The boss maintains power by keeping workers divided. If they can keep us from and working out our problems together, they’ve won the battle before it even starts.
Adapted from our new book, Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard by Ellen David Friedman.
Get your copy: labornotes.org/keepgoing
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
In 1943!!!
“Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25
Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
New report calls for a 'postsecondary pivot': "We need people who are studying poli sci to know how to use ChatGPT to write and edit an e-mail....” - J Pichette, Dir of skills policy, RBC Thought Leadership
>>SOB<<
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5e75e16...
THIS
When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear.
www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
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Gift link of the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates thing.
Honestly, my main takeaway is just that Ezra Klein seems genuinely lost, unable to articulate what his "we" is or even what he sees as the purpose of his voice, and he should probably take a sabbatical until he figures it out.
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
74 holds on 18 copies of the graphic novel, Blankets by Craig Thompson.
47 holds on 13 copies of the printed version, 8 holds on 2 copies of the audiobook, and 22 holds on 2 copies of the eBook Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe
44 holds on 17 copies of the printed copy and 13 holds on 4 copies of the eBook of Flamer, by Mike Curato.
73 holds on 15 printed copies of Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel.
Current demand at the Edmonton Public Library for the four graphic novels at the centre of Alberta's new (and fluctuating) school library rules:
#AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
I don't THINK 'car pickup lines' exist at public schools, but Ontario is a big place and I could be wrong.
It is not perfect: There is plenty of concern for safety with drivers going too quickly in the school zone & folks parking where they shouldn't in the neighbourhood.
But this is ... wild.
Jaw on the floor. "Car pickup lines" do not exist in my suburb ~45min from Toronto, Ontario (pop 187,000). How the heck does this work with the parents' jobs!? At our school, the options are walk, bike, school bus, daycare van, OR drive: your parents park nearby & walk over.
and so much more -- seriously, ya gotta listen -- and then listen again.
and then the part on Kristi Noem 🔥
"if we cannot figure out how to critique the embodied performance of power and autocracy when it comes in a female body because then all the other side has to do is get a woman like Kristi, prop her up, ... and then say, oh, you can't talk about women."
"The world we built makes everything from beautiful art to beautiful people, a commodity. And so your preferences are always operating within the limits of the commodity of beauty. ...
[T]he last safe place for us to be ruthlessly racist, sexist classes and ableist is when it comes to bodies."
🎯🔥
must-listen interview with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
"Beauty is about power. Beauty is the only power that women are allowed to legitimately use but never own. ...
There is no good moral choice in a system of power where your body is the only capital you are allowed to use without sanction."
A goose wearing shades on a pink background with text that says "people pleasing is over, become unacceptable"
a weather map showing extreme heat
and here I am sorting my recycling like it's 1990 and we still have a chance at saving the planet.
It is bizarre and a cover for something else. In daycare, anonymity (we got told, "A friend bit Lauren on the arm today"). But now I also hear it like, "Several friends had trouble listening so now we will review the rules again". It's become creepy/ ominous/ euphemistic
“You’re scared? You’re scared of this? You’re scared of the beating heart of New York City’s magical essence? Because you’re some sort of stuffy anxiety freak? Okay. Fine. Drive your ass on home.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
I figured weekday mid-day (yesterday) would be a decent time to visit my newborn nephew in The Beaches, driving in from Burlington. 90min there, 90min home -- all after/ before rush hour! Brutal...
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.
In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it."
🙌
@dansinker.com
'The Who Cares Era'
re: AI ~ "Using extraordinary amounts of resources, it has the ability to create something good enough, a squint-and-it-looks-right simulacrum of normality. If you don't care, it's miraculous. If you do, the illusion falls apart pretty quickly."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
