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medievalben.bsky.social
Art historian, digital projects, infographics, synthesizers, medieval things. Columbia University Libraries and Pratt School of Information. Formerly National Gallery of Art.
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Nostalgia is the present’s greatest nemesis.

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These psychos don't believe other people are real. And that, you know, other people have agency and react to things.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

submitted 7 days ago • 1731 comments

#handsoff NYC

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 9 days ago • 314 comments

So do we all feel liberated?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 10 days ago • 270 comments

Hell yeah

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. This is in absolutely-fucking-not territory. 22nd amendment: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President...for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President...more than once.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Another Saturday putting in a phone banking shift for Susan Crawford and @wisdems.bsky.social @benwikler.bsky.social. #wisconsin

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck. You.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 19 days ago • 1935 comments

@medievalben.bsky.social explores the limits of generative AI through the lens of ekphrasis. Literalist language policies in platforms like DALL·E 2 obstruct nuanced visual imagination, especially with historically or theologically charged descriptions. #Ekphrasis #GenerativeAI #Creativity

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

submitted 19 days ago • 91 comments