I'm probably done using Twitter now, but I just want to post one last thing: Robert Reich put up his UC Berkeley 'Wealth and Poverty' lectures on YouTube recently and so far although the basics are well-understood I'm finding them a 10/10, highly recommend.
Stay classy, folks.

May I remind NYC Mayor Eric Adams that, as Cher Horowitz famously said, 'It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty' ?
Why don't you kick out multimillionaires who own dozens of empty condos instead of telling migrants the US is full?
bbc.com/news/world-us-…

This is the point in the summer where I start to freak out about how quickly the first half went and realize I don't have time for everything

Respectfully: one has to work so hard to extract the good ideas in Wittgenstein (and lean hard on his teachers and interpreters) that I almost venture to say the ideas aren't fully attributable to his own independent work.

Hispanic and Black students have been among the least likely to attain college even before today's striking down of Affirmative Action, and all I can be is sad.

Gosh I wish I was an aesthetic phenomenon

(I do want to read this book some day though)

Finished the first-pass translation of Primero Sueño on this random Tuesday. 💁‍♀️(Why is there no nun emoji? But there are elves and vampires??)
Now for the other 12 months of editing (and eventually, moving on to The Reply to Sor Filotea)...

Just over 50 lines left to translate out of 975 and I feel like I've finally gotten a sense of SJ's deep style. I'm really not doing her justice yet but I think I've caught glimmers of hope that it can get better.

After over a year of on and off work, I have less than 150 lines left for a first-pass translation of Sor Juana's 'Primero Sueño'. It has been an excessively humbling experience.

When you're trying to log in to a 2-factor auth system but you have a cat on your lap and your phone is in another room 😞

My students out here making me cry

In other news I've had a migraine since Friday (today is Tuesday, that's too many days) and I threw up twice last night, so I'm just having the best week ever and can totally pull off everything I have to do before Friday