Anna

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

A tuxedo cat with magnificent whiskers sitting in a cat tree

Cassian grows ever more distinguished

Cody a tabby cat hanging out by a green blanket

Taking this baby to the vet this morning

I don’t go there anymore but the one thing I’d think about getting there is toys! Crazy.

[Exit Murderer.]

We’re stopping at 2! I hope they become buddies

Grey tabby kitten with outstretched paws

Grey tabby kitten looking up

Cody is a kitten

Important household update

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1, Episode 7: When Petes Collide

A tuxedo cat sitting in a cat tree

Cassian heard that it’s #caturday

disgusted poorly drawn cat

Bought a cat fountain!

Puzzle Binding!

Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)

The US isn't the exception; it's the outlier

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

Cassian the tuxedo cat has large paws

He’s just an amazing cat

Diane 11:30 a.m. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks

nothing like hotel coffee to remind you that life can always get worse 💗

Cassian a tuxedo cat lounging by a laptop

He’s so handsome

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump www.propublica.org/article/inst...

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…

Ha! I knew it! These DOGE fucks were just asking ChatGPT if NEH grants were woke before cancelling them. Whoever in possession of their faculties thought for a second that this was more elaborate than that really has undue faith in humanity.

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

A tuxedo cat hanging out in a cat tree

Hey Cassian!

Want to volunteer as an editor-at-large for the dh+lib Review? Learn more at: dhandlib.org/eal-instruct...

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Thirsty Star Trek The Original Series scene. Ol' pointy ear Spock is "piloting a shuttlecraft" if you know what I mean. He's looking up and concentrating hard. Closed caption reads, "The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive."

#HappyValentinesDay

A panel from FIST OF THE NORTH STAR where Raoh is renouncing the name of Kenoh, the king of fists.

Roses are red,
And you get the gist,