Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out now: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
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‘The world’s richest man is participating in a transnational terror campaign. […] Any path to a free international order, unthreatened by fascism, must run in part through breaking Musk’s power.’
newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline.
www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
newrepublic.com
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
Finishing grad school: theonion.com/i-work-very-...
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
I’ve enjoyed following the NBA playoffs through Le Monde coverage while I’m in France, which kind of gives you the impression one man named Wembanyama is taking on a scurrilous horde known as “the Knicks”
Brad Bolman
This—a clever play on Thatcher's famous comment about socialism—is an excellent way to think about the large and growing chasm between stock market performance and the everyday economics of people's lives.
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Just learned about this game -- you're given 10 artifacts / day (from The Met's collection) and have to guess where they were made and when. 🏺🧪
And it's hard! I only got top 35%, which is kinda sad as an archaeologist & author of our Astonishing Artifacts column @livescience.com.
anthropeum.com
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
"What is happening right now is [the] erasure of humans, trees and stones, and anything that is Palestinian, by settlers under the support of the military."
Amnesty International calls out ethnic cleansing in the #WestBank: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/re... @amnesty.org
Kristina Killgrove
The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
