Next week in the Journal of the American Medical Association: People cure their own headaches with Advil so who needs doctors when everyone can just contemplate their medicine cabinet.

Get home safely and I will keep you posted on our situation so we can catch up if all is going well 💕

Totally… this could be rectified any number of ways but I am the only one who thinks this is an actual problem and my parents would prefer to be near me of their options but do not want to move to the Boston area because they believe it is a frozen hellscape.

No way. I just left.

Thank you. Why do parents get older?! The circle of life is annoying.

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The world’s longest day that involved going to work all day, which involves 5 hours of driving, then flying to DC and now the interminable wait for an Uber to Stately Risam Manor because surprise parent surgery tomorrow.

This is the one I think it’s about right? Because just being a prof makes you an expert at teaching?

Congratulations!!! Wonderful news!

So many rabbit holes, it was hard to pick which ones!!!

Need to actually do work but got sidetracked by a friend who wanted to know my moon and rising signs. Apparently I’m a Leo with a Capricorn moon and Capricorn rising and this explains everything.

When I went to the World Cup in Qatar, I just walked to the fan area in Doha, and got on a free bus with a bunch of drunk Punjabi Brits.

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Have just learned that the train from South Station to Gillette for the World Cup will cost $80. They have got to be kidding.

People trying to put a ball in a basket

People trying to put a ball in a basket

Afternoon at the NBA Playoffs. Go Celtics! 🏀💚

If you want a book that has thousands of years of things to say about this topic, that isn’t Eurocentric, and that ends with scathing thoughts about today’s sovereigns of code, may I suggest mine?
US preorders: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS
UK/Commonwealth: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK

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Ugh, I’m sorry. That is so hard.

“‘We are the data species.’ Beginning with clay tablets at the dawn of civilisation in Mesopotamia, this is an enthralling account of information and its uses across 11,000 years of human history."

10 titles not to miss in July

Non-fiction: includes a picture of me, a UK cover of DATA EMPIRE, a blurb

Eek! DATA EMPIRE is The Bookseller's history title not to miss for July 2026 🥳

Heavily inspired, apparently

😂😂😂 it was deeply mortifying at the time

Nailed his 95 theses on why I was a [insert inflammatory insult] and should never have been admitted to the door of the university president’s house. Made getting the restraining order easy!

Have got say to that my colleagues came through in the clutch as my life has been temporarily upended (parent will be fine but needs surgery) and customer service at Telecharge, Broadway.com, and Expedia were truly amazing today and saved me from losing a big chunk of change. So grateful 😍

The DEA/FBI scammers chose to mess with the wrong retired 85-year-old doctor today because my dad turned around and reported them to the DEA and FBI. A+ skepticism to Mr. Dr. Risam.

You and my mom!!!

ALL the way back!

Imagine, a 5-year convert who believes he knows more about theology than the pope. (Many 5-year converts, probably.)

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

The Appalachian Papacy has entered the group chat www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I spent 9 years at a regional public before arriving at my current job 3.5 years ago and I might as well have moved to a university on Mars.