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Anna Kornbluh

@annakornbluh.bsky.social
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nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast www.annakornbluh.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10h
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h
ProPublica has made a database of all the incidents they could find where ICE detained citizens. Important work. This kind of data is too often hidden and lost.
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 6h
Student in the infrastructure class today gave a sobering presentation on fifty years of problems with the Palisades nuclear plant on the coast of Lake Michigan. On the eve of restart, the hits just keep coming. (attn @annakornbluh.bsky.social) www.mlive.com/environment/...
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Federal regulators investigating tilted fuel assembly at Michigan nuclear plant
Engineers are working on a plan to retrieve the tilted fuel assembly and return it to the spent-fuel pool.
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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 7h
This thread is offcuts from the Brazil scriptwriting room floor
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h
The best advice for grad students is to have them picture an enormous fire. Their work is on fire. The buildings are on fire. The fire has consumed all and its flames reach into space and consume even the cold and silent moon. Also don’t enter your original work into a chatbot.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9h
it me, lady admin, dumpster diving a stained chair to replace my broken one where’s that “sad chairs of academia” tumblr
chair that rolls. maybe somebody peed it?

brutalism for beauty
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11h
teaching today
Cultural Capital; Why It’s OK To Love Bad Movies
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12h
You can’t blame faculty for declining trust in universities. It’s the policymakers - trustees, high level administrators - at fault. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
Screenshot of Cornell Daily Sun survey of degree of trust/distrust in Cornell to handle sexual assault reports fairly.
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 13h
Still unreported in US media is how French protests relate to education in the US. Analysis here: futureschools.substack.com/p/answers-fr...
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Answers From France About Education Reform
French students’ demonstrations are in the news without analysis of why they matter to us
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 14h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 13h
delighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +
Slide from Culture Industry lecture: The Culture Industry / Art Under Late Capitalism. "The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry" (99).Diagram from mid 2010s showing the consolidation of media conglomerates in publishing-- now hilariously (?) obsolete
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h
middle age is probably mid life crisis definitely body crisis definitely beloved friends in either or both of those crises and most definitely parents in body crisis and that's before doing middle age in ascendant authoritarianism OY
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h
new in paperback! sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mode...
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Mode of Address
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15h
some art press for a good thing "Public artworks and zine-making workshops are on this year’s line-up, uniting artists and cultural organizations against an increasingly authoritarian administration." #falloffreedom hyperallergic.com/fall-of-free...
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Fall of Freedom Returns With Hundreds of Anti-Authoritarian Art Actions
Public artworks and zine-making workshops are on this year’s line-up, uniting artists and cultural organizations against an increasingly authoritarian administration.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co
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Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
Complaints filed last week target access to both mifepristone and misoprostol, a back-up abortion pill method.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026
You should go
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh what’s that it’s yellow dinner yet again with verdant assist from roofmatoes and roofscallion
roofmatoes including green ones, cukes red lentils that cook yellow naanmango
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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW ENGLAND REVIEW OF BOATS ISSUE 1 will be here before you haul your boat out of the water for the winter (probably)
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do you have something planned for #BannedBooksWeek? An event, read in, fundraiser, etc? Share it with us so we can give it a boost!
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Titus Blome @derlampenputzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
encountering @annakornbluh.bsky.social|s great book in the oddest of places
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DEVELOPING: Marimar Martinez challenges feds' narrative while announcing lawsuit over her shooting by Border Patrol: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent challenges feds’ narrative while announcing lawsuit
Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and hit with criminal charges after she was shot by agent Charles Exum on Oct. 5, 2025. Since she was exonerated, Martinez has advocated against the...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Chicago populous yearns for pedestrianized streets. Lincoln Square should be closed to cars year-round.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solidarity with our AFTNJ/College Council sibling Dr. Norma Bowe from Kean Federation of Teachers ✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This nurse was assaulted by ICE – and it was caught on video. Now she wants her day in court
Norma Bowe, 69, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So much of the "quit wasting time and money on humanities programs" comes from dudes with humanities degrees from the Ivies. They get to have a broad, liberal, meaningful education, but it's narrow, lifeless career prep for the rest of y'all.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In you, in #Michigan, ever wondered why we elect the Boards of #Trustees for UM (Ann Arbor), MSU (East Lansing) and Wayne State (Detroit), @michiganpublic.bsky.social's Dustin Dwyer has some answers for you #HigherEd #Goverance www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...
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The Mids: University governing boards on your ballot?
In Michigan, we vote for the people who oversee three of our public universities. Each university also uses a different word for the same role. Regents for the University of Michigan (U of M), Trustee...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
today in books received so many congrats to @awestfell.bsky.social on this creative achievement! and @beltpublishing.bsky.social !
Literary Voyagers by Andrew Wittkop
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the Monday morning crowd! I wrote about DTF St Louis and the wonderfully strange TV Steven Conrad has made over the years (Patriot! Perpetual Grace LTD!), and why all that textual idiosyncrasy hits so good right now lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...
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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books
Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m still floating from this by @leahlitman.bsky.social: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
grateful to all the artists, poets, neighbors, critics, bookbinders, journalists, fans, and partiers who made ART IN THESE TIMES a delight. the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory thus concludes its first curatorial experiment contact us to propose events! interccect.com
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InterCcECT
Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we need the longest long form journalism ethnographing these practices. they're an entire alternative economic value system. no money changes hands, infinite libiidnal energy and time go in to documenting, comms, innoculating owner against waste, ensuring the recipient gets off. good bananas.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the post art show restorative pickle
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
today! poetry reading! featuring Daniel Borzutzky, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Angelica Davila, and Jose-Luis Moctezuma join us at 3pm concluding exhibition viewing hours 12pm-5pm interccect.com/2026/09/10/a... #falloffreedom
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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition
ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
only slightly less unacceptable "A-Push"
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
a tale of two muffins
roofscallion tomato cheddar egg muffins and sour cream chocolate chip muffins
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
today! poetry reading! featuring Daniel Borzutzky, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Angelica Davila, and Jose-Luis Moctezuma join us at 3pm concluding exhibition viewing hours 12pm-5pm interccect.com/2026/09/10/a... #falloffreedom
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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition
ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Join us for a staged reading of my play, *The Return of Benjamin Lay*, co-written with Naomi Wallace, to be at Georgetown University's Riggs Library, Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, at 7:30pm EDT. events.georgetown.edu/performingar...
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The Return of Benjamin Lay
A fearless abolitionist returns from the grave. Experience this staged reading of “The Return of Benjamin Lay”, starring Mark Povinelli. One ma...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 YearsWorkers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows
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Brandon Massey @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was a blast!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wedge night with roofscallion ranch
wedge salad w radish and tons of scallions pan seared thighs melon and rice pilaf
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
bookbinding workshop set up!
artist Regin Igloria about to lead workshop
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