T. Scott Johnson
@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social
historian, cook, baker, swimmer Assistant Professor of History. CUNY-Grad Alum. All tweets reflect me not any institutional affiliation.
What an utter failure at the top of educational labor organizing.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
What an utter failure at the top of educational labor organizing.
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
A&M Board of Regents just pulled some underhanded shit at their meeting today to further restrict teaching about race or gender. Key item is number 2 on the agenda. www.tamus.edu/regents/wp-c... 1/3
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December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A&M Board of Regents just pulled some underhanded shit at their meeting today to further restrict teaching about race or gender. Key item is number 2 on the agenda. www.tamus.edu/regents/wp-c... 1/3
This is so good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is so good. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
TAMU-CC's AAUP Chapter on recent A&M BoR attacks on academic freedom. Feel free to share widely!
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December 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
TAMU-CC's AAUP Chapter on recent A&M BoR attacks on academic freedom. Feel free to share widely!
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December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Beautiful
It finally happened. One of our fabulous @umdbooklab.bsky.social interns, @isabelleberube.bsky.social, printed (with movable type!) the entire first page of Benjamin’s WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. That’s all handset type. They have ambitions to do more. 🤯
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Beautiful
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1. Letter from the [email protected] @rpanchasi.bsky.social & @meghankroberts.bsky.social.
This is Meghan & Roxanne's final volume of three. Andy will stay on to work with new editors @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social & @plso.bsky.social.
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This is Meghan & Roxanne's final volume of three. Andy will stay on to work with new editors @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social & @plso.bsky.social.
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Letter from the Editors
journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
1. Letter from the [email protected] @rpanchasi.bsky.social & @meghankroberts.bsky.social.
This is Meghan & Roxanne's final volume of three. Andy will stay on to work with new editors @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social & @plso.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
This is Meghan & Roxanne's final volume of three. Andy will stay on to work with new editors @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social & @plso.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
What a great piece. F*^ked me up in all the good, hard ways.
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What a great piece. F*^ked me up in all the good, hard ways.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"This time of year, all cabbalists, daemonologists, magicians, and the like share amongst their number one scrap of forbidden knowledge: that soaking a turkey overnight in a solution of salt and water ensures moist results."
How to Brine a Turkey, by H.P. Lovecraft
This time of year all cabbalists, daemonologists, magicians, and the like share amongst their number one scrap of forbidden knowledge: that soakin...
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"This time of year, all cabbalists, daemonologists, magicians, and the like share amongst their number one scrap of forbidden knowledge: that soaking a turkey overnight in a solution of salt and water ensures moist results."
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
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Now instead of simply reading the abstract for an academic article I have to contend with multiple pop-ups from adobe asking me if I want an AI summary and I cannot stress enough how much I DO NOT WANT this.
@adobe.com has made a useful product less useful with an annoying and redundant feature
@adobe.com has made a useful product less useful with an annoying and redundant feature
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now instead of simply reading the abstract for an academic article I have to contend with multiple pop-ups from adobe asking me if I want an AI summary and I cannot stress enough how much I DO NOT WANT this.
@adobe.com has made a useful product less useful with an annoying and redundant feature
@adobe.com has made a useful product less useful with an annoying and redundant feature
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En hommage à Michèle Audin, morte ce 14 novembre 2025.
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Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025)
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, n
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November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
En hommage à Michèle Audin, morte ce 14 novembre 2025.
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Today, Nov 13, marks 10 years since the Nov 2015 Paris attacks. FCHS maintains the Paris Syllabus page with numerous resources for educators. We welcome new contributions to the Paris Syllabus page to develop it further. Contact: [email protected]
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Paris Syllabus – French Colonial Historical Society
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November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today, Nov 13, marks 10 years since the Nov 2015 Paris attacks. FCHS maintains the Paris Syllabus page with numerous resources for educators. We welcome new contributions to the Paris Syllabus page to develop it further. Contact: [email protected]
frenchcolonial.org/paris-syllab...
frenchcolonial.org/paris-syllab...
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beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
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Philosophie in Krisenzeiten: Alles längst zu spät? Nichts ist zu spät!
Wälder brennen, Demokratien bröckeln, überall prasseln Krisen auf uns ein. Wie kann man hier noch denken? Im von Trump bekriegten Chicago findet Anna Kornbluh Antworten.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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PHRENOLOGY II: THIS TIME IT'S AN ACCOUNTABILITY SINK
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
PHRENOLOGY II: THIS TIME IT'S AN ACCOUNTABILITY SINK
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By chance, my review of Steinmetz's (and Pérez's) book has come out the same day as Jacob Collins' review. Both reviews highlight some level of dissatisfaction, though albeit on different grounds. Definitely worth reading both reviews together!
Collins on Steinmetz: t.co/wr1CUlitXN
Collins on Steinmetz: t.co/wr1CUlitXN
https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12387
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November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
By chance, my review of Steinmetz's (and Pérez's) book has come out the same day as Jacob Collins' review. Both reviews highlight some level of dissatisfaction, though albeit on different grounds. Definitely worth reading both reviews together!
Collins on Steinmetz: t.co/wr1CUlitXN
Collins on Steinmetz: t.co/wr1CUlitXN
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@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.
Field Work | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Field Work
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November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.
It me.
Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It me.
My new hero.
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My new hero.
New HoP issue looks like a banger. read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
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October 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New HoP issue looks like a banger. read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...