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We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)

At the risk of stating the obvious: if the government can trample the rights of one group, they can trample the rights of any group. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Maybe one class per course. Cold/flu, going to a conference, travel, job interview, etc.

Georgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study finds Georgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar.

We need libraries for so many reasons.

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Why I'm Stoked on Carrboro's Downtown Area Plan plus a few longish notes on the process and philosophy behind it

Maybe you've heard about the Downtown Area Plan Carrboro is considering tomorrow night. I wrote some longish thoughts on why I think it's so important and some communityconversation behind it: dannynowell.substack.com/p/why-im-sto...

[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]

A Reading List for New Law Students We cannot truly understand the law, if we only view one of its faces

I crowdsourced this reading list... for new [and old] law students who want to broaden their horizons and reflect on the ambivalent nature of law itself, having both the potential for freedom & unfreedom.
Please share! Suggestions for additions are very welcome.
folukeafrica.com/a-reading-li...

Siembra NC | Home Join Siembra in the fight against ICE, abusive employers and landlords, discrimination and criminalization of the Latinx community in North Carolina.

www.siembranc.org could use your support.

Enclosures of historical documents are erasures of historical documents.

Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.

Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.

Print is a rent strike.

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

So uh.

I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...

you can now preorder it!

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The Day the Chancellor became Upset that the Faculty Seem to Hate the Arbitrary and Unilateral Chopping of Academic Departments By Amanda Gailey

In case you haven’t had enough Kafkaesque phantasmagoria this week, this will top you off…

The Campus Crisis Toolkit

I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us) by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …

"Christopher Newfield called for academics to 'seize the means of knowledge production' by working 'step by step ... toward direct control of universities.' ... I think the most imperative, but also the most apparent pressure point for academics looking to act upon his call is education technology."

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

This is worth reading for many reasons, but especially the detailed discussion of indemnification clauses - something I know I knew ZILCH about when I was just starting out in the speculative short fiction scene.

I knew about OTHER issues, but not that one.

“Free Joan Little”: New Film on Landmark 1975 Murder Acquittal of Woman Sexually Assaulted by Prison Guard The new documentary Free Joan Little chronicles the landmark case of the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted on the grounds of self-defense against sexual violence. Joan Little’s 1975 murder t...

Joan Little’s 1975 murder trial inspired a national campaign for racial justice, prisoner’s rights, and survivors’ rights to self-defense.

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...

How the Heartland Responded to AIDS and Shaped Queer Politics Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.

Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a double review of two incisive new books (AIDS IN THE HEARTLAND and FROM VICE TO NICE, both @uncpress.bsky.social) chronicling the histories of HIV/AIDS far from NYC or SF - in places like Kansas and Minneapolis. newrepublic.com/article/2004...

"the heist film offers audiences a spectacle of highly choreographed expertise. From Rififi to Sneakers to Soderbergh canon (Out of Sight Logan Lucky Oceans 11–13), the genre has generated some of cinema’s most powerful allegories of collective action"

homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Navigating Preteendom in the Shadow of the American Girl Doll On September 1, 1998, my girlhood abruptly changed its shape. Two things happened on that blustery back-to-school morning that fell exactly a month after my eleventh birthday. I got my first period…

This gorgeous, heartbreaking, and deeply hopeful essay from @hannahmatthews.bsky.social from our anthology is featured in FULL on @literaryhub.bsky.social today ♥️ give it a read + send it to someone who needs it

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a donkey next to a smiling dog wearing a headscarf shaped like donkey ears

finally found the difference between truth and beauty

What Socialism Got Right Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.

"I’ve learned that good scholarship, like good politics, depends on empathy as much as on evidence." (via @dukepress.bsky.social)

Zohran for NYC parody: Solidarity for ever

Compliments 💖 You deserve to hear this

I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)

TAXES FOR BILLIONAIRES

FLORIDA FOR COWARDS LEAVING NYC

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html