{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Michael Rosenow", "icon": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dbec65f526ee6e6c53f2819a4dcc9e73?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png", "home_page_url": "https://mrosenow.micro.blog/", "feed_url": "https://mrosenow.micro.blog/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://mrosenow.micro.blog/2026/10/11/not-the-result-i-was.html", "content_html": "

Not the result I was hoping for at Anfield today. Credit to Manchester City players, though, for delivering such a performance in the midst of the scandal swirling around the team. ⚽️

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Our campus librarians always do a terrific job recognizing Banned Books week. I spotted this poster today. It was one of several different eye-catching designs from the American Library Association.

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I’m looking forward to hearing a talk this afternoon by my colleague Roger Pauly. He’s discussing the research at the heart of his forthcoming article in the Journal of World History.

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Started reading: HOW TO KILL A WITCH: the patriarchy’s guide to silencing women by ZOE VENDITOZZI 📚

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Finished reading: Orwell by Jeffrey Meyers 📚

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I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Manchester City scandal. It could shake up the Premier League and Champions League for several years if the consequences are commensurate with the cheating. ⚽️

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Jill Lepore, responding to Harvard College Dean David J. Deming’s recommendation that students use AI in writing-intensive classes in the Harvard Crimson:

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Putting speed and efficiency by way of automation above all other considerations, comes not from the priorities of intellectual inquiry or scientific experimentation but from the business models of corporations.⁠⁠

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It’s great news that the Working History podcast is back with weekly episodes planned and the first one available now. Episodes from the back catalogue are worth a listen as well.

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It’s official, “Working History” is back! In our first episode back, Beth English—the founder, host, and producer of “Working History” vol 1—interviews Sarah McNamara, president of the Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA), Eileen Boris, president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), Julie Greene, editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and Mae Ngai, senior editor of International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH). Together they discuss their vision for the podcast, developments in labor history, global authoritarianism, and labor issues past and present.

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I’m pen curious today and trying out a Uniball Roller Micro 0.5mm to see if I like it better than my current favorite general-purpose pen, the Uniball Jetstream RT.

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