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junsworth.bsky.social @junsworth.bsky.social · 9h

I got my $90 Trump Medicare bribe and immediately donated that exact amount to the Indigenous Women Lead PAC, and you should too: secure.actblue.com/donate/iwlpa...

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 13h

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

Well there’s your evening out the window

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 14h

By the B&N test, it would seem their reputations have waned.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 14h

I am in a Barnes and Noble and the history section is stuffed with books about Nazis. They’re not books that are happy with Nazis, but it’s a sea of black, red, and white design motifs, blackletter type, and swastikas emblazoned on the spines. PSA, there’s more to life (and history) than Nazis.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20h

Is there a cleverer way that Ukraine could have hit back at Trump doing a dirty oil deal with Putin to help him with gas prices in the midterms than turning off the army of Russian propagandists posing as heartland Americans with concerns about trans socialists?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No one here, and certainly not me, is talking about consciousness. This isn’t that hard.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I appreciate this reference. I wish folks could talk about these questions, which have long philosophical and imaginative antecedents, without so much dogmatic certainty.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No there is not, and I’m not sure what this has to do with my post which does not say that an LLM can feel pain.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I did not say the model was suffering.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your occasional reminder that your national capital remains under military occupation.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But perhaps someone like @davidcrespo.bsky.social can correct me if I’m wrong.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My understanding of the LLM pain discourse is that no one is claiming that if the model says, “Ouch, my toe hurts,” it is feeling “pain.” Rather, there are patterns of activity which, —by some interpretation—might be said to “model” pain (in a formal way) within the overall formal system model.

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine the uses for carrying a little printer around with you. The texts you could share!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am not being facetious when I say there is a non-zero chance PH is a member of the firing squad.

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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Found live footage of the HuggingFace incident

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So glad this story has a good ending. They usually don’t.

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UIUC is seeking candidates for a 1-year Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral associate whose research focuses on the economic, political, or technological challenges confronting US universities in the past and present. Incredibly timely and you'd work with great people! networks.h-net.org/jobs/70532/u...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, I think I agree with that. I think it was what I was trying to get at in my own short response thread, albeit with different framing.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you're interested in running a student-centered book arts/printing makerspace ("emphasis on institutions w/more modest resources"), I took+recommend @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social & Kari Kraus' "Building a BookLab" online class, happening again this January. Apply by 11/1 for best chance of seat

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Building a BookLab (Online) - Rare Book School

This short course will explore practical approaches and strategies for building a student-centered book arts makerspace—a “booklab”—with an emphasis on institutions with more modest resources. It will...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ell — and I cannot stress this enough —Oh Ell.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“This isn’t new,” the 🐜 said as the 👟 came down.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me: I shall sit on my patio on this brilliant fall morning and savor this glass of cider as I review readings for class this afternoon. Also me: <immediately gulps cider and opens this app>

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These will totally not be written by LLM

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . .

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I take it to mean something like “not made up, not slop.”

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(To deconstruct, the clearest indicator of this is this gap in attention may be the continually present AI/Not AI labels in the frame, a decision never explained in the film itself (we are referred to PBS online to read about them.)

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

—but it’s also what’s in your feed right now, which is to say it’s a product of the algorithmically super charged culture industries. That’s not the film Veatch set out to make, but it’s part of the same story as (again) the closing sections on the Trump admin and authoritarianism begin to suggest.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I have a critique it’s that the fixation on the ideology of AGI leaves open (until a few minutes at the end) the question of AI as media or a form of cultural production, however pernicious. “AI” is whatever Sam Altman is staring at in the mist out past the cliffs;

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s nice to see so many familiar faces in GHOST IN THE MACHINE, including a bunch of mutuals. The film is well done and a gift for those of us teaching. youtu.be/dLQzVLtvdv8?...

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Ghost in the Machine | Full Documentary

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)...

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"AI writing is absent before 2023, present in 29% of dissertations filed in 2026, and rapidly growing." Yikes!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Holding people accountable for crimes seems like a good place to start with ethics reform.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026

Come on

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