"So can AI make metadata management easier? I DON'T FUCKING CARE. It's ruining lives. It's ruining our industry. It's ruining what we love about books. GTFO with your metadata."

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · yesterday

I wrote about a frustrating, brilliant novel that deals with how devoid of connections and curiosity the world has become, and then, fittingly, I wrote (again) about how AI is ruining the book publishing industry. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Tens of millions of AIPAC dollars and still losing the absentee vote in Grand Rapids by double digits.

VoteHub@votehub.com · 20h ago

Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Kent County Absentee: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 4,106 (55.4%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 2,895 (39.1%)

Mai Taha and I wrote this article on sonic cartographies of internationalism, now up on @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It traces how radio broadcasting was central to liberation struggles around the world, asking how sound draws out different maps of solidarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It’s Women in Translation Month! To celebrate, we’re offering 25% off translated books by women authors. Here are just a few of the books we’re highlighting in our sale. sevenstories.com/blogs/385-ce...

NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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Found in just one 1.5-square-mile area in Namibia, the succulent Lithops werneri is down to fewer than 200 plants in the wild. Listed as critically endangered, the dwarf plant faces severe threats from climate change, drought and poaching. @shreyadg.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

Rare living stone plant, found in a tiny area in Namibia, is critically endangered

In a small area of Namibia’s Erongo Mountains, a tiny, pebble-like plant grows on a very thin layer of gravel. This succulent, Lithops werneri, is found in just one tiny 4 square-kilometer (1.5…

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For all you writers out there: a list of sixteen writing tips, culled from long experience of trying get unruly words down onto the page. Originally posted on social media, recently republished in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books (@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social). pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

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“They're doing this with the active assistance of the U.S. and financial assistance from, up until very recently, institutions like the UAW.” @uaw.org delegates voted to divest $400K in Israel bonds—a historic first. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talks with the workers who helped make it happen.

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

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If anyone is interested I added an accreditation page to the Georgia AAUP website with info about how faculty can fight the new state-run accreditation group www.aaupgeorgia.org/policy-resou...

Georgia AAUP - Accreditation

The Georgia AAUP has joined other AAUP leaders throughout the South to fight the creation of a state-run accreditaiton agency. The Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) is an accrediting body ...

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Conflicting reviewer feedback is a common feature of interdisciplinary peer review. Learn how to identify the real concerns beneath divergent reviewer comments, prioritize the audiences you actually care about, and make revision decisions that strengthen your project. ideasonfire.net/what-to-do-w...

Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."

It's deeply ironic for FIFA to argue is it non-political when we may be about to witness a boycott, an overthrow, and/or a current leader being widely critiqued, and voted out due to non-confidence.

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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UEFA has its issues and interests of course. But this is an excellent statement.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d ago

The full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good.

I look forward to the Peoples’ World Cups where stadia no longer have to be renamed and condiments no longer have to hide their prideful names behind electrical tape.

Third. World. Cup. Third. World. Cup. Third World Cup. Third World Cup. ThirldworldcupthirdworldcupTHIRDWORLDC-

Pardeep Cattry@pcattry.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Concacaf joins UEFA in rejecting FFE, instead imploring FIFA to find ways to increase funding for FIFA Forward through its current means and asking that "any matter follows the proper governance processes" in future full statement: www.concacaf.com/competitions...

Atlanta, some comrades have been working for years on this exhibition about Kathleen Cleaver that opens tomorrow at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Please help spread the word and visit yourselves. It runs until Jan 4, 2027 so you have time to visit. theworldsshemade.com

Policy decisions actually kill people.

Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!

Figure out the amazing scholars in your fields abroad who can support good doctoral scholars and channel them in that direction. Offer informal advice. Keep building the field, not your own name.

If you are trying to embellish your own career by recruiting international students who have no hope of completing a dissertation of any worth under the new rule you are a jerk.

Really tripling down on giving us reasons to hate them

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last wk.

Morocco names new highway in occupied Western Sahara after Donald Trump - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-names-new-highway-occupied-western-sahara-after-donald-trump

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The most overwhelming vote for Bolsonaro was in Florida.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last wk.

Unfun fact: Keiko Fujimori actually lost the vote inside Peru, but overseas Peruvian absentee votes put her over the top with the thinnest of margins. Never take your vote for granted!

Oba Croesus asked the Oracle if the Nigerian team would beat Malawi today. The Oracle responded that the winning team would score three goals. Well,

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

Nigeria back at it again for first match of Wafcon group stage. I wanna see 3 goals

imagine letting yourself get Temwa'd #WAFCON

who needs a writing center when u can use AI and just DOGE staff. lest we forget also closing the basements ie womens center, LGBTQ office, multicultural office etc. but i guess they stood up to trump for…federal money

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · last wk.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... Disgusting. Disgraceful.

ten mins into this Wafcon match but easily the worst commentating I've ever heard on a pro level sports event and I should mention that I have watched many matches Alexi Lalas commentated

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

the beIn sports commentary leaving, ah, a bit to be desired. but good to see Okoronkwo getting the start at CF for Nigeria