Liberal arts fields like History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less

fortune.com/2026/04/22/e...

Parabéns, Thomaz!!!

Really biting my tongue about various discourses today.

Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection — hot off the press from Yale UP

Look what my beloved friend (and yes, series editor and author) sent me!! Happiest of pub days to Vanessa K. Valdés, @lehelton.bsky.social, and Barrye Brown!

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Em breve, em um filme estrelado por Wagner Moura

I am writing something for @theflytrapmedia.com about how current "feminist" discourse feels like an optical illusion (like people use it rhetorically but don't really understand the history and roots of the movement). are you a feminist and do you have thoughts? I'm thinking about +

I look like I'm my age in 2026 because I'm woke and fully aware of all that's going on.

That would age anyone with a soul. And hey, aging is not the worst thing in the world, anyway.

Do you know if there is a specific reason why our air is crummy in the Springs today?

The iPod is back, baby

yay Jersey

(I have friends who don’t reread books, and I honestly don’t understand that)

yay! congratulations!!!

jam session? movie marathon?

I think I'd like to teach a class on hate-watching sometime. Beyond the catchy topic, the point would be to investigate all the different reasons students dislike certain films and what they say about us personally, culturally, politically, etc. What would you assign in such a class?

On writing, when scared:

You gotta make it OK to try.

I know of 2 ways to do this.

1) is to make trying to write seem safer than your anxiety tells you, e.g. by tricking yourself and pretending that you are not really doing it, not really writing, not yet, you're just practicing, sketching, etc.

2) is to make it *less* safe to *not* write than what your anxiety says is the risk of writing, by creating real or imaginary scary threats that will imminently attack and harm you if you don’t get the writing moving. This is, um, best used in moderation.

Me, I rely on a combination of the two.

On writing, when scared:

You gotta make it OK to try.

I know of 2 ways to do this.

1) is to make trying to write seem safer than your anxiety tells you, e.g. by tricking yourself and pretending that you are not really doing it, not really writing, not yet, you're just practicing, sketching, etc.

I often tell myself that I’m not *actually* writing the thing, I’m just experimenting to see what it would be like if did write the thing. “I’m not actually writing the thing,” is kind of a mantra, to be honest.

If you can't write anything down, at least talk to yourself about what you are trying to write

go touch a tree. Not even kidding. Whenever I get stuck in the anxiety loop, the fix is to go outside and keep walking until I find a big tree, then go touch it. I think it just kinda resets the mind somehow.

I mean, isn’t the reason so that it can be sold to chase you down?

Tactically, it is maybe sort of a good thing that the Bond villain running the evil corporation is deciding to broadcast their evilness in the most direct and public ways possible.

But I am deeply deeply unhappy with this. I think that by doing this there's certain not-worse-case-but-still-bad scenarios I make more likely in the short term, and worse than that I am a bit worried that finding ourselves in those scenarios so frequently ultimately helps the fash in the long run.

The U.S. has historically done so well deploying military personnel to Lebanon...

Gotta love Wood Ducks. Top tier creature.

I'm so tired.

Thanks everyone, now I have the Battle Hymn of the Republic blaring in my head and it will be there all day.

a classic!

ex-integrante do quê?