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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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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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.

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎥 Donald Trump posts a video that appears to show the aftermath of a U.S. attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨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.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure 4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo ago

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Ben Zweig@medievalben.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One thing that pisses me off so much about this #Greenland insanity I've spent a lot of time working w/ and in Scandinavia. Used to work for the American-Scandinavian Foundation ffs. This backstabbing of friends is so amoral, so disrespectful, it fills me with shame.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

Three coffins wrapped in Danish flags are carried by 4-6 soldiers each; a cargo aircraft is in the background
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10mo ago

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Ben Zweig@medievalben.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision

In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic pe...

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