Jennifer Sarha

After a diagnosis of long COVID, cellist Joshua Roman builds community around Immunity - Chicago Reader The concert is free to all with an RSVP, but it’s intended first and foremost for audience members living with long COVID and other chronic illnesses.

Chicago Reader: 'After a diagnosis of long COVID, cellist Joshua Roman builds community around Immunity'

'His Chicago appearance on December 7 at the Arbory..it’s intended first and foremost for audience members living with long COVID and other chronic illnesses'

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Wrote this before threads on here about how “students today don’t read anything” blew up, and I stand by it.
It’s not only that every generation makes same complaint (I cant possibly know what other people’s students eg in US are like).

It’s more: what have we tried to do to help students read?

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

“Perhaps this is why the unemployment rate for recent art-history graduates is half that of recent computer-science grads.”

Since October 2023, Israel’s infrastructure of displacement in Gaza has consisted of so-called ‘warnings’, ‘evacuation orders’, ‘safe corridors’, and ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian zones’. FA’s research has revealed these to be little more than performative displays of compliance with long-standing humanitarian and legal norms. In practice, these mechanisms of forced displacement sow terror among the population of Gaza, as unreliable and often uncontradictory orders issued by the Israeli military leave civilians with impossible choices, and surrounded by danger, even after the ‘ceasefire’ of October 2025. In this narrative study, Forensic Architecture documents the story of Nadia* and Ahmad*, a young couple from Beit Hanoun whose experiences tell an individual story of how this ‘humanitarian violence’ unfolds.

Incredible project.

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During their prolonged displacement, Nadia and Ahmad’s spent three days, from 28 to 30 January 2024, in a classroom at al-Azhar University in Gaza City, where they and their families were imprisoned, and individuals among them were tortured, humiliated, and even physically mutilated by Israeli forces.  The families were grouped together with dozens of others in the university. Men, women, and children were separated; the men were searched, beaten, and tortured, while the women and children were detained nearby, within earshot of the sounds of torture. During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.

“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”

This happened *at a university* in Gaza.

And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.

Japanese Books to Give for the Holidays Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book?

Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book? Read Japanese Literature has 15 recommendations to cover everyone on your list.

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”

Screenshot of a tweet from Jampzey on X.com that says “today I learned.” Below is a Reddit comment by user Jack_Brutal saying: “If you have a VPN, connect to Albania server. It is illegal for YouTube to have ads in Albania.” The comment shows upvotes, downvotes, and reply counts.

And suddenly Albania VPN use is through the roof. (I understand there are a number of other countries that also ban ads…)

Callimachus on the Walls At the Capitoline Museum in Rome, there are a series of rooms dedicated to finds from the various garden areas uncovered in the area of the Esquiline hill in the late nineteenth century. Tucked awa…

At Brent Nongbri’s Variant Readings, he has a great post on a Callimachus dipinto (painted inscription) from the Esquiline Hill now @ the Capitoline Museum brentnongbri.com/2025/11/10/c... Also note Trismegistos’ literary papyri database for more ancient authors: www.trismegistos.org/index_disamb...

Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.

🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...

'You're in the street, you see a delivery drone lying on its back in the hot sun. You recognize his plight, but you do nothing to help. Why?'"

Lloro(*) de emoción, mi UE.

(*) Esto hará mucho más rápido los baneos preventivos, ya escucho vuestros lloros y los gritos de SENSURA.

It’s time! Blackout Friday!

Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:

the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!

I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about

A recommended read. Brigitte has an amazingly keen sense of metaphor in the wild,
and here for AI. She IS the metaphor observatory!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Book cover: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification, by Matthew Scarborough. The cover image is POxy. 1232 (Sappho fr. 44) from B.P. Grenfell & A.S. Hunt. 1914. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part x, London: The Egypt Exploration Society. Plate 1.

I see a lot of people promoting their books right now so if you would like a reliable cure for insomnia I would recommend this book on The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek, which can be bought from Brill with a 40% discount with the code DGBHOLIDAY40 brill.com/display/titl...

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

We were once told it would take 193 years to meet legal air quality limits. We did it in just nine – 184 years early. We’ve made real progress cleaning up London’s toxic air, but there’s still more to do. Together, we can build a greener, fairer London for all.

2. Pretend that you have consulted expert historians who accuse Olusoga of being an activist when the reality is the reverse. As ever, it is the private right wing lobbying company History Reclaimed who supply what insubstantial critique there is.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

“Evidence is mounting that the current generation of models is not able to transform the productivity of most firms.”

Really interesting piece. It strongly suggests the bubble will pop because they will not get anywhere near the needed returns anytime soon.

Big news to all the multi-ethnic and multi-religious states that do in fact exist there.

"a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, and a rapid Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk Oblast is not imminent"
and the US officials who keep saying so are repeating Russian propaganda

There are so many bsky posts I want to quote in my writing because they just do the job better than I ever could.

🚨🚨"Whatever the reason Witkoff is prolonging the conflict. He is not promoting peace. If this were a normal American administration, he would be fired immediately. But nothing about this negotiation, or this administration, is normal at all." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social's damning verdict on #witkoff.

“I am delighted that my son, as well as my daughter, will now be afforded equal protection against catching and spreading the virus that killed the grandmother they never got to meet.”

More good news about the HPV vaccine.

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