Real “Letterpress is my Passion” energy here.

Just want to be clear that when RFK Jr. said in the hearing today that he is “overhauling” the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, it is because this administration wants to reduce the number of services that health insurance companies are required to cover.

Yes, small mercies, I guess? I just....

What Deans and Department Chairs Must Do Before Fall Something is unfolding in the labor market that will greet your new graduates, who will face an incrementally tighter job market.

Are you serious, Inside Higher Ed? Asking Claude a question and then publishing what it said is not journalism.
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This surprises me! Among my students my impression is that Twitter/X was never cool and is now deceased. Unsurprised about the other three outcomes tho.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

'Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”'

Cognitive surrender 🥲

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Extremely good advertisement for your talk! Rethinking all my own choices* now.

*times I have failed to make a cool zine for my conference talks when I obviously should have been doing that!

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Excited to hear this talk! A chapter of my new book is partly about smallpox vaccine debates so this will be so generative.

In fact I was, only yesterday, reflecting on the tragically under-read state of my article on Botany Bay and Romantic magazines. There are kangaroos, people! #ASECS26
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A bunch of amazing news, congratulations!

Packing for #ASECS26 ! Can't wait to see everyone in Philadelphia.

Benita! I'm just seeing this post -- will miss you so much at ASECS; thank you for everything and I hope this new chapter is a wonderful one.

Skincare panel lives in legend!! (Truly, though, one of the best conferences ever--just the right size, amazing activities along with the papers, great chances to talk with new people).

Never had a Lady’s Monthly Museum in its original wrappers in my hands before, but now I own this from May 1803. I’ll be using it along with other items from by personal collection and the much more extensive riches in the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social in my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course in July.

Roman Mosaic Unearthed - Southwark, London, UK <3 What Time Reveals (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/28/f...
Two archaeologists gently uncover a large Roman mosaic beneath a construction site near The Shard in central London. The vibrant geometric patterns, preserved underground for nearly...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
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This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

Forthcoming new book by Ann Blair on authorship & collaboration, from @princetonupress.bsky.social: 👀 📗 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EarlyModern #HistBookChat

I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed.
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Lovely marbled endpapers in some of our antiquarian books for auction this week!
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #bookhistory #marbled #finebinding #endpapers #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

As for “nomad books,” pocket-sized paperbacks from HarperCollins. Ad shows a white woman putting a book in her pocket

I was wondering how long after “the death of the paperback” was announced that we would see someone trying to reinvent the concept of pocket-sized books. Took about 5 minutes. #LivingBookHistory

Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Codex Poetics and the Politics of Romantic Reading

My book has its very own webpage 🥳
October 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Yes! And it's even better as kids get older and can walk home together independently and play in the neighborhood.

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

Congratulations! That is really exciting news.

Did we all know that the second season of Deadloch drops this month??

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

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