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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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I will admit to having been underwhelmed by much of ANDOR, but watching the second half of S2 against the backdrop of current events in Los Angeles is a feel

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

“Conan, what is best in life?” “‘Waiting just long enough for them to see you flip them off before dropping the block.’”

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 1 day ago • 405 comments

The Department of Education announced its intent to strip accreditation from an Ivy League university at the behest of the President and it was in the news cycle for like half a day.

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This makes me so goddamn angry.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Apart from EVERYTHING else, I’m not sure people realize what these things are going to do to paved city streets.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is just to say I only ❤️ed the thing I plan to read later and which you were probably hoping I’d 🔄 instead Forgive me I really will read it then share. (🙄 Right.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The NYT election needle has nothing on the Dominoes Pizza app when it languishes in “Quality Check” and you know what it really means is your pie is just sitting their getting cold for lack of a driver.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Replace 46 cent circuit with ChatGPT.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Phallocentric communication. ⚔️

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I declare this a time of carnival.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Blue state, folks.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My previous skeets notwithstanding this really is the best day.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 3 days ago • 644 comments

My correspondence with Accounts Payable at my institution has grown to include footnotes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As one does

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As spectacular as it is, don’t be lulled by the Trump versus Elon feud. Elon and his faction would indeed like NOTHING BETTER than to replace DJT with Vance, with whom —unlike the volatile Trump/MAGA movement—they are fully ideologically aligned.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Two hotel trends I’ve really come to hate: Ultra soft pillows, so your head just sinks through them to the mattress below. Sliding doors to the bathroom.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Whenever I explain to people not in academia that a tenure track job is essentially a six-year job interview that results in you either getting promoted or fired, their brains explode.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Burning it all down.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments