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Oh you paused the video? you don't want to watch it? how about if it was smaller and following you down the page?

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New Blog Post! 1912 Diary from Francehttps://buff.ly/4bdqDeb

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Pretty much every industry that rushed to embrace the AI hype will see some of the fallout from the bubble popping. I weep for what it may do to education and educational institutions who bet the farm on the AI bubble.

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Civic discourse, deliberation, politics: If you’re only going to honor the comments of (some) experts in legislative public hearings, then just come out and say you don’t want there to be public input.

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Equity so private it is forever trapped beyond the event horizon of a black hole.

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New old anonymous handheld diary just dropped (in my mailbox) (feel free to send me these! I don’t care who wrote them)

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Ironically, the humanities that so many techbros hate so much/dismiss so much might have more to offer us to confront the dark, inevitable painful realties of dying, grief and death. In the meantime, I hope their "fight" to conquer death is painful, because these men are evil, especially Thiel.

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I'm seeing so many posts about MLA CFPs. These sessions look so great! But I wonder about how quickly we're forgetting the MLA's rejection of democratic discussion at MLA'25 under the guise of procedure. If you're going to MLA'26, could you share why? I would appreciate thoughtful discussion.

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I have done the 5 things That were on my to do list And which you were probably hoping to fire me for Forgive me They were crucial So normal And so mine

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above all, fascism is a logic that lands on the body, the logic being that those with power get to do whatever they want to the bodies of those without it, and that’s how power is defined

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There's something that @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social regularly says which is that you don't need to live in someone else's imagination. I think that it's so important to hold on to this. Work to create the world YOU want to live in rather than to succumb to the one designed by your enemy.

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Happy Birthday to WEB Du Bois, who wrote about the wildly important concept of psychological wages of whiteness in the first history of Reconstruction, Black Reconstruction in America, which he messily dedicated to his mistress, Dr. Virginia Alexander, and not his wife, Nina Gomer #BookSky

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Our Secular Lobby Day was an absolutely amazing and successful #interfaith event! Updates coming soon…

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If you’re on Mastodon, you could do worse than dipping into this massive thread of tumblr jokes when you’re feeling down. I needed this today and you might also. masto.ai/@stavvers/11...

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Humanists are non-religious people who shape their own lives in the here and now because we believe it's the only life we have. A lot of people share humanist values without even knowing the term. Maybe you're a humanist! Find out by taking our quiz! humanists.uk/humanism/how...

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On the century-long fantasy of replacing teachers with machines, and the utter contempt for people it demonstrates to be touting this vision right now 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/automated-co...

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So many community groups are trying hard to rise to this moment and yet I'm seeing such impatience and to be frank rudeness from people. Folks are doing a lot with a little. When something doesn't go perfectly, it's OK to not lose it on folks. It really is.

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One instinct that helps when talking politics is a sense for those who want to get you in a one-on-one conversation to find leverage to use against you vs. those committed to a give-and-take within a coalition. #organizing #coalition #deliberation #facilitation

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A consensus reality if you can keep it

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Or, and hear me out, don't use genAI in your lit reviews. My god.

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One of my biggest frustrations is that, even after the influence of Breitbart was made clear in 2016, the idea has persisted that left wing comms need to be handknitted by earnest George Orwell-types and should remain hobbyist, unfunded activities happening in the margins

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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Org leaders put your important messages in writing not videos challenge (impossible). #OrganizationalCommunication

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Big Biff Yeager energy here. #fod #fods #friendsofdesoto

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Where are all the Dem consultants who supposedly do "comms" work at? Where's the website put together with succinct talking points, one pagers, posters that folks can easily download, print and pass out in their communities? Why aren't they doing this work PRO-BONO?

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Mumford Puts His Sons Away c. 1920

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Listening to the Haymarket emergency town hall. www.youtube.com/live/iyLiNN_... #organizing #dialogue #coalition

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Sharing this again! The lab is still looking for folks who work with text data. Compensation is $60 and the prototype is pretty neat, too.

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Once again waiting for the 2A movement to rise up and demand that these cases are not treated as debilitating felonies.

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"Hey Anna, what's organizing in higher ed like?" University: We made you take time out of your day to listen to us promise not to do the thing. University: does the thing

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One of the most important things to develop in this world — as individuals and collectively — is an ability to take in criticism without getting overly defensive.

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Remember blogs? Remember when everyone had blogs and a tip jar and you didn’t have to pay wealthy legacy journalists and professors 70 dollars a year to read their unedited ramblings?

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Add to this that even cold hard cash benefits to individual people may be hidden in the tax system (e.g. subsidies for employer-provided health insurance, home mortgage interest deductions), and it's easy to see why many people find it hard to understand how competent government benefits them.

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Today reminded me again that meeting facilitation is an important skill to learn and the best way to learn is to practice by doing. Terrible meeting facilitation is a sure way to lose people. A well-facilitated meeting is worth its weight in gold.

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I'm thinking of all the online HR tutorials I've had to endure, warning me about hackers and cons and all the different kinds of phishing and smishing and how I could be held liable for exposing sensitive PII, and it turns out that all the hackers had to do was walk into the Treasury and take it.

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organizing is a creative pursuit. you have to know when things are stale, when rhetoric is putting up barriers. it’s a thing to do live, with big curiosity about others. none of these features map well to narcissistic culture.

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but we are not surprised, are we? there's long been a weird divide between disciplines, often following the "hard" and "soft" empirical sciences. i'd bet that more scientists are of the "but not OUR field..." mind than we want to admit :/

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Higher education Institutions: “We are committed to DEI.” Faculty/Staff: “Will you publicly state that?” HEI: “No.” F/S: “Will you support us when backlash comes?” HEI: “No.” F/S: “Will you commit to resources?” HEI: “Best we can do is rename your jobs/offices to something slightly more generic.”

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Neat post at the FoundPaper subreddit: 1980s journal/common place notebook #PaperNotebooks #stationery #journaling #notebooks cc: @penaddict.com www.reddit.com/r/FoundPaper...

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"'Pedagogy,' [Jameson] said in an interview, 'is not inflicting discipline but awakening interest.' [W]hat interested him always was the student’s own interest... Interest, Jameson elaborated, was 'that sense of attention + curiosity + the investments of ⏰ + vital energies (rather than dividends)'"

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