37 years ago, on the 5th of June 1989, a still unidentified Chinese man blocked a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square a day after that square had been forcibly cleared by the Chinese government. Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators had been killed. #otd #history 🗃️
They are open now. Research appointment made.
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
Sigh.
Who’s gonna tell him?
This Many Years Ago
Michael Oberg
Michael Oberg
I’m scheduled to give a lecture at the Webster Library in a couple of months. I am debating whether to cancel. I definitely will make sure that I purchase nothing in the town of Webster until the bigots on the town board reverse course.
Michael Oberg
There are hundreds and hundreds of people w/Ph.D degrees who never got the chance to become professors because of the shitty job market.
Retire, quit, yeet yourself into the sun. ☀️ f you can’t legitimately produce just get out of the way for someone who cares.
Laurel Gale
I’ve been thinking a lot about history is taught in New York State. Friends, we have work to do. michaelleroyoberg.com/teaching-nat...
According to the Trump administration, Unitarian Universalism is no longer a religion.
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And he had a Nazi tattoo, right there, on his chest.
Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
If you spend any time listening to conservative critics of social studies education, you would think that American teachers do little but preach to their students “woke ideology.” The Trump a…
Just learned that a set of documents I would need for a project I was contemplating—some Amnesty International files connected to a California murder trial in the 1970s are nearby at Columbia…..and closed to researchers until 2053z
Michael Oberg
Mullin: Are you calling me a racist?
Green: Reclaiming my time. Ask him to shut up! Shut up!
Mullin: No one will call me a racist. I’m Cherokee.
These people need to be shunned and banished from universities.
Professor used AI to write an op-ed about *academic integrity* (it has since been retracted by the original publisher)
Webster, New York, pulled down their town's Pride flag yesterday.
I get it--workloads suck, pay sucks, we all hate grading. But using genAI to give evaluation and feedback is a big 'fuck you' to both your students and the very enterprise of higher education.
