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Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it
Thank you! I was stunned.
Thanks! I was psyched.
Lincoln bust by Gutzon Borglum
Lincoln bust by Gutzon Borglum
Untaped.
Right?! I found this at the same thrift store branch that had the Margaret Sanger paintings...
Turns out it’s a signed plaster from Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor responsible for Mount Rushmore. He sent these mini copies of the bust of his Seated Lincoln statue in Newark out to supporters of the project. That chunk of rock in the back is a chunk of the mountain.
Welp, rolled into the thrift on my way back from an errand. Found a Lincoln bust that looked interesting and old, and it has a rock embedded in the back so I figured it was something.
You're awesome. I've played around a little with the AI transcription models, but they seem to struggle with the left side pages because of the way the text wraps at the crease. I think a human Dutch reader could guess the last couple letters, but the AI struggles. May I e-mail you?
Anyone know someone who reads Dutch and has decent skills at deciphering old handwriting? I have two court records from the 1880s (~7 pages total) that I'm dying to read, but deciphering old handwriting in a language you're not very familiar with is tough! Willing to compensate.
Historian friends, I'm trying to organize an AHA panel that uses haunting as a way to think through issue of the dead's consent to have their memories repurposed. Do you have material that might work? If so or if you want more info, message me!
today’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions
These people are definitely the intellectual descendants of James Henry Hammond (and fellow sex pests to boot!).
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
You’ve got my vote.
Bear down, Arizona!
University of Arizona says no to the Compact, albeit very nicely with lots of conciliatory language. Just waiting to hear from UVA and Vandy. I can't imagine what's taking them so long...
president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
It also supports the idea that this is less about bravery and more about a desire to avoid pointless, bad-faith debate. Social influence or lack thereof is not a metric I use to determine the legitimacy of an identity, but it is for some people who would love using my "yes" as a cudgel.
This. If someone asked me if "Transgender identity is sometimes the product of social influence," I couldn't give a meaningful yes or no answer. All identities are to some extent a product of social influence and the possibilities open to people at a given time, in a given place?? What's the point?
What could a speaker even cost, Michael? $10??
I did the same! The more I pondered it, the more absurd it became. Just staggering levels of wrongness.
The two narratives about colleges right now are:
1.) College professors are so charismatic and convincing that students are completely hypnotized into doing whatever they want.
2.) Students are writing all their papers with AI because they don’t give a shit outside of a degree.
Indeed. The fact that some people see this as a reflection of strength to be celebrated rather than the absolute fragility and man-baby shit that it is remains beyond my ability to comprehend. How do we have authoritarians who are such obvious losers?
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
This guy got a job at Yale, and that seems like a much bigger indictment of the academy than the existence of humanities disciplines.
When did college-aged folks start describing everything as x-coded (e.g. "those pants are so millenial-coded")? Did this happen abruptly or am I just experiencing a frequency illusion?
