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Kenny Linden

@kennylinden.bsky.social
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I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even if they aren't at the level of nobles, kulaks can still be exploitative.
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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Beatles are a perfect example of how to make the most out of a blank check from your studio and your audience. They were too big to fail, so they got weirder, experimenting and building on what less commercial acts were doing. Their popularity actually expanded the world of pop music.
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025
I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not reached by the frost…’ Strider knows the rhyme from Gandalf’s letter! ‘I am Aragorn son of Arathorn and if by life or death I can save you, I will.’
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Create a tool: don’t profit. Tool creates problem: don’t profit. Create solution to problem: profit yet?
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12/06/2026
As passionate as I am about space exploration, I would sacrifice all of SpaceX and its sci-fi rockets in a heartbeat if it could save even one person in a faraway country. Now, all of that is associated with too much cruelty and bloodshed, an indelible stain that has turned the X into a gravestone☠️
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, exactly. People don't want data centers in their backyards, but there has not been the clear connection to climate and broader anti-AI movement as far as I can tell.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Many people act like I'm a crazy Luddite for not using AI in my work, but honestly at this point I want to hear a really good argument for using it, at least in scholarly/creative work. The downsides just seem way too significant, and they appear to be growing day by day
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everything you ever needed to know to make fish skin and fish leather clothing! 👇👇👇 edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4... Detailed comparative study between Nivkh, Nanai/Heje, and Ainu in Amuria from a scholar who had trained as a fashion designer, with photographs of some beautiful artifacts
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sam and Frodo threaten the willow with fire, but Merry and Pippin scream; it has started to crush them. Then—a song? Downstream, behind them, they hear: ‘Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!’
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great to see the two biggest public school systems in the US applying AI restrictions. And yes, both can go even farther!
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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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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026
Of all the steps in the writing process that AI allows you to skip, research is the one I would miss the most. Unexpected things often happen; for instance, I stumbled upon the creator of the Zephyr from BSG—even though that information isn't listed anywhere—while I was researching The Clone Wars.🤷
3D render of the original CGI model of the Zephyr
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hi friends, does anyone have experience presenting via poster at a conference and would be willing to share some advice? I am planning on participating at a climate symposium at Rutgers in November, and the format is via poster. I'll be talking about zud (winter disasters) and drought in Mongolia.
Flyer for Rutgers climate symposium
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I see history like fire, it can be transformative or destructive, and fire needs fuel. For better or worse history is fuelled by us, we are its agents and its interlocutors, it consumes us and, in the end, we become it... 🔥
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"...calling a text extruded from an LLM a ‘history’ is, quite literally, a category error. There are far too many deliberations, choices, and cares in the production of a history for it to be something statistically generated, a mere algorithmic derivative." #NoAIintheclassroom #skystorians
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Despite some people's claims, the socialist-era Orkhon sheep breed is alive and well. Hybrid breeds were not a boondoggle or foreign imposition. They were a socialist Mongolian innovation, and their weaknesses were reckoned to be worth their strengths. www.facebook.com/orkhonsheep
Picture of a post from Orkhon Sheep facebook page, Mongolian and English.
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Assembly Bill 2494 would have eliminated…a logging mandate in favor of prioritizing carbon storage, wildfire resilience and biodiversity conservation… and agreements with Native American tribes to integrate their traditional knowledge into managing the land.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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In blow to tribes, Newsom vetoes bill that would have remade little-known state forests
Gov. Gavin Newsom said AB 2494 could have hampered research in demonstration forests, dealing a setback to tribes and environmentalists pushing to curb commercial logging.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today would have been Jim Henson's 90th Birthday. Truly one of the greats. youtu.be/WS3Lkc6Gzlk?...
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Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Movie
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Age of Empires II was the reason I got into history, specifically Mongolian history. The fact that it was still going strong was truly impressive, and it is outrageous that they are destroyed like so many other studios by these evil megacorps.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a great introduction to the history and present state of protest music in Iran.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky #TengriSky A crucial addition to your teaching files: Traveling to the “Tartars”: Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245–1248, Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Alfred J. Andrea. Supersedes Dawson's 1955 Mission to Asia. hackettpublishing.com/traveling-to... 🗃️
Cover of Alfred J. Andrea, trans., Traveling to the 'Tartars': Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245-1248, published by Hackett (2026)
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Any legitimate successor to this regime must immediately try convict and punish this filth and all his collaborators. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am really tickled by this ad for "Maza, Mongolian Coffee" (Maza is a reference to Mazaalai, the endangered Gobi Bear) featuring a clueless white guy who seems to learn about Mongolia via coffee. www.facebook.com/share/r/1F1D...
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I work with Mark at Rutgers history, and I saw the madness unfold as the right wing threatened him and his family. It was insane watching our professors and their family have to flee the country while Rutgers leadership dragged their feet. Of course, every History student I spoke to supported Mark.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In a show of solidarity, all other musicians dropped out of the tour after Ed Sheeran bowed to billionaire Kraft's pressure and kicked off Macklemore for his advocacy for Palestine. This includes Beoga, his backing band, who cite shared colonial oppression. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle
Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Chris Brown is currently on a US Tour and a sitting US Representative got onstage with him last night to honor his career
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This museum is incredible. Can post about it in a few days. So happy for George for finally getting this done.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow, 8 years ago, my last month in my year in Mongolia. This is at the Arwaikheer, capital of the South Khangai region (aimag), horse monument. The two weeks I spent in the Arwaikheer provincial archives was by far the most productive time of the whole year.
My in front of a horse statue in Arwaikheer, South Khangai, Mongolia
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Coming up Monday (Aug 31st) is a special episode of the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talks to celebrate a milestone: 200 episodes! 🎉 Join us for an online live discussion of 6 years worth of books, the monograph form, & the value of talking about books. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Online book talk: 200th episode special – The Greenhouse Book Talks
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Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One last look inside Tippett Studio. The legendary f/x house is closing, and its models, props & precious artifacts are being sold off. I spent a day inside the workshop, surrounded by Star Wars, RoboCop, Jurassic Park & decades of handmade movie magic. www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/one-last-l...
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes, I am a Marxist. But I am a not a Marxist-Leninist. I am a Marxist-Lindenist. (ba dum tish).
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Olivia Rodrigo has great music, and her activism is truly impressive. She puts her star power to use for good the way that some global superstars can do but do not. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields is a $10 million roar for abortion rights and women’s health
Rodrigo "could have played it safe, but she acknowledged that she has the power to make stuff happen, and she’s going to use it for good,” said Kathleen Hanna, founder of Bikini Kill, which is playing...
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is so true. For years I dreamed of imaginary jobs and lives all over Europe and Asia, and across the US. Even now as I resolve to stay in the peri-New Jersey region, I still ocassionaly see a job in New York or Philly and start dreaming. Then those dreams are gone, but not always forgotten.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
the thing about Curry and Dolly they had in common was taking their art completely seriously but not taking themselves too seriously and that is why they were such a joy
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Analysis | Hakeem Jeffries' meeting with Jared Kusher is a crucial first step toward winning back former Democrats who left the party when they personally married the daughter of the nation's most prominent Republican.
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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry. Best Long John Silver ever. youtu.be/YvUbbYX9BMs?...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly said “Black lives matter.” She was outspoken in her love and support of gay, lesbian, and trans people. She funded a vaccine, supported women’s and gave books to kids. She wasn’t neutral; she was a Christian who loved her neighbors, including the ones “culture warriors” attack for existing.
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