Dr. Antje Gamble
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her
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Welcome everyone!
I’m an art historian, who also organizes with her UCW chapter. I research Italian modern art stuff and exhibitions (check out my book 📕). I post about politics and academia and art and whatever strikes me.
Be chill or be blocked ✌🏼
Welcome everyone!
I’m an art historian, who also organizes with her UCW chapter. I research Italian modern art stuff and exhibitions (check out my book 📕). I post about politics and academia and art and whatever strikes me.
Be chill or be blocked ✌🏼
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I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
Wow… these frump ads trying to make people believe revoking the ACA support is actually good for them are something else. They are worried!
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Wow… these frump ads trying to make people believe revoking the ACA support is actually good for them are something else. They are worried!
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Apparently this is a youtuber trend. The person who did this was hoping to get a reaction to put online. Instead their family was just embarrassed.
Magas: our views are so oppressed
Everyone else: …
Magas at holiday party: yells out that a black woman liberal was assassinated
Everyone else: oh no!
Magas at holiday party: hahahaha, made ya look, just kidding
Everyone else: 😑
Everyone else: …
Magas at holiday party: yells out that a black woman liberal was assassinated
Everyone else: oh no!
Magas at holiday party: hahahaha, made ya look, just kidding
Everyone else: 😑
December 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Apparently this is a youtuber trend. The person who did this was hoping to get a reaction to put online. Instead their family was just embarrassed.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
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Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
Comedy Writer Bought ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ Domain Names, Anticipating President Would Rename Institution After Himself: ‘Satire Became Unavoidable’
In August, former 'South Park' writer Toby Morton registered 'TrumpKennedyCenter' domain names, anticipating that Trump would add his name to the D.C. landmark.
variety.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
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New analysis of the major qualitative differences between natural and artificial intelligence (via LLMs).
LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New analysis of the major qualitative differences between natural and artificial intelligence (via LLMs).
LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
LLMs and humans form judgments differently across seven epistemological stages 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Will they move to the same imaginary place all the NYC billionaires threatened to move after Mamdani got elected?
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Will they move to the same imaginary place all the NYC billionaires threatened to move after Mamdani got elected?
Saw a Ukrainian tiktoker clarify that he uses the collective when saying this—suggesting all Ukrainians think this. I don’t speak Ukrainian so cannot confirm, but it would track.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to wish Russian President Vladimir Putin dead, saying “May he perish” in a Christmas Eve address.
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Saw a Ukrainian tiktoker clarify that he uses the collective when saying this—suggesting all Ukrainians think this. I don’t speak Ukrainian so cannot confirm, but it would track.
Not to mention, for most of Sinatra’s life, he wasn’t considered white because he was an Italian-American. Or the fact that he produced a short after WWII about not hating your neighbor because they are different.
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Not to mention, for most of Sinatra’s life, he wasn’t considered white because he was an Italian-American. Or the fact that he produced a short after WWII about not hating your neighbor because they are different.
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The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
December 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
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Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities, Naples: 2026-2027 Research Residencies
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Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities, Naples: 2026-2027 Research Residencies | MEMOs
Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia,” Naples, Italy
memorients.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities, Naples: 2026-2027 Research Residencies
memorients.com/news/center-...
memorients.com/news/center-...
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
Battled a pomegranate for this salad. It was worth it. So good!
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Battled a pomegranate for this salad. It was worth it. So good!
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They do not deserve a moment's peace
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
They do not deserve a moment's peace
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New study: AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New study: AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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if you want new ideas, you could buy some from *any creative professional* at literally any time, you dinguses
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
if you want new ideas, you could buy some from *any creative professional* at literally any time, you dinguses
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The genocide will continue until morale improves.
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The genocide will continue until morale improves.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Abstract. This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely
doi.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
He said he’d do this, yet folks with student loans still voted for him.
Also Biden could have stopped this (and won Harris the election) if he’d had met his campaign promise to cancel student loans.
Also Biden could have stopped this (and won Harris the election) if he’d had met his campaign promise to cancel student loans.
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
Trump Admin to Start Garnishing Wages of Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers
The Trump administration will resume garnishing the wages of people who are on default on their student loans starting in January. Billionaire Linda McMahon, head of the Education Department, told The...
www.democracynow.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
He said he’d do this, yet folks with student loans still voted for him.
Also Biden could have stopped this (and won Harris the election) if he’d had met his campaign promise to cancel student loans.
Also Biden could have stopped this (and won Harris the election) if he’d had met his campaign promise to cancel student loans.
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A reminder that Stephen Miller is a full blown fascist, that 4 of Trump’s 5 kids are children of immigrants, that what he really means is brown people are a problem for him, and that Miller’s own uncle denounced him as a bigot and hypocrite.
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A reminder that Stephen Miller is a full blown fascist, that 4 of Trump’s 5 kids are children of immigrants, that what he really means is brown people are a problem for him, and that Miller’s own uncle denounced him as a bigot and hypocrite.
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One of humanity’s best ideas ever was taking the darkest time of the year, as cold temperatures set in, and doing celebrations with lights, loved ones, generosity, and food.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
One of humanity’s best ideas ever was taking the darkest time of the year, as cold temperatures set in, and doing celebrations with lights, loved ones, generosity, and food.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
Various cultures independently came up with something along those lines, and others picked it up.
Fantastic idea, people.
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This was the SNL cold open last week.
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This was the SNL cold open last week.