Peter B. Kaufman
@pbkauf.bsky.social
@MITOPENLEARNING | THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL @MITPRESS | THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE FIGHT TO FREE KNOWLEDGE @7STORIESPRESS | Толстой | #OER
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One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
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DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live.
With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor.
8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.
Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2
With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor.
8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.
Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2
The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW
Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience
ffdweb.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live.
With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor.
8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.
Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2
With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor.
8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.
Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is also a former Danish prime minister, said that Trump was using Greenland “as a weapon of mass distraction from the real threats” such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. “For me, it’s been a painful process. Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural
Former Nato chief attacks Trump’s ‘gangster’ talk on Greenland
Anders Fogh Rasmussen says US president is using island as a ‘weapon of mass distraction’ from real threats such as Russia’s war in Ukraine
www.ft.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is also a former Danish prime minister, said that Trump was using Greenland “as a weapon of mass distraction from the real threats” such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. “For me, it’s been a painful process. Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural
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Passing along this idea I'll never get around to pulling off—
Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices.
Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).
Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices.
Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).
a s&p 500 chart with a pink duck on the bottom
ALT: a s&p 500 chart with a pink duck on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Passing along this idea I'll never get around to pulling off—
Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices.
Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).
Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices.
Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).
Sure.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
The deal has kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50mn barrels of Venezuelan oil, with more sales expected in the ‘coming days and weeks’. ft.trib.al/a2pf6om
January 16, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Sure.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Interactive!
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Interactive!
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
Ok everyone
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread
Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ok everyone
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Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...
cmosshoptalk.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
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Must be nice to have a real supreme court
Bolsonaro gets 27 years for his attempted coup to hold power in Brazil. Trump is acquitted by Republicans in impeachment & then re-elected so he can inflict more ego-driven destruction at home & around the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Must be nice to have a real supreme court
That doesn’t sound good.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That doesn’t sound good.
A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Peter B. Kaufman’s new book provides a publisher’s road map for a world in which video has become at least as important as text. The Moving Image: A User’s Manual is the subject of our latest interview at CMOS Shop Talk.
Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...
cmosshoptalk.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Fie!
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fie!
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
Ew.
Complaint cites "Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education Pick, Bankrolled His Raucous Madison Square Garden Rally" from Dec. 2024
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ew.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid
David Ellison met officials from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, among other Gulf investors
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner bid on.ft.com/43BEl7Y
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Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
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Have you seen our viral new database? COURIER created an easy way for you to search all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
(Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)
(Note: Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.)
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week:
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week:
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!
events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f...
It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!