Anna Kornbluh
annakornbluh.bsky.social
Anna Kornbluh
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Pinned
elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
artreview.com/power-100/
Power 100
artreview.com
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
garlic broccolini and dijon thighs
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Love how academia is being attacked and reshaped, under the iron fist of the government, with the heavy influence of a guy whose experience in the field is defrauding students with scam for-profit universities.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
analoging
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Ah, @pennpress.bsky.social has just announced their holiday sale! 40% off means that the paperback of my book on philosophy's encounter with "the public intellectual," Thinking in Public, is about $20.

100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.

www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
Thinking in Public – Penn Press
Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophe...
www.pennpress.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thief is very high on this list
Chicago movies ranked:

1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared

Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago

star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Today, striking baristas are taking the picket line to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's office.

Instead of investing in workers, Starbucks is on a spending spree - notably, on Niccol’s sky-high compensation, his satellite office away from HQ, & a private jet to commute from California to Seattle.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
it’s the hap happiest season
Men of Bluesky Calendar
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
also pictured:

prof in an AAUP t-shirt protesting outside Apollo Global headquarters.

billionaires out of our classrooms! up with faculty governance!

get your very own POD, union-made AAUP merch:

aaup.myshopify.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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fight for the right to culture

hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Reposting my 2018 piece about year end lists for anyone who needs it (me!). www.damemagazine.com/2018/12/19/i...
It’s Time to Reconsider the Best-Of List - Dame Magazine
The piles of books and galleys that clutter my apartment are overwhelming. This is not a humble brag—more of a cry for help. I’m a culture writer and critic who is deeply entrenched in the book world....
www.damemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Wealthy people are shaping higher education…to tilt campuses rightward. The president and his allies have pursued an aggressive campaign to realize their vision. The campaign is accelerating”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
quiche with mushrooms and roofchives
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Trump administration policies killing industry running large surplus and supporting middle class jobs in red states
Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
fight for the right to culture

hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“Authoritarian governments view culture as a threat because in the writing+ music +acting, you can sometimes glimpse alternatives to the current reality. We live in a timeline that says AI domination is inevitable, there will be no future except constant war.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM