Jason Hill
@jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
Professor teaching about photography and visual culture; convalescent skateboard old-timer. Wrote a book about art and journalism against fascism. Writing a book about photography and police radio.
The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The situation over Media, PA tonight. The photograph undersells what I observed.
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This is really impressive. They invented racism.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is really impressive. They invented racism.
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We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
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I just got out of D&D and am finally watching The Speech and I got as far as "these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power" before I burst into tears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...
Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech
YouTube video by ABC News
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I just got out of D&D and am finally watching The Speech and I got as far as "these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power" before I burst into tears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...
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My prediction is that tonight marks the beginning of the end of Trumpism.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My prediction is that tonight marks the beginning of the end of Trumpism.
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MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
How about that?
"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia
"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
How about that?
"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia
"The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, correspondence staff, and the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office" -Wikipedia
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Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World –
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...
Arcticologies
Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern Europea...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World –
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...
@uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791358...
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If you’re assigning articles you should have students download the link from the library instead of just posting a PDF to increase the author’s metrics and the journal’s as well.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If you’re assigning articles you should have students download the link from the library instead of just posting a PDF to increase the author’s metrics and the journal’s as well.
Wait, what happened last time someone boosted something out of this joint?
October 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Wait, what happened last time someone boosted something out of this joint?
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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If you were putting together a list of haunted media films, what would be on it?
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If you were putting together a list of haunted media films, what would be on it?
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New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”
We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt
The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.
www.politico.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”
We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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the real innovation here seems to be in moving ai slop from a banal, low quality, and mostly stupid digital pollutant to something that's potentially very dangerous
I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.
October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the real innovation here seems to be in moving ai slop from a banal, low quality, and mostly stupid digital pollutant to something that's potentially very dangerous
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(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
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Oh cool! The Art Spiegelman episode of America Masters is now up for free on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Oh cool! The Art Spiegelman episode of America Masters is now up for free on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwy...
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sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
September 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
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From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.
The Bomber's View of the Past
Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.
Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.
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People don’t never talk about how picture day can be a really hard time for Black girls. How our features and our hair are questioned by our teachers and classmates.
🔊 I share why in this an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from #TheDoubleTax audiobook.
Pre-order: annagifty.com! #blacksky #booksky #librarysky
🔊 I share why in this an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from #TheDoubleTax audiobook.
Pre-order: annagifty.com! #blacksky #booksky #librarysky
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
People don’t never talk about how picture day can be a really hard time for Black girls. How our features and our hair are questioned by our teachers and classmates.
🔊 I share why in this an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from #TheDoubleTax audiobook.
Pre-order: annagifty.com! #blacksky #booksky #librarysky
🔊 I share why in this an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from #TheDoubleTax audiobook.
Pre-order: annagifty.com! #blacksky #booksky #librarysky
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I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
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The only two witnesses to Giuliani’s car accident
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The only two witnesses to Giuliani’s car accident