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Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

The Oldest Productivity Trick Around (Published 2021)

"I will not celebrate that blue symbol made of pixels, pretending to determine which human lives are most valuable; I’m here to reclaim the check mark in its basic form, etched by a human hand using ink or graphite." www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/m...

whet, that's it, please take the afternoon off and get your zen on at the CBG or look into the horizon lakeside.

(and I promise that there are many, MANY other great chefs in the collection beyond Julia, too)

A+ to the folks at Clover for recognizing (and showing!) where you can find the library's JULIA collections:

www.cloverfoodlab.com/julia-child-...

Not even in the top 500 most impeachable things that Trump has done in office, but I can't get over how he's defacing monuments to republican virtue in order to turn them into symbols of decadent personalism. Caligula-ass government.

Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship

sites.google.com/view/critlib...

#libraries #librarians #ai

I try to pay it forward by sharing this article with every student that now comes through my course. Thank you for making me aware of this opportunity to donate.

Soul Stripping Against AI, again.

"How can we trust anybody when anybody might be nobody? We no longer tilt at windmills but shoot at the wind. Shoot the breeze, shoot in the futile hope that the robots don’t take the shells and piece them into a funhouse facsimile of conversation."

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

Fobazi 's work on Vocational Awe has been foundational to so many of us. Please help support if you can

Join me in donating to help Fobazi and her wife Elena during this critical time of need. Every bit counts.

perfect. here's my dystopia list, back when i thought j6 was the end:
open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZR...

I know a lot of public libraries now have zine libraries that circulate their collection. In my area, there is the Watertown, MA public library (which also hosts a zine fest).

Another option might be to donate to a community-based organization that focuses upon abolition.

Nope, this is not a bubble. Totally normal.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

Opinion | New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.

+100 for this to happen (and kudos for the writers making this trek between buroughs)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Marcantonio earns dream job at Winfield Library - Fra Noi Joe Marcantonio didn’t want to be any library’s director — he wanted to be the director at the Winfi

One of the folks behind that label is now a library director—
franoi.com/profiles/mar...

Schaumburg Library studio, record label helps kids make music "I definitely did not think I'd ever create and produce music at all, let alone at my library," said 15-year-old Chase of Hoffman Estates. And yet Chase is a standout of our Teen Record Label Projec....

Here's one:

www.dailyherald.com/20221007/lif...

"Working-class people aren’t just subjects of history, we’re the authors, editors, printers and typesetters too."

www.culturematters.org.uk/keep-the-fla...

"Being young & politically awake in 2025 is a weird, relentless thing. You grow up knowing the world’s on fire, but being told to stay calm & sign a petition. You protest & get kettled. You tweet & get doxed. You get exhausted before you even begin."

www.culturematters.org.uk/keep-the-fla...

"It was part study group, part therapy session, part full-body political resurrection. We called ourselves The Little Flames, because nothing sounds more like a punk band made entirely of anxious socialists."

www.culturematters.org.uk/keep-the-fla...

rooftop casino

there's so much racism here that it feels pointless to point out how much chronic pain and injury migrant workers have to endure, often without any real medical care, but: it IS one of the primary violences of our system that we eat "healthy" fruits and vegetables that are soaked in laborers' pain

Galaxy Quenching In the midst of unthinkable grief, an unthinkable discovery.

I am honored to be on this week’s episode of Radiolab! The host @lutimestwo.bsky.social gets excited about galaxies with me! We talk about finding light in the darkest places, both for my research and my life. Lulu was so kind talking about my personal life and so intelligent discussing my research.

Reminds me of that one Lloyd Dobbler dinner table monologue in "Say Anything"

Finally cracked open my copy of STATE MACHINES (edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich), and wow. Released in 2018, these essays foretell so much of our lives in 2025.

archive.neural.it/init/default...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

It’s almost like a funding model premised on government underfunding subsidized by international students paying full freight has some seriously vulnerabilities, not just for higher ed but for the economy 🤔