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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Parkway south 😂 hated it, but they got some things right

Thread on Seattle Public Schools and AI discussions. This comment had me a little 😬

wowwww really!!!! grew up in STL, too. I wonder if it’s cause the Jacob Lawrence kid’s book was so big at the same time I was growing up? 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Great Migration This critically acclaimed picture book suitable for a wide range of readers chronicles the Great Migration—the diaspora of African Americans who headed to t...

am I right, midwestern children of the 90s?

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

😳😳
a double pox upon you if this is true and you’re also from the midwest. like wut. how did you avoid it.

(& you never got to see jacob lawrence’s great migration series in school?! the world has failed you, friends)

Book cover of "Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained." The top portion of the background is solid black, the bottom portion is a grainy black and white photograph of the Cinema Theatre and an Adult Movies theater.

My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social's@screeningsex.bsky.social book series!

Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.

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Just going to keep reminding people that ChatGPT doesn't know everything bc much of history will remain undigitized 🤗 📜

Please note: none of these are university presses. Thank you.

JOB POSTING!

Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu

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My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Trump on the brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist: "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen." www.azcentral.com/story/entert... via @goodyk.bsky.social

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure

The Donnie Dark I made a new friend meme, altered to be about technology and eugenics. Donnie is in image 1 captioned I made a new technology. His psychologist asks New or eugenics again? Donnie ruefully confesses Eugenics again.

This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Another set of examples of AI unleashing the anti-intellectual potentialities of capitalism. As we argue in our book: "For capitalism, the worship of technology and anti-intellectualism are two sides of the same coin."
Crucial reporting from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Trump dismisses criticism of' Saudi crown prince over 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says 'things happen'

Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

When I think of all the incredibly talented, hardworking, and decent people I know who have had to leave academia for reasons they have no control over, and see shite like this, it does lean me towards the belief that huge chunks of academia are irredeemable.

Resisting the Vendor Machine: Contracts, Corporations, and Libraries, Thursday, November 20, 1 pm ET/10 am PT / Library Futures logo

There's still time to sign up to resist the vendor machine! Join Library Futures, Stephanie "Cole" Adams, Samantha Teremi, Layla Maurer, and Hayley Park to talk AI and library contracts. That's this Thursday 11/20!

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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

"Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop."

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

This is a fantastic article about James Watson but mostly it’s master class in dispatching of ghouls in science. Often the problem isn’t just that they’re amoral but that their being a(im)moral makes them dangerously wrong in ways that have cascading externalities on our understanding.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.