Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
“imagine a classics professor” – The New Yorker
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
January 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
Ok that’s enough Online
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Ok that’s enough Online
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
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In one set of documents, government officials acknowledged that there were virtually no grounds for deporting the students and expressed concern that courts would “closely scrutinize” the State Department’s efforts to deport them based on their advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ju...
Exhibits 247-250
knightcolumbia.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
In one set of documents, government officials acknowledged that there were virtually no grounds for deporting the students and expressed concern that courts would “closely scrutinize” the State Department’s efforts to deport them based on their advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ju...
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Several memos show that “government investigators searched for findings of wrongdoing on the part of the students, but internally acknowledged that they had found the task difficult,” reports @zjmontague.bsky.social @nytimes.com.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Several memos show that “government investigators searched for findings of wrongdoing on the part of the students, but internally acknowledged that they had found the task difficult,” reports @zjmontague.bsky.social @nytimes.com.
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Documents prepared by DHS and State reveal the admin targeted 5 students—Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chung—for deportation simply because they participated in pro-Palestinian protests or published writing about Gaza—all First Amendment-protected speech.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Documents prepared by DHS and State reveal the admin targeted 5 students—Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chung—for deportation simply because they participated in pro-Palestinian protests or published writing about Gaza—all First Amendment-protected speech.
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Last week, Judge William G. Young unsealed hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted as evidence in our legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian activism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Last week, Judge William G. Young unsealed hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted as evidence in our legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian activism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
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The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.
my emerging theory is that the political press literally does not believe in objective reality in any meaningful sense. there is only what A says and what B says and how that affects the horse race
January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.
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I've been waiting for this shoe to drip. In particular I think COVID accelerated a shift to e-only resources for researchers and now we (universities) are both addicted to these services and increasingly unable to afford them.
Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs 📚
www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs
The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.
www.emorywheel.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I've been waiting for this shoe to drip. In particular I think COVID accelerated a shift to e-only resources for researchers and now we (universities) are both addicted to these services and increasingly unable to afford them.
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You should read this.
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A Report from Occupied Territory
www.thenation.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
You should read this.
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
@ztul.bsky.social they gave Yoshi a gun in the new Mario movie trailer
January 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
@ztul.bsky.social they gave Yoshi a gun in the new Mario movie trailer
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Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
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"We should bear witness to the brutality and demand that our government protect our freedoms—not crush them with armed, masked men who think they can act with impunity. As people who have chosen learning, it’s the least we can do." —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on Minneapolis
Minneapolis is Now Ground Zero for Our Democracy
www.wesleyan.edu
January 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
"We should bear witness to the brutality and demand that our government protect our freedoms—not crush them with armed, masked men who think they can act with impunity. As people who have chosen learning, it’s the least we can do." —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on Minneapolis
This is how we understood the crackdown on campus Gaza protests at the time. They don’t even realize they have these problems for quite some time, if ever, because they crave or are satisfied by the spectacles of violence their escalation produces
they have no ability to back down and recalibrate AND they lack a theory of mind for their opponents
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
This is how we understood the crackdown on campus Gaza protests at the time. They don’t even realize they have these problems for quite some time, if ever, because they crave or are satisfied by the spectacles of violence their escalation produces
Here’s what you do. You print out a bunch of pictures of victims to honor. Put them in sleeves if it’s going to be rainy. Pick a spot on campus and tell all your colleagues when to be there and to tell all their friends too. Everyone who stays after the vigil is your first organizing group
Since last spring, colleagues at my school and several others have held weekly vigils Monday at noon on campus for victims of ICE. if you’re thinking of organizing on your campus after this latest travesty, I recommend joining them. it’s something lots of people want to show up for
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Here’s what you do. You print out a bunch of pictures of victims to honor. Put them in sleeves if it’s going to be rainy. Pick a spot on campus and tell all your colleagues when to be there and to tell all their friends too. Everyone who stays after the vigil is your first organizing group
Since last spring, colleagues at my school and several others have held weekly vigils Monday at noon on campus for victims of ICE. if you’re thinking of organizing on your campus after this latest travesty, I recommend joining them. it’s something lots of people want to show up for
January 25, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Since last spring, colleagues at my school and several others have held weekly vigils Monday at noon on campus for victims of ICE. if you’re thinking of organizing on your campus after this latest travesty, I recommend joining them. it’s something lots of people want to show up for
Logging on with an extremely specific travel question, what’s my best option for lunch at or near the Frankfurt hbf?
January 20, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Logging on with an extremely specific travel question, what’s my best option for lunch at or near the Frankfurt hbf?
OK logging off again, ttyl, abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
OK logging off again, ttyl, abolish ICE
Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...
Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26)
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within t...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...
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Pasts Imperfect is back from break! This week, we focus on AI ethics and labor with @illdottore.bsky.social, Christine Johnston & Leigh Anne Lieberman. Then, ancient bees in jawbones, Roman camels in Basel, a book on temple robbery, new ancient world journals @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more
Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26)
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within t...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Pasts Imperfect is back from break! This week, we focus on AI ethics and labor with @illdottore.bsky.social, Christine Johnston & Leigh Anne Lieberman. Then, ancient bees in jawbones, Roman camels in Basel, a book on temple robbery, new ancient world journals @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more
See y’all later!
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
See y’all later!
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The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
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How to See the Past Seeing the Past — Sonja Drimmer
When I ask the question, "why can't computer vision see the past?" the narrow answer is because computer vision is linear algebra, and as an art historian I reject the premise that math is sight. ...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...