boston sometime! But she is wicked smart and committed to her beat.
I joined Emma Vigeland on The Majority Report this week to talk about something that should be a national story but mostly isn't: a person is dying in ICE detention roughly every six days in 2026.
Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.
Why are so many good new books about lesbians and why can I not stop reading them all? So far, so good! #books #usethelibrary
CHILLING
Depressing unsurprising infuriating late night reading. Let’s not forget that thousands if not millions of people are at risk of death due to dismantling of USAID. That’s on us Americans. And we absolutely have the money.
Yikes
“The decree is an escalation of the course content review policies implemented last year and reflects a trend of academic censorship at Texas public institutions.”
Just waiting with millions of others for my fellow Americans to stand up en masse to the admin’s reckless spending of our $$ on war never approved by Congress and pointless dc renos (east wing, arch) coming at the cost of public education, healthcare, transportation, and more. It’s infuriating.
Highly rec @nytimes.com story on #romance novels moving onto platforms to avoid censors in #Nigeria (Ruth Maclean & Ismail Auwal), related to Networked Poetics by Susanna Sacks, in @umasspress.bsky.social Page & Screen series, winner of MLA Prize this year, on digital #poetry pub in #Africa
Be careful around people who truly eat *no* fast food
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I went on a trip outside the US last month and friends expressed concern, given our bombing of Iran (amongst other global US missteps). So it's incredible to read about Juanita Harrison, a Black global travel writer in the early 20th c, boldly cataloguing a life crossing so many borders.
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"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....
Not my president.
We tried so hard to turn our energy economy around and certain powers that be really reversed those efforts by straight up declaring war.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Intriguing…
“Analysts have estimated that the United States is spending around $1 billion per day in its campaign to cripple Iran’s military and end its nuclear program, putting the cost of the fighting so far at just over $30 billion.” - Alan Rappeport, @nytimes.com
For #library fans in #Boston, and esp anyone in the #SouthEnd, please write to the Mayor about funding the approved construction for the South End branch! We need to keep moving this fiscal year. More info below. @mayorwu.boston.gov @bostoncitycouncil.bsky.social
'BIPOC book artists, papermakers, curators, letterpress+printmakers in conversation+collab w/Book History+Print Culture scholars to build community support systems. Our shared passion for book arts & the unique potential of artists’ books as vehicles for social change+racial unity grounds us':
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