Amanda Vincent
@amandasvincent.bsky.social
French Studies professor, studying post-1968 cities, gardens, and landscape and posting about all kinds of stuff. Opinions my own. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823851/constructing-gardens-cultivating-the-city/
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IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR
It's all fun and games until someone decides to check the archives, you know, the place where they specialize in saving stuff b/c it might be interesting to someone one day ... I have never broken a code thanks to an archive but I have found some entertainingly sick burns!
Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's all fun and games until someone decides to check the archives, you know, the place where they specialize in saving stuff b/c it might be interesting to someone one day ... I have never broken a code thanks to an archive but I have found some entertainingly sick burns!
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social has a banger of a newsletter today with the mini essay on "Gardening to Save the World" at the top. Just yes.
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social has a banger of a newsletter today with the mini essay on "Gardening to Save the World" at the top. Just yes.
Wish I could be in NY for this event. The film makes Whyte's work so clear and accessible. It would be super fun to see it with a crowd!
📽️ 🍿 October 1st Screening: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Please join us for a Special Screening of #WilliamHWhyte's newly restored film–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces–with the Founders of @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social & The Social Life Project:
www.sociallifeproject.org/the-social-l...
Please join us for a Special Screening of #WilliamHWhyte's newly restored film–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces–with the Founders of @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social & The Social Life Project:
www.sociallifeproject.org/the-social-l...
October 1st Screening: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Please join us for a Special Screening of William H. (“Holly”) Whyte's newly restored film–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces–with the Founders of Project for Public Spaces and The Social Life Proj...
www.sociallifeproject.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wish I could be in NY for this event. The film makes Whyte's work so clear and accessible. It would be super fun to see it with a crowd!
I'm seriously tempted by the Danger Wine
Why would THROWING AWAY a bottle of sparkling wine that can explode anywhere be a good idea (and how does wrapping it in paper towels loosen the danger)?
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm seriously tempted by the Danger Wine
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silent awed jubilation! a Georges de La Tour show! www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Le singulier Georges de La Tour, au Musée Jacquemart-André
Une trentaine d’œuvres du peintre, dont la vie est peu connue, ou d’après lui, sont présentées à Paris. A défaut de chronologie, les toiles sont classées par sujets, profanes et sacrés.
www.lemonde.fr
September 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
silent awed jubilation! a Georges de La Tour show! www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Those stories were also about parks.
With: Prospect Park on a summer Sat afternoon, distancing for COVID but shouting mutual love to strangers and their dogs.
In: Manhattan’s High Line, on a starry night after a Chelsea dance party let out.
Always knew those stories were about New York people, just realized they’re also about parks.
In: Manhattan’s High Line, on a starry night after a Chelsea dance party let out.
Always knew those stories were about New York people, just realized they’re also about parks.
August 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Those stories were also about parks.
... now there's an idea for the prose fiction seminar ...
Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc
August 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
... now there's an idea for the prose fiction seminar ...
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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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Normal person: It’s a tapestry
Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!
Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC
Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!
Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC
July 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Normal person: It’s a tapestry
Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!
Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC
Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery!
Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC
Good, 35 Shots of Rum is on this list ...
"Some of cinema’s greatest auteurs... have found in the rice cooker a poetics + pragmatism uniquely suited to the screen. Guest-programmed by Devika Girish, this series spotlights movies where this humble household appliance becomes the rightful star in dramas of the heart, the stomach + the soul."
Let Them Cook: Cinema of the Rice Cooker
A humble appliance is the rightful star in dramas of the heart, the stomach, and the soul.
www.bam.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Good, 35 Shots of Rum is on this list ...
@aperturecinema.bsky.social yes plz
if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
May 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@aperturecinema.bsky.social yes plz
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May Day = radical politics. Radical means 'rooted'. In what is radical politics rooted? Togetherness, solidarity, generosity, fairness, care, beauty, sensuality, place, planetary flourishing, & the idea that freedom, equality, justice, & democracy are something we all give each other all the time.
May 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
May Day = radical politics. Radical means 'rooted'. In what is radical politics rooted? Togetherness, solidarity, generosity, fairness, care, beauty, sensuality, place, planetary flourishing, & the idea that freedom, equality, justice, & democracy are something we all give each other all the time.
Sounds like what business students want is a humanities education ....
"Despite so many surveys highlighting students’ search for purpose, it’s clear that students are feeling underserved by their business programs."
@andyhoffman.bsky.social wrote on AACSB about the need for curriculum changes in business schools.
@andyhoffman.bsky.social wrote on AACSB about the need for curriculum changes in business schools.
Let’s Teach as if People and Planet Really Matter | AACSB
Can business schools rise to meet students' growing demand for climate-conscious, values-driven education? A bold call for real curricular change.
www.aacsb.edu
April 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sounds like what business students want is a humanities education ....
Boston Marathon thoughts: I love seeing Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi duke it out but when oh when will marathon broadcasters get more than 2 cameras on the course? Basically zero visuals of the top American women runners, 5 seconds of Des @ finish.
April 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Boston Marathon thoughts: I love seeing Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi duke it out but when oh when will marathon broadcasters get more than 2 cameras on the course? Basically zero visuals of the top American women runners, 5 seconds of Des @ finish.
I don't think I've seen the framing "Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change" before, but yeah, that's what it is.
USDOT will eliminate its greenhouse gas rule, which required state DOTs to measure emissions & establish reduction plans.
It's the latest step in the Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change.
AASHTO, the org. of state DOTs, said it supported the change. Dems control DOTs of 23 states.
It's the latest step in the Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change.
AASHTO, the org. of state DOTs, said it supported the change. Dems control DOTs of 23 states.
www.transportation.gov
April 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I don't think I've seen the framing "Trump admin's effort to accelerate climate change" before, but yeah, that's what it is.
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move slowly and build things
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
move slowly and build things
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just got new knuckle tats
P O L Y D A C T Y L Y
P O L Y D A C T Y L Y
March 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
just got new knuckle tats
P O L Y D A C T Y L Y
P O L Y D A C T Y L Y
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Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet...
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
![Reading María Puig de la Bellacasa's article "'Nothing comes without its world': thinking with care" (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02070.x) in which she mentions Donna Haraway's "call to pay attention to the workings and consequences of our 'semiotic technologies'- that is, to practices and arts of fabricating meaning with signs, words, ideas, descriptions, theories' ["Situated knowledges" chapter of _Simians, Cyborgs, and Women_], it occurred to me that this is my problem with using AI in teaching/learning: generative AI seems, to me, for now, not to be a technology of care.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:milvypkbhhavf7335tuc6tsm/bafkreibgv3xotkeyhc3jne2yddh3kmefq2f5nrovbzipfqonguw2fgf5bu@jpeg)
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My local community garden is crowd funding to pay for a new shelter & a compost loo. It's a pretty amazing space in the London borough of hackney, created on a disused car park 🚶♀️🌆🌱🪱🌻https://shorturl.at/K92tG 🧵
February 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My local community garden is crowd funding to pay for a new shelter & a compost loo. It's a pretty amazing space in the London borough of hackney, created on a disused car park 🚶♀️🌆🌱🪱🌻https://shorturl.at/K92tG 🧵
@drooliet.bsky.social @katewagner.bsky.social know any students who would be interested in this summer "Academy in Architecture and Urban Studies" in Paris? villa-albertine.org/frenchcultur...
Call for Applications - Summer Academy in Architecture and Urban Studies - French Culture
villa-albertine.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@drooliet.bsky.social @katewagner.bsky.social know any students who would be interested in this summer "Academy in Architecture and Urban Studies" in Paris? villa-albertine.org/frenchcultur...
This just reminded me of the Nike-sponsored women pro athletes they refused to support through normal human things like giving birth, or failed to protect from abusive coaches and staff.
February 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This just reminded me of the Nike-sponsored women pro athletes they refused to support through normal human things like giving birth, or failed to protect from abusive coaches and staff.
If you used an em-dash in a published piece of writing prior to 2022, AI learned about em-dashes from you and not the other way 'round.
Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.
February 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you used an em-dash in a published piece of writing prior to 2022, AI learned about em-dashes from you and not the other way 'round.