Notices by Doctor Historianess (historianess@mastodon.sdf.org)

Yesterday three NYU colleagues were arrested supporting and observing a student protest. One of those colleagues is now being told that she may not be able to return to faculty housing.

Other colleagues have been declared personas non grata, and cannot come on campus for any reason, including teaching their classes.

This is anticipatory obedience and it is going to get worse.

#team500 today a bit of a bust because I discovered that my Dropbox had not been updating properly, and so spent most of my writing time panicking and yelling at clouds.

The problem is now fixed but I don't actually know how i fixed it. This is a sign that I need to dump Dropbox sooner rather than later.

Simon Rosenberg today:

"Why is Trump headed to NM and VA today? It’s clearly a weird, desperate stunt. According to public polling neither state is in play. To me it signifies 2 things: 1) they think they are losing and have to try to put more states in play 2) they know when he campaigns in the battlegrounds it hurts them and they are hiding him for at least a day. To be very clear - these events are not what a winning campaign would do right now."

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/i-would-much-rather-be-us-than-them-aec

@philip_cardella 100% agree.

Once again the NYT is so focused on the Ivy League it's missing the stories of activism on the CUNY campuses around town as well as Rutgers and other non-Ivy NJ schools.

Wow. Intuit/Turbo Tax is seriously evil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/irs-intuit-tax-season.html

When I'm having brunch with a guy and he proceeds to mansplain to me, a scholar of slavery with 24 years of research experience, that of course the U.S. Civil War wasn't about slavery, and everyone who thinks that is unscientific and uncurious, and that, I, in maintaining that the U.S. Civil War was about slavery, am being disrespectful.

In case anyone was wondering how My Sunday was. #histodons

Yesterday, I cut an oversized piece down from 11069 to 9698 words.

It needs to get down to around 8K words.

Wow the NYT is going all out to defend that shady poll they conducted. They've now gotten four days worth of headlines out of that shit. It's getting very old.

@kgehred I've been going with Indigenous or Native, and with specific ethnonyms when I can, as "Indian" seems to be getting increasing pushback. This seems to work!

@legalquilts @kgehred For example, in a first use I might say "Kenienké:haka (Mohawks)" since most people will be familiar with "Mohawks" rather than the preferred ethnonym Kenienké:haka.