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Spent some time with Corita yesterday—
Typewritten class directives recorded by a student who took a course with artist Corita Kent in the 1960s at Immaculate Heart:

"Keep a journal—fill it with everything you come in contact with—be very aware—of shapes, everything, because letters are shapes."

"Make a list of 100 signs you read today. Look and jot down the message that it gives you."

From the Papers of Corita, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"“Mar-a-Lago Face” and “Republican makeup” are sort of ahistorical reimaginings of the “classic” 1950s beauty ideal through the lens of 1980s excess, brought to life with 2025’s modern cosmetic technology."

jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics)
Interview unlocked.
jessicadefino.substack.com
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"We’re left at a crossroads where we must consider nothing less than what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them ..." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"Gen. AI is still best at select tasks that do not require consistent reliability—hence its purveyors taking aim at art & creative industries..."

(h/t @robertjweisberg.bsky.social)

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"It is important to not just hate this stuff, but to ask ourselves why we hate it. I think what we may find is that deep under all that anger, is a love of what is human."

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"The ability to feel, and feel deeply, is not a bug but a feature of being a human, of being mortal... they see the body as a gross, inefficient object that connects them to people they deem lower than them..." houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
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emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.
mimosaishere.bsky.social
Bravo! That's fantastic, Gauri.
mimosaishere.bsky.social
As a daily bus rider in a different but no less slow to respond public transit system, this 🧵 is music, sustenance, and then some for my weary commuting soul.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
mimosaishere.bsky.social
because i am still 15 y.o. inside i will blast this at full volume to drive away the blah

music.youtube.com/watch?v=n60T...
Legs
YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic
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mimosaishere.bsky.social
rainy day, sopping wet bag, grumble grumble commute blah blergh
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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durba.bsky.social
I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

www.harvard.com/event/kareem...
mimosaishere.bsky.social
This current administration is the greatest threat to academic freedom & sci. research since the ebb of McCarthyism. And this compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we teach, what we research, what drugs we develop, & how we express ourselves."
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
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schomj.bsky.social
I think the myth of objectivity is what allows people to believe that GAI can output a meaningful summary.

Prior knowledge doesn't matter, context doesn't matter, relationships don't matter, so a summary written in a particular 'style' is fine.
mimosaishere.bsky.social
Explain your username:

Mimosa is my real name. The "is here" is a pun and plays with the idea of being _on here_ but also, not quite here because what's happening in real-time is not quite interwebs' time.

(this was back when IRL vs. "on the Internet" was a necessary distinction)
noethematt.bsky.social
Explain your username:

My last name is Noe. My first name is Matthew.

People have made weird jokes about "Noe" (some haha cringe, some rude and bullying) my entire life.

I thought it was an amusing way to reclaim some of that back in 2008. And despite me not loving "Matt" it is pithier 🤷‍♂️
bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Explain your username:

It's a line from Parks & Rec one of my fave shows. In that show, Leslie has an ongoing cold war with librarians. She calls them punk-ass book jockeys as she overturned a book cart and flees. I'm a librarian who is punk in spirit if not attire, so, yeah.
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lauraolin.bsky.social
NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.
npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 2d
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
n.pr
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"bucking tradition and legal precedent"
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lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social
I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.
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histoftech.bsky.social
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it
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lisalibrarian.bsky.social
This just activated every research librarian everywhere.

Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times!

Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word."

Reader, the word was CD-ROM.
tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.
mimosaishere.bsky.social
And to think that my very first job in libraries was to teach patrons how to load microfiche cartridges into a viewer to see scanned collection materials!

Fiche. Fish. So many multitudes. So much squinting.