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Jason Hill
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Professor teaching about photography and visual culture; convalescent skateboard old-timer. Wrote a book about art and journalism against fascism. Writing a book about photography and police radio.
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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michellehenning.bsky.social
It’s arrived!
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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fractalecho.bsky.social
Three weeks ago I was told my book would be featured in the university's newsletter and today I was told it would be "revisited" in a few months because they now require supervisor approval for any books related to AI. LMAO
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Incredible project.

forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Since October 2023, Israel’s infrastructure of displacement in Gaza has consisted of so-called ‘warnings’, ‘evacuation orders’, ‘safe corridors’, and ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian zones’. FA’s research has revealed these to be little more than performative displays of compliance with long-standing humanitarian and legal norms. In practice, these mechanisms of forced displacement sow terror among the population of Gaza, as unreliable and often uncontradictory orders issued by the Israeli military leave civilians with impossible choices, and surrounded by danger, even after the ‘ceasefire’ of October 2025. In this narrative study, Forensic Architecture documents the story of Nadia* and Ahmad*, a young couple from Beit Hanoun whose experiences tell an individual story of how this ‘humanitarian violence’ unfolds.
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
This is really impressive. They invented racism.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
I just got out of D&D and am finally watching The Speech and I got as far as "these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power" before I burst into tears

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...
Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech
YouTube video by ABC News
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November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
My prediction is that tonight marks the beginning of the end of Trumpism.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
How about that?

"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia
digby56.bsky.social digby @digby56.bsky.social · Oct 22
Good God.
Angry Staffer on X with a picture of today's destruction of the East Wing writing, "the White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it's even worse today."
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World –
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...
Arcticologies
Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future   Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern Europea...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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lindstorian.bsky.social
If you’re assigning articles you should have students download the link from the library instead of just posting a PDF to increase the author’s metrics and the journal’s as well.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
Wait, what happened last time someone boosted something out of this joint?
October 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · Oct 19
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Oct 19
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social
If you were putting together a list of haunted media films, what would be on it?
Image of girl climbing out of a well from a VHS tapes in Ringu
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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debtcollective.bsky.social
New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt
The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.
www.politico.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
the real innovation here seems to be in moving ai slop from a banal, low quality, and mostly stupid digital pollutant to something that's potentially very dangerous
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Oct 1
I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.
October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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tiredgenerally.bsky.social
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Sep 30
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Oh cool! The Art Spiegelman episode of America Masters is now up for free on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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September 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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audiosand.bsky.social
sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
The selected quote reads: I tell you this story because I think so often we encounter archives when we are liminal, when we are in between. When we are moving or searching for ourselves or for the truth in the past, sometimes in our own past. When we are looking for a way home. It turns out teetering towards fascism is beyond liminal. If a liminal space is a train station, we seem to all be collectively in limbo, unending uncertainty on the lip of hell. In a haze of epistemological dissonance we witness the shredding of the past through a looking glass so cracked that even the history repeating itself is unrecognizable.
September 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM