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Zoe Griffith

@zoegriffith.bsky.social
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Friendly crone. Asst professor of History at CUNY. Plant person. I wrote a book on Ottoman Egypt and the Mediterranean archive. It's out now! www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts-medite…

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's that time again!
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
One major criticism though: Chris Gratien had included a lot of music recommandations in his book, Zoe's is distinctly short on those so it's impossible to get the full experience during my commutes.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My book came out 3 weeks ago and now you can get it on sale (40% off until this Friday!) Only $18 for my life's work to date! www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts...
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Egypt's Mediterranean by Zoe Griffith - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Hi everyone! My book, Egypt's Mediterranean, came out with @ucpress.bsky.social on Tuesday 💙💛 It's a new look at how Egypt fit into the political economy of the Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean. Please enjoy the *beautiful* cover art by Mohamed Gohar (@mohamed.gohar on IG)
Book cover of the book "Egypt's Mediterranean" by Zoe Griffith. It is an artist's rendition of a view from a balcony overlooking palm trees and boats.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What if all those years of life were not just an investment in capital growth but were actually the entire point of all of it, what then.
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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I made this 19 page list of resources for questioning AI because I was so frustrated by this dynamic, the tipping point for me was an admin saying that people who were questioning the push for AI were being "emotional": docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
is it Too On The Nose that the publisher's website for Orwell's 1984 wants you to believe that this is the cover of 1984? (Click to expand, or google it yourself!)
The website for Harper Collins's edition of George Orwell's 1984 provides an image of Orwell's Animal Farm, not 1984.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
loooove this 💖
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
on the educator's responsibility to "respond" to AI:
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
chortling at these AI smart-replies to my student's thesis statement so very proud!
Screenshot of an Outlook email with very dumb smart replies suggesting "So proud of you!" and "I am very proud of you." to a student emailing their thesis statement to their professor
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm not proud to say that I have been a heavy Spotify user for over a decade, but I *AM* proud to say that I'm finally ditching them (not because of the AI audiobooks, though that's another good reason.) Qobuz is a very good alternative for music, and they pay their artists!
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Really, really agree with this piece from Huffpo. We don't have to accept the aura of AI inevitability. We can, and should, refuse to engage with it in our classrooms (and elsewhere, but especially in the classroom!)
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/11/2025
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-a…
Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Happy #caturday from a boy who really really loves his @ranchogordo.bsky.social bean club box 🫘
An orange and white cat caught mid-yawn, sitting in a small box An orange and white cat sleeping in a box that is too small for him.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Some wise advice on your academia.edu account. It's probably time to delete it.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Im glad Dr Tao is speaking up, but this attitude among people; that you can work in STEM and "avoid politics" is...alarming. And has always been wrong.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
wired.com
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
hey what if?!
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Why does Goorge W. Bush looks like a mashup of Mitch McConnell and Bill Gates? Dude doesn't even wear glasses.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Nothing, but nothing, is funnier to me at this moment than these Ph.D.-level charts.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"While the new strategy, known as 'Look Back Before You Act,' has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won’t be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything."
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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/08/2025
"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gustave Caillebotte, Nasturtiums, 1892
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Either colleges produce graduates who have been transformed by 4 years of study in ways that are valuable but hard to quantify, or they produce interchangeable widgets with pieces of paper that say they jumped through a series of hoops, probably with the assistance of chatbots because who wouldn't?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left
The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I don't want to play Homonym! with Microsoft Word 😒
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30 Rock: Homonym!
YouTube video by blackjackstacks
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Microsoft Word: hey, you might have a "word choice error" there, let me underline it for you! Me: ... pretty sure this normal word in my millionth draft is ok MW: by "reign" of this early modern ruler do you perchance mean RAIN?!??! 🫠🥲👑🌧️
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 29/06/2025
I found a google chrome extension that seemingly gets rid of the AI overview when you search on google from desktop. LIFE CHANGING. Cause I was SICK of that shit. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-...
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Hide Google AI Overviews - Chrome Web Store
Hide annoying Google AI Overviews.
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
On the twelfth anniversary of Sisi's coup in Egypt, a clear-eyed and depressing analysis by @abuaardvark.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops
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Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I hate calling my senator, but looks like I'll be calling my senator as soon as the phones open today. This is really vile and incredibly irresponsible.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kirsten Gillibrand also (at 13m, and 23m) repeated Islamophobic canards about Zohran Mamdani, including references to him "global jihad", as well as falsely claiming that "intifada" means "kill all Jews" (which it does not).
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...
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Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love
"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What matters is that Cuomo and all the people who endorsed him are still going to claim they're the rightful heirs to the Democratic Party, how dare young people challenge them, all of that. The difference is they're now just unaffiliated lunatics, banging on the windows. They're not the party.
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