Josh Shepperd
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Saw American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez over the weekend! What an incredible feature! Includes interviews from leaders of the UFW movement and really introduced me to the origins of the Chicano movement. :) @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bye...
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
One trailblazing storyteller brought Chicano culture to the American stage. Now, help us bring his story to the rest of the world.
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RIP - Season 2 of the Sopranos is the second best season of television history. 
'Sopranos' Star Vincent Pastore Dead at 80
Vincent Pastore -- a veteran actor best known for playing Salvatore “Big P****” Bonpensiero in "The Sopranos" has died ... TMZ has confirmed.
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Velvet Underground still sounds like they’re 20 years ahead of the music scene.
We just painted our kitchen in mid-century modern colors, it’s pretty intense.
The Mona Lisa room at the Louvre has got to be the most preposterous aesthetic experience on earth.
Unexpected Belgian highlight - mussels prepared like snails, with parsley and butter. A+ appetizer.
Today in Antwerp - Brueghel the Elder paintings and this actual Flemish shoe from the 1500s.
The general tech dude inflected culture of Boulder.
Boulder Vacuum store shutters, partially due to ‘entitlement’ and sexism of customers, a post reads
Vacuums R Us & Sewing Too cited economic stresses and the mental health of its workers as reasons. The latter could be a symptom of a broader issue.
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The answer is that everyone reads all day long, probably at a greater pace and breath than any time in human history. They just don’t read linearly and in the same organized fashion as before. This is a transitional time, and reading practices will recalibrate.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w agoThe advent of reading transformed society, and its decline will bring about changes of the same magnitude, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. Can America—and civilization—survive the postliterate era? theatln.tc/l2Xk9ATe 🎨: The Atlantic
New generations of Americans are taking to the street in protest, demanding change and accountability. And they are discovering what protestors of the 1960s and '70s found out— protesting is hard, frustrating and requires sacrifice. But protest songs can help. Read More👉 ebx.sh/XQxsI0
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III issued a defense of the National Museum of American History to staffers, in response to a caustic White House report accusing the museum of pushing “extreme political activism.”
Smithsonian head disputes White House report in memo to staff
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III defended the work of staff under fire from the White House, according to an email obtained by The Post.
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🆕🎧▶️ Fantastic new conversation on the pod featuring Lisa Nakamura, André Brock, Jr., Wendy Sung, and Cassius Adair talking material labor and the digital economy: share.transistor.fm/s/2200797c @lnakamura.bsky.social @cassiusa.bsky.social
Material labor and the digital economy. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 141
Lisa Nakamura offers a powerful counterhistory of Silicon Valley in The Inattention Economy, which argues for both recognition and material compensation for the labor of the women of color who built t...
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Just ate aligot for the first time. Life affirming. Put it on your bucket list.
Square Michel Foucault, seen in a gated park in Paris.
I just went to a 400 year old restaurant and bought apricot preserves from their bakery, and all you need in life is a fresh baguette, salty butter, and some house made jam from a 400 year old restaurant.
Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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Another view of our flat. Perhaps not fair, but Paris>Boulder.
The frontroom of our delightful Latin Quarter flat in Paris for the next month.
It's a minor point from the episode, but @joshshepperd.bsky.social has done some truly amazing work on Adorno's (sort of) relationship with early broadcasting networks and cultures, @annieknk.bsky.social.
Savory pies in London. Chicken with wild mushroom and clotted cream mushy peas, and ribeye with smoked beetroot and suet crust. Not pictured: gin.
Learned today that British Museum has no AC, but it does have a clear roof that lets the sun in and creates a additional greenhouse effect in 100ish degree weather.
