"Harvard’s graduate student union has begun its strike after the University failed to make 'significant movement' before the midnight deadline."
Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW Local 5118 | @uawregion9a.bsky.social
📰 www.thecrimson.com/thread/2026/4/21/hgsu-st...
We all deserve more ease. That's really it.
big tech is having a wild night, so tomorrow should be fun
The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.
OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.
New Mexico jury finds Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law, imposes U.S. $375 million penalty
apnews.com/article/meta...
Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk." n.pr/47pWrMe
That’s where this is headed
*salutes beaver comrades*
BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike.
The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning.
But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.
Never not shouting that this is DOUBLE wage theft, from the staffer who should be doing the work, and from the reimbursee forced to do it, purely for the purpose of channeling often public university funds into private app developer coffers and it sucks.
The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council.
It will be the size of Central Park.
And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.
lol a loud reminder that not everything on the internet requires your input. Engage in the art of ignoring things!
Just sitting here shaking my head and swallowing the bile. Hordes of men get away with raping women and children, who must carry the scars around in silence, while bronze statues of the rapists stand in the public square and boulevards bear their names.
Professor Michael Brandon McCormack makes a series of critical points regarding the role institutions play in manufacturing the “precarity” of Black Studies programs and departments through a series of intentional managerial decisions and mechanisms used historically to weaken Black Studies.
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Ah yes, sounds like he’s learning the harsh realities of the tightly packed airplane! I think Im still struggling with this one myself 😂
Taking a French class and I’m mostly learning that I have a pretty weak grasp of the English language…
The tiny lil humans are just trying to figure out how to be humans, and thats gotta be hard! Even once you’ve got it figured out, dealing with tiny humans is hard! Two things can be true at once. Because at the end of the day, were all just tryna figure out this thing called life.
I remember being on a flight next to a child who was screaming extraordinarily loud. I remember feeling a lil irritated before realizing that my ears had just popped. It occurred to me that the poor lil guy likely felt the same discomfort but had no idea what was happening. I would be screaming too!
Terra Cotta’s regime bans considerations of race in hiring but grants itself carte blanche to consider race in firing.
Quiet as it’s kept, “dialogue” won’t cure what ails this godforsaken nation.
the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
We are living in some supremely absurd times.
I am a professor because the McNair Scholars Program showed me what I was capable of. I will fight with everything I have to make sure others have the same opportunities.
McNair matters!