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Art historian, digital projects, infographics, synthesizers, medieval things. Columbia University Libraries and Pratt School of Information. Formerly National Gallery of Art.

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He's working synergistically, exploring new paradigms through critically discursive discourse, problematizing hegemony while gesturing towards a radically novel subjectivism

10.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He's the perfect embodiment of an llm. Everything he says is a simulacrum of thought, a complete averaging of everything that collapses into a void.

10.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This sounded way better when it was angrily written in a journal covered in Johnny the Homicidal Maniac fan-art c. 1997.

09.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good things are good. Let's make the next good thing happen.

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you ever ask Claude to comment on the code? That can be a great way for annotated explanations on what code blocks are doing...

02.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tech bros, authoritarians - anyone who views public services and space as threats to their power and avarice

02.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which is just a distraction from the war on woke.

28.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rev William Barber and the Poor People's Campaign. He's been around. He should get his due.

28.02.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dead flying squirrels in the walls aren’t so pleasant either

28.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Vanquishing Miller, you are the real president now.

26.02.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mamdani has replaced Miller as the real president.

26.02.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Racism was also a theme of his speech

25.02.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Demands the production of "Waterworld 2: Climate Change Hoax" as part of Nextflix's WB acquisition

24.02.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. He doesn't get off that easily.

24.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good

18.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Jesse Jackson sitting on a stool outside the Capitol in Washington DC after getting arrested. 2018.

Jesse Jackson sitting on a stool outside the Capitol in Washington DC after getting arrested. 2018.

Jesse Jackson after getting arrested at the Capitol, Washington DC, with the Poor People's Campaign, 2018. William Barber II on the left.

17.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes

16.02.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not convinced by Trump-backed 50 year mortgage?

14.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ilia congratulating Mikhail after that though was pure class.

13.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He thinks the beard will fool saint peter - but saint peter knows.

13.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

God certainly didn't stop his wife from leaving him

13.02.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t know but very well could be! I was thinking of the large number of medieval Icelandic manuscripts that sank en route to Denmark. If those had survived likely our understanding of nordic mythology entirely different.

12.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Halal trucks everywhere now

12.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Much human knowledge and information is both ephemeral and, when it exists in a semi long-term state - I refuse to say permanent because...time - by chance. We know Beowulf well but it exists in precisely 1 manuscript. Imagine if that didn't survive because it sank in a shipwreck.

11.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing in nyc

09.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Figure skaters are amazing

09.02.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

International agreements are not little known snags. They’re binding declarations.

04.02.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Need to fit the Citgo sign in there somehow.

01.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Blessedly they will continue to get worse.

31.01.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sisu 2: Road to Revenge was everything it should have been. #film

31.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0