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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 18d

Wish I could be in NY for this event. The film makes Whyte's work so clear and accessible. It would be super fun to see it with a crowd!

Social Life Project @sociallifeproject.bsky.social · 29d

📽️ 🍿 October 1st Screening: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Please join us for a Special Screening of #WilliamHWhyte's newly restored film–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces–with the Founders of @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social & The Social Life Project:
www.sociallifeproject.org/the-social-l...

October 1st Screening: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Please join us for a Special Screening of William H. (“Holly”) Whyte's newly restored film–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces–with the Founders of Project for Public Spaces and The Social Life Proj...

www.sociallifeproject.org

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 22d

I'm seriously tempted by the Danger Wine

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 22d

Why would THROWING AWAY a bottle of sparkling wine that can explode anywhere be a good idea (and how does wrapping it in paper towels loosen the danger)?

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22d

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 26d

silent awed jubilation! a Georges de La Tour show! www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

Le singulier Georges de La Tour, au Musée Jacquemart-André

Une trentaine d’œuvres du peintre, dont la vie est peu connue, ou d’après lui, sont présentées à Paris. A défaut de chronologie, les toiles sont classées par sujets, profanes et sacrés.

www.lemonde.fr

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Aug 27

Those stories were also about parks.

Sheepflame @sheepflame.bsky.social · Aug 26

With: Prospect Park on a summer Sat afternoon, distancing for COVID but shouting mutual love to strangers and their dogs.

In: Manhattan’s High Line, on a starry night after a Chelsea dance party let out.

Always knew those stories were about New York people, just realized they’re also about parks.

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Aug 21

... now there's an idea for the prose fiction seminar ...

John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Aug 21

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Aug 4

I haven't caught any of this live but I did just watch a replay of the men's 800, which was lit.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Jul 12

Normal person: It’s a tapestry

Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!

Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Jul 3

Good, 35 Shots of Rum is on this list ...

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 3

"Some of cinema’s greatest auteurs... have found in the rice cooker a poetics + pragmatism uniquely suited to the screen. Guest-programmed by Devika Girish, this series spotlights movies where this humble household appliance becomes the rightful star in dramas of the heart, the stomach + the soul."

Let Them Cook: Cinema of the Rice Cooker

A humble appliance is the rightful star in dramas of the heart, the stomach, and the soul.

www.bam.org

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · May 3

@aperturecinema.bsky.social yes plz

Hundreds of Beavers Movie @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social · May 2

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · May 1

May Day = radical politics. Radical means 'rooted'. In what is radical politics rooted? Togetherness, solidarity, generosity, fairness, care, beauty, sensuality, place, planetary flourishing, & the idea that freedom, equality, justice, & democracy are something we all give each other all the time.

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Apr 28

Sounds like what business students want is a humanities education ....

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Apr 28

"Despite so many surveys highlighting students’ search for purpose, it’s clear that students are feeling underserved by their business programs."

@andyhoffman.bsky.social wrote on AACSB about the need for curriculum changes in business schools.

Let’s Teach as if People and Planet Really Matter | AACSB

Can business schools rise to meet students' growing demand for climate-conscious, values-driven education? A bold call for real curricular change.

www.aacsb.edu

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Apr 21

Boston Marathon thoughts: I love seeing Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi duke it out but when oh when will marathon broadcasters get more than 2 cameras on the course? Basically zero visuals of the top American women runners, 5 seconds of Des @ finish.

Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Apr 18

I don't think I've seen the framing "Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change" before, but yeah, that's what it is.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Apr 18

USDOT will eliminate its greenhouse gas rule, which required state DOTs to measure emissions & establish reduction plans.

It's the latest step in the Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change.

AASHTO, the org. of state DOTs, said it supported the change. Dems control DOTs of 23 states.

www.transportation.gov

Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Apr 10

How has no one tagged @sarahtaber.bsky.social yet?

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · Apr 7

move slowly and build things

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · Mar 15

just got new knuckle tats

P O L Y D A C T Y L Y

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tim d.o' @tee-dee-oh.bsky.social · Mar 3

Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Feb 28

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

HuffPost @huffpost.com · Feb 28

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

www.huffpost.com

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Feb 18

Reading María Puig de la Bellacasa's article "'Nothing comes without its world': thinking with care" (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02070.x) in which she mentions Donna Haraway's "call to pay attention to the workings and consequences of our 'semiotic technologies'- that is, to practices and arts of fabricating meaning with signs, words, ideas, descriptions, theories' ["Situated knowledges" chapter of _Simians, Cyborgs, and Women_], it occurred to me that this is my problem with using AI in teaching/learning: generative AI seems, to me, for now, not to be a technology of care.

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Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · Feb 15

My local community garden is crowd funding to pay for a new shelter & a compost loo. It's a pretty amazing space in the London borough of hackney, created on a disused car park 🚶‍♀️🌆🌱🪱🌻https://shorturl.at/K92tG 🧵

screen shot of the garden of earthly delights website with a photograph of people leaning over raised beds planting seedlings. There's a poly tunnel in the background and bamboo structures around them

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Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Feb 14

@drooliet.bsky.social @katewagner.bsky.social know any students who would be interested in this summer "Academy in Architecture and Urban Studies" in Paris? villa-albertine.org/frenchcultur...

Call for Applications - Summer Academy in Architecture and Urban Studies - French Culture

villa-albertine.org

Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Feb 10

This just reminded me of the Nike-sponsored women pro athletes they refused to support through normal human things like giving birth, or failed to protect from abusive coaches and staff.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Feb 10

calling it: this nike spot is the best one of the day

Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Feb 9

If you used an em-dash in a published piece of writing prior to 2022, AI learned about em-dashes from you and not the other way 'round.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Feb 9

Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · Jan 24

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris 1789-present, including over thirty chapters by our brilliant collaborators, which I co-edited with @kory-ory.bsky.social and Erin-Marie Legacey, has a pub date of May 15! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789 | Kory Olson

This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides

www.taylorfrancis.com

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