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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to hanging out this weekend where we can keep gassing each other up [note unintentional energy humanities joke]

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

This project would not have happened were it not for Nate's book.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 2d

A real honor to nearly bookend (with a late cameo following earlier more substantive appearances!) this amazing series. The depth and breadth of Matt's work here is truly awe inspiring. (And good morning to my brother in late-alphabetical sorting, Yanis Varoufakis.)

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

A landing page for the completed “A Tale of Today” series in which (crossing fingers) all the links to episode bibliographies work.

A Tale of Today (2024-2025)

Episode 1: The Age of Insecurity (September 9, 2024) A new season of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 150-year-old novel, The Gilded Age…

mattseybold.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

A landing page for the completed “A Tale of Today” series in which (crossing fingers) all the links to episode bibliographies work.

A Tale of Today (2024-2025)

Episode 1: The Age of Insecurity (September 9, 2024) A new season of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 150-year-old novel, The Gilded Age…

mattseybold.com

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 8d

👉 👈 What if we kissed in a bar brawl ☺️ setting in motion a fundamental tension or conflict about cycles of violence and how hard it is to break them 🤭

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 8d

Who said it, Emily Brontë or Werner Herzog?

Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 10d

‘Nature is an inexplicable problem; it exists on a principle of destruction. Every being must be the tireless instrument of death to others, or itself must cease to live, yet nonetheless we celebrate the day of our birth, & we praise God for having entered such a world’. Emily Brontë, 1842

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 8d

no disrespect but is your supposedly exciting "archival find" more impressive than this?

"Ok this is exciting. new archival discovery of a young Melville's first art project!"

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8d

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 9d

this question/convo is very @annakornbluh.bsky.social coded

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 9d

💯 🤝 💦

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 9d

Let me add: Work wife

Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

reminder:

Tropes invented by Herman melville
weird guy
Something in the natural world is a symbol weird animal
Only one bed at the inn!
Love triangle
Workplace romance
Interesting details
The sea

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10d

Nate, this is a poem!

Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

reminder:

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

reminder:

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

I did indeed. Even I couldn't make a Moby-Dick joke out of it -- simply too rad.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10d

Leading to Ahab’s famous reply, “I came here to chew bubblegum and kick one fish’s ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum”

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11d

I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14d

fwiw “taught me a lot about whales” is part of the joke bc Ahab muses extensively on the “meaning” of whales, or rather one specific whale, in a monomaniacal, Manichean, metaphysical framework; Ishmael seems to take up this obsession but translate it into a more rationalistic idiom of taxonomy etc 🐳

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14d

The whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail! #BelieveScience

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14d

crocheted with malice 😍

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14d

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

But he got your crewmates killed?

I don't recall the details. He was a very magnetic person. He taught me a lot about whales. I don’t know anyone who showed that level of curiosity.

Well, next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about The Pequod I will definitely drop the "whale facts" thing to show that people have two sides.

Yeah.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 15d

pretty sad AI flubbed this gimme

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

"The Commission’s co-chairs seem insistent on becoming the patrons of one particular faction of MA Jews—not only providing a platform for them to dominate a different faction but also empowering them to use their access as “court Jews” to destroy the right to free expression in our state."

Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism - Boston Review

Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.

www.bostonreview.net

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 19d

The evidence has been right there all along

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 20d

again just a gentle reminder that Melville intended this to be read in Pee-wee Herman's "I know you are but what am I?" voice

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20d

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 20d

Genuinely great thread. Also this is how Matt Seybold's seductive baritone on the "American Vandal" podcast radicalized me into a Keynesian

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21d

American media has been manufacturing parasocial reactionaries for decades. Limbaugh, Beck, Shapiro, Jones, Carlson, Hannity, etc. The importance of these figures is not ideological purity, consistency, inventiveness, etc. It’s that they keep you company in your cab, your cubicle, on your commute.

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 22d

Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and beyond, come hear me talk about the past 4 billion years or so with my friend Phoebe, geologist extraordinaire, at the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Thursday 7pm

Phoebe Cohen @phoebefossil.bsky.social · 22d

Boston and Camberville! See you Thursday! I am 99% done with this epic book and so excited to blather with @peterbrannen.bsky.social about it at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

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