Ben Zweig
@medievalben.bsky.social
Art historian, digital projects, infographics, synthesizers, medieval things. Columbia University Libraries and Pratt School of Information. Formerly National Gallery of Art.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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Invoke the 25th Amendment.
January 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Invoke the 25th Amendment.
One thing that pisses me off so much about this #Greenland insanity I've spent a lot of time working w/ and in Scandinavia. Used to work for the American-Scandinavian Foundation ffs. This backstabbing of friends is so amoral, so disrespectful, it fills me with shame.
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
One thing that pisses me off so much about this #Greenland insanity I've spent a lot of time working w/ and in Scandinavia. Used to work for the American-Scandinavian Foundation ffs. This backstabbing of friends is so amoral, so disrespectful, it fills me with shame.
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I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
Abject total senile idiocy. A complete embarrassment and humiliation. Deserves to writhe and burn in hell for many eternities.
Breaking news: In a message to Norway’s prime minister, President Donald Trump linked his insistence on taking over Greenland to his grievance over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — adding a new twist to Trump’s stoking of a trade war.
Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader
Trump’s push to take over Greenland and unleash a trade war with European nations has sparked the greatest transatlantic crisis in generations.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Abject total senile idiocy. A complete embarrassment and humiliation. Deserves to writhe and burn in hell for many eternities.
Fuck off with this shit!
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Fuck off with this shit!
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Recording of my lecture at the Courtauld 'What has Riegl to do with the perceptron?': Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision is now up: youtu.be/t5czkZdNlfk?... #dh #digitalhumanities
‘What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?’
YouTube video by Courtauld
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December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Recording of my lecture at the Courtauld 'What has Riegl to do with the perceptron?': Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision is now up: youtu.be/t5czkZdNlfk?... #dh #digitalhumanities
Rise above! We’re gonna rise above!
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Rise above! We’re gonna rise above!
This is pretty much the entire story of early christian martyrs.
The entire ideological basis of fascism is "I can hurt you if I want" and they are completely helpless when the person they threaten says "And then?"
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is pretty much the entire story of early christian martyrs.
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
Damnatio memoriae @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“The good news is this means that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
www.thebulwark.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Damnatio memoriae @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision
In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic pe...
courtauld.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
September 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
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The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
