Alex Campolo
@alexcampolo.bsky.social
Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
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"I was detained for writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts," writes Rümeysa Öztürk. "My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression."
After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to treat trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"I was detained for writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts," writes Rümeysa Öztürk. "My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression."
"What is the stochastic process that generates pseudorandom numbers and produces arXiv PDFs? What are the sufficient statistics for this distribution?" www.argmin.net/p/devezers-urn
Devezer's Urn
LLMs make metascience easier, but that doesn't increase metascientific validity.
www.argmin.net
February 18, 2026 at 3:36 PM
"What is the stochastic process that generates pseudorandom numbers and produces arXiv PDFs? What are the sufficient statistics for this distribution?" www.argmin.net/p/devezers-urn
Charles Maier on the opposed viewpoints of Marc Bloch and Otto Brunner on feudalism—and the ethics of historiography: csmaier.substack.com/p/rearview-m...
Rearview Mirror
In the Shadow of Feudalism
csmaier.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Charles Maier on the opposed viewpoints of Marc Bloch and Otto Brunner on feudalism—and the ethics of historiography: csmaier.substack.com/p/rearview-m...
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In light of the news that unparalleled documentarian Frederick Wiseman has died, I’m revisiting @joeengleman.bsky.social’s 2025 @chicagoreader.com cover story on Wiseman hooked to the Siskel Center’s retrospective.
Frederick Wiseman’s portals of possibility - Chicago Reader
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Worlds of Wiseman series shows us our world. The question is whether or not we can change it.
chicagoreader.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
In light of the news that unparalleled documentarian Frederick Wiseman has died, I’m revisiting @joeengleman.bsky.social’s 2025 @chicagoreader.com cover story on Wiseman hooked to the Siskel Center’s retrospective.
You had me at, "The setting is an isolated 17th century farming community in the wake of the Thirty Years’ War..." www.vulture.com/article/rose...
Sandra Hüller Gets Her Greatest Role Yet
Already a master of submerged heartbreak in so many previous parts, Hüller is mesmerizing in Rose.
www.vulture.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
You had me at, "The setting is an isolated 17th century farming community in the wake of the Thirty Years’ War..." www.vulture.com/article/rose...
Last time, it was different: "As real rates declined between 1980 and 2020, the share of wealth owned by the top 10% increased. Prior to 1980, as real rates increased, the reverse happened." thetwocents.substack.com/p/who-gains-...
Who Gains and Who Loses when Rates Change?
The US witnessed an enormous decline in real rates between the early 1980s and 2020s.
thetwocents.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Last time, it was different: "As real rates declined between 1980 and 2020, the share of wealth owned by the top 10% increased. Prior to 1980, as real rates increased, the reverse happened." thetwocents.substack.com/p/who-gains-...
"Unlike the machines, they should not just be reiterating the existing literature. If they put their minds to it, they can do what the machines cannot. And they can train their students to do it as well." substack.com/home/post/p-...
It’s Existential Question Time for Academia
The rise of the machines means that academics must ask themselves “Why Do I Exist?”
substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"Unlike the machines, they should not just be reiterating the existing literature. If they put their minds to it, they can do what the machines cannot. And they can train their students to do it as well." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Now zoning: stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-...
Cloud Land, by Stereolab
from the album Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon
stereolab.bandcamp.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Now zoning: stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-...
Wow. He really turned the ship around and deserves a ton of credit. I suppose there were never going to be two people with him and Ghisolfi though. #SAFC
Sunderland AFC today confirms that Sporting Director Kristjaan Speakman has left the Club with immediate effect.
Everyone at SAFC thanks Kristjaan for his contribution and wishes him every success for the future.
🔗 safc.com/news/2026/february/13/kristjaan-speakman-leaves-sunderland-afc/
Everyone at SAFC thanks Kristjaan for his contribution and wishes him every success for the future.
🔗 safc.com/news/2026/february/13/kristjaan-speakman-leaves-sunderland-afc/
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Wow. He really turned the ship around and deserves a ton of credit. I suppose there were never going to be two people with him and Ghisolfi though. #SAFC
“The anti-greed pedagogical tax would, by cutting wealth of the inordinately rich, just by a little, send the message that society is not wholly oblivious of, or indifferent to, extreme greed, and to power and vanity that accompany such wealth”
open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
A pedagogical tax
Why the rich should be Uber-taxed
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
“The anti-greed pedagogical tax would, by cutting wealth of the inordinately rich, just by a little, send the message that society is not wholly oblivious of, or indifferent to, extreme greed, and to power and vanity that accompany such wealth”
open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
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I feel like there's an unsaid side to this line of discourse.
If we're looking right now at what AI is replacing, broadly defined it's things that need to be replaced. 🧵
If we're looking right now at what AI is replacing, broadly defined it's things that need to be replaced. 🧵
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I feel like there's an unsaid side to this line of discourse.
If we're looking right now at what AI is replacing, broadly defined it's things that need to be replaced. 🧵
If we're looking right now at what AI is replacing, broadly defined it's things that need to be replaced. 🧵
A lot of resilience to get in even at the half #SAFC. Liverpool getting forward with purpose hope we can make a moment count on the break.
February 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
A lot of resilience to get in even at the half #SAFC. Liverpool getting forward with purpose hope we can make a moment count on the break.
The crimes (we all sanction in our passivity) against migrants...corrosive dehumanisation. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The crimes (we all sanction in our passivity) against migrants...corrosive dehumanisation. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...
On "the early 20th-century crisis of historicism... this crisis did not reflect a failure of historicism as an epistemological or ontological proposition, but rather the collapse of its capacity to provide a compelling, existentially viable vision for life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP...
Henriikka Hannula "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework"
YouTube video by Centre for Philosophical Studies of History
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
On "the early 20th-century crisis of historicism... this crisis did not reflect a failure of historicism as an epistemological or ontological proposition, but rather the collapse of its capacity to provide a compelling, existentially viable vision for life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP...
“The faults of the civil service, as Lenin frequently pointed out, reflected the country’s appalling lack of education, its material and spiritual misery, which could be cured gradually, over the lifetime of at least a generation.” -Isaac Deutscher
February 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
“The faults of the civil service, as Lenin frequently pointed out, reflected the country’s appalling lack of education, its material and spiritual misery, which could be cured gradually, over the lifetime of at least a generation.” -Isaac Deutscher
« De quoi parle-t-on vraiment lorsqu’on emploie le mot polis ? » www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity, Princeton/Oxford, Princeton University Press, [2020] 2024, 736 p. | Annales. Histoire, Sc...
John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity, Princeton/Oxford, Princeton University Press, [2020] 2024, 736 p. - Volume 80 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:20 AM
« De quoi parle-t-on vraiment lorsqu’on emploie le mot polis ? » www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart.
These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:
These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart.
These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:
These are the drawings found in handwritten letters we received from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center:
“the insistence that certain strong attachments – to particular persons, groups, personal projects and aims – are essential to leading a life.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time
Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
“the insistence that certain strong attachments – to particular persons, groups, personal projects and aims – are essential to leading a life.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
« Mais toute classe dominante n’est pas une noblesse » -Marc Bloch
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
« Mais toute classe dominante n’est pas une noblesse » -Marc Bloch
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Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
