Chelsea Stieber
@chelseastieber
Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020 Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023 NOLA <—> DC
Rome is burning but will anyone join me in the petition to standardize “bons mots” in English? I can’t take any more of these “bon mots” in English-language culture journalism
Bringing academic rigor to bear on the present with Nineteenth-Century French Studies or, how Victor Hugo and Louis-Napoléon can help us understand the temporality of Donald Trump and the slow motion coup Please read and share! www.ncfs-journal.org/chronique-ea...
11 yr old got thrown a Hot Ones gauntlet by his aunt and uncle for his birthday, complete with pre-prepared interview questions (kid has been into hot sauces for a while now). They sauced an extra set of wings so I could participate behind the scenes. It was glorious!
France’s reflecting pool game remains unparalleled. American flag blue what?
Spotted @brettrushforth.bsky.social in DC at Politics and Prose🤓
Spent an evening watching Andrew Bird whistle with an orchestra and it was lovely. And I feel old AF
As an exemplar of the mindset of peace, Pope quotes Gandalf: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till”
On church & slavery Leo admits 18 centuries "for its full incompatibility with slavery to be explicitly recognized" "the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons" "For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon."
Pope Leo! "To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity. It means freeing technology from monopolistic control and opening it to discussion and debate, therefore making it human-friendly and restoring it to the plurality of human cultures and ways of life"
AI cannot be morally neutral 📢📢📢 "From this follows a simple but compelling consequence: we cannot consider AI to be morally neutral." This one is worth unpacking in full...
(cont, Pope on AI) "When it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.” YES.
Ok now on to the AI. Technology and Dominance, THE GRANDEUR OF HUMANITY IN LIGHT OF THE PROMISES OF AI. I mean it’s there in the title.
It's available in 7 languages other than English. Can't imagine there was any machine translation there! Maybe that's why it took 10 days between the signing and its release today?
Consoling myself as I research with a running list of all of the different kinds of WPA-style projects I’ll get to work on after it all goes to shit
Never thought I’d be waiting for a papal encyclical like a record drop, but here we are. Unprecedented times indeed. www.npr.org/2026/05/15/g...
Come work at the coolest university library in the US! library.tulane.edu/news/Seeks_T...
This drives my students nuts I’m sure because they don’t have immediate access to the gradebook but…you can’t hack this
The Bravo universe has broken containment. Ugh and VPR at that. It’s not safe out there!