I've watched a zillion tiktok videos, used the wayback machine to search c.2000s digital archives, and read some truly weird national treasure fan fiction, all to figure out how we are thinking about history now. I'll be road-testing my ideas this spring so watch this space!
sorry but jumping into a mayoral race with zero governing experience and a bunch of vibecoded surface fixes is the most consultant thing ever. if she got in she would fire everyone, stack her admin with the most annoying 22 year olds in the world and appoint ChatGPT night mayor
le sigh what even is a doctor of philosophy? In my discipline, at least, it's a person who is interested in understanding ideas
when I teach grad methods a key assignment is that students check and write about individual citations because it teaches them how scholarship works!
So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?
sorry but jumping into a mayoral race with zero governing experience and a bunch of vibecoded surface fixes is the most consultant thing ever. if she got in she would fire everyone, stack her admin with the most annoying 22 year olds in the world and appoint ChatGPT night mayor
contrary to popular belief in silicon valley, having grok tell you the plot of the odyssey as if it were a marvel movie doesn't count as having read the odyssey and doesn't qualify you to have any public opinions about it whatsoever
also your name and contact information should be revealed to the reviewer who can then berate you for wasting their time and, if they choose, complain about you to their friends and colleagues in the profession
A modest proposal: If you submit a manuscript with a made-up citation—not a bungled or misspelled reference—you receive a 5-year ban on having your work reviewed at that journal.
this Saturday! excited to be in conversation with my @HumanitiesDC colleague Sojin Kim for the closing keynote of @dchistcon. We'll be talking about D.C. and commmeoration (1976, 2026)! registration is free at the link:
https://t.co/1ZfGH3d2fz
Were Arlington and Alexandria to rejoin D.C., the city would pick 400,000 new residents – many wealthy and white. It would also be a jolt to D.C.'s economy and a hit to Virginia – Arlington accounts for 6% of the commonwealth's GDP. We'd also get Columbia Pike! (And Clarendon.)
the Wayback Machine is probably my most heavily-used archival tool. For scholars of culture, media, intellectual and political historians---absolutely indispensible!
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF
oh my god the man was a mail carrier for four years in the 90s its not even on his LinkedIn and yet it's the lead on every single campaign ad he rolls out!!
The pro-business group Opportunity D.C. (which has gotten funding from developers, philanthropist Katherine Bradley, and others) says it will spend $1 million on mailers and TV ads backing @kenyanmcduffie's mayoral campaign. The first ad dropped today: https://t.co/CMb99MG2Ip