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@qvidtvm.bsky.social
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Art historian, professor. New York City | Cape Cod. This is my personal account, views my own, etc.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth
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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026
"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.
Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ut pictura
Photo of a car with a vanity plate that reads POESIS
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I can't compete with this. www.npr.org/2026/07/28/n...
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Trump shattered ethics norms. Will voters trust Democrats to fix them?
Democrats are making the case that now is the time to tackle anti-corruption reforms — to serve as a check on Donald Trump and to overhaul a system voters say is co-opted against their interests.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i'm at the heat wave i'm at the canadian wildfire smoke i'm at the diarrhea lettuce i'm at the combination heat wave canadian wildfire smoke diarrhea lettuce
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Was it a fever dream, or did the Law & Order I just watched on the bike star Ann-Margret, Jaclyn Smith, Morgan Fairchild, Susan Anton, and Renée Taylor?
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AL @jebushchrist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
More of this, please
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New music from Massive Attack + Tom Waits, Madonna is going to heal us.
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Boots on the Ground by Massive Attack & Tom Waits on Apple Music
Song · 2026 · Duration 4:21
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is really the funniest thing in months
New York Times headline with photo of the vice-president, a Catholic convert who claimed to know more about theology than the pope.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just saw a bald eagle casually hanging out in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Bald eagle sitting in a tree in Prospect Park BrooklynBald eagle sitting on a tree branch in Prospect Park Brooklyn
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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/03/2026
the great @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has called AI a permission structure for fascism
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Franken Stein-amite @sweavart.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Even the small tragedies hurt.
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Why the Pumpernickel Bagel Is Disappearing
At shops around town, a once-standard flavor has become an endangered species.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bovino fired and maybe eventually Noem et al too is only step 1. There need to be criminal charges against the ICE agents as well as against the leadership that conspired to create this situation and its tragedies.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
and additionally, this is why all the warnings about normalizing white supremacy and violent rhetoric were so prescient and it should be a lifelong stain on those who ignored it
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 24/01/2026
Disbanding ICE and prosecuting every agent and leader of the agency in Minnesota is a bare minimum moral stance and any politician who falls short, Republican or Democrat, should be run out of office.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And yet here we are. Throw in those statistics about how much more of the population is represented by Democrats in Congress (in the Senate, it’s something like 50 million). The system is so broken.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
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Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Ok, let’s go, take notes, this is how it’s done.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 26/12/2025
Anyway, it’s okay to say AI was a mistake. If AI people didn’t want everything to be lumped in with the nonsense LLMs are forcing onto society, they had a decade to draw that distinction and never bothered to. Now the branding is stuck, sorry guys you have to have ideas now not just sneers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thinking it’s impossible for a person to be cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt, AND a bumbling incompetent on the order of a Scooby Doo villain is a crazy take during the Era of Donald J. Trump, who is relentlessly all three.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/12/2025
They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21/12/2025
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When’s the episode of “the CBS question”? Oh, there isn’t one, because we already know the answer (hint: it involves journalistic integrity and not having any).
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
About 15–20% of my students this semester submitted research papers with hallucinated sources.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Speaking of smart art historians, two of them wrote this, one of the best pieces I’ve read about AI in education, and how to push back against it. Read it and create some friction.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 17/12/2025
Deep down, perhaps every right-leaning man wishes that chatbots could be the endlessly supportive and sexually receptive secretaries they saw in 70s movies or in porn. This is why almost every AI system is voiced by default by a young-sounding woman.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Let me say as an art historian, the discourse around the Vanity Fair White House photos gives me enormous pleasure. Critical visual analysis unpacking symbolism through close looking? Oh, that’s cool? Huh. Maybe there should be a field devoted to developing those skills, that’d be neat.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
See also: State of Massachusetts
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Maybe instead of pouring billions of dollars into their plagiarism machine, they should give that money to the many, many brilliant scholars and creatives who have a surplus of ideas but lack the time and resources to execute them.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Time person of the year cover for 2025
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
People getting mad about AI tech bros getting the "honor" of Time Magazine person of the year... In 1938 and '39, it was Hitler and Stalin.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/11/2025
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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jeff @jeffinitelymaybe.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
same image tbh
Mamdani & Trump in Oval Office “Sure grandma let’s get you to bed” meme
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I try to be as measured as possible on social media, but everyone in the art world—including art historians!—who in recent years has focused incessantly on "the contemporary" is at fault for developments like this. This is what happens when you fail to value history hyperallergic.com/1058320/why-...
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Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
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qvidtvm.bsky.social @qvidtvm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The fact that this MF’s signature is on my diploma is a stain on my education and on my pride being an academic.
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