Liz Shayne

(screams myself hoarse)

This one is so much. It's SO MUCH, you don't even know!

This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.

Starbucks workers are still without a labor deal four years after their first union win. Here’s why | CNN Business The Starbucks union organizing campaign has been one of the biggest successes in the American labor movement over the past few years. But despite momentum, there is still no first labor contract, a ke...

Today is the 4 year anniversary of our first union victory! Since then, we've won over 650 union elections.

It's been 4 years without a contract, and 4 years of union busting. That's why we're on day 26 of our national ULP strike - and we won't back down.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/b...

The forbidden latke

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole."

billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

Someone should tell us how much it costs annually, per person, to keep increasing the military's budget every year, and how much it costs annually, per person, to keep fucking up with health care infrastructure, and how much it costs annually per person to continue to increase police budgets. And...

An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

Every single pro-life senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr should find out what it’s like to be called a baby-killer. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

This idea is being pushed on us because billionaires don’t want art. They want decorations that don’t question the atrocity of their existence.

It's important to give conservative politicians their dues when they're on the right side of an issue like this, because we want elections to be fought over housing policy and taxes and stuff, not demonising minorities.

Make politics boring again!

Packages of Hanukkah candles for sale at Fox Home. The candles are all white.

I have discovered the most curséd object of the holiday. Truly, tastefully beige minimalism has gone too far.

A stack of six books sitting on their side. From top to bottom: T. Kingfisher’s Snake Eater Bogi Takács’ Song of Spores Angela Buchdahl’s Heart of a Stranger Ilana Kurshan’s Children of the Book Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field, Book III in The Book of Dust Michael Twitty’s Recipes from the American South.

I would like the bookstore to send along some extra time to read when I order this many books…
@tkingfisher.com, @koshersoul.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social,

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

Another day of being deeply furious with Starbucks’ CEO because I miss my little peppermint white mocha treat and #nocontractnocoffee.

Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders join striking Starbucks workers — as city approves $39M deal Socialist superstars Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday joined striking Starbucks workers in Brooklyn — hours after outgoing Hizzoner Eric Adams unveiled a $39 milli…

So about yesterday... DCWP announced a $39 million settlement that's going into the pockets of NYC baristas, PLUS both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov joined us on the picket line.

Name a more iconic day 🥰

nypost.com/2025/12/01/u...

As usual, anything that @shengokai.blacksky.app has to say about disability and about ADHD in particular is something you should probably read.

this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.

By "moral neuroableism," I mean "the belief that neurodivergent people and ways of being are morally inferior to neurotypical ones." In the draft thus far, I'm largely focusing on claims like "nonlinear attention makes us less empathetic and less accountable to others' needs" as examples. BUT...

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering?
Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them?
Why can't the right mind their own business?
Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"

Thread.

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.

Gates insistence on prioritizing intellectual property rights before distributing the COVID vaccine definitely resulted in unnecessary deaths of children.

www.wired.com/story/opinio...

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.

I’m living

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The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

WHAT STARBUCKS WILL PAY FOR:

✅A swanky office with all the fixings so CEO Brian Niccol can chill near his home in Newport Beach
❌Investing in workers with fair pay, hours, & protections in a union contract that would cost LESS THAN 1 DAY OF SALES

We just want to chat, Brian... #NoContractNoCoffee

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again