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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 4h

Just heard “Sunday Morning” in a doctor’s office on a Pandora (or something) “Mellow Morning” mix. Would Lou be amused or appalled @willhermes.bsky.social ?

I guess he’d probably just appreciate the revenue

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 5h

The best LLM

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 1d

Paging Andrew Stauffer!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 1d

@drbibliomane.bsky.social you may enjoy! From Wells library stacks

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 1d

Happened on this 1919 edition of Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory with amazing annotations thruout. There’s a coding system distinguishing between comments made: (1) At Home, Sept 22, 1925; (2) at Berea, KY, Feb 11, 1928; (3) At Home, Sept 29, 1930; & (4) Cottage, July 22, 1933 😮

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 3d

As a novelist I appreciate this piece of evidence about the persistence of human character across time.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 6d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 5d

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k.

2025: $228
2026: $1142

She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care.

This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 7d

And we traded stuff like this for AI slop 😞

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 7d

Judge William G. Young 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“ Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, we the people of the United States have our magnificent Constitution”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 8d

The 5 Calls app also makes this easy to do. Takes less than 5 minutes to call both senators & my house rep

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9d

The report completely neglects the way that much of the momentum in far right extremism has now become part of STATE VIOLENCE. It does not count ICE actions, militia actions, vigilantism clothed in state authority. THIS IS WHERE THAT VIOLENCE NOW RESIDES. (4)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah Sean Penn’s Col. Lockjaw (with his musings about “semen demons”) seems like a clear homage to Gen. Ripper. Loved the performance!

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 13d

It's sort of the Dr Strangelove of the current moment (Sean Penn's character is an astonishing grotesque from the General Jack D Ripper mould) but has none of Kubrick's frosty hauteur about human frailty. It has the liveliness of a 1930s New Deal movie too, where the poor are the point of it all.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 11d

I don't have the words, but I'll try an unpopular few: Kaleb Horton was a singular human. But. Also. There are a thousand Kaleb Hortons—brilliant, weird—out there; he wrote about some of them. The journalism industry is grinding down all of them. All of us.

We just won't know many of their names.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10d

Good sad conversation partly about what it means to work in “dissent” (in the juridical sense)

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 18d

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent exercise tips from James Boswell (via Dwight Garner)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11d

NYT Books' new "help us find your next novel!" approach is a bit much."How about an eerie historical novel reminiscent of Shirley Jackson?" "I like memoirs — the more gutting, the better!" "A time-hopping vampire mystery? I’m in!" Is this kind of BookTok discourse...?

The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

www.nytimes.com

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11d

It was a treat! I’m teaching the Bostonians at the moment & keep finding myself thinking about the chapter breaks

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 12d

Jack White saw it coming

La Spaghettissima @catlady.gay · 15d

Acetaminophen
You see the medicine
Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine

YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic

youtu.be

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15d

“To the young people of the future, we are not merely old news but moral idiots who ruined everything”- this tracks ✅

Ian McEwan’s Latest Is the Best Novel He’s Written in Ages

www.nytimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15d

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday

Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18d

Loved the ‘spooky’ font on the credits of Jacques Tourneur’s “Curse of the Demon”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 19d

New album from French-Haitian genius jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant !!

Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · Jul 28

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs the title track to her upcoming album, 'Oh Snap,' live with pianist Sullivan Fortner in this new video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1h_...

Cécile McLorin Salvant - Oh Snap (Live) with Sullivan Fortner

YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 19d

These AAUP “Tips for Engaging with Social Media” don’t seem to have a realistic sense of how & why people use social media. I mean I’m sorry but I’m not going to post “the faculty united will never be divided” over & over

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