Mimi
@mimibaltimore.bsky.social
📷📚Photography, classical music, all music, art, books, cats. Democratic socialist in training. DSA 🌹🕎🐈⬛ 🎻
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like:
A new find-the-tiny-silver-owl photo for you. It’s also worth zooming in for the silver cast I’ve made of a tiny feather, acorn, oak leaf & larch cone, a miniscule piece of coral, a pyritised ammonite & to see the design on the Victorian brooch I’m going to convert into a pendant…
The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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While electability is a real thing to consider, it's always a little surprising to me to be reminded how many progressives think "this election is too important to nominate a woman" is a reasonable position.
We’re all good cats here. Things can be hard but even so, we are doing great at being good cats
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...
Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore
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Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.
Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · last wk.Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
"There's nothing in Australian law which stops me from being a good muslim and there's nothing in Islam which stops me being a good Australian." – Ali Kadri
Muslim women on hijabs, gender inequality, abuse and faith | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode
YouTube video by ABC Australia
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So this post inspired my New Year's resolution to read 50 books this year. That's about a book a week. All these folks in the timeline fondly recalling your liberal arts education? No time like the present to continue it.
Kate Marvel@drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat a time to publish a book, real smart choices there Kate yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...
Still the best speech in the LOTR trilogy. And feels extremely relevant to the times we live in. A lot of days do feel this hopeless.
A couple of years ago I started wondering why I was spending so much time on hobbies cosplaying obsolete jobs. This is a go at an answer: I'm in the grips of *skill nostalgia*, and the problem is to avoid it becoming reactionary. It turns out John Ruskin (??) has the answer aeon.co/essays/the-r...
Come for the discussion of AI, stay for the analysis of the costs of college. The real kicker, though, is the value of shared governance. A thread on how we can make shared governance matter more. 1/x
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w agoMany faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
After reading @dennismhogan.bsky.social latest, which makes an economic case for making shared governance matter more, you should (re)read @michael-berube.bsky.social on the democratic expertise argument for shared governance. pghrev.com/some-counter...
Some Counterintuitive Things about Academic Freedom and Democracy - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Everyone knows, or else should know, that there is an intimate relationship between the state of academic freedom and the health of a democracy. Judith Butler
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For more on both the economic and democratic cases for making shared governance matter more, see this piece by @cnewf.bsky.social from 2020. 3/x www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
Academic Freedom as Democratization
Faculty must be involved in all aspects of university decision-making.
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This Independence Day Declaration from 13 SUNY and CUNY governance leaders seeks to add to this dialogue on funding, pricing, staffing, and governing public higher education as an indispensable public good. 5/5 bsky.app/profile/publ...
Public Good U@publicgoodu.bsky.social · last mo.It’s sundown in Western New York, and night time is the right time for some fireworks on behalf of @publicgoodu.bsky.social from 13 current and former leaders of SUNY and CUNY governance bodies. Please read, share widely, and encourage everyone in your networks to sign on! hdl.handle.net/1951/89081
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here
This is perfect. Excerpt from a longer piece by Shawn Smucker, published here: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai #poem #booksky #writing
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
This is Richard. He's sometimes accused of not being a real dog because of his weird paws and inability to bark. Thinks his pack would say otherwise. 12/10 for all (IG: richardandtheguardians)
This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)
In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
Sometimes the tiniest of mice, too small for a boat, find an oak leaf to sail on. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Tiny mouse and copper oak leaf in the Summer collection 25th July
Going on the reading list! #MedievalSky
Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · last mo.Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio: "this article ... asks how often women were employed as wage workers in the rural economy of medieval England, how they were paid relative to men, and to what extent change is evident after the Black Death." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
