Reposted by Jacob RomanowDr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 19hThis is identical to the old complaints that children were getting abortions without parental permission. It's projecting the anxiety of control from fascism and the patriarchal family onto the places where children become individual persons. 29642
Reposted by Jacob RomanowStand Up for Yale @standupforyale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On Friday, 10/2, Stand Up for Yale joined students and faculty at Yale protesting the administration's efforts to cut a deal with Trump by constructing a replica of the famous Lipstick sculpture - a symbol of freedom of speech from the 1960s. A thread of news articles for you...newhavenindependent.org"Lipstick" Traces Latest Yalie Protest - New Haven IndependentAgainst potential settlement with the Trump administration over the university's admissions policies. 11611
Reposted by Jacob RomanowGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 296113474115
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biology is applied chemistry is applied physics is applied math is applied logic is applied English QED 061
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAnnie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026using angelou's likeness in this way is obscene and reckless and exactly on brand for this model, which is a problem for everyone in secondary and higher ed from harvard on down 59721
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Surely one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. A prolific, important songwriter with a voice that could make you cry and a wit that could make you gasp. The King. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.comMighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91Slinger Francisco, who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died on Sunday surrounded by family in New York 020
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's bleakly hilarious that their list alphabetizes "Jr." under J 010
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Much more accurate, and furthermore helpful in that the unwieldiness forces analysis of both processes and often-misleading metaphors that are otherwise easy to naturalize 000
Reposted by Jacob RomanowMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.motherjones.comNewsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming careCalifornia’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law. 1911116462
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" 110
Reposted by Jacob RomanowPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I am used to dealing with the dead." Read Sarah Tindal Kareem's essay, "Vita Nova," in the Summer 2026 issue of Ploughshares: pshares.org/issue-article/vita-nova 096
Reposted by Jacob Romanowe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h... 412764431
Reposted by Jacob RomanowNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841441674
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Give us a Bass Persuades/Come On Fhqwhgads mashup, cowards 010
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/09/2026I think Donald Trump is letting the Eritrean government get away with the Tigray genocide in exchange for them fighting the Houthis for control of the Red Sea www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comUS lifts sanctions targeting Eritrea's ruling party and the militaryThe United States has lifted sanctions against Eritrea’s ruling party and military, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury 02211
Reposted by Jacob RomanowJacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone knows you shouldn't represent yourself in court; humanists defending the humanities is bad for the humanities and bad for the defense of the humanities and that is why they want us to do it (not to say we never should—but we should get real about why we're being asked). 1223
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone knows you shouldn't represent yourself in court; humanists defending the humanities is bad for the humanities and bad for the defense of the humanities and that is why they want us to do it (not to say we never should—but we should get real about why we're being asked). 1223
Reposted by Jacob RomanowTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great thread altogether, but this is the point I keep returning to over the last four years. The rest of us are in many ways along for the ride of the tech sector attempting to enforce labor discipline on a highly trained workforce w a tool that potentially is increasing their leverage. 1175
Reposted by Jacob RomanowJim Cardillo @jimcardillo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Godspeed Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys. A true pioneer. 121
Reposted by Jacob RomanowEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one. 5745211112
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The hype machine loves asking about how tech alters our understanding of self (and of course it does, as ever) but chronically avoids asking how tech alters our understanding of (human) others—that is instructive 000
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDa Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026People don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear. 1168567
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Agreed! Though perhaps with an analogue on the level of genre—Quilp IS a condensation of the early/pre-Victorian stage in a way that OCS confronts as an aesthetic (if not a social) problem 010
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Definitely not all. But quite a few of them (Tulkinghorn, Bill Sykes, Madame Defarge, Uriah) are set up as products or condensations of structural phenomena. In a way, Boffin is the extreme case: a villain who doesn't even have to be a villain, but just has to be in the structural position of one 330
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Totally, both recent and not that recent—I think of Edelman's apologia for Scrooge in No Future as one of the most bracing readings of Dickens out there! 010
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331301631
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I think both readings are kind of right. Dickens diverges from standard melodramatic form in his visibly herculean efforts to humanize his villains precisely BECAUSE they are emblematic of structural evils—the novels are always scrambling to re-narrativize the depiction of systems 370
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/08/2026American Left discard of your consumerist worldview of politics challenge (impossible) 28312
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer. 171795474
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Some I don't see mentioned yet: Germinal, King Solomon's Mines, Train Dreams, "Resolution and Independence" 160
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Actually, NO reading "counts." Counts for what? For whom? Are we competing to get a pizza party? Do you count how many times a year you go swimming or drink a cup of coffee? Thinking and feeling are not side hustles 141
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Totally agree that information is a counterproductive framing but is it really just a matter of patterns? (—> LLM-generated text is just as useful?) What seems maybe missing here are the communal (/not-just-individual) aspects—text as communication, but also interpretive communities? 120
Reposted by Jacob RomanowSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture. 7236441228
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026First thought was no but second thought was is Chihuly really a “craft artist”?? 130
Reposted by Jacob RomanowElizabeth Greeniaus @elizabethcg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Obviously the V-word has been the headline here, but I love Jake’s piece for the way it demonstrates the illuminating power of distinctly *literary* expertise. 021
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026But that's not actually related. However one feels about the use of LLMs in the production of scholarship, "I chose not to try to fix these errors as an experiment" is totally disqualifying (+ is a disavowal of accountability for the speech act regardless of how many questions he answers online). 120
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Eh isn't it kind of the old "a computer can never be held accountable therefore..."? Errors always happen, but the principle that "all errors are my own" serves way more than a politeness function. This slippery rhetoric around how errors are produced seems like a clear + serious process concern. 120
Reposted by Jacob Romanowdave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect 89160193695
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In a pedagogical context I think about this student op-ed a lot (h/t @peonies.bsky.social): dailytarheel.com/article/opin...dailytarheel.comColumn: Make a hard mode for humanities"Make a humanities track that is actually difficult. You might learn something personally and culturally valuable along the way. It wouldn’t be for everyone, and that would be the point." 194