it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
- Mary Oliver - “The Uses of Sorrow”

bringing sexy back to maintenance work 🤣

essential reading

The Laundering: How Western Media Built the Permission Structure for Anti-Gender Authoritarianism The countries cracking down hardest on trans people are not Western European social democracies. They are Russia, Hungary, Georgia, and Turkey. The American press got the comparison wrong, and the con...

I wrote about how US media is laundering authoritarian anti-gender politics through a frame of viewing restrictions on trans people as being led by progressive European countries rather than the reality that it is illiberal autocratic states.

www.thedissident.news/the-launderi...

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

OPE

Someone sent me this.

Worth re-sharing for #envhist and #envhum folks! We’re excited to feature new research into extraction in the Midwest, past and present.

This is the situation we find ourselves in

This really sums up the NYT's pathetic anti-trans crusade. It's so bad the American Medical Association had to ask them to formally correct their statements.

This is not a surprise if you follow NYT coverage, and especially if you happen to see what their reporters admit to in the comments...

A conference exploring the intersections of LGBTQ & class, w/ keynotes by queer labor organizer Anne Balay, queer-caste theorist Anjali Arondekar, and genderqueer, disabled, class writer Eli Clare.

Sliding scale registration!
centerforthehumanities.org/event/queer-...

INCREDIBLE STUFF!! “And while the IOC says the SRY gene "represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development,"… the scientist who discovered the SRY gene in 1990, Andrew Sinclair, has publicly opposed using the test to determine biological sex.” MY GOD

Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility.

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco.

youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

There's a German word for the molten fury I feel reading announcements like this, but future Syracuse grads won't know what it is

This is a recipe for DHS content farming footage of harassment and humiliation of brown people in the airport, plus random interrogations that result in getting abducted and sent to a camp. I don’t think this is an exaggeration

"I’m thinking of a labor movement, but one very different than the kind we’ve already seen. A labor movement that manages to finally ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people."
- David Graeber

Oh.

"Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S."

I'm sorry, I know it sucks. I know nobody likes to think about it.

But this is why Democrats must advance climate communications & policy strategies:

What we're living through IS a climate regime—and nobody will ever reform its abuses without understanding it as such.

many oregon trail remnants, old military forts, small scale dairy operations, and some arty trips to the “biiiig city” (maybe it explains things, maybe not)

The Algorithm Is Your Asshole Boyfriend Why creators are incentivized toward hyperbole, and how to stop it

Lately I've been incredibly frustrated trying to build audiences on platforms that aren't Bluesky.

This piece is about the algorithm as your asshole boyfriend and the perverse incentives that drive creators today.

www.thewayfinder.net/p/the-algori...

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

thread has been tracking the development of this crisis for over a month.

we are going to win

Low Carbon Research Methods Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premiu...

How can prioritizing low-carbon methods in science increase our contributions to knowledge in a time when so many methods seem to contribute more to making our planet less habitable?

Excited for this upcoming book on low-carbon research methods out in May

mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348...

this is a must read for people in higher education, quite the encapsulation of the past several years!!!!

Absolutely horrific.

Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate.

C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation.

A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

I fear that in aligning these ✂️ w/ "student demand," they'll do what so many other universities have done to justify ✂️ the humanities + social sciences: counting *majors* rather than course enrollments. (eg, when I was in anthro, we had very few *majors*, but my classes were full w/ long waitlists)