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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 2h

New German Studies diss alert! Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany, unfortunately embargoed until 2027 escholarship.org/uc/item/6tt8...

Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Author(s): Strobel, Marcel | Advisor(s): Petro, Patrice | Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: first, to render visible the archival erasure of transgender persecution and stigmatiz...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 2h

Living my best life preparing a class on fashion before, during, and after Nazism, taking every excuse to stare at these pics artsandculture.google.com/story/1930s-...

1930s Berlin Fashion Photography - Google Arts & Culture

Discover the visual world of fashion photography of the thirties through the collection of the Kunstbibliothek

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 6h

Meantime, unis (along with everyone else) are docilely following the pied piper

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 6h

Peak risk society—AI has become an uninsurable risk, like a natural catastrophe or nuclear accident or war. share.google/ODsGbHi5spzr...

Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic

Companies struggle to assess scale of financial risks emerging from artificial intelligence

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 7h

“One of New York’s leading lox-smiths”—RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 17h

"On the other hand, precisely because one million additional votes would create a changed electorate, the voting patterns of that electorate cannot be easily estimated from the voting patterns of the electorate in which Black lifespans are cut short." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 7h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Redaktion Merkur @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social · 1d

Nun also podcasten auch wir, in Kooperation mit dem Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI). "Krumme Straße" ist der Name, in der ersten Folge sprechen Hanna Engelmeier und Christian Demand mit Andreas Reckwitz über das Erben. Mehr, bzw. alles hier: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/krumme-stras...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re local, tonight we’re hosting Jewish-German playwright and novelist Sasha Marianna Salzmann with the new Imogen Taylor translation of their last novel. 4:30pm, Moore/Filene—come! german.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/09...

Donbas-Berlin: Migration and Memory on October 7th, 2025

In Salzmann's new novel, Glorious People, two generations of women speak, scream, & stay silent about the wild post-Soviet years, the (Jewish) migrati

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that there’s much less cross-university communication now (compared to earlier in the year) about pushing back but also just overall survival strategies and goings-on. USians give up their vaunted freedoms with an ease that should be shocking

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Miu Miu: Sandra Hüller definitely killed her husband, moreover, she butchered him

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Preparing to teach Tony Vaccaro's photos of postwar Germany, but could not pass up his photo of Eartha Kitt and/in Givenchy in Paris, 1961. So perfect

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d

‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 3d

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 3d

Things are getting out of hand over at Margiela

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who Mr. Nichols hangs around with, but people have absolutely been erasing their social media accounts and keeping their heads down. Green card and visa holders in the US already have plenty of evidence that their social media presence is being monitored and used by the administration.

Tom Nichols post reads:

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 3d

Same

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RFI @rfi.fr · 3d

L'Ukraine encore la cible de tirs russes, plusieurs morts dans la région de Lviv

La Russie continue sa campagne de frappes à grande échelle contre l'ensemble de l'Ukraine. Au cours de la nuit du 4 au 5 octobre, au moins 500 drones et 52 missiles ont ciblé une nouvelle fois l'ouest du pays, ainsi que des infrastructures critiques. Le bilan est lourd : en plus des dégâts matériels, on compte cinq morts, alors que les attaques se poursuivent, des explosions ont retenti dans la ville de Chernihiv attaquée par des drones.

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CNN @cnn.com · 6d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.