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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When Alexi Lalas speaks Zlatan looks like he wants to lean over and eat him. #worldcup

Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Finally able to build something with cosmos.gl, a program I came across while teaching data visualization this year at Pratt. I have a pretty large network dataset of artists compiled from Wikidata that I often use to test out capabilities. bzweig633.github.io/universe-of-...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Okay genuine laugh at the f1 caps lock joke #oscars

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Jesse Jackson after getting arrested at the Capitol, Washington DC, with the Poor People's Campaign, 2018. William Barber II on the left.

Jesse Jackson sitting on a stool outside the Capitol in Washington DC after getting arrested. 2018.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sisu 2: Road to Revenge was everything it should have been. #film

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Snowy #nyc. Elizabeth street urban garden, lower east side.

Snowy urban garden with three tenement apartment buildings towards the back

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 19/01/2026

Invoke the 25th Amendment.

Screenshot of headline reading: Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize
In a text, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the U.S. needed the island for global security.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One thing that pisses me off so much about this #Greenland insanity I've spent a lot of time working w/ and in Scandinavia. Used to work for the American-Scandinavian Foundation ffs. This backstabbing of friends is so amoral, so disrespectful, it fills me with shame.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

Three coffins wrapped in Danish flags are carried by 4-6 soldiers each; a cargo aircraft is in the background

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Abject total senile idiocy. A complete embarrassment and humiliation. Deserves to writhe and burn in hell for many eternities.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Recording of my lecture at the Courtauld 'What has Riegl to do with the perceptron?': Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision is now up: youtu.be/t5czkZdNlfk?... #dh #digitalhumanities

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‘What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?’

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I love Wayne Thiebaud. Amazing show at the Courtauld. #art

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Rise above! We’re gonna rise above!

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is pretty much the entire story of early christian martyrs.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 22/10/2025

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...

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'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision

In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic pe...

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Nine Inch Nails in Brooklyn last night. #music

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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"Ph.D. level experts" is the kind of thing that only those who are not around many Ph.Ds would say. It's just another example of silicon valley's creepy obsession (e.g. "high IQ people") with arbitrarily metricizing everything.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 25/07/2025

A top Donald Trump ally handed me a Trump 2028 hat — these people aren’t joking. If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Because ceilings are great, here’s some late gothic vaulting from Segovia cathedral #architecture #medieval

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Have visited the @museodelprado.es twice this week so far and I really appreciate the no photos policy. #museums

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I felt an imperative to share this roof from the Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo. #art #medieval

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thanks so much @gworthey.bsky.social for this amazing recap of the panel. I hope it wasn’t too…um…negative?

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Jeronimos monastery, Lisbon. Beautiful late gothic portal. #medieval #architecture

Gothic style stone portal with many sculptures.

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film

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Ben Zweig @medievalben.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy original fuck off to mad kings day! #july4

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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