Sarah Emily Duff
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
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Marcel Duchamp ~ Cover for Minotaure: Revue Artistique et Littéraire No. 6., 1934
#MarcelDuchamp #Surrealism #OPArt
#MarcelDuchamp #Surrealism #OPArt
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Marcel Duchamp ~ Cover for Minotaure: Revue Artistique et Littéraire No. 6., 1934
#MarcelDuchamp #Surrealism #OPArt
#MarcelDuchamp #Surrealism #OPArt
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April 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137567
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137567
February 12, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137567
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137567
‘In … three months, the animals had cleared debris from the river without affecting water levels… “You can … see a lovely riverbed... They’re opening up little glades along the river edge… That will let sun into the river, encouraging vegetation and invertebrates to grow and fisheries to improve.”’
Second wild beaver spotted living at Norfolk nature reserve
Exclusive: Pensthorpe was believed to be home to just one individual but pair have been filmed grooming each other
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:34 PM
‘In … three months, the animals had cleared debris from the river without affecting water levels… “You can … see a lovely riverbed... They’re opening up little glades along the river edge… That will let sun into the river, encouraging vegetation and invertebrates to grow and fisheries to improve.”’
‘the reality of a consumer technology that serves as a collaborative confidante to would-be perpetrators … is new and troubling terrain. It had given a prospective predator something dangerous: an ally.’
By @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
By @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.
futurism.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:23 PM
‘the reality of a consumer technology that serves as a collaborative confidante to would-be perpetrators … is new and troubling terrain. It had given a prospective predator something dangerous: an ally.’
By @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
By @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
‘The building’s historical value is crucial… There’s so much about that building that feels like a time capsule, like you’re back in the 1930s – the décor, the feeling when you walk in.
“I’d love that feeling to be more inclusive… and to see a bigger nod to contemporary Kenya, and Nairobi...”’
“I’d love that feeling to be more inclusive… and to see a bigger nod to contemporary Kenya, and Nairobi...”’
‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is one of three in the Kenyan capital that have been transformed for the community
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM
‘The building’s historical value is crucial… There’s so much about that building that feels like a time capsule, like you’re back in the 1930s – the décor, the feeling when you walk in.
“I’d love that feeling to be more inclusive… and to see a bigger nod to contemporary Kenya, and Nairobi...”’
“I’d love that feeling to be more inclusive… and to see a bigger nod to contemporary Kenya, and Nairobi...”’
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Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year of the fire horse and so Gilbert Adrian’s 1945 Roan Stallion dress seems appropriately flame like as it rampages across the surface of black silk @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year of the fire horse and so Gilbert Adrian’s 1945 Roan Stallion dress seems appropriately flame like as it rampages across the surface of black silk @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Happy Year of the Horse from the ARB! asianreviewofbooks.com?s=horse
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Happy Year of the Horse from the ARB! asianreviewofbooks.com?s=horse
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Madonna appearing to Saints Anthony & George, although they are not paying a lot of attention to this miracle. George's dashing hat may prevent him from seeing it! By Pisanello, 1445.
February 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Madonna appearing to Saints Anthony & George, although they are not paying a lot of attention to this miracle. George's dashing hat may prevent him from seeing it! By Pisanello, 1445.
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Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
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Henry Herbert La Thangue
The Boat Builder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
The Boat Builder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Henry Herbert La Thangue
The Boat Builder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
The Boat Builder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
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Lucian Freud, 1991 by R.B. Kitaj
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Lucian Freud, 1991 by R.B. Kitaj
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Design for Three Chairs with Armorial Ornament on Backs, early 19th century, by Anonymous, British, 19th century
Class: Drawings
Medium: Graphite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/386832
Class: Drawings
Medium: Graphite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/386832
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Design for Three Chairs with Armorial Ornament on Backs, early 19th century, by Anonymous, British, 19th century
Class: Drawings
Medium: Graphite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/386832
Class: Drawings
Medium: Graphite
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/386832
‘it is a matter of developing a materialist politics that is at once specific and general, and which addresses workers’ lives in the experientially accessible realm of market relations, and their potential in the experientially distant structure of ownership.’
Dylan Riley, First Principles — Sidecar
The left and the working class.
newleftreview.org
February 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
‘it is a matter of developing a materialist politics that is at once specific and general, and which addresses workers’ lives in the experientially accessible realm of market relations, and their potential in the experientially distant structure of ownership.’
‘Years ago [OpenAI] developed a technology that was 99.9 percent accurate in detecting work generated by the company’s ChatGPT. Senior executives had internal debates about whether to let educators have access to the tool. They opted not to.‘
Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
‘Years ago [OpenAI] developed a technology that was 99.9 percent accurate in detecting work generated by the company’s ChatGPT. Senior executives had internal debates about whether to let educators have access to the tool. They opted not to.‘
‘At least 23 African countries, including … are now generating over 5% of their electricity from solar energy…
Prices have fallen both for solar panels and batteries, mostly from China, enabling households and businesses to rely on solar plus batteries…’
Prices have fallen both for solar panels and batteries, mostly from China, enabling households and businesses to rely on solar plus batteries…’
Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says
A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.
apnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
‘At least 23 African countries, including … are now generating over 5% of their electricity from solar energy…
Prices have fallen both for solar panels and batteries, mostly from China, enabling households and businesses to rely on solar plus batteries…’
Prices have fallen both for solar panels and batteries, mostly from China, enabling households and businesses to rely on solar plus batteries…’
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no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.
February 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
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The reason why AI sucks is its not bringing down the rent, it is not bringing back creative jobs, it is not making health care cheaper, it is not solving climate change.
Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?
Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
The reason why AI sucks is its not bringing down the rent, it is not bringing back creative jobs, it is not making health care cheaper, it is not solving climate change.
Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?
Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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As day draws to a close, landscape at sunset, 1522, by the extraordinary Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg. It’s been his day today.
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
As day draws to a close, landscape at sunset, 1522, by the extraordinary Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg. It’s been his day today.
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With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows
February 8, 2026 at 1:47 AM
With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows
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On 2nd March at 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled “La Negrita”: A History of African Girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade” by Dr. Elise Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell will introduce the paper for discussion.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
“La Negrita”: A History of African Girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade - Dr. Elise A. Mitchell - 2nd March — CEMS KCL Blog
On 2nd March at 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled “La Negrita”: A History of African Girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade” by Dr. Elise Mitchell (Swarthmor...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
On 2nd March at 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled “La Negrita”: A History of African Girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade” by Dr. Elise Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell will introduce the paper for discussion.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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Fulvio Roiter.
Piazza San Marco 1983 © Fondazione Fulvio Roiter.
Piazza San Marco 1983 © Fondazione Fulvio Roiter.
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Fulvio Roiter.
Piazza San Marco 1983 © Fondazione Fulvio Roiter.
Piazza San Marco 1983 © Fondazione Fulvio Roiter.
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Portrait of a seated lady, three-quarter length, in an elaborate and gold-embroidered costume, possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654)
February 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Portrait of a seated lady, three-quarter length, in an elaborate and gold-embroidered costume, possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654)
“abstract art is still being made; it is one option among many others. But that is … the difference: for Newman and frenemies it was everything… Today not only is Abstract Expressionism ‘a thing of the past’, but abstraction appears as a historical interlude more than a world-historical necessity.”
Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 12:25 PM
“abstract art is still being made; it is one option among many others. But that is … the difference: for Newman and frenemies it was everything… Today not only is Abstract Expressionism ‘a thing of the past’, but abstraction appears as a historical interlude more than a world-historical necessity.”