Counterpoint: getting a PhD makes you essentially unemployable outside of academia in the current job market

Ser att vi hade typ precis samma reaktion på den ingressen, lmao

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The average Swede does not have a million in stocks and shares. Gustav von Silfverleijonhufud who has 500 billion in shares is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk

From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day

Libraries work because we do ✊️

Add to this, of course, the 100s of previously employed academics who are now out of work or whose jobs are at risk and the 100s of academics in fixed term positions trying to find permanent roles.

Att varje svensk i genomsnitt har 1 miljon i aktieinnehav är statistiskt missvisande, Wallenberg George som har tusen miljarder kronor i aktievärde är en outlier och borde inte ha räknats

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

Sometimes people say, "I didn't leave my party, the party left me" as the overton window shifted away from centrism.

Well during my lifetime I've retained basically the same green anarchist principles only to see them become common sense.

Me too, it feels like I might have played the vienna candles game, lmao

board gamers we've been clocked

ANZAMEMS Seminar Proposals for 2026 and 2027 #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/anzamem...

This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

Early modern historians! 🗃️ What book(s) would you particularly recommend for understanding early 17thC France, especially in a global context?

Exactly one year ago today:

Stort kudos för ärligheten. Läste inte ens tråden, försökte läsa blogginlägget men insåg halvvägs igenom att jag är för dålig på programmering för att fullt förstå den så gav upp ^.^

The changing meaning of wage bargaining in Sweden since the 1960s: A contextual approach to shifts in industrial relations - Erik Bengtsson, 2026 Sweden is renowned for its centralised wage bargaining system, which has been studied from the point of view of inflation, wage differentials and unemployment. ...

new paper out today! "The changing meaning of
wage bargaining in Sweden since the 1960s: A contextual
approach to shifts in industrial relations", in Economic and Industrial Democracy.

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Tydligen självförvållat, också:

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i will never forget the time that [unnamed prominent adult catholic convert] took to twitter to ask whether jesus was man or god, as though it were a small point of "christology" and not the subject of the nicene creed and the primary issue in a very major heresy.

Luckily UEA has a subscription to this journal as EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE REFERENCES IS BOGUS

To date I have checked 9 of the references across two journals and have not found a single real reference. I knew AI was bad but not this bad....🤪

Tale as olde as tyme
Song as olde as rhyme
Wastinge tyme onlyne

Somehow it didn't even occur to me that they hatched in eggs... this raises so many questions about the donald duck universe I'm not sure I am ready to find out the answers for.

Den största anledningen till att kollektivtrafik borde vara gratis är att människor som förflyttar sig är människor som arbetar och spenderar, dvs tillväxt och tillväxt.

Du stör dig bara på att det står ett minus på det kontot utan att se plussen på andra. Som ett barn.

Du är ett barn.

Wouldn't Della have been the one naming them, though? (I have not seen the new ducktales, so I actually don't know if it's clear who named them)

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV’s statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

Roses are red,
you owe someone an apology,

More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker Podcast Episode · Better Offline · April 15 · 48m

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @adambecker.bsky.social to talk about introspection-free venture capital, the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse effect of LLMs, and trying to find a better future to focus on.

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Postar den här tråden igen, eftersom den är så jäkla viktig. Varje progressivt projekt behöver ta som en viktig utgångspunkt de regelverk som omgärdar statlig och kommunal budgetering. Relationen mellan stat och kommun (och regioner) är central.

JUICE_STATUS: PRESENT ✅

GERMAN_STATUS: MORGENTHAU'D 🚫🇩🇪

You!! The cool person that makes ttrpgs!! Go submit them games to these cool people!! You’ll be in great hands!

Title and abstract for Vadas, András. “Plague in Time of War: The Example of the Seventeenth-Century Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier,” The Seventeenth Century 40, no. 2 (2025), 357-382.

I don't ordinarily include post-1500 studies on my 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography, but I'm making an exception for this study of 17thC outbreaks in the Carpathian Basin b/c it's so innovative in its methodologies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #histmed #EpiSky #EarlyModern #OttomanEmpire