ProfKakie
@profkakie.bsky.social
Professor of Multimedia. Practitioner of multiple media. WRFL alum. LPFM enthusiast. Kentucky-Penn State-Clemson (NOT for football) ("Khaki" like the fabric.)
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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, about the genocide of the Congo, is one of my favorites. Feels like a novel but that's just the historical cast.
Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven about the founding of the LDS church and what it's turned into is also a great one. so many pdf files
Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven about the founding of the LDS church and what it's turned into is also a great one. so many pdf files
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, about the genocide of the Congo, is one of my favorites. Feels like a novel but that's just the historical cast.
Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven about the founding of the LDS church and what it's turned into is also a great one. so many pdf files
Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven about the founding of the LDS church and what it's turned into is also a great one. so many pdf files
Crimson doing excellent, complete and balanced coverage on this absolutely fraught matter. The double bylined explainer that preceded the drop of the current email in question was just an absolute ROCK.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Crimson doing excellent, complete and balanced coverage on this absolutely fraught matter. The double bylined explainer that preceded the drop of the current email in question was just an absolute ROCK.
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“I knew these subsidies were going to expire, but I wasn’t expecting it to almost double.”
A timely story by Grace Berry of Cronkite News that explores the financial impact on consumers if healthcare subsidies expire in Dec.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/11/10/shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/
A timely story by Grace Berry of Cronkite News that explores the financial impact on consumers if healthcare subsidies expire in Dec.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/11/10/shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/
‘We’ll likely have to sell our house’: skyrocketing premiums at heart of shutdown fight
WASHINGTON – The expiration of health care subsidies, at the center of the shutdown fight, looms large for millions of Americans like real estate agent Michelle Unger in Gilbert, Ariz. “We’ll likely have to sell our house,” she says.
cronkitenews.azpbs.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“I knew these subsidies were going to expire, but I wasn’t expecting it to almost double.”
A timely story by Grace Berry of Cronkite News that explores the financial impact on consumers if healthcare subsidies expire in Dec.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/11/10/shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/
A timely story by Grace Berry of Cronkite News that explores the financial impact on consumers if healthcare subsidies expire in Dec.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/11/10/shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/
Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
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Show up for our neighbors
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November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
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Washington Post, reporting on AI.
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Washington Post, reporting on AI.
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Honestly I am more excited about the soundtrack of Wuthering Heights that Charli XCX created than the actual film.
Every song is so magical, House sounds a bit like Nick Cave-y and Chains of Love is very 1980s goth 😍
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Every song is so magical, House sounds a bit like Nick Cave-y and Chains of Love is very 1980s goth 😍
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Honestly I am more excited about the soundtrack of Wuthering Heights that Charli XCX created than the actual film.
Every song is so magical, House sounds a bit like Nick Cave-y and Chains of Love is very 1980s goth 😍
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Every song is so magical, House sounds a bit like Nick Cave-y and Chains of Love is very 1980s goth 😍
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
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London!
Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025*
Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm
irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025*
Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm
irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
London!
Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025*
Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm
irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025*
Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm
irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...
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Burke is still relatively new to the chamber, having first joined the body in 2023. She has since become a spokesperson for the House Democrats on several key issues, including reproductive rights.
Lexington lawmaker takes over as Kentucky House Democratic caucus chair
Kentucky Democratic leadership is being reshuffled in Frankfort, with a Lexington-based lawmaker becoming the party's new caucus chair in the House.
www.wuky.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Burke is still relatively new to the chamber, having first joined the body in 2023. She has since become a spokesperson for the House Democrats on several key issues, including reproductive rights.
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Faculty are buzzing with excitement about Driving Continuous Improvement with Bruin Process Flow!
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Faculty are buzzing with excitement about Driving Continuous Improvement with Bruin Process Flow!
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News:
To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure
My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure
My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $35.9 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
News:
To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure
My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure
My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
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It's called the Technological Imperative. It's the atmospheric feeling that a technology compels its employment, but it's actually fostered by hucksters + corporations.
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
Some Thoughts on AI and the Technological Imperative
The machines are here. We already have surgery without surgeons, engineering without engineers, accounting without accountants, and journalism without journalists. Does it need to be this way?
linttrapofhistory.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's called the Technological Imperative. It's the atmospheric feeling that a technology compels its employment, but it's actually fostered by hucksters + corporations.
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
They're using it to make you feel AI is inevitable.
I explain in The Lint Trap
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
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In the US private equity has increasingly monopolized industries by buying many small local firms and rolling them into one larger firm, giving them power to simultaneously raise prices and lower quality, especially problematic in healthcare, linked to death. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say
Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In the US private equity has increasingly monopolized industries by buying many small local firms and rolling them into one larger firm, giving them power to simultaneously raise prices and lower quality, especially problematic in healthcare, linked to death. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This famous cartoon by my friend Joel Pett tells us what we need to know while the current climate conference, COPE 30, is dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists. We have it in our power to defeat the fossil fuel oligarchs and their pet politicians. By doing so, we can create a much better world.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
The climate conference known as COPE30 is under way in Brazil. The conference is dominated by oil industry lobbyists whose goal is to continue to stall progress. This cartoon by my friend Joel Pett is...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This famous cartoon by my friend Joel Pett tells us what we need to know while the current climate conference, COPE 30, is dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists. We have it in our power to defeat the fossil fuel oligarchs and their pet politicians. By doing so, we can create a much better world.
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Abbott take music.
Nothing is safe trom Trump:
The Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas will be removed to comply with a directive from the Trump regime to rid the public roadways of any political messages or artwork.
The Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas will be removed to comply with a directive from the Trump regime to rid the public roadways of any political messages or artwork.
Buddy Holly crosswalk in his Texas hometown to be removed following order on road safety
“It’s such a tasteful cross section and people like it. But what do you do?” City Council Member Christy Martinez-Garcia said of the crosswalk that depicts Holly's iconic glasses.
www.nbcnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Abbott take music.
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mechanically reproduced documentation of students, friends, colleagues gathering in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social to learn how to build their own mini FM transmitters 😍 #othernetworks #radiofutures
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
mechanically reproduced documentation of students, friends, colleagues gathering in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social to learn how to build their own mini FM transmitters 😍 #othernetworks #radiofutures
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After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com
Artist Gary Tyler turns 40 years of wrongful imprisonment into powerful textiles
An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.
laist.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com
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NYT: “.. The Trump Organization is in talks that could bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s largest government-owned real estate developments .. the latest example of Mr. Trump blending governance and family business ..”
@nytimes.com
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
NYT: “.. The Trump Organization is in talks that could bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s largest government-owned real estate developments .. the latest example of Mr. Trump blending governance and family business ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
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How Willis Conover and the Voice of America used jazz to reach millions of young people in postwar Europe (from 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘢-𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 by Reinhold Wagnleitner):
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
How Willis Conover and the Voice of America used jazz to reach millions of young people in postwar Europe (from 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘢-𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 by Reinhold Wagnleitner):
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The dawn of the Global Village; the first live worldwide satellite broadcast from 1962 with Walter Cronkite leading off the coverage:
youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?...
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First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satalite
YouTube video by telstar
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November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The dawn of the Global Village; the first live worldwide satellite broadcast from 1962 with Walter Cronkite leading off the coverage:
youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?...
youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?...
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A behind-the-scenes tour of CNN's facilities from the channel's second hour on the air on June 1, 1980:
youtu.be/t2Zk73wkerg?...
youtu.be/t2Zk73wkerg?...
CNN Day One - The First 2 Hours - June 1 1980
YouTube video by Vincent Dawn
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A behind-the-scenes tour of CNN's facilities from the channel's second hour on the air on June 1, 1980:
youtu.be/t2Zk73wkerg?...
youtu.be/t2Zk73wkerg?...
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3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc.
(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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![3.3 Ahistoricism and the AI hype cycles
When I started writing about science decades ago [...] I edited an article in which [a computer scientist] predicted that AI would soon replace experts in law, medicine, finance
and other professions. That was in 1984.
John Horgan (2020, n.p.)
When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared
on the scene in the last three years. And they experience confusion and even dissonance when they
discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades, if not centuries or even millennia
(Bloomfield 1987; Boden 2006; Bogost 2025; Guest 2025; Hamilton 1998; Mayor 2018). Such ahistoricism facilitates “the AI-hype cycles that have long been fuelled by extravagant claims that substitute
fiction for science.” (Heffernan 2025, n.p. Duarte et al. 2024). We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called
AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research
(Bassett and Roberts 2023; Boden 2006; Law 2024; Lighthill et al. 1973; Merchant 2023; Olazaran
1996; Perez 2002; P. Smith and L. Smith 2024; Thornhill 2025).
To understand how industry tries to influence independent research for their benefit, we can look
to past examples of entanglement of industry and statistics. Ronald A. Fisher, a eugenicist and “the
founder of modern statistics” (Rao 1992), having been paid by the tobacco industry, claimed that because ‘correlation is not causation’ that therefore ‘smoking does not cause lung cancer’ (Fisher 1958;
Stolley 1991). The parallel between tobacco and technology does not end here: “both industries’ increased funding of academia was as a reaction to increasingly unfavourable public opinion and an increased threat of legislation.” (Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa Abdalla 2021, p. 2; also see Knoester
et al. 2025) The histories of eugenics, statistics, comput…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie4dme35ovxs6t4ekrdosziqnikttmmef63imkpxqh2fdlybzccoa@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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It's SSMF submission time! Share your audio, visual art, research, poetry, video & films at CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Festival. The theme this year is.... 🫧portals🫧 @asc.upenn.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's SSMF submission time! Share your audio, visual art, research, poetry, video & films at CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Festival. The theme this year is.... 🫧portals🫧 @asc.upenn.edu
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We concluded our series of provocations ahead of a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh's Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL) on threats to knowledge and democracy. Here's a snapshot:(1/10)
1. The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age by Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley.
1. The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age by Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley.
The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age | TechPolicy.Press
The first in a series of provocations, Dean Jackson and Sam Woolley write that the current assault on knowledge infrastructure is complex and multidirectional.
www.techpolicy.press
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We concluded our series of provocations ahead of a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh's Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL) on threats to knowledge and democracy. Here's a snapshot:(1/10)
1. The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age by Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley.
1. The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age by Dean Jackson and Samuel Woolley.