Henry Snow

From Caribbean slaveholders to Victorian eugenicists to Nazi steel executives, the worst people imaginable have told us that love is meaningless, ethics are impossible, and community is a mirage. They've shaped the very language we use to talk about work and the economy. This book is a response.

After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

while I'm still on the academic job market I am also now looking beyond it-- if you or anyone you know might need a researcher with the skills necessary to dig up evidence of >200 year old conspiracies or connect four centuries of economic thought you know where to find me

"When you said 'Giving What We Can' people assumed you meant what you were capable of. Not what you felt like. You see why people would think that, right?"

intersectional tenure track faculty job @ university of washington research in ethical, social, legal, policy, and/or humanistic dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive technologies in science, medicine, biomedical research and health care apply.interfolio.com/193732

Don't forget to sign up for "The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean" if you're keen to join the friendly & welcoming London Group of Historical Geographers in person or online for this Tuesday's Institute of Historical Research seminar.

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

our only TV is about the age of my students and has no wireless connection capabilities of any kind. I will not get rid of it until it explodes

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Latest newsletter post: what are artisans and what makes them different from other workers? buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

Latest newsletter post: what are artisans and what makes them different from other workers? buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Democrats have trifecta control of government in 16 states; but not one of them has done what Republicans in Iowa and Florida have done in pumping millions of dollars into the humanities. ballotpedia.org/State_govern...

here's a fun old post about the strangeness of geometry in high dimensions. "The volume of the unit-sphere goes to 0 as d grows! A high dimensional unit sphere encloses almost no volume!"

from an FAQ EA published about the saudi deal last year aftermath.site/ea-saudi-ara...

this was too vague: I am talking about Thomas Bayes

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

This isn't what I intended my membership dues to be used for . . . The whole story is so incredible, the behavior described so egregiously authoritarian, that it really has to be read in full. 🗃️

Many people in writer Rachel Handler’s life felt that something was amiss, that commercial chocolate didn’t taste the way it used to. For our Cover Story, Handler spends several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex to find out why. www.grubstreet.com/article/choc...

there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

mr. el-sayed do you disavow the universal brotherhood of mankind

historiography now banned from historiography class in Texas