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they/them, Art Historian I care a lot (too much?) Not repping any institution

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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h
“It’s actually the people who are building [AI] that are the existential risks to humanity. If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?”
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI Company CEOs, AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says
Instead of being held liable through existing laws, AI companies are making “a ploy for regulatory capture.”…
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17h
Once again, heroic reporting by a student, Abby DiSalvo dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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Duke sees uptick in rape reported on campus, per annual security report
Reports of rape on campus more than tripled between 2024 and 2025, according to Duke’s Annual Security Report. This uptick was driven by an increase in rapes reported in on-campus dorms and apartment ...
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Silent Sam I Am @silentsamiam.bsky.social · 16h
If you're in the market to buy property in the Mooresville/Charlotte, NC area, and you want to avoid giving commission to an anti-Muslim realtor, see below. Tricia Steinmann is a real estate broker at NorthGroup Real Estate.
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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 16h
Leave her alone you rank motherfuckers. I am Jane Doe.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13h
"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org · 11h
Disabled people belong in their communities, NOT on waiting lists. We’ve partnered with @1NationOverchgd because we don't believe in institutionalization. Disabled people deserve the support they need to live and thrive at home and in their communities. ALT Embedded.
Disabled people belong in their communities, not on waiting lists — sign up for updates on candidates' HCBS positions.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10h
Wonderful to see the outstanding work that @uncivilcollective.bsky.social has done on the civility industrial complex and the viewpoint diversity push, which endeavors to undermine faculty governance and the humanities. What they've produced is indispensable: www.uncivilcollective.org/civility-files
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UNCIVIL | Civility Files — UNCIVIL Website
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 9h
LWT is usually good, but this episode is a standout and worth watching if you don’t already know about the chaotic, and therefore cruel way states administer lethal injection. its only role is to sanitize state-sponsored killings for *us.* so *we* don’t fully register the horror.
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Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 11h
Register for ScALE. in person and online! October 29.
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NeuroFellaMD 📚🎃👻🧛‍♀️ @melissaf.bsky.social · 9h
Peter Thiel is a eugenicist, it’s documented
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 8h
The folks near the hot mic at the Nasher while we watching the livestream wait for the Rick Powell/Mickalene Thomas are having a BLAST. I don't think they know we can hear them...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid!
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
404media.co
Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Earning $250,000 a year puts you in the top 4.1% of individual workers or the top 11% of households in the United States. WAKE THE FUCK UP!
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Southey Blanton @southey4senate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At our county budget meeting in June county staff literally showed how these federal cuts and lack of state support are going to affect our county.
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Southey Blanton @southey4senate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As of April last year there were almost 25k SNAP recipients in Alamance County alone. The shortfalls mean the county picks up the tab, and instead of assisting, the NC GOP in Raleigh is attempting to block the ability to raise revenue in multiple ways via these ridiculous constitutional amendments.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Friday is WORLD COLLEGE RADIO DAY!!!!! www.collegeradio.org/college-radi...
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CollegeRadio.org | College Radio Day
College Radio Day 2026 Welcome to the 16th annual World College Radio Day! On Friday, October 2, hundreds of college radio stations around the world will come together to celebrate the unique medium o...
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Dr. Evan A. Gatti @eagatti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Art historians!! Please note that while this job is in a HST-GEO dept, someone with a PhD in Art History would be an EXCELLENT candidate! Expertise is open but our new colleague will teach in our areas of highest need - art history and museum studies!! Share with students and colleagues!!
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.
Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚫 Block Cisco 🚫 Cisco runs everything from Duo Authenticate to eduroam. They also support the Israeli assault on Palestine. Register for the CHAI (Coalition to Halt AI) x CAHE 🚫Block Cisco🚫 Webinar on October 14th! 🔗 in our Linktree: linktr.ee/ActionInHigh... @bdsmovement.bsky.social
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Brooklyn Briefly @brooklynbriefly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unionized Whitney Museum workers plan a strike on October 5 unless they receive a fair contract offer.
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Save What Matters
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Artforum [Unofficial] @artforum.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Whitney Union Times Strike Date Ahead of Major Lichtenstein Retrospective
Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will carry out a strike action on October 5 if they do not receive a fair contract offer, Local 2110 announced today. The date is perilously close to that of the opening of a blockbuster Roy Lichtenstein exhibition, slated to open to the […]
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a strategically useful way to think through border policing and detention is as an attack on the infrastructures people need to survive. @silkys13 and @ANaomiPaik joined us at the @socialismconf to talk ICE, counterinsurgency, care, abolition, migration, and what tf is to be done❤️‍🔥
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jacob Lawrence, Rain, 1938
We are looking down on a city street scene, with a building at right, and a subway entrance. Various figures are moving about, as a regular rain falls
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.
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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"If so, that would place Göbekli Tepe firmly within a larger regional tradition, in which people buried their dead under the floors of houses. Often, they exhumed bones and rearranged them in what archaeologists call secondary burials." www.science.org/content/arti...
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Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’
Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 26/09/2026
Read this. newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up
The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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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 Mam
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As Brooks is on my campus today, giving the Convocation speech to all our first-year students, I will re-up this great analysis of Brooks's "hot takes" (they are nothing more) on Higher Ed. Yes, we are paying him big money, the guy who said "the left really did purge conservatives from universities"
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The NYT spent the last 6 years making suburbanites afraid of trans people www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos
Brooks, who dismissed Epstein scandal as ‘stupid story’, wrote column expressing lack of interest in developments
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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
She was shocked when I told her, as gently as I could, that David Brooks is a huge part of the anti-trans hate machine. That he's churned out some of the worst bullshit op-eds that've put targets on trans people's backs. "He seemed so nice!"
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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 22/04/2024
Is it the same David Brooks who, two years ago, wrote a 2800-word opinion that religion is a valid basis for discrimination against trans people, in which he stole a couple phrases from Jonathan Rauch and added a typo that the NYT let through, the paper apparently not editing him on any level?
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, and over 130,000 accompanying gadgets in the company’s expansive American surveillance network | Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2026/09/24/h... #BlackskyNews
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Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants it taken down.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FIND A WAY TO PRODUCE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY NEEDS & TO GET IT TO THEM MAKE IT WORK www.getty.edu/publications...
SOCIAL PROJECT 3
29 APRIL 1963
FIND A WAY TO PRODUCE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY NEEDS
& TO GET IT TO THEM
MAKE IT WORK
JACKSON MAC LOW
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h. @hyrax-m-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If I were teaching someone how to critique David Brooks, I'd sit down together with his latest appearance on an NPR program, whichever that might be, and see if we can find which statements are half true or ignore important contexts and established facts acknowledged by experts in the field
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jlannik.bsky.social @jlannik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“David Brooks, who got his wife to convert and then divorced her to marry the intern he was screwing while she helped him write a book on ethics,…”
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 18/04/2025
David Brooks headlines, 2020-2025
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Large-scale ICE operations in Kansas, here are orgs in that community
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men crying about not being about to project their desires onto an object because that constitutes having their "language policed" is a special category of farce we call "Nate."
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad to see this good trouble
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Kitty @klparmley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Art historians who are job hunting, this really is a lovely part of NC. Halfway between the mountains and the beach. The town is small but near a lot of good stuff. So, best of urban and rural worlds.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey, art history job seekers! Note the specifics of our job description. Here at Elon, we (Art History) are in the Department of History & Geography--as would be whoever gets this job--and we are looking for folks with expertise in *visual and material culture*. You know, us! Art historians!
jobs.elon.edu
Assistant Professor of History and Geography - Elon Campus, North Carolina, United States
Title: Assistant Professor of History and Geography Position Type: Faculty Full-Time VP Area: Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs Department: Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences Loca...
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 23/09/2026
Recall that Instructure paid a ransom to ShinyHunters in May after Instructure's third denial/minimization of Canvas SaaS hacks impacting over 8000 universities. They hit universities via Oracle PeopleSoft again in June. This was also an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day leading to access to AWS GovCloud.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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