me being in grad school must be such a whirlwind for my haters because on the one hand it's always like...bad news for them, i finished a paper but then it's like good news for them, i have another one to write
I have to say that it's consistently wild to get union busting emails from a university that houses the ROBERT F WAGNER LABOR ARCHIVES but go off university administrators
solidarity with my NYU Contract Faculty Union - UAW colleagues who are on strike as of 11am today. Fair contract now!!
rt if everything you know about margaret thatcher comes from CRASS
The wonderful genre of anarchopunk alone disproves this
for me it seemed like they clearly aspired to be read as "ambitious"/more than just fun and interesting movies...like, why would you make a movie about a political movement if you did NOT want it to be read as political?
"My whole harvest disappeared." The Israeli military is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops. "The whole forest was razed."
The Israeli government claims they do it "to kill vegetation that terrorists could hide in”
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
greetings! we are the united states of america. our key exports are rc planes that bomb hospitals and lake-drinking robots that tell people to kill themselves
every university tries to reassure everyone by being like "don't worry we have Fully Trained our rent-a-cops to demand a judicial warrant when they see DHS so don't worry your little heads about know your rights"....... simply shocked this hasn't worked in practice
my councilmember's office (district 26) had not heard about this and the person i spoke to is urging more people to call and write in!!
woke is back babyyyy
Bobst Building Entrance I want to acknowledge the ongoing interest in the status of the barricades in front of Bobst. Campus Safety continues to evaluate and adjust security measures as needed. At this time, I’m not aware of any immediate plans to remove the barricades.
closing in on 2.5 years of “ongoing interest in the status of the barricades” (working on “open data” in a building that is physically barricaded with large orange gates and multiple ID checkpoints)
preach
there are a lot of problems w library education/credentialing but gotta say "replace it with a chatbot" was not one i had considered!
the new Laura Bush grants have "particular interest in exploring alternative pathways into the library services field. . . that explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education" also "cutting edge tools in the content and provision of continuing education"
I’m sorry but I can’t believe that someone named breezy Johnson won a gold medal in the precise historical moment when there’s controversy abt ski suit crotches’ wind resistance
it's Mechanical Turk all the way down
2 - protein folding is the only example of so-called societal benefit of AI that these folks ever refer to
and to me it sounds like ploughing an entire planet to grow one potato
thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍
genuine question not to be a jerk but what is the utility of know your rights training when ice is operating with 0 regard for the law?
one of the many things this piece is about is the travesty that is scientific communication in the present-day, which enables high powered scientists at big institutions to claim authorship over 2000+ articles with varying levels of fraudulence that lead to real harms in the world
Current ownership dynamics of Big 5 publishing:
S&S: private equity KKR (sold by Ellison's Skydance)
PRH + Macmillan: formerly Nazi affiliated Bertlesmann + Holzbrinck
HarperCollins: Murdoch's NewsCorp
Hachette: conglomerate Lagardère Group
Independent publishing has never been this important. 📚
twin cities sign at target field
I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA AND WISH FOR AN END TO STATE TERROR THERE
m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BQ...
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
just a thought experiment . . . what if every artifact of human existence wasn't "data"
on top of everything else it's totally crazy-making that the only way archives will be able to get grants/justify their existence is by presenting themselves as untapped treasure troves of data waiting to be mined by AI.
reading this article like . . . .. . . what am i doing with my life man
this rocks and also as an affiliate of an org that had a grant cancelled and now uncancelled, I can tell you it creates massive administrative and financial confusion!!
