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Michèle Plott

@micheleplott.bsky.social

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Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · Nov 6

motherwell hitting harder w/this today.

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Nov 6

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137843

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, Agnes Gund, 1984

Robert Motherwell © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 9h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 9h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 6h

Nice!! (except those missing pieces, ugh!)

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Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 11h

Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !

La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !

Photo avant/après de la rue Charles Baudelaire avec plus de nature, moins dr voitures et des piétons.

Photo avant/après de ́la rue du Docteur Magnan dans le 13e avec plus de nature et des piétons

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Michael Grolys 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 🐕 🐾 @beardedwalker.bsky.social · 21h

Afternoon sunshine in the Eden Valley with views to the North Pennines

#Cumbria
#uk
#landscapephotography

autumnal views over rolling hills looking towards the North Pennines. The trees are changing to gold

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

TIMELINE CLEANSER… MEMPHIS…

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 2d

If you:

1. Go to chrome://flags
2. Type in "AI" in the Search Flags bar
3. Turn all the "Defaults" to "Disabled"

You can turn off ALL the AI bullshit in Chrome.

Here's a demonstration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si1s...

How to Remove AI Mode from Google Chrome URL/Address Bar

YouTube video by Droidwin

www.youtube.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

"subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance" is my new favorite way to describe why everything is terrible

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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CaptDedEyes @captdedeyes.bsky.social · May 29

This Tumblr post gave me a huge confidence boost:

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that’s assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin — not to mention the fact that the industry’s actual AI revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog.

“In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year,” Kupperman posited in his updated essay. “No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden — heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth.”

Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 “astonishing.” However, it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 10h

I'm thinking of you this morning, this afternoon, so many times & at this ridiculous distance of miles & the very not-real internet. There are a lot of us with you today. Hold on. ❤️

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so sorry, Thomas. The hole is real, I know, even if somehow with time it becomes bearable. 💔

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 20h

17th century Dutch artist Adriaën Coorte achieves a Japanese-like simplicity and restraint in this still life with three medlar fruits on a deeply-shadowed ledge, with a butterfly hovering above, emerging out of the darkness (1695, private collection)

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 4d

London Suburbs. England, 1970

Terence Spencer

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rex 🦖 @rexs1gma.bsky.social · 3d

Panoramic photo with downtown LA in the distance on the left and Griffith Observatory in the foreground on the right

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

Group of Austrian and German International Brigade volunteers resting in Benissa, Alicante, September 1937. From book "Voluntarios austriacos en la España republicana". Wonder what they're listening to. Erich Wolf, holding the record, later survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

kyivindependent.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 6d

yes I am an expert on Ophelia. no I will not be commenting on Taylor Swift’s song.

here’s me on Ophelia, bodily autonomy, & abortion for @electricliterature.com:

electricliterature.com/shakespeare-...

Shakespeare Already Wrote About What Happens When Women Don’t Have Bodily Autonomy - Electric Literature

And guess what? It ends badly

electricliterature.com

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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 2d

Not many misty autumn mornings so far this year, but here’s one today.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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