Linda Voris
@lindavoris.bsky.social
Stein scholar, professor, American University. Book, "The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing," https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-32064-9
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I am seriously considering adopting a dog. Is this the dumbest idea, given life these days? And do you have any advice for a first-time dog owner?
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I am seriously considering adopting a dog. Is this the dumbest idea, given life these days? And do you have any advice for a first-time dog owner?
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William and Daisy Myers moved into the massive, all-White suburban development of Levittown, PA (Bristol Township). They bought the home privately in the Dogwood Hollow section. This simple act of homeownership immediately triggered a "riot." (cont)
allthatsinteresting.com/william-levi...
allthatsinteresting.com/william-levi...
The Racist Origins Of America's Suburbs And The Story Of The First Black Family To Move In
When Bill and Daisy Myers became the first black family to move into the "perfect" community of Levittown, the dark, racist underbelly of suburbia came out.
allthatsinteresting.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
William and Daisy Myers moved into the massive, all-White suburban development of Levittown, PA (Bristol Township). They bought the home privately in the Dogwood Hollow section. This simple act of homeownership immediately triggered a "riot." (cont)
allthatsinteresting.com/william-levi...
allthatsinteresting.com/william-levi...
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We’re Not Ready for AI’s Risks
time.com
We're Not Ready for AI's Risks
twp.ai
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We’re Not Ready for AI’s Risks
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If you’re in higher ed and trying to think through how to teach humanities in the current AI hype environment, the linked post is *highly* recommended (linked below the picture of the Tweet)
This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...
Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
mattdinan.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you’re in higher ed and trying to think through how to teach humanities in the current AI hype environment, the linked post is *highly* recommended (linked below the picture of the Tweet)
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Imagine creating such beautiful designs and not being allowed credit because of your skin color. 💔 Nothing else. Racism is as old as time. What are you afraid of?
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Imagine creating such beautiful designs and not being allowed credit because of your skin color. 💔 Nothing else. Racism is as old as time. What are you afraid of?
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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Fascinating @djrothkopf.bsky.social interview w/ Andrew Lo. This is not a subject w/ which I share a lot of experience, yet they make compelling, understandable observations about how AI already has, and may continue to change the entire process of investing, and might democratize it more.
MIT professor Andrew Lo joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and investment and whether AI will democratize the practice or widen the gap between the haves and have-nots. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
youtu.be/6MaKtWdAttI
youtu.be/6MaKtWdAttI
December 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Fascinating @djrothkopf.bsky.social interview w/ Andrew Lo. This is not a subject w/ which I share a lot of experience, yet they make compelling, understandable observations about how AI already has, and may continue to change the entire process of investing, and might democratize it more.
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Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné (c. 1766?–1878) was a Californio (Hispanic Californian) woman who was mayordoma of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and grantee of Rancho del Rincón de San Pascual in the San Rafael Hills, in present-day Los Angeles County, California.
#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné (c. 1766?–1878) was a Californio (Hispanic Californian) woman who was mayordoma of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and grantee of Rancho del Rincón de San Pascual in the San Rafael Hills, in present-day Los Angeles County, California.
#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
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“Those using chatbots all wrote similar essays, and had the lowest level of neural activity through the process. … [E]ngagement in the brain reduced more with each subsequent essay. … [Those] who used no technology at all… [were] more creative, curious, engaged, and satisfied with the end results.”
ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Those using chatbots all wrote similar essays, and had the lowest level of neural activity through the process. … [E]ngagement in the brain reduced more with each subsequent essay. … [Those] who used no technology at all… [were] more creative, curious, engaged, and satisfied with the end results.”
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“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
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November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I love when artists evolve and pivot and experiment but I also love it when you turn the radio on, hear a new song and immediately know it is Lady Gaga with a definitionally Lady Gaga track this is maybe one of the most Lady Gaga Lady Gaga songs and I love it
Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I love when artists evolve and pivot and experiment but I also love it when you turn the radio on, hear a new song and immediately know it is Lady Gaga with a definitionally Lady Gaga track this is maybe one of the most Lady Gaga Lady Gaga songs and I love it
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France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
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March 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Winter gives no fucks
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Winter gives no fucks
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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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At least once a week, I am grateful for the world-class liberal arts education I got at U.C. Berkeley
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
At least once a week, I am grateful for the world-class liberal arts education I got at U.C. Berkeley
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
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I know, I know. Trump lie? But, this seems not to have been a "missing" piece of art. See: bsky.app/profile/chri...
"We have a great portrait of FDR that I found in the vaults that was missing for years. I found it and I put it up. He's a Democrat, to the best of my knowledge...
And when the mayor saw that portrait, he said, Sir, do you mind if I have a picture taken by that portrait?' It's an amazing portrait."
And when the mayor saw that portrait, he said, Sir, do you mind if I have a picture taken by that portrait?' It's an amazing portrait."
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I know, I know. Trump lie? But, this seems not to have been a "missing" piece of art. See: bsky.app/profile/chri...
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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They rescued a baby bird from manhole. When the mom wrapped her kid in safety like that my heart melted
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They rescued a baby bird from manhole. When the mom wrapped her kid in safety like that my heart melted
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An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be
Reading advice for young historians
This is a sheet of reading tips I’ve developed over the past few years for my first-year students in history. I posted it on Twitter yesterday, as a png image and a tweet thread, and it got q…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be