Rebecca Zorach

@rabbitrez.bsky.social

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art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
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Rebecca Zorach is an art historian and Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on early modern European art, contemporary and activist art. .. more

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint?

ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard.

COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be?

ALTMAN: Electrons.

Reposted by Gernot Wagner, Trevon D. Logan, Alan Richardson , and 3 more Gernot Wagner, Trevon D. Logan, Alan Richardson, Rebecca Zorach, Nathan P. Kalmoe, James M. Thomas

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 9d

Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:

"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

The Future is Stupid @stupidfuture.bsky.social · 9d

Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers"

Examples:

Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?

What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?

Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?

Do entitled assholes with computers lie?

Reposted by Alison Phipps, Margot C. Finn, Rebecca Zorach , and 1 more Alison Phipps, Margot C. Finn, Rebecca Zorach, Andrew Perchard

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The Great AI Bubble

Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

open.substack.com

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 10d

"Blending family and governance," NYT? WTF?

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Rebecca Zorach

Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11d

They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do.
And now thanks to some bright tech lad
They will never, ever be done with you.

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 15d

literally one of the quickest ways to watch most Americans turn into rabid frothing fascist zombies is mention the word “vegan” around them.

i’m personally not even vegan, i just think it’s neat. a lot of the theory (especially from BIPOC vegan folks) is really fascinating.

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

Axios @axios.com · 16d

SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown

Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown

"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).

www.axios.com

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 16d

Schumer AND Durbin need to go

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 16d

You think people don't understand how this works? Either you made this happen or you're a complete weakling as a leader

Reposted by Anna O. Law, McKenzie Wark, Seth Masket , and 2 more Anna O. Law, McKenzie Wark, Seth Masket, Rebecca Zorach, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17d

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 17d

This article came around to some appropriate quotes but at the outset it worked so damn hard to legitimize this travesty. What are we even doing here, indeed

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law , and 42 more Timothy Snyder, Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Simon Hix, Norbert Schwarz, Jon Pierre, David Kaufman, Steve Peers, David Feldman, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve, Andrew Curry, Lesley A. Hall, Robert J. Spitzer, Juan Cole, Trevon D. Logan, Gerald Friedman, Alison Johnson, Victor Galaz, Will Lowe, Claudia Diehl, C. Kirabo Jackson, Michael H. Whitworth, Michael D. McDonald, Anne Norton, Brian Keegan, Jason Lyall, Mark Robinson, Tom Stoppard, Karen L. Cox, Julie Novkov, Brooke Harrington, Rebecca Zorach, David S. Tanenhaus, Nancy M. Wingfield, Magda Teter, Seth Frey, Aidan O’Sullivan, Virginia Sapiro, Dunlap, David Darmofal, Peter Jacobs, Kristina McElheran

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 18d

What's up with the recent apparent pushback against ICE/CPB from the FBI? Is it a real interagency conflict, a personal grudge, or some form of eleventh dimensional fascist chess?

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 18d

Amazing essay from the brilliant Pete Coviello

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18d

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

lithub.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jason Mittell, Joe R. Feagin , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Jason Mittell, Joe R. Feagin, Kevin Carey, Ben Worthy, Andrew Jacobs, Rebecca Zorach, Charles T. Mathewes, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18d

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

lithub.com

Reposted by Mirya R. Holman, Robert C. Richards, Rebecca Tushnet , and 9 more Mirya R. Holman, Robert C. Richards, Rebecca Tushnet, Aaron Sojourner, Andrew L. Whitehead, Erin O’Donnell, Ann Bartow, Daxton R. Stewart, Rebecca Zorach, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18d

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility

In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

blockclubchicago.org

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Lisa Diedrich, Ann Bartow , and 2 more Cathy N. Davidson, Lisa Diedrich, Ann Bartow, Rebecca Zorach, David Darmofal

Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 18d

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:

Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church

Reposted by Rebecca Zorach

Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 19d

Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this.

To ICE: "You can repent"

Reposted by Devon Greyson, Alan Richardson, John Hogan , and 3 more Devon Greyson, Alan Richardson, John Hogan, Michael H. Whitworth, Brooke Harrington, Rebecca Zorach

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19d

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19d

The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20d

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Reposted by Devon Greyson, John Hogan, Michael H. Whitworth , and 2 more Devon Greyson, John Hogan, Michael H. Whitworth, Brooke Harrington, Rebecca Zorach

Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19d

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20d

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot.

A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 20d

We talked to ten serial sexual harassers

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 20d

Bwahaha they changed it to "did liberal feminism"

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, American Library Association , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, American Library Association, Aaron Sojourner, Margot C. Finn, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden, Rebecca Zorach, Nicole Guenther Discenza, James A. Benn, Southern Africa

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20d

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Michael D. McDonald , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Michael D. McDonald, Paul Fisher, Ann Bartow, Nathan Richardson, Daxton R. Stewart, Rebecca Zorach

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 20d

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 20d

Don't ever change, NYT

"Did Women Ruin the Workplace" in New York Times title font

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Steve Peers, Paul Davies , and 5 more Axel Bruns, Steve Peers, Paul Davies, Alan Richardson, Aaron Sojourner, John Hogan, Rebecca Zorach, David Darmofal

The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 20d

lol

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Joe R. Feagin, Melanie C. Green , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Joe R. Feagin, Melanie C. Green, Gerald Friedman, Nikolay Marinov, Rebecca Zorach, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21d

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 21d

See: French national epic.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Joe R. Feagin , and 25 more Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Joe R. Feagin, John McLaren, Fabián Muniesa, Mary Corcoran, Aaron Sojourner, John Palfrey, Michael Zimmer, Lesley Bartlett, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Mark Rice, Henry Jones, Sharon S. Dawes, Leah Stokes, Rebecca Zorach, Kate Jackson, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dan Immergluck, Jeannette Sutton, Virginia Sapiro, Kevin Grant, Timothy D. McBride, Peter Jacobs

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21d

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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