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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Since renaming "AI" is on the table, how about "Artificial and Sociopathic" per Vision's description of Ultron?

Poster for Visionquest series on Disney.

Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favorite time of year - the Zurich Film Festival! This year I am seeing several documentaries on the theme of so-called artificial intelligence.

A poster for the Zurich Film Festival with abstract art of camera lenses.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem was the most important feminist organizer of the modern American Women’s Rights Movement. She was poised intelectually to bring women of all races/backgrounds and their concerns into the platforms of feminism as well as fighting for the inclusion of the LGBTQ+ communities. Thanks!

6 photos of Gloria Steinem over the years

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting Gloria Steinem several times. I once interviewed her in a limousine for 45 minutes driving from Fordham to Ms. Magazine headquarters. She was the perfect role model for me intellectually & personally. She helped women achieve rights & freedoms globally.

To Maura - with sisterhood,
Gloria Steinem
11/39/83
[and autograph inside a book]

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Read this report "AI Slop and the Information Ecosystem" to understand what is at stake using ai in academia. Don't use this technology, don't encourage your students to, pressure your university to pull the plug on its use in and outside of class.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Not impossible, I posted yesterday with a pic of my own copy.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Highly recommend The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna. It clarifies what "AI" is and isn't while placing its history and hype into an ethical context which is informative and thought provoking. It would work really well in the classroom because it is a clearly written and quick read.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Is it only an American thing? Getting a different response in Europe.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

EXCEPT that's NOT what INTELLIGENCE is. OpenAi: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, & people buy it from us on a meter."

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I am currently reading philosophers and ethicists analyzing 'bullshit' (as distinct from lies/lying). It is relevant to my work on pseudohistory and "AI."

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Facebook is censoring posts about the General Strike on January 30th. Fascism has clearly come to Amerikkka when private companies conspire with a dictator to gag free speech, to prevent freedom of assembly, and to silence critics.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A new work to consider in the #historyofcapitalism and #historiography of the origins of industrial capitalism, Muldrew's The Capitalist Self.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Adding to my reading list: "The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Eric J Larson (LA Review of Books) "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This sounds promising. Bumping it to the top of my reading list.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Adding this to my reading list. Early Modern Women’s Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice by Patricia Anne Simpson

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I can highly recommend this new documentary, The Librarians, about the efforts to ban books in U.S. public schools (mostly orchestrated by outside influences). #bannedbookweek

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

105 years ago today, Tennessee became the 36th and last state needed for ratification of the 19th Amendment which embedded the right of women to vote in the U.S. Constitution. Bells rang across America. Today, some Republicans are actively speaking out against women's right to vote.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Many museum exhibits and historical markers across the U.S. could use an overhaul. But censorship and suppressing the experiences of women, people of color, immigrants, workers, & indigenous peoples is morally corrupt. Leave museums to professionals & communities. Keep politicians out of it.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

On my reading list from Cambridge University Press 2025. The intersection of imperialism and capitalism.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Leave history to the historians, education to the educators, and science to the scientists.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Historians must be vigilant in protecting history, the Constitution, and the facts.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today's read. A great historiographical overview and insightful critique on first person accounts in historical thought.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A new book to add to the reading list on the history of economic thought. But skeptical of all-encompassing claims to the "scientific nature" of economics, which like history is not free from value judgments and bias. A "critical" approach should acknowledge this, even without being heterodox.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Too bad it is ridiculously expensive. A bit ironic for a book promoting ethical capitalism.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A ceo is shot and killed, a nationwide manhunt unsues, a suspect is captured, charged with terrorism, and faces the death penalty. A gay couple is repeatedly terrorized, one is shot dead, and "neighbors quarrel"?!! Stop the campaign of hate, denigration and terrorism from governments and churches.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I highly recommend this work in economic, business, and women's history from Rutgers University Press - She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II by Debra Michals

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The criminal and arbitrary defunding of scientific, medical, and technological research, the arts, humanities, and education is sabotaging all the things that made America civilized, successful, and the envy of the world. This is criminal sedition.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The LARGEST PROTEST in history was unique for not being aimed at civil rights or against a war, BUT against a President, his administration, their cruel, incompetent, and illegal policies, and their systemic criminality.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

St. Patrick's Day celebrations began in America as political & cultural resistance to anti-Irish & anti-Catholic hatred. They held parades to stand up for their dignity & against stereotypes. The American Party tried to stop them from becoming citizens & voting. The parallels today are STRIKING.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Declaration of Independence was IMMEDIATELY translated into and printed in German. It was for citizens and there was no objection. America has always been multilingual.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I stand with Ukraine and against Russian and American bullies in their illegal land grabs and campaign of lies.

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