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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1h

"Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown
Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security" @techreviewjp.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/1...

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

www.technologyreview.com

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 11h

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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 13d

Light Red Over Black
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 14h

"Ashadu’s films focus on male subjects in a context shaped by European colonialism, but she sees their labor as a pathway toward independence that mirrors Nigeria’s own trajectory" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/a...

She Sees Beauty in Black Men at Work. She Won’t Apologize for That.

www.nytimes.com

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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 14h

Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries:

cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 17h

"Christian McBride is shepherding the next generation of jazz musicians--+The composer and bandleader talks about his latest album and founding a new group called Ursa Major." @wxpnfm.bsky.social xpn.org/christian-mc...

Christian McBride is shepherding the next generation of jazz musicians - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart

The composer and bandleader talks about his latest album and founding a new group called Ursa Major.

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 18h

"Mulatu Astatke on Mulatu Plays Mulatu and shaping the future of Ethio-jazz
With his new self-covers album, the jazz luminary discusses his genre’s past, present, and future" www-thefader-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thef...

Mulatu Astatke is revisiting the Ethio-jazz standards he helped set

An interview with Mulatu Astatke on his self-covers album, Mulatu Plays Mulatu, the future of Ethio-jazz, and the links between European and African music.

www-thefader-com.cdn.ampproject.org

James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 22h

"Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity" wapo.st/46WGWtW

Column | Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity

After a quarter-century of reviewing restaurants, donning disguises and turning down photos, The Post’s food critic is ready for his next course.

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 23h

I'll slide into your DMs for coordination! 🙂‍↕️

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 23h

We should meet up for lunch during this awful time of furlough...

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

That super harvest moon is no joke ...

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

"Three museums designed by David Adjaye are opening this fall, but some institutions are downplaying his involvement" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/a...

A Star Architect’s Buildings Soar. He’s Nowhere to Be Seen.

www.nytimes.com

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

Open email: "Your street is now using a free app called Nextdoor and you should join too."

Me out loud to myself: "Hell no!"

It's for a neighborhood I left in 2021.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.

www.newyorker.com

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

"Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology---Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, teens and twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras" www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology

Driven by a feeling they’ve lost control to screens, twenty-somethings are resurrecting CDs, flip phones and digital cameras

www.wsj.com

James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

#DCPL "This exhibition celebrates key galleries and exhibition spaces in Washington, D.C. from the 1970s to present day that represent the boundless creativity, resourcefulness, and experimentation of artists working in storefronts, row houses, converted offices..." www.dclibrary.org/diy-district

James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

If that's the best hope then we are way beyond any hope at all ...

James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

"Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

I have been considering purchasing a smart watch and then reconsidering ... "Privacy in consumer wearable technologies: a living systematic analysis of data policies across leading manufacturers" [June 2025] pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Privacy in consumer wearable technologies: a living systematic analysis of data policies across leading manufacturers

The widespread adoption of consumer wearable devices has enabled continuous biometric data collection at an unprecedented scale, raising important questions about data privacy, security, and user righ...

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

“We blew it on social media to some extent. We don’t want to blow it on AI.”

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Analysis | 10 ways to keep children safer and happier online

The internet is still a minefield for kids, and parents feel outmatched. A growing movement of advocates say they have better fix-it ideas like these.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 1d

The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

www.newyorker.com

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 1d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d

"The data center capital---Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet"

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Opinion | The data center capital

Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 2d

"Does D.C. have any good delis? An NYC restaurant critic came to find out."
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Does D.C. have any good delis? An NYC restaurant critic came to find out.

We went in search of the region’s best pastrami on rye with a famous — and very opinionated — New York deli expert.

www.washingtonpost.com

James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 2d

"The birth of the Excel spreadsheet" #BBC www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...