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"A breakup letter with media studies" by Nabil Echchaibi academic.oup.com/ccc/article-... "It has become impossible to identify with a field and academic institutions that refuse to answer a basic call of human decency: to denounce an ongoing genocide." #ICA26
Professor Williams brought receipts. Talking about the new Kaaps Dictionary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xT...
Jolene Martin asks...''The Southern Question'' EP7 | Kaaps Woriboek | Woordeboek | Dictionary.
YouTube video by BRICS+_RSA
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A study of the changes in wealth & its distribution in 19th-and 20th-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, & welfare. A Capital’s Capital by Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is out now (31 Mar UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Economics #History
"If you believe that what a satirical band who play characters on stage do is more outrageous than the murdering of innocent Palestinians, then you need to give your head a fucking wobble.” We did a wee feature interview ahead of Glastonbury with the Guardian... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation
The Irish rap trio have recently faced censure and a court case, but have also had support for their pro-Palestine stance. Ahead of a Glastonbury appearance deemed ‘inappropriate’ by Keir Starmer, the...
theguardian.com
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
Sound engineers pointing out in the comments that the applause is from an indoor audience on an outdoor event💀
MAJOR BREAKING: MN State Sen. John Hoffman & his wife we shot and are hospitalized. MN State Rep. Melissa Hortman & her spouse were shot and killed.
When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.
🔴‘Don’t Buy a Swasticar’: Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Support Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner’s interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...
'Don't Buy a Swasticar': Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk's Far-Right Support
Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner's interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com
🚨Elon Musk just helped the far-right in 🇩🇪 win their best result since WW2 then called them to say congrats. So don’t buy his f*ing cars, yeah? #dontbuyaswasticar
We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.
I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…
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In Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?, @jessistreib.bsky.social and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/sociol...
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾
dad gave us a physical flash drive of a bunch of our oldest family videos that he'd had converted from analog media into TEXT FILES
Do you think you're sitting still right now? - You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s - That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s - That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s. Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
texasobserver.org
I've been trying to think of useful things for libraries joining Bluesky, and I've come to the conclusion that sector-specific starter packs would come in handy. First up: academic libraries. bsky.app/starter-pack... Please please please give me examples I should add to this! 📚
Anti-expert discourse is also framed as anti-elite. But in reality, it has been most effectively mobilized by elites who have done nothing to earn their luxurious lifestyles beyond being born into it who resent those who have worked hard to gain expertise that might pose a risk to their privilege.
Bezos rolling over on the Post endorsement. Zuckerberg visiting Mar a Lago to bend the knee. Musk joining the administration. The tech folks and much of our media are obeying in advance and Trump, the luckiest man alive!, has never faced so little media and social media scrutiny. 🤷🏽♂️
Brown University is transferring 255 acres of land in Bristol to a preservation trust set up by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe, marking one of the nation’s biggest victories in attempts by Indigenous people to reclaim ancestral lands.
Brown University transfers 255 acres in Bristol, R.I., to the Pokanoket Indian tribe: ‘We are the original stewards’ - The Boston Globe
“We are not talking about a land acknowledgment or cultural appreciation,” lawyer Taino Palermo said. “They have set a precedent to show other institutions they can do this.”
bostonglobe.com
Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”
