BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
Daisy Rockwell
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Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:
kenny mellman@kennymellman.bsky.social · yesterdayThese people are wildly racist, smug, and gleeful about their destructive actions.
Few artists have been as intertwined with a struggle & so beloved by the people fighting as Sliman Mansour. Sadly, he has passed at age 79. In 2023, he told @hyperallergic.com: "Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings…We are not less than any other people in the world.”
Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79
"Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Sliman Mansour passed today. A giant in Palestinian and Arab art. Rest in peace
Of course the University of Chicago just took a $50 million gift to “advance the University’s ambitious vision for AI by supporting the formation of a cohort of faculty who are pioneers in the use of AI in research in disciplines across the University” news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...
$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI
Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines
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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d agocognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
BREAKING NEWS: MIT has just completed the first brain scan study on ChatGPT users—and the results are terrifying. Turns out AI isn’t making us more productive, but cognitively bankrupt. Here’s what 4 months of data revealed 👇 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872.
Of course the University of Chicago just took a $50 million gift to “advance the University’s ambitious vision for AI by supporting the formation of a cohort of faculty who are pioneers in the use of AI in research in disciplines across the University” news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...
$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI
Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines
news.uchicago.edu
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d agocognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
this goes hard, wow
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 6d agoArtist and translator Sawako Nakayasu considers a multiplicity of approaches to translations. Immerse yourself in “The Errant Translator: Field Notes,” which first appeared in WWB in early 2024: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Young Woman and Child, Avenue du Bois, 1876 #impressionism #berthemorisot
Auvers Town Hall in 14 July 1890, 1890 #vangogh #postimpressionism
Blue Angel: Idle chatter is a very serious sin Red Angel: (eye roll with deep compassion) #frafriday +1
Detail from Miraj Nameh (Mirâj Nâmeh), an illustrated Turkish-Oriental book from the fifteenth century, written in Mongolian characters (1436).
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.
Bloomberg with an exclusive report The British foreign minister is preparing a sanctions regime which would prohibit trade with "goods and services" from Israel's illegal settlement enterprise. The UK is also considering endorsing the ICJ ruling from 2024 that Israel's occupation is illegal.
UK Mulls Sanctions Regime to Ban Trade With Israeli Settlements
Fresh sanctions being drafted by the UK would ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as Prime Minister Andrew Burnham looks to demonstrate a tougher approach toward an issue that’s impor...
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The best Fra A on Fra Friday & I’m willing to go full Holy War v alternative opinions. 1426 Prado. Cleaned recently, large canvas
The Pink Dancers, Before the Ballet, 1884 #degas #edgardegas
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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At the shelter where I volunteer here in Vermont we are still looking for a special home for a complex bonded pair. This is Devon and he is a teddy bear who loves people and will climb right into your lap. He even gives hugs and snuggles right into your neck. (con't) www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
mRNA vaccines vs cancer success —melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today) —triple negative breast cancer —pancreatic cancer —non-small cell lung cancer —glioblastoma
"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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Akashi (from The Tale of Genji) — Yoshio Okada, 1970s woodblock print 34 x 28.5 cm
