Sarah Wingo
@sarahwingo.bsky.social
Academic Librarian Lit&Theatre. Opinions mine. Philly based. Early modern drama nerd, embroiderer of strange beasts, lady of cats and spooky things. (she/her)bi
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Sarah Wingo
@sarahwingo.bsky.social
· Nov 21
This is a hell mouth I embroidered and gave as a birthday gift to a very dear friend in May of 2020. It is based on an imagine from Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin - MS M 945 fol-168v, detail held at The Morgan in NYC.
Pinning this thread here for now, so I can add to it easily. Trying to motivate myself to start a new project that I’ve already fully drawn out the pattern for, but just can’t seem to start, by looking back over past work 🫠
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“Conflict experts tell The Independent that the “just following orders” defense may not stick under other administrations or federal judges who could find the strikes illegal, exposing Pentagon officials & others to criminal liability.”
Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.
Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.
Experts doubt legal memo shields troops from prosecution over Trump’s boat strikes
DOJ claims military personnel aren’t liable for what critics are calling extrajudicial murder
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Conflict experts tell The Independent that the “just following orders” defense may not stick under other administrations or federal judges who could find the strikes illegal, exposing Pentagon officials & others to criminal liability.”
Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.
Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
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It was a remarkable feeling, working on a recent project, to have access to software that transcribed the marginalia as well as the printed text.
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It was a remarkable feeling, working on a recent project, to have access to software that transcribed the marginalia as well as the printed text.
I am student debt free today because of PSLF. Without it I would likely have still had debt on my deathbed. I started with roughly 75k in debt, I have two master's degrees, I paid income based payments for 10 years, and because of interest I had 85K in debt when it was forgiven in 2023.
A new Education Department regulation to narrow eligibility for a key student debt relief program for public service workers has drawn strong opposition from advocates who say it's an attempt to target organizations disfavored by the Trump administration ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/21/r...
New federal student debt rule seen as tool to enforce Trump agenda • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — A new U.S. Department of Education regulation to narrow eligibility for a key student debt relief program for public service workers has drawn strong opposition from advocates who argue…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am student debt free today because of PSLF. Without it I would likely have still had debt on my deathbed. I started with roughly 75k in debt, I have two master's degrees, I paid income based payments for 10 years, and because of interest I had 85K in debt when it was forgiven in 2023.
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Yeah, to spell it out, this is about generative AI trying to brute force licensing!
Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.
No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.
Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.
No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yeah, to spell it out, this is about generative AI trying to brute force licensing!
Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.
No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.
Not cool machine learning tools that help you design a better reactor or something.
No, *generative AI* - the category that includes large language models and other content-spewing algos.
So the last few nights I’ve looked up a handful of movies to see if I have access to them on one of our many streaming services. Some fairly recent movies, some a lot older. Not a single one of them has been available for free in the apps I already pay for, but I could rent them 😡
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So the last few nights I’ve looked up a handful of movies to see if I have access to them on one of our many streaming services. Some fairly recent movies, some a lot older. Not a single one of them has been available for free in the apps I already pay for, but I could rent them 😡
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Does anyone else feel like stress, financial pressure, and political strife have shortened your life? Not in a "I'm going to die sooner" way, but in a "I can only plan to survive a week at a time and there is no future to look forward to" sort of way. It's like...the PERCEPTION of life is shorter.
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Does anyone else feel like stress, financial pressure, and political strife have shortened your life? Not in a "I'm going to die sooner" way, but in a "I can only plan to survive a week at a time and there is no future to look forward to" sort of way. It's like...the PERCEPTION of life is shorter.
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
If you live in the US don't buy from Snag Tights. I ordered a pair of trousers $98, they do not fit. When it said they shipped from the US, and buyer pays for returns. What was NOT clear is that returns are sent to the UK. shipping will cost me $88. I'm so furious I almost cried.
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you live in the US don't buy from Snag Tights. I ordered a pair of trousers $98, they do not fit. When it said they shipped from the US, and buyer pays for returns. What was NOT clear is that returns are sent to the UK. shipping will cost me $88. I'm so furious I almost cried.
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Precisely.
The inability of some on the right to believe that it’s ok to hold your own accountable for their behavior…
So telling.
The inability of some on the right to believe that it’s ok to hold your own accountable for their behavior…
So telling.
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Precisely.
The inability of some on the right to believe that it’s ok to hold your own accountable for their behavior…
So telling.
The inability of some on the right to believe that it’s ok to hold your own accountable for their behavior…
So telling.
Wow, fuck this guy. Sorry, but it's impossible for students to consent to this, the power differential is insane.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Wow, fuck this guy. Sorry, but it's impossible for students to consent to this, the power differential is insane.
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just broke my computer liking this post so hard
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
just broke my computer liking this post so hard
Zuko loves to hang out in the bathroom and get loved on before bed.
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Zuko loves to hang out in the bathroom and get loved on before bed.
This it’s astounding to me that more people don’t understand this.
Anyway most books you read ARE NOT FACT CHECKED. Publishers will not pay for fact checkers. An author must take it upon themselves and pay out of pocket.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This it’s astounding to me that more people don’t understand this.
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
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I think we're at the bubble stage where they're just throwing out claims to see what captures public imagination like "AI can make the fifth dentist ALSO approve of Trident gum."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I think we're at the bubble stage where they're just throwing out claims to see what captures public imagination like "AI can make the fifth dentist ALSO approve of Trident gum."
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Rock Hudson was born on this day 100 years ago.
He was the epitome of the handsome, seemingly hetero, Hollywood star.
AIDS outed him and killed him.
He died in 1985, aged 59.
His death shocked the world. For many, he was the first person they knew of to die as a result of HIV.
He was the epitome of the handsome, seemingly hetero, Hollywood star.
AIDS outed him and killed him.
He died in 1985, aged 59.
His death shocked the world. For many, he was the first person they knew of to die as a result of HIV.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Rock Hudson was born on this day 100 years ago.
He was the epitome of the handsome, seemingly hetero, Hollywood star.
AIDS outed him and killed him.
He died in 1985, aged 59.
His death shocked the world. For many, he was the first person they knew of to die as a result of HIV.
He was the epitome of the handsome, seemingly hetero, Hollywood star.
AIDS outed him and killed him.
He died in 1985, aged 59.
His death shocked the world. For many, he was the first person they knew of to die as a result of HIV.
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Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
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Leading neuroscientists say that ongoing disruptions in federal funding are causing many young scientists in the field to reconsider their career choice — with potentially dire consequences for research into Alzheimer's, autism and other brain disorders.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Leading neuroscientists say that ongoing disruptions in federal funding are causing many young scientists in the field to reconsider their career choice — with potentially dire consequences for research into Alzheimer's, autism and other brain disorders.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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when will 'administrators' come out from behind the door?
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
when will 'administrators' come out from behind the door?
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.