Kate Holland
@fyodor76.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Russian Lit at U of Toronto. Torontonian, reader, Mum, soprano, Great Lakes swimmer, Digital Humanist, Computational Text analyst. 19th Russian lit scholar. Dostoevskian. Pres of North American Dostoevsky Society. No DMs if I don't know you.
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Toussaint L'Ouverture by François Cauvin, 2009
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Toussaint L'Ouverture by François Cauvin, 2009
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Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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A Pick-up driver doing something dangerously stupid?!?!?
My god! /s
My god! /s
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A Pick-up driver doing something dangerously stupid?!?!?
My god! /s
My god! /s
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“Digital computing was an extraordinary invention; the constellation of technologies we now just call ’the internet’ even more so … But the question that Enshittification doesn’t ask, doesn’t want to ask, is what if none of this was a good idea to begin with?”
How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:01 AM
“Digital computing was an extraordinary invention; the constellation of technologies we now just call ’the internet’ even more so … But the question that Enshittification doesn’t ask, doesn’t want to ask, is what if none of this was a good idea to begin with?”
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This is, of course, true, but Canadians managed it to a degree. Don’t buy Jack Daniel’s though, don’t visit the US, don’t fly on US carriers, don’t import direct from the US. Don’t use cruise ships registered in the US. Ban X. I’m an amateur astronomer & I wouldn’t buy a US made telescope now.
January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This is, of course, true, but Canadians managed it to a degree. Don’t buy Jack Daniel’s though, don’t visit the US, don’t fly on US carriers, don’t import direct from the US. Don’t use cruise ships registered in the US. Ban X. I’m an amateur astronomer & I wouldn’t buy a US made telescope now.
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Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
ASEEES 2025: Dostoevsky in the Digital Age
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. by Fiona Bell Dos…
bloggerskaramazov.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
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Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")
Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...
ASEEES 2025: Dostoevsky in the Digital Age
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. by Fiona Bell Dos…
bloggerskaramazov.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")
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Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
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The whole issue is excellent, though! Check them all out here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit... with big thanks to the editors for their good work putting this issue together! :)
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3>
<p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
cuny.manifoldapp.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The whole issue is excellent, though! Check them all out here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit... with big thanks to the editors for their good work putting this issue together! :)
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I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...
A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing | A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Usin...
by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland
cuny.manifoldapp.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...
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📷 Studio Portrait of Three Boy with a Handwritten Note:
“As our lives have changed from day to day, I wonder whether, as you look at this photograph which I had issued on its thirteenth anniversary, you remember those days.”
September 14, 1918
Signature: İsmet
“As our lives have changed from day to day, I wonder whether, as you look at this photograph which I had issued on its thirteenth anniversary, you remember those days.”
September 14, 1918
Signature: İsmet
January 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
📷 Studio Portrait of Three Boy with a Handwritten Note:
“As our lives have changed from day to day, I wonder whether, as you look at this photograph which I had issued on its thirteenth anniversary, you remember those days.”
September 14, 1918
Signature: İsmet
“As our lives have changed from day to day, I wonder whether, as you look at this photograph which I had issued on its thirteenth anniversary, you remember those days.”
September 14, 1918
Signature: İsmet
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“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
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Such a good quote!
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Such a good quote!
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feels weird given everything but apparently I’ve retained the ability to be shocked
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 AM
feels weird given everything but apparently I’ve retained the ability to be shocked
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Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.
Happy New Year, Europe!
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Happy New Year, Europe!
My 2025 in culture. Part 1: Reads. It was a year of Turkish novels, from an Ottoman Bildungsroman, the entertaining Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, through the brilliant Time Regulation Institute to Pamuk and Shafak. I read a couple of great Irish novels and ended in Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam.
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My 2025 in culture. Part 1: Reads. It was a year of Turkish novels, from an Ottoman Bildungsroman, the entertaining Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, through the brilliant Time Regulation Institute to Pamuk and Shafak. I read a couple of great Irish novels and ended in Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam.
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"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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#IzolyatsiaMustSpeak
Before Russia’s war against Ukraine, “Izolyatsia” was a vibrant cultural space housed in a former factory in Donetsk. Its Cold War-era bunkers, administrative buildings and warehouses became an international hub for contemporary art.
1/4
Before Russia’s war against Ukraine, “Izolyatsia” was a vibrant cultural space housed in a former factory in Donetsk. Its Cold War-era bunkers, administrative buildings and warehouses became an international hub for contemporary art.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#IzolyatsiaMustSpeak
Before Russia’s war against Ukraine, “Izolyatsia” was a vibrant cultural space housed in a former factory in Donetsk. Its Cold War-era bunkers, administrative buildings and warehouses became an international hub for contemporary art.
1/4
Before Russia’s war against Ukraine, “Izolyatsia” was a vibrant cultural space housed in a former factory in Donetsk. Its Cold War-era bunkers, administrative buildings and warehouses became an international hub for contemporary art.
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Apparently the #TTCRiders streetcar summit killed me!
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apparently the #TTCRiders streetcar summit killed me!
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
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Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.
Intel Brief Greenland Special
Denmark now hosts a US ambassador who personally supports the idea of US takeover of a part of our Kingdom
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.
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What's notable about vile shit like this is that they never have the courage to stand up and actually defend the proposition they are oh-so-provocatively putting forward with the framework. They love to be "just asking questions" so they can *suggest* what they're too craven to actually argue.
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What's notable about vile shit like this is that they never have the courage to stand up and actually defend the proposition they are oh-so-provocatively putting forward with the framework. They love to be "just asking questions" so they can *suggest* what they're too craven to actually argue.