Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Really interesting piece from NOTUS: www.notus.org/technology/t....notus.orgSenior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI GiantsAn agreement to give the U.S. government equity stakes in AI companies could have seismic consequences. 120
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I didn’t have anthropomorphizing markdown files on my bingo card, and that’s on me. 020
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Up late thinking about one of my favorite David Graeber quotes: "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." Electric! 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Really grateful to have been in so many spaces that have held the standard that excellence and ego are incompatible. (There’s a “Thanks Obama” joke in here somewhere.) 010
Reposted by Rashida KamalCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment. 11867164
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I need Nathan Fielder to produce and direct Love Is Blind. 010
Reposted by Rashida KamalIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 02/03/2026how's everyone else doing with little computer tasks amidst the horrors, personally I am not in top form 5524
Reposted by Rashida Kamalkelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels 9981042102
Reposted by Rashida KamalThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth 14661246
Reposted by Rashida KamalWill Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 23/02/2026it is my dream to have the top spot on /r/dataisugly and /r/dataisbeautiful at the same time 061
Reposted by Rashida KamalCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 22/02/2026some benevolent cyberpunk for you 432419753
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Alysa Liu’s free skate has unlocked something in my brain. Are sports a mode of practice-based research?? 000
Reposted by Rashida KamalGrace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization 105138092484
Reposted by Rashida KamalGio :⁾ @im.giovanh.com · 17/02/2026I think if I sat down and tried to really form a comprehensive understanding of Nathan Fielder I would break down like Abed 1151
Reposted by Rashida KamalMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21/02/2026Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...publicbooks.orgThe Misuses of the University - Public BooksHave the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings? 611047
Reposted by Rashida KamalSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 20/02/2026When I’m two weeks behind on my grading. 232417238
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 22/02/2026lollll this is how I’m learning about Philippe Égalité. 160
Reposted by Rashida KamalMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19/02/2026a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing404media.coMan Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too LongAn Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit. 12133761445
Reposted by Rashida KamalOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...michiganpublic.orgMichigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill... 551927791
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I was looking through some of my earlier projects, and came across this set of 3D models I made in Blender for this piece at The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021.... Someone ask me to 3D model again... this was the most fun I've ever had at work. 110
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Hot take: I thought Fennel’s “Wuthering Heights” was great, and it’s the only adaptation I’ve seen that reckons with Nelly as an unreliable narrator, and treats her as human enough that she would also be affected by being surrounded by abuse her entire life. 100
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I’m so cooked. I thought this was about the 3D modeling software. 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Teaching interactive media arts students lets me see every algorave I’ve been to for what they were. Professional development events. 120
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 13/02/2026RIP Catherine Earnshaw, you would’ve loved polyamory. 000
Reposted by Rashida KamalProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of... 8431341971
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Having to appreciate that I came into journalism at near-peak open source activity 🥲 www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour... 110
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 10/02/2026That's East India Company tea, baby. A (man-made) famine in Bengal sets off the events of the American Revolution. artgallery.yale.edu/collections/... 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 10/02/2026As a Bangladeshi-born American, it feels both deeply Bengali AND deeply American to be affronted by the behavior of the East India Company. While digging around on this, I came across a set of pamphlets called "The Alarm" circulating in Boston a few months before the Boston Tea Party. 100
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I’m finishing up a slide deck for a presentation tomorrow, and I’m going through photos from my research trip to the Bodleian Library. Such a nerdy delight to hit up the archives while traveling. I had wanted to look into some EIC documents (and ofc, pay my respects to the Old Bod and the New). 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Watching The X-Files the way God intended. On my 1982 Sony Trinitron KV-1221R. 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I had such a rough day at work today. The only thing that could help right now is if Theo James would read me a chapter of Dalrymple’s The Anarchy. Is he on Cameo? 100
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I love the Fort Greene Winter Olympics. Courage is a muscle. 010
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Juicy diagram from Marcus Rediker's "'Under the Banner of King Death': The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726." 000
Rashida Kamal @rashida.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I've decided the best use of my free will is to read random (lol okay very not random) academic papers, and found these incredible visualizations in Erikson & Bearman's "Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601–1833." Enjoy, as I have. 020
Reposted by Rashida KamalEmily Liu @emilyliu.me · 21/05/2025born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the galaxies, but born just in time to watch nathan fielder's the rehearsal 312315