Ben Zweig
Ben Zweig
@medievalben.bsky.social
Art historian, digital projects, infographics, synthesizers, medieval things. Columbia University Libraries and Pratt School of Information. Formerly National Gallery of Art.
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@henryrollins21361.bsky.social Found and grabbed these at work today.
Finally able to build something with cosmos.gl, a program I came across while teaching data visualization this year at Pratt. I have a pretty large network dataset of artists compiled from Wikidata that I often use to test out capabilities. bzweig633.github.io/universe-of-...
Finally able to build something with cosmos.gl, a program I came across while teaching data visualization this year at Pratt. I have a pretty large network dataset of artists compiled from Wikidata that I often use to test out capabilities. bzweig633.github.io/universe-of-...
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Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.
🎥 Donald Trump posts a video that appears to show the aftermath of a U.S. attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Abject total senile idiocy. A complete embarrassment and humiliation. Deserves to writhe and burn in hell for many eternities.
Breaking news: In a message to Norway’s prime minister, President Donald Trump linked his insistence on taking over Greenland to his grievance over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — adding a new twist to Trump’s stoking of a trade war.
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Recording of my lecture at the Courtauld 'What has Riegl to do with the perceptron?': Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision is now up: youtu.be/t5czkZdNlfk?... #dh #digitalhumanities
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Damnatio memoriae @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“The good news is this means that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
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Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
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Have visited the @museodelprado.es twice this week so far and I really appreciate the no photos policy. #museums
Thanks so much @gworthey.bsky.social for this amazing recap of the panel. I hope it wasn’t too…um…negative?
'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit #DH2025