Peter B. Kaufman
@pbkauf.bsky.social
@MITOPENLEARNING | THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL @MITPRESS | THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FIGHT TO FREE KNOWLEDGE @7STORIESPRESS | Толстой | #OER
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Ok everyone
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ok everyone
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Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...
cmosshoptalk.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
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Must be nice to have a real supreme court
Bolsonaro gets 27 years for his attempted coup to hold power in Brazil. Trump is acquitted by Republicans in impeachment & then re-elected so he can inflict more ego-driven destruction at home & around the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Must be nice to have a real supreme court
That doesn’t sound good.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That doesn’t sound good.
A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Peter B. Kaufman’s new book provides a publisher’s road map for a world in which video has become at least as important as text. The Moving Image: A User’s Manual is the subject of our latest interview at CMOS Shop Talk.
Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...
cmosshoptalk.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Fie!
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fie!
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
Ew.
Complaint cites "Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education Pick, Bankrolled His Raucous Madison Square Garden Rally" from Dec. 2024
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ew.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid
David Ellison met officials from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, among other Gulf investors
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y
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Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
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Have you seen our viral new database? COURIER created an easy way for you to search all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
(Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)
(Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week:
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week:
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
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"Capping his ascent"? What a fucking weird headline.
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Capping his ascent"? What a fucking weird headline.
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Yes but not astonishing
Rachel Maddow: “Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than he is right now. His disapproval rating is higher than it was in the immediate aftermath of January 6th. 63% disapprove, only 37% approve of Trump. He is 26 points underwater. That’s astonishing”
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Yes but not astonishing
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Not simply in Latin America. Also in the US, the UK, Europe and East Asia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Not simply in Latin America. Also in the US, the UK, Europe and East Asia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Not good.
Trump dismisses prosecutors of Jan 6 rioter who was preparing to assassinate former Pres Obama. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Prosecutors placed on leave hours after describing Jan. 6 attack as a ‘mob of rioters’
The prosecutors made the description in a sentencing memo for a Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump but is facing prison time for unrelated crimes.
www.politico.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Not good.
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Just going to keep reposting this, because it is the way & the truth
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just going to keep reposting this, because it is the way & the truth
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
Bribey.
I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Bribey.
