Rebecca Zorach
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Rebecca Zorach
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- - - never not going the way of myspace - - -
art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
same id at insta, mastodon.social

Rebecca Zorach is an art historian and Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on early modern European art, contemporary and activist art. .. more

Art 37%
History 22%

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All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov

"Free press," indeed

People are rightly upset about the image thing but wtf, "write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points"?!?!?

OK so where are my historians who are quitting the AHA over these hideous AI guidelines

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How blackouts in San Francisco this weekend shut down Waymo.

“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”

@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

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“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡

@rani.bsky.social $TSLA
@mims.bsky.social
sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

Be sure to rest! I made the mistake of not resting enough

Like MILFs but terrorists
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Feel better! It's no fun. I've had something similar for 5+ weeks. Hoping I'm finally seeing the other side of it now....
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
utterly incapable of grace
utterly incapable of grace
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Although exam review sessions are often held in rooms and at times that are not the scheduled room/time for the class
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

OK students, you know what to do
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...

This isn't about "views." An employee can have whatever views they want without violating Title II of the Civil Rights Act.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.

The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.

They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.

Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air

Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

@chargepointnet.bsky.social why is your billing support so incredibly horrible? You're putting random charges on my card and I can't speak to anyone nor can I get a call back nor can I use your online form
Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.”

That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.

What came next was even wilder.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com

nice tourism industry you got there - would be a shame if anything happened to it
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France
www.theguardian.com
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

The Trump administration's withholding of research funds was certainly illegal and Northwestern's deal with them may be too. See statement from law faculty www.theuniversityunderthreat.org/updates#h.hk...
Updates
2025.12.08 | Northwestern Law Professors Detail Legal Violations in Northwestern/Trump “Deal” For Immediate Release December 8, 2025 Download this document as a PDF here Northwestern Pritzker School...
www.theuniversityunderthreat.org

Ok it's been pointed out to me that this is supposed to be a rebus for "America runs on Dunkin," but it looks for all the world like a person running away from the US