Sophia Croll

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Here's the deal y'all. These people are gormless morons. You have PhDs and they have fleshlights and restraining orders. GET CREATIVE. There are 20 terms you can use instead of each of those. It SUCKS I know. Your grandfathers got creative to kill Nazis. You gonna give up so easily? USE YOUR BRAINS

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH Please click the link to complete this form.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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I stand in solidarity with Tufts full-time lecturers (non-tenure-track faculty) both because I rep them and know them well, and also not for that reason at all. (thread) 1/

Download Party by Better Streets Chicago. Saturday, January 25th from 2-4pm at Beermiscuous, 2821 N Lincoln Ave. Hybrid option available. RSVP: bit.ly/DwnldParty Bring a laptop, grab a beer, and join us for this workshop as we take action to archive important federal studies and resources on transit, safe streets, and climate action before they disappear.

Join us this Saturday at @beermiscuous.bsky.social for our first ever download party!

We're working on an archive of federal transit and climate studies before they disappear again – and we need your help. Bring your laptop, grab a beer, and take action.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/DwnldParty

... If you're a teacher or scholar who wants to talk more about this work, let me know! We're doing it every day at the Newberry, and we're always looking for new friends and collaborators. We also take pitches for new content 👀

...Both projects bring teachers and scholars together to bridge the gap between pre-college and collegiate humanities education. I'm proud of how they combine the skill sets needed for good history education: quality research and talking specifically to kids...

...through our Teacher Programs Department. We host humanities PD seminars for Chicago-area teachers, and we run the Digital Collections for the Classroom, a website with humanities teaching resources based on the Newberry's collection....

dcc.newberry.org

So excited that Friend of the Newberry Library Nick Kryczka's amazing work is being discussed at #AHA25 🎉A huge thanks to all the scholars, researchers, and teachers who worked on this report!

The Newberry is also in on this work (with Nick's help!)...

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I did, in fact, read the whole book yesterday.

I just started Lost Ark Dreaming this morning. It's incredible! I will read the whole thing today if I'm not careful.

Yay! Thank you so much for organizing it!

And this one, though it's still a work in progress: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm excited about these two feeds: bsky.app/profile/did:...

If anyone sees this, please tell me where the baseball people are on this app! We have the whole offseason to regroup, but please I miss them

Storygraph is the best! Lots of satisfying charts and a nice community where anyone can make and join reading challenges. I've found so many great books that way!

I want to say this again: Fall and Winter 2016 was a terrible time for authors with new books. Books just vanished into the Trump news cycle maw. Please consider buying some Fall and Winter 2024 books so we (including me) can keep writing. Here's a list of authors with books to consider:

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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