Artyom Tonoyan
@tonoyan.bsky.social
A gentleman and a scholar. South Caucasus
AI companies scraping websites at scale is a real problem. But a proposed NY law could make it harder for libraries, journalists & researchers to preserve the web and investigate the powerful. That's why we've joined @eff.org & others in a letter to Gov. Hochul. blog.archive.org/2026/08/04/i...
Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots | Internet Archive Blogs
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The Sunday Times report on the pastoral visit of the Armenian Catholicos Vazgen I to the UK comparing him to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
A shot in the dark, but does anyone here have access to this book and want to share with me? Tried Amazon, but they won't deliver to the US and the only copy on Abebooks is $113 for shipping from Germany, which is insane.
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Well, I’ll be darned. Had no idea Marconi was a die hard fascist and I am learning about it in the Prix Goncourt winning French novel Veiller Sure Elle by Jean-Baptiste Andrea. Had to check the Wikipedia entry on Marconi, and this exact quote appears there as well. Live and learn, I guess.
I think this is the way 匚卂ㄒ卂丂ㄒ尺ㄖ卩卄乇
Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow do you say "catastrophe" in Japanese
A shot in the dark, but does anyone here have access to this book and want to share with me? Tried Amazon, but they won't deliver to the US and the only copy on Abebooks is $113 for shipping from Germany, which is insane.
I pride myself in having an extensive knowledge of Armenian history, arts, culture, & religion. But once in a while (read often) I come across some new "old" piece of information that pleasantly surprises me. Like the fact that there's an entire Armenian opera set in my hometown
I was today days old when I found out that Darth Vader in French is called Dark Vador 🙂
Pity they don’t illustrate books like this anymore. This 1961 edition of the Armenian national epic Sasuntsʻi Davitʻ (David of Sasun) pub. in Soviet Armenia is a case in point.
Wherein I review Fabrice Pliskin's new novel Le fou de bourdieu (Bourdieu's Madman). Read and subscribe to my Substack. artyom.substack.com/p/bourdieu-f...
Bourdieu Freaks
Le fou de Bourdieu by Fabrice Pliskin: A Review
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The start of Uzbek dissident writer Hamid Ismailov’s newly translated book We Computers. I already like the book
Wherein I review Emily Herring's new biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. Read and subscribe to my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring
A Review
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Read a book. Wrote a review. Subscribe to my Substack open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
Houellebecq's Annihilation
A Review
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Woody Allan once quipped "I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Some politicians think otherwise. open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
Hubris Syndrome
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.
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Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...
Chino's Gun
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
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“This indispensable collection of articles, documents, and interviews from the Soviet and Russian press brings alive the events and emotions of one of the most tragic conflicts that brought down the USSR.” Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan. Read more www.eastviewpress.com/resources/bo...
That’s a terrible latte art. I can do a seminar but my membership has lapsed
ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies@aseees.bsky.social · last yr.Reminder: The ASEEES Mentoring Deadline is May 29 buff.ly/y1Nv0ZX Apply as a Mentor or Mentee
1) Don’t think I’ve seen Georgia as an origin country for transnational repression before 2) Definitely have never seen Iceland as a host country
OC Media@ocmedia.bsky.social · last yr.In recent days, reports have emerged of at least two incidents in which Georgians living abroad were allegedly attacked or threatened — apparently because of their opposition to the ruling Georgian Dream party. oc-media.org/georgian-dre...
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
We basically need a NATO but for eggs. Forget the nuclear umbrella, we need a mother hen!
Seeing what’s happening with the latest moves by the Trump administration is like someone brought back Yegor Gaidar from the dead and gave him an office in the West Wing
