Literally every contact I've had with the non-academic publishing world has blown my mind with how fast, productive/constructive, and professional everything is. This is a sad statement about academia, where things are not only slow, but often extremely fucked up on an interpersonal level.

now do the other billionaires

horrible!

I live paycheck to paycheck on my PhD. I get incredibly neurotic because my job does not even pay me enough to live

LOL!

This woman is a genius! In the parody of democracy that Germany has become, you get arrested if you say "From the River to the Sea."

So this pro-Palestine protester asks if it is ok to say "From the River to the Beach" 😂😂😂😂

This is a scene straight out of Kafka...

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Without the paywall

We should be doing that, but we're still battling big tech to have digital rights. They accept these decisions coming from the EU, and topple global South presidents for less

Why have grocery prices been going up on a weekly basis?

At this point it is just pure greed.

They are making more profits than they have ever been.

I mean. It is literally on a weekly basis.

The new French Revolution can’t come fast enough.

@alexsoros.bsky.social another boss I forgot, why are CEU PhDs below the at-risk-of-poverty line?

JEAWOK MEDIA on Instagram: "Two major business stories are raising questions about decisions happening behind the scenes at some of the country’s largest companies. In Ontario, a massive fire destro... 1,321 likes, 75 comments - jeawokmedia on April 10, 2026: "Two major business stories are raising questions about decisions happening behind the scenes at some of the country’s largest companies. In...

"all you had to do is pay us enough to live" www.instagram.com/reel/DW-PWyJ... every boss that keeps their workers in poverty should see that. I'll tag mine to help them out @historicalstudies.bsky.social @cqschneider.bsky.social

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no.
This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people.
This is why every worker needs a union.

Iran’s 10-point peace plan Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again Permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon Lifting of all US sanctions on Iran End to all regional fighting against Iranian allies Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz Iran would impose a $2m fee per ship transiting Hormuz Iran would split these fees with Oman Iran would establish rules for safe passage through Hormuz Iran would use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations

This is Iran's 10 point plan - which Trump has accepted as "a workable basis on which to negotiate."

Have no doubt:

This is the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the US since its emergence as a superpower.

Isso ta me deixando totalmente atordoada, Israel vai cometer outro genocídio e ninguém vai falar nada???

The Truth About the Social Media Addiction Trial YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

The social media addiction case was a victory for Big Tech, and it could bring age verification, something that would directly harm smaller platforms like BlueSky. Why are people here acting like it's a victory? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6...

I think the issue is that problematic use is not necessarily an addiction - and what the research shows is that treating social media as an addiction makes it more difficult to curb use

Hahaha, good to know I'm not the only one!

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A lot, and often about the same behavior. I saw a reel about the position I sleep in, with a joke about women in their 30s having to sleep that way, and I laughed, then got posts saying this is a sign of autism, ADHD, and a million other things

📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did.

The fight against book bans is about democracy.

We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy

Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Federação Árabe Palestina on Instagram: "Israelenses tentam agredir ativistas e são expulsos de ato pró-Palestina em Itacaré Vídeos: @/O_Papo_" 32K likes, 4,423 comments - fepal_brasil on March 14, 2026: "Israelenses tentam agredir ativistas e são expulsos de ato pró-Palestina em Itacaré Vídeos: @/O_Papo_".

Os caras não param: israelenses tentam agredir pessoas em ato pro Palestina e são expulsos, em Itacare www.instagram.com/reel/DV31By9...

This is mind-boggling stupid. Entry 58 promotes “DEI” because it is about the history of slavery.

I wonder why the Einstein papers (64) promote DEI but the Edison papers (63) don’t. Only hypotheses I have: Einstein was Jewish; Einstein is still suspected on the right of being a communist….

SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography This form is for collecting citation information for 2025 edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs. They should be: Published in 2022 Any language Any topic in book history We encoura...

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goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Hi, do you offer the service of explaining this to university rectors like @cqschneider.bsky.social ? Can you explain it to him like he is five?

Babe, wake up, they're reinventing the commentary tradition from first principles

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

Let's take KOSA, for example.

The Kids Online Safety Act would require platforms to algorithmically suppress content that might cause young people to experience "anxiety" or "depression."

Videos and news about my government bombing a school in Iran makes me depressed and anxious... how about kids?

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