A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."

More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Want to work for a couple of years at a great history department? (Or know someone who does?) Check out the VAP position in Modern Europe/Russia and Eastern Europe at Lafayette College and apply soon! apply.interfolio.com/179399

Congrats on a great college golf career, Grace! Finishing with a win in your final tournament is cool:)

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Grace at range warming up before first round of final college season

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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16 hits, mostly book reviews. I expect Zuck to send me a check any day now.

It’s always gratifying (and harrowing) to read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. But I especially enjoy it when amidst the stark truths about our crisis she turns out passages like this:
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Fact check: Trump falsely claims Zelensky has a 4% approval rating. It’s above 50% | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s false declaration Tuesday that Ukraine “started” the Russian war on Ukraine generated the most attention. But Trump also made another wildly inaccurate assertion about Ukraine...

Great to see our data making the rounds

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Our faculty just passed a no confidence vote in our president, and it is both surprising and unsettling

Um, which baseball writer left Ichiro off their HOF ballot? It’s either shocking racism or “old school” stuffiness about first-year candidates that is disablingly myopic. Should lose their privilege to vote in the future.

Gemini has predictably blown up in everyones face. While I wish solidarity to the victims of this travesty, the mocking of AI and AI related products shall increase until moral improves.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Alchemist bars are 2 for 2. I really like the one in Kyiv, and I’m at the one in Prague now. Creative cocktails and good bartenders!

Great short review! Congratulations!

In fairness, isn’t this 10:30-1:00 at the conference hotel bar?

Azerbaijan Airlines flight was downed by Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan say An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

Source familiar w/ Azerbaijan’s investigation into crash tells Reuters that preliminary results show plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system. Its communications were allegedly paralyzed by electronic warfare systems on the approach into Grozny. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

My little rust belt city is showing its best at sunset tonight.

Chart of smallpox vaccinations, from 240318 in 1810 to 1316854 in 1840

Continuation of chart through 1848 (938924 vaccinations)

Smallpox vaccinations in the Russian Empire, 1810-1848, per the Journal of Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1851. It's not clear why there's fluctuation from year to year, but the overall trend is obviously tremendously up in a way that shows how quickly it was understood as a godsend.

Any academic at an institution that has brought in consultants knows exactly what the Department of Government Efficiency is about to do, and how much money they will absorb while doing it.

I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6

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