Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Rebecca Brückmann

@historleans.bsky.social

6.8K followers 880 following 2.1K posts

| Historian | 📖 "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood" | Heart in New Orleans | Personal account

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi and thanks, new followers! I can't keep up at the moment, so not following you back is just me being slightly overwhelmed. Welcome to posts about Black and gender history, the history of white supremacy, these histories' political implications, light sarcasm, elephant GIFs, and love of pastries.

3 76

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1h

The Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (that in 2023 advised against the use of the "WRAP" after multiple fatalities were reported in connection to local policing) technically still exists but was gutted in March.
apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

1 2

Reposted by Rebecca Brückmann

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

3 220 210

Reposted by Rebecca Brückmann

Batty ⭐ [NTVTN] @battystar.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

As an Inupiaq vtuber I included cultural tattoos into my design including a chin tattoo called tavlugun.

This practice was banned in the US with the arrival of Christian missionaries, and that ban held until the passing of Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978

close up of 3D vtuber model's face showing traditional inupiaq/inuit tattoos

5 54 130

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 18h

Wow: finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

12 25

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Until today, I didn't know that Thiel studied sociology at the JWG University of Frankfurt, and he was quite literally a student of Habermas. How grim.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

More humanities classes that teach critical reading and analytical skills would have helped, man.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

1 6

Reposted by Rebecca Brückmann

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why no one has started a fast-casual baked potato chain. Choice of white or sweet; many different topping possibilities. Affordable, tasty, nutritious, filling.

48 18 210

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

💀. Quite literally.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

5 7

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Man, someone should tell my grocery or utilities bills that inflation has been "defeated." But my economic anxiety isn't white supremacist, so it doesn't count.

2 16

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Just... absolutely clueless but confidently unhinged. Perfect combo.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

A cup of French roast, an English muffin with butter and strawberry jam, rain outside, and some good reading. Happy Sunday 🍁🍂🍃!

Photograph of a book on a brown wooden table with a beige place set next to it. The book has a white, blue, gold, and black cover. Tia McNair et al., “From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expansing Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education.”

1 22

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome, looking forward to reading!

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

*chef’s kiss*

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

More humanities classes that teach critical reading and analytical skills would have helped, man.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

1 4

Reposted by Rebecca Brückmann

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

“First Wives Club” was a formative movie for me, omg. THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!!

11 11 340

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

"During the 1994-2004 federal assault-weapons ban, mass shooting deaths fell. According to U.S. Senate data, massacres of six or more killed dropped by 37%. After the ban expired, they skyrocketed by 183%. That is not coincidence." www.startribune.com/mn-assault-w...

Opinion | Some things are just stupid, and to call guns ‘God-given’ is one of them

"God did not hand out AR-15s on Mount Sinai," Dr. Christopher L. Moertel writes.

www.startribune.com

50 140

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

*Fellowship, not foundation.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

Great panels and presentations at the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Foundation’s Midwest Regional Conference. Very proud of all these humanities undergrad students who are doing insightful, independently researched work! #EduSky (And this is honestly also a DayQuil appreciation post, because whew…)

Photograph of a partially visible agenda, a black ink pen, a partially visible “Rebecca” name tag, and a blue folder in the background.

1 5

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

And I should have peak immunity right now from both the flu shot and Covid booster that I thankfully received a few weeks ago (and I tested negative) - so this seems to be one of the dozens of other corona viruses that make life rather disgusting. A plague on all their houses. #CoronaGrudge

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

*moment like this

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

I really wish they would have blurred her exposed body. It’s not great to spread an extremely vulnerable like this without blurring.

2 2

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Campus = Petri dish. Le Sigh.

a stuffed animal is laying in a bed with a pillow and a blanket .

Alt: “Alf” is laying on a blue couch with a white pillow and a pink blanket, sneezing and blowing his nose. In front of him are many bottles with medication.

media.tenor.com

1 6

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Kids, all species.

A bear with light brown fur lays down in the grass. A bear cub with darker brown fur lies on top of it. Photo by Tom Torget, Alaska, 2021, Smithsonian Magazine.

9 140

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Oh good.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 4d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

3 16

Reposted by Rebecca Brückmann

IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 3d

This is SUPER interesting!

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

1 2 6

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Bimpong apparently had a stroke while driving. He was pulled over. Instead of alerting emergency medical services, police officers jailed him for five hours. He died. www.startribune.com/family-of-da...

Family of Dakota County jail inmate who died of stroke sues, alleging ‘callous indifference’

Attorney contends that failure by police and jail staff to respond to “classic stroke symptoms” led to the 50-year-old man’s death.

www.startribune.com

2 2