long shot here but would anyone in the UK be willing to buy the Pattle exhibition catalog at Watts Gallery and mail it to me if I reimburse the cost of the catalog+shipping? unfortunately Watts will not ship to the US and my next best option is going there myself
After a successful election, staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are officially unionized. The new union will represent workers across 50 departments, including curators, librarians, conservators, visitor experience, and archivists.
I'm begging us to stop playing gotcha on people living in southern states. Every person on this planet, regardless of what side of a river or ocean they were arbitrarily born on, deserves access to education and information.
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
would be cool if everybody just uploaded Hannah Arendt's one-pager from 1974, for her course called "Thinking"
Photo of a magic 8 ball with a 'goatse' version of the OpenAI logo and the words ChatGPT on it, next to a white box that says "ChatGPT offline version". Inset are photos of the 8-ball responses such as "That's a great question", "You're 1000% right" and "Too many requests try again later" and then another photo from the back of the box of a holographic authenticity sticker that says FAKE.
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
tour guide never showed up for the scheduled tour with my class at the university art museum so I just did it myself without even knowing what was in it thank God I go to art museums for fun
NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
NOVEMBER 3, 2025 THE ART WORLD RECONSTRUCTED In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists. By Julian Lucas 6:00 AM Picture is the statue described in img 2
•he hirst thing you see is a horses - ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called "Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security
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corporate democratic politics condescends to working people or sentimentalizes them as suffering heroes, which is even worse. the challenge—not that hard actually, unless you are a rich person & have been your whole life—is to just respect people for what they do & actually see value in it
Taking aimless walks is an essential aspect of the process of intellectual labor and people who have never had Truths revealed to them during a walk cannot understand this
I have books on my shelf right now that are nearly 300 years old. There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 300 years.
cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something
A statue of a monkey on a camel. Caption: this mother fucked $10,000-$15,000
A bunch of golf clubs. Caption: very long spoons $8,000-$10,000
Miniature lighthouse figurine. Caption: lighthouse (bigger in person) $32,000-$35,000
The appraiser and the man look at each other over two brass candlesticks. Caption: these two men's sexual tension $15-$38
I knew Glasgow would outdo Edinburgh for me but not quite so much, literally so much more to do and see and so many friendly people
Back in @defector.com today! I wrote about the "Alligator Alcatraz," the vicious folklore of "gator bait," and the cultural history of white supremacists trying to recruit alligators as enforcers of racial terror
In every possible way the vile detention camp in the Everglades is destructive and anti-life. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...
Georgetown University Library Website copy: AI Tools Can be Helpful With: Writing Models Suggesting Synonyms Copy Editing Brainstorming Summarizing* Translation Be More Cautious with AI Tools if You: Need very recent information Do not have previous knowledge of a topic Are concerned about potential plagiarism or copyright violations Need to perform complex mathematics Are unsure if you're permitted to use AI tools in your research or writing Are concerned about the electrical energy use in running these tools
Don't worry i am just having a slow, shudderingly violent aneurysm after seeing that *my own university library* is now pushing students to use AI for "brainstorming" & "writing models." They should "be cautious," though, if as individuals they "are concerned about plagiarism."
The free electronic version of my book Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain is OUT TODAY!
You can download it from the link. Paperback ($35 USD) and hardback versions will be released on July 10.
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I hate the people that run my state so bad man. like you cannot fathom how much
What message does it send, especially to women, that the democrats will pull out all the stops to rally around a disgraced fucking rapist rather than let a socialist win a single mayoral election? I’m so tired of this shit dude
A vertically oriented rectangular graphic shows a photo of a shelf of “books.” One “book” is pulled out to show that it is actually a recipe card storage drawer. Below this, on a white background, is information about Rare Book School’s 2025 Summer Lecture Series and details about Mindell Dubansky’s lecture, “A Parallel History of Books and Blooks,” on 2 June 2025 at 5:30 p.m. ET in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330, or via Zoom livestream at tinyurl.com/RBS-Dubansky. The graphic is edged with dark red bars at the top and bottom.
Join us for a free public lecture by @metmuseum.org conservator Mindell Dubansky, on “A Parallel History of Books and Blooks” at 5:30 p.m. ET on 2 June in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 or via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures/.
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my hand hovers over a tub of Sabra at the grocery store, then drifts away. i am immediately executed by a 200 million dollar Boston Dynamics gun platform
Woo hoo, you can now pre-order Selling Sexual Knowledge, which is coming out next month! (or, uh, just download the FREE electronic version from Cambridge Core when it comes out)
Many thanks to those who read and blurbed the book 😊
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Around Portland today.