Sculptor Chris
@sculptorchris.bsky.social
Artist, Associate Professor. Fabrication and Molten Metal. They/Them.
You can’t handle the truth Charlie Brown.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You can’t handle the truth Charlie Brown.
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It's about that time of year again....
November 20, 2023 at 6:28 PM
It's about that time of year again....
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The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service
A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Installed number 106 from my Biomechanical Evolution series, an outdoor sculpture, on 3 year loan yesterday- 2 cast iron columns and fabricated steel. She seems happy in her new temporary environment.
September 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Installed number 106 from my Biomechanical Evolution series, an outdoor sculpture, on 3 year loan yesterday- 2 cast iron columns and fabricated steel. She seems happy in her new temporary environment.
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Art historian weighing in to say instead of using AI to make sh*t up about Hopper's work, you could instead look at the actual sketches he made for a painting like Nighthawks—freely available online—& use your own brain to get real insight into his artistic process whitney.org/collection/w...
August 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Art historian weighing in to say instead of using AI to make sh*t up about Hopper's work, you could instead look at the actual sketches he made for a painting like Nighthawks—freely available online—& use your own brain to get real insight into his artistic process whitney.org/collection/w...
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Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
-Baldwin
-Baldwin
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
-Baldwin
-Baldwin
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I wonder how much it would cost to pay teachers and other frontline academics properly, and hire assistants for them as well
And would that amount be greater than the total amount being spent to stuff AI down everyone's throat in the hope of "saving money" and "maximizing profit"
And would that amount be greater than the total amount being spent to stuff AI down everyone's throat in the hope of "saving money" and "maximizing profit"
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I wonder how much it would cost to pay teachers and other frontline academics properly, and hire assistants for them as well
And would that amount be greater than the total amount being spent to stuff AI down everyone's throat in the hope of "saving money" and "maximizing profit"
And would that amount be greater than the total amount being spent to stuff AI down everyone's throat in the hope of "saving money" and "maximizing profit"
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I love that @sarahebond.bsky.social points out that the tech and crypto bros can’t read history books without erasing queerness, which is everywhere in the ancient world.
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
hyperallergic.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I love that @sarahebond.bsky.social points out that the tech and crypto bros can’t read history books without erasing queerness, which is everywhere in the ancient world.
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The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.
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put your toluene and dichloromethane-fed corn in your maga-branded instant pot and REJOICE for you are an american goddamn citizen
June 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
put your toluene and dichloromethane-fed corn in your maga-branded instant pot and REJOICE for you are an american goddamn citizen
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This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
Outdoor sculpture rotation- moved from Sculpture Walk Springfield in Missouri to Bella Vista, Arkansas. All fabricated aluminum. Me for scale. I still like this piece.
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Outdoor sculpture rotation- moved from Sculpture Walk Springfield in Missouri to Bella Vista, Arkansas. All fabricated aluminum. Me for scale. I still like this piece.
It’s turtle-dodging season on the roads around here.
May 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It’s turtle-dodging season on the roads around here.
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we need to start making some things socially unacceptable again, maybe if we start small we can work our way back up. it is unacceptable to throw litter. absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. unacceptable
May 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
we need to start making some things socially unacceptable again, maybe if we start small we can work our way back up. it is unacceptable to throw litter. absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. unacceptable
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The Trumpists were never against "elites." They were only ever against the idea that expertise and authority are built on study, practice and impact, instead of bloodline, divine right, or intrinsic merit. They see themselves as fundamentally better than other people and need others to see it too.
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Trumpists were never against "elites." They were only ever against the idea that expertise and authority are built on study, practice and impact, instead of bloodline, divine right, or intrinsic merit. They see themselves as fundamentally better than other people and need others to see it too.
I was notified that I got tenure yesterday, and my students made me this. This is better than the official letter.
April 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I was notified that I got tenure yesterday, and my students made me this. This is better than the official letter.
New iron casting exhumed from her bonded sand mold this weekend. Cast at the National Conference for Cast Iron Art and Process, poured off my students’ competition furnace. This was made by direct carving into the mold waste from a cast iron skillet mold, and I’m so pleased it.
April 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New iron casting exhumed from her bonded sand mold this weekend. Cast at the National Conference for Cast Iron Art and Process, poured off my students’ competition furnace. This was made by direct carving into the mold waste from a cast iron skillet mold, and I’m so pleased it.
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The kids are alright.
(A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)
(A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)
We Can’t Give Up on Arts Education
Art history, once a staple in every college humanities curriculum, is now seen as elitist and futile. With Donald Trump back in the White House, the arts are more at risk than ever.
www.thenation.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The kids are alright.
(A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)
(A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)
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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
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This goes back to the thing of: it's massively helpful to do something you suck at. To experience the experience of not being good at something, starting it from scratch, struggling to improve at it over a long time.
People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.
People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.
An interesting thing in pretty much anything you could possibly study, is that over-confident dipshits never want to do or talk about the boring stuff, the basic stuff.
They always want to jump right to the cutting edge, the most abstract and sexiest stuff.
They always want to jump right to the cutting edge, the most abstract and sexiest stuff.
January 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This goes back to the thing of: it's massively helpful to do something you suck at. To experience the experience of not being good at something, starting it from scratch, struggling to improve at it over a long time.
People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.
People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.
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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
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The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.
ACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Mandate
The suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes.
hyperallergic.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.
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Folks, this isn't complicated!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
February 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Folks, this isn't complicated!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
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Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.
Snow day sculpture time. New additions to my current large work in progress. Cast iron and fabricated steel.
February 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Snow day sculpture time. New additions to my current large work in progress. Cast iron and fabricated steel.