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On the “horrific” destruction of rare titles to feed AI models www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AISecondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyedwww.theguardian.com

James Van Der Beek’s Texas accent: I don’t want your meetings.

Still tearing up every time we play Glen’s music around the house.

This year’s Intro to Med Humanities begins with @sarialtschuler.bsky.social’s Medical Imagination, then moves to Nicole Piemonte’s Afflicted, and then to Hamington on Moral Injury.

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating ItThe White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.www.nytimes.com

Vautrin.

I sometimes think about a point @samsanders.bsky.social made during Trump 1.0 questioning the journalistic value of having Haberman continue to cover Trump, what new perspective she was bringing.

I got dumped once for asking if my date was a feminist when she said she'd written her UG thesis on women's baseball leagues. Reader, she was very much not a feminist.

Love that Butler argues that vulnerability ought to be understood 1) "as relational and social"; and 2) "in the context of specific social and historical relations that call to be analyzed concretely."

Found the perfect quote to reference in my R&R. Should be able to get this thing done before the semester.

No one moves without a supportive environment and set of technologies. And when those environments start to fall apart or are emphatically unsupportive, we are left to "fall" in some ways, and our very capacity to exercise most basic rights is imperilled--Judith Butler

Could not be more grateful for a decade of @petergray47.bsky.social's leadership of @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social. And am equally thrilled by the new leadership team; there's so much to be excited about in our field www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

New Irish Studies LeadershipAfter 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.www.qub.ac.uk

@brookings.edu helpfully lay out the more complicated reality behind claims that data centres create jobs www.brookings.edu/articles/new...

New evidence on data center employment effects | BrookingsDebates over data center development are missing crucial jobs data. Dany Bahar and Greg Wright share new research on employment effects.www.brookings.edu

Chicago style citations.