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Ok people were asking "What IS a small farm anyway?" so let's talk farm size, how it's measured in the US, and what that can tell us about how agriculture really works.

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This one's for everyone stuck in grading season right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4g...

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New g̵e̵ar̵ book day Available now at MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255185...

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On May 27, 4:30pm (EDT), we're celebrating our newest book Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies in an event organized by RILM. If you're in NYC come on down; out-of-town, it'll be livestreamed, register here: brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/event/sites-... @samanthabennett.bsky.social

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President Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced today stretched across the globe, including the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are populated by zero humans but lots of seals and penguins. nbcnews.to/3QXPQ31

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Cory Booker's 24 hours into his epic, record-breaking Senate speech! Currently talking about John Lewis. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

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Every time someone my age says something about “a brainrot trend on TikTok…” I’m compelled to remind Gen X that we were obsessed with Gregorian chant for a year in the 90s. Like we went to the mall & bought CDs of it. We blasted it in our cars driving to our high schools. This was normal to us🥸

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Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

submitted 80 days ago • 83 comments

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

Woke to this 💔 news on such a ☀️ day. In a world of metastasizing cruelty, where education — at all levels — is under threat, Jonathan’s work + life remind us of what is possible + desirable. In his honor today, listen to some 🎶 (ideally not on mp3!) + imagine impairment as an opportunity for grace 💐

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

As many of you know Jonathan Sterne is in hospice. If you would like to send a message to Jonathan and Carrie please send an email to [email protected] Carrie is receiving these messages and sharing them with Jonathan

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US deports hundreds of Venezuelans "despite" court order. Meaning, of course: "in breach of". On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders. Crisis point reached. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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If someone you know has been informed about any potential for being deported from the US, be aware (and let them and their lawyers, if any know) that as of Mar 15, Chief Judge Boasberg has issued a temporary restraining order blocking all deportations: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...

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Well, so much for any notion that the new administration would be... um... more "isolationist" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America: 1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI 2) kill universities 3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub 4) empty the cities 5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen

submitted 86 days ago • 197 comments

Holy shit. This is the gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

submitted 87 days ago • 94 comments

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 624 comments

It's time for Schumer to resign. He's unfit for office. Invertebrates were not permitted to hold office last time I checked.

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 87 days ago • 5889 comments

this image of a decomposing saguaro, honeycomb structure exposed, taken in tucson, feels like the mood of the day

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New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

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Twitch has posted the definitions of what needs to be labeled under the new Content Classification Label for Politics and Sensitive Social Issues. Read it here: safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Co... #StreamerNews #TOSgg

submitted 220 days ago • 88 comments

YES on Prop 1. NO on 2–6.

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Okay, so Elsevier, Routledge, and now Wiley are all out now. Sounds like academics really need to step our own efforts to create and sustain independent, open access, non-profit publishing. #academicsky

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"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...

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We did it. We finished a book. 119.9k words, all about gear. Off it goes to MIT Press, hopefully it's out in print later this year! 🙃📖😱🎤🎧

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Just the latest Harvard dirty money scandal: Harvard shutters disinformation research team after zuck & co donate $500m to Harvard: live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan...

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Companies have scraped millions of copyrighted books/articles and copied them without permission to train generative AI. We are conducting a survey and would like to hear from you. Be sure to share it with your writer friends! form.jotform.com/233316136049...

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Come work with us in the Music Dept at The Graduate Center (CUNY)! The listing is for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, to commence in fall 2024, application review begins Nov 27 but open until filled. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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And here's today's formalization of the proof that crypto, from bottom to top, is primarily about fraud and money laundering. Up to 110 years in prison for SBF: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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