Gemma Sharpe

My great grandfather fought in it. He was in artillery and said very little except that they struggled to move the guns without going over bodies. Just unimaginable carnage.

I ask myself the same question, every single time!

Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more? The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination

So rich to tell an indigenous artist that they're not taking up enough space...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

by the end of this class students will gain insight into u.s. history while developing their skills as composers of rap interpretations of major historical events

Thank you!

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

This is not OK

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

He’s Left MoMA Smarter, Richer and at a Crossroads

It would be good if these kinds of retrospectives, as well as cultural coverage in general, included a look at the institutions' records in the political economy.

Lowry's tenure included multiple rounds of bitter union action, including a 134-day strike in 2000, over low wages and poor healthcare.

Ugh! So grateful to my OB for telling me I could take Tylenol PLUS blow through my coffee allowance on headache days if it helped things. Sorry you experienced that.

The bot prefers “spontaneous!” 💙 I opted for an elective induction just b/c of being “high risk” and was proven completely right… (thanks preeclampsia) I’m certain that avoiding the mainstream pregnancy community made it all so much easier to handle though.

Avoiding all this was a real “bonus” of IVF. My favorite infertility pregnancy group on Reddit has a little bot that flags the word “natural” and tells you off for using it 😂 It was the only place I could go to discuss things like induction, etc., and not be pilloried for it.

George Maciunas: Lecture and Performance - Events - e-flux An evening dedicated to George Maciunas, featuring a lecture by Colby Chamberlain and a performance by Laura Ortman of work by Maciunas.

I’m giving a talk at e-flux on Thursday 9/25, 7:30pm, “The Fluxhouse Cooperatives and the Future of the City.” The program will also include a performance of Maciunas’s “Solo for Violin” by Laura Ortman.
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...

I remember my Mum crying at that when we were little.

For South Asian Artists, Identity Doesn’t Fit in a Box

If you have any lingering questions about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could be both African and Asian, I talked to four artists whose backgrounds echo his; and whose work involves telling such stories.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...

Brilliant!

it's related I think to how liberal funders and institutions are allergic to spending on progressive media (eg how CAP shuttered ThinkProgress). rather than invest in that kind of long-term project the money vanishes into the election consultant maw

Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

Every summer a different flavor of aggressive weed management.

Second hand embarrassment causes me physical pain. Forgive my bluntness, but my pelvic floor sort of cramps when I see it. I watched 1/2 of Saved by the Bell with my eyes closed because Screech hurt my stomach.

I’m basically bleeding out watching this ad.

Likewise the economic models for MA’s are very different here so the comparison isn’t necessarily a neat one. Point still stands though!

Plus students declaring minors... I’ve taught 50-strong art history courses to students coming mostly from other departments. STEM students get so overwhelmed by it. It’s quite fun!

Yeah but keep in mind the US has General Education requirements that bring students from across the college into these departments. You can have full classrooms in low enrollment majors so those numbers can be quite deceptive.

We are in a weird space. Expertise has to yield to populism to preserve the institutions that confer expertise but the market is using fake populism to juice every bit of profitable expertise before it all goes boom.

Shorter: the managerial class, yo.

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

oh no the bad guys can’t imagine doing anything societally responsible and ethically competent with one’s privilege

it’s almost as if the quiet part is loud

like the point of privilege is to hoard it and lord it over others

huh

weird

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

The average age of Apollo 11 Mission Control was 28 years old. The oldest was 36.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.

LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

Add tariffs to that. I just had a baby and the amount of equipment, single use medical gear and other paraphernalia that we went through during that process was insane. And for sure not manufactured in this country.