Just saw a FT library job advertised at a salary of $31k and I just want to tell them to go back to the drawing board and rewrite that ad because that is most definitely not a living wage. The clock is not being wound back to 2010 (and it was hardly a living wage then).
Does anyone work in museum interpretation? How's it been affected by social media and short-form content basically rewiring our brains? Are labels still in? Do we need to radically rethink things? I'm thinking of writing something.
It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas photo by Lucienne Bloch
As someone who once volunteered to keep meeting minutes I led, as well as meetings for which I keep time: the minutes are where a group articulates what it understands about itself. But of course: what's unsaid (sometimes unwritten) and meant for interpretation is where the actual meaning lies.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d agoI like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
This is a full-time, permanent curator job at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, #California (on-site in the Bay Area, just south of Palo Alto.) Salary Range: $90,000–$100,000 per year. computerhistory.org/jobs/curator/ #jobs #archives #GLAMJobs #MuseumJobs #LibraryJobs #BayArea
Curator
Details Classification: Exempt, Regular, Fulltime Location: Mountain View, CA The Computer History Museum (CHM) is the world’s leading institution exploring the history and ongoing impact of computing...
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Pennington P. Ahlstrand (she/xe)@pahlstrand.bsky.social · 6d agoWe've got an opening! lnkd.in/gEGn4guk
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
New term-limited (4 years) FT #cataloging job! I'm not on the search committee, but can answer general questions about working here. Applicants are advised to apply soon. #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #cataloging careers.harvard.edu/job/cataloge...
Cataloger of Special Collections (term limited)
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I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.
No one who's just "digitizing" would buy up dozens of copies of the same book - they only need one. But these companies are buying up every instance they find, so no one else has it. That's not preservation, that's monopolization.
“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.
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This looks so cool and makes me wish that I lived in NYC, even though I would never be home because the delight of being there would be more sensory overload than I could handle on a daily basis: idlehands.info/cycle-one-gr...
Cycle One Ground Truth — Idle Hands
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Finally (!) found proof of (uncredited) work I had done 15 years ago, even if no other signs of the project exist online. flickr.com/photos/chica...
Chicago Cultural Alliance’s albums | Flickr
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Joke‘s on me because MOOCs failed at being remembered and but MOOC politics absolutely won the university.
I remember during MOOC fever, hearing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social say "well what will they do with the buildings?" That's the whole game! The land, the debt, the tuition against which it is collateralized--that's the whole ball game. We're not a 7/11 branch you can close or a corporate HQ you can move
"AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past." @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
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Crashed websites, electrical outages, and yet, calm, clear skies around here.
on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles
Many many people in this country cannot recognize Islamophobia because they are swimming so deeply in it on a daily basis and have so internalized it that it isn't actually legible to them as racism. It's why it's so casually deployed in a way that other forms of racism in the country are not.
Operations management taught me the goal of greater efficiency and productivity after layoffs is often a setup for failure because of the reduced capacity for production, unless there is also a reduction in quality. There's also an incalculable loss of experience and expertise with all these layoffs
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
"They were interested, each of them, in doing something beyond analysis & handwringing. That included creating a cultural front against the great replacement of public space, play, & common life with quantification, dashboards, glowing screens, and endless feeds." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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ASU has created a influencer degree track in their journalism school. The description promises “you'll master the art and science of digital influence.” I hate everything. degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/ma...
I miss pictures that don't constantly move. Like, plain regular regular images that have no filters or other seasoning. Pivot to still photographs, pleeeeeaaaaasssse?
