Hi folks, find me on LinkedIn in the future: linkedin.com/in/shane-landr…

So what they’re saying is that he couldn’t even keep a filing system in order. My undergrads could do better than that.

I’ve spent my career documenting state crimes that were clear as day when they took place but the documentation of which is now buried, rewritten and skewed by elite reputational rehab (and attempts to destroy reputations of journalists.) Twitter is an evidence trail. Protect it.

Musk buying Twitter is a merely symptom of a disease. The disease is control of public discourse by billionaire kleptocrats, extremists, and backers of mafia states. It’s the potential loss of documentation and the ability to track our own history, much less build our own future.

Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion.

That was fast. The new Florida Board of Education appointee praises a parent for reporting a teacher’s Protect Trans Kids shirt as “unacceptable attire.” This took place yesterday on #TransDayOfVisibility

If you’re a developer working on this quit your job.

Material culture/photo nerds: tell me what I should know about these images of my paternal grandmother, circa 1930s. Originals are tiny, no more than 1.5 x 2 inches (smaller, IIRC). What kind of camera made these? A photo booth perhaps?

So here's a neat thing I just learned. Our Uni President resigned for alleged sexual harassment but apparently he's still eligible to return to the classroom... at a salary that totals $310,000 *more* than the average assistant professor here makes

miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…

Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, & said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”

As long as we're talking about filibusters on MLK Day, let's remember that Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) waged a filibuster against the creation of MLK Day.

[COVID and schizophrenia thread 🧵]

did you know that the strongest risk factor for dying of COVID is age? probably.

did you know the SECOND strongest risk factor is schizophrenia diagnosis? let's talk eugenics bc i have schizo & covid and i don't want to die out here.

Miami is next.

The correct way to phrase it is 'Sen. Kyrsten Sinema does not support the voting rights bill.'

🎉 It’s Queer Data publication day! 🎉

Big wow moment to publish my work on gender, sex and sexuality data and how we use data about LGBTQ lives to change the world for the better!

#twitterstorians I'm teaching a course on Conspiracy Theories in UShist, and am looking for pamphlets/literature related to the Silver Shirts or William Pelley. It appears little has been digitized. Hoping to give my students a broad look into 1920s–30s anti-Semitism in the US.