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Bo Jacobs

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Nuclear historian, Emeritus @ Hiroshima Peace Inst, visiting @ #UNSW. I research the global #hibakuksha, #nuclear testing, production and waste. #PDX #STS Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022) nuclearbodies.com bojacobs.net

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6h
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 3h
Seems like this #Kaliningrad stuff has been percolating. What the fuck is this sick game?
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 5h
In Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape blocks of ice destined for some of the world's trendiest bars. The luxury product, believed to melt more slowly than regular ice, is a staple of Japan's cocktail culture. 👉 ebx.sh/noAk7B
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 4h
Japan finalized sweeping revisions to its permanent residency rules on Thursday, including higher income and language requirements. 👉 ebx.sh/7FpoS7
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 8h
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4h
Today, because I wished last night not to have the chorus of "Run to Me", a good Bee Gees song, running through my head over and over, the monkey's paw has blessed me with the chorus of "You Win Again", a bad Bee Gees song.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 12h
Thread. There is a clear pattern here. The first sign of a bubble popping is when the ads (in the US) are telling "ordinary" white people to invest. But you know it will pop *right away* when they start targeted advertising to *Black* investors.
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DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 11h
And the risk would be considerable. "Valar CEO Isaiah Taylor has called limits on exposure to radiation a top barrier to industry growth."
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DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator
In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former h...
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 12h
So...the other side in the talks wants to negotiate this away? "In #nuclear campus talks, #Idaho Gov. Brad Little says protecting Snake aquifer is ‘nonnegotiable’“ idahocapitalsun.com/2026/09/25/i...
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In nuclear campus talks, Idaho Gov. Brad Little says protecting Snake aquifer is ‘nonnegotiable’  • Idaho Capital Sun
In July, U.S. Department of Energy officials announced Idaho is a finalist to host one of the new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 12h
All risk from this would be on taxpayers: "The facility would include data centers & some 456 small #nuclear reactors, along with a facility to produce nuclear fuel and for storing nuclear waste, according to a proposal from the company to federal regulators.” #SMR www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 13h
tagging @bojacobs.bsky.social
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 12h
“Nazi Germany Couldn’t Have Built a Working Reactor, Let Alone a Bomb, Study Finds Contrary to historical documents, Nazi Germany’s #nuclear program was far from achieving criticality.” #MED gizmodo.com/nazi-germany...
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Nazi Germany Couldn't Have Built a Working Reactor, Let Alone a Bomb, Study Finds
Contrary to historical documents, Nazi Germany’s nuclear program was far from achieving criticality.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 29/09/2026
My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers
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The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn
It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 14h
If you want to know why I think @andrewhickey.500songs.com 's A History of Rock in 500 Songs is one of the greatest podcasts ever, consider the fact that his brand new 10 minute Patreon bonus episode is 2 hours and 20 minutes long. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Music History Podcast · Updated Bimonthly · Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14h
Our @nichecanada.bsky.social Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis. This would be a great topic to cover. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #uspoli #nuclear #datacenters
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Call for Submissions - Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration
NiCHE is soliciting submissions of blog posts that help document the effects of the current United States federal administration on the discipline of environmental history and the practices of environ...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/09/2026
David Eby losing election to TBD
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David Eby losing election to TBD
VICTORIA, BC - After capitalizing on the disarray of the opposition Conservative party and calling a snap election, David Eby finds himself trailing in the polls to a leader to be determined at a late...
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LAist @laist.com · 30/09/2026
A community-led effort that tested water runoff from the burned Lineage cold-storage facility found that elevated levels of metals made their way to the Los Angeles River. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5kdex ✍️ Alejandra Molina | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Steve Saldivar/The LA Local
Person in protective gear testing ground near LA River with visible debris.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to contest a close election. But if the Republicans contest an election that they've clearly lost badly will GOP voters buy it? (I know MAGA diehards will but will all of them?) Would the Supremes go along with whatever crackpot theory they've come up with?
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lynda williams @lyndalovon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‼️NUCLEAR GRIFT ALERT‼️ The DOE wants to raid the $51 BILLION Nuclear Waste Fund—ratepayer money intended for permanent nuclear waste disposal—to help finance commercial nuclear reprocessing startups, including Oklo, a startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. www.aip.org/fyi/doe-floa...
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DOE Floats Nuclear Waste Consolidation Plan Amid Staffing, Oversight Concerns
The agency seeks flexibility from Congress to form new disposal arrangements with states.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Army Corps wraps up demolition of homes built on top of radioactive contamination near Coldwater Creek” Or as the Corps calls it: Remediation Complete! #nuclear #StL #ColdWaterCreek www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/...
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Army Corps wraps up demo of homes built on top of radioactive contamination near Coldwater Creek
The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers said it had completed a $15 million remediation project that involved demolishing homes in Florissant.
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Silicon Valley got you convinced that #SMR is a brilliant new #nuclear technology? Sorry… “Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.” engelsbergideas.com/essays/smrs-...
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SMRs: a short history of a nuclear pipe dream
Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bruce Wayne should use his vast fortune to buy every copy of The Killing Joke with the new colouring and destroy them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!
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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOMER RADIATION VICTIM! ENTIRE NATION AROUSED! From the 1954 Martin & Lewis comedy, "Living It Up"
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you play the latest main channel episode yet? Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 🐟🥁 In which Andrew takes a close and personal look at Don Van Vliet 👨🏻 🎶 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I signed an NDA for my NDE
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Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is that Brothers show from the waiting room in Hell on Apple TV?
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RIP SMRs: Is It the End of the Line for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors? www.theenergymix.com/rip-smrs-is-...
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RIP SMRs: Is It the End of the Line for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...
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Project on Managing the Atom @managingtheatom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hui Zhang examines China’s expanding uranium enrichment infrastructure, as new centrifuge plants at Lanzhou and Hanzhong bring the country’s enrichment capacity toward a significant new milestone. fissilematerials.org/blog/2026/09...
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China to operate two more large enrichment plants
Hui Zhang In late 2024, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) began construction of two new large centrifuge enrichment plants (CEPs). These plants are expected to begin operations as early as...
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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A new US-Saudi nuclear agreement could open the door to uranium enrichment in Saudi Arabia. Kelsey Davenport of @armscontrolnow.bsky.social explains why the deal’s details raise nonproliferation concerns as Congress reviews the agreement. loom.ly/YJiOhNM
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Democrats propose bill to strike down controversial Saudi nuclear deal
Congress has 90 days to review the agreement on nuclear energy projects.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump’s attacks on CNN raise new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state. by Jake Tapper
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Portlanders, you’ve noticed the local rich shitheads dumping tons of money into our elections? Sometimes it’s because they expect their “pro-business” “law-and-order” candidates to look the other way when the do fraud and corruption and when they do crimes. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/d...
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This will be a big dilemma in 2027:
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Howdy Doomsday @howdydoomsday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Julie London with her husband Bobby Troup in ex-husband Jack Webb's Emergency! I'm not sure whose kid that is.
Nurse Dixie McCall, Doctor Joe Early, and a little kid in a yellow survival  blanket or some such.
Julie London and Bobby Troup in EMERGENCY!
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#EDF faces legal action over France’s continuing #nuclear ties with #Russia. www.rfi.fr/en/environme...
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EDF faces legal action over France’s continuing nuclear ties with Russia
France’s continuing reliance on Russia for part of its nuclear fuel cycle is facing a new legal challenge, with Greenpeace seeking to force French state electricity company EDF to address the environm...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyone reading the agreement would be surprised to learn that #nuclear 'deal' includes a two-year study on the feasibility of #uranium enrichment in the kingdom—a technology that can be used to produce fuel for reactors or nuclear bombs. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/25/s...
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The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Carries Proliferation Risks
Congress should add extra safeguards to prevent Riyadh from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dept. of Feeling Seen: Speaking for those of us who labored on the Baltimore drama mentioned, this -- more than any arbitrary listing -- is gratifying. That said, looking around at our republic and society today, I would prefer to be entirely ungratified.
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK  - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a longer report on Tenney's career as a Hitler-admiring MAGA pastor. unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-whi...
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The White Supremacist Pastor in Jake Lang’s Shadow - UNICORN RIOT
Of the men who accompanied "Jake" Lang on his racial slur-themed event in Minneapolis, Joel Tenney has one of the largest national profiles. Like Lang, the Armenia-obsessed MAGA pastor from Iowa is an...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying  and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.
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