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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 5h

The career reflections of a born chancer. It’s almost as if she profited politically, personally, and financially in a fit of absence of mind. She was moved by self-pity, chased every unworthy resentment, sought new opportunities for cruelty, and bequeathed fascism. Some career.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 5h

CHOOSE YOUR FASCIST

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 5h

CHOOSE YOUR FASCIST

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 11h

The humiliation of the United States has already plumbed greater depths than anyone thought possible. And still he sinks it further into degradation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Creatures of #Renaissance Florence.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

More #Renaissance faces.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Faces of #Renaissance Florence.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Views of San Marco, Florence. Part 2.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Views of San Marco, Florence. Part 1.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Close encounters with Girolamo Savonarola.
#Firenze
#Renaissance
#Machiavelli

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 1d

Bolsonaro proves, time and again, that Fascism is bad for the digestion.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 3d

The “rules-based order” (a malapropism masquerading as a neologism) was a hegemonic sham. Moreover, Trump did not “kill” international law. Just as international law was once erected over the ruins of Nazism, so it will continue to stand on the ashes of Trumpism, and try his fugitive acolytes.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 5d

Firenze!

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 11d

The corporate creators of LLMs are vandals systematically destroying for profit our common inheritance: knowledge, culture, language, art. These are the means by which any of us can come to comprehend truth - the bedrock of our capacity to communicate.

chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 12d

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

www.rollingstone.com

chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 12d

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

www.rollingstone.com

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 21d

The Gulf of America.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 29d

Aoi oi oi.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 29

A volcanic optical illusion at the Jardin des Plantes.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 29

The illuminations at the Jardin de Plantes.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 27

You have a great sense of humor.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 26

A second book launch, this time at Uppsala University. Thanks to all who came and listened to @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I outline our next book - on humanity and the history of scientific instructions. It’s a tale of skull collections and the colonial history of ideas.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 26

Orwellian.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 26

The old anatomy theatre (dating from 1662-63), in the Gustavianum, Uppsala. An amazing demonstration of visibility in architecture, and of the prestige and power that anatomical science then commanded.
#HistoryOfMedicine
#HistoryOfAnatomy
#HistoryOfArchitecture

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

Yes, it’s old, but the hunger is there among my own students (very far from the Ivy League) for what has been denied to them. I think our circumstances make what we used to do very radical indeed. I agree we should do more and differently, but also need to stop compromising what the humanities are.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

Trump always was and always will be the asset of a foreign power. If treason had a corporeal shape, it would look like Trump.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Nov 23

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

For too long we’ve been subjected to a disempowerment discourse that asserts “the humanities are dying”. They’re not dying, but there is an effort by governments and corporations to kill them. And yet, the public’s desire to learn and engage with the humanities persists.

Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Nov 23

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Nov 23

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

bit.ly

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

Why were heads hunted in the Enlightenment?
Who hunted heads, and where did they 'acquire' them?
It’s a complicated history.
@lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I tell some of it in our new book.
We'll tell more of it in our next!
You can read a little about it here:
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/20/h...

Headhunting in the Age of Reason: Enlightenment Origins of the Global Trade in Skulls - Yale University Press

Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett— Headhunting is not the first association that most people would make with the Age of Enlightenment. Indeed, many might never associate headhunting with the......

yalebooks.yale.edu

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

This is called, brand recognition. The Liberal’s brand is very well recognised by the public.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Nov 23

Sadly, yes.

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