If anyone else, like me, was Deeply disappointed in the Day 2 keynote at #OpenEd24bit.ly/AGAINSTHOPE
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 9th, I presented a f2f session at the 2024 Open Education conference in Providence, Rhode Island. I understand that for various reasons, many folks couldnR…
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"To recognize Palestinians are human has become a flashpoint, a red line to not be crossed in Washington discourse, an invitation to be tagged as an antisemite, whether by your cousin at a Passover seder or by a network morning news anchor on live national television."
The reason Ta-Nehisi Coates scares so much of America's intelligentsia and commentariat is because when he says that Israeli rule over Palestinians is just another, hyper militarized Jim Crow regime there's basically nothing to dispute. You can see it with your own eyes. This is why everyone is mad.
It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a media that’s lost the thread.
Every day, I’m like: is this burnout or information overload or looming dread or late-stage capitalism or aging or post-covid or from dealing with the endless new tasks shunted to us (everything from self-checkouts to post-purchase surveys) or burnout or information overload or looming dread or…
At this point it might be useful to know which academic publishers do NOT have agreements to feed their authors’ content into LLMs, if any, and try to go with them.
Went to look something up from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, which is an absolute treasure of data, and the website isn't loading, and I remembered it is headquartered in Asheville, NC. Christ.Went to look something up from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, which is an absolute treasure of data, and the website isn't loading, and I remembered it is headquartered in Asheville, NC. Christ.
Look what we did - we got a new contract! UC librarians have been fighting for respect and recognition for a year and we got some!
A part of me believes that Marcellus Williams was executed by a racist state govt not despite evidence of his innocence, but bc of it: to show the power of evidence is little compared to the evidence of power.
“Last week, a coalition of 11 international unions issued a ‘Statement of Unity’ outlining its vision for higher education and calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and all elected officials, to ‘join our struggle to reclaim public higher education for the public good.’”
Last week, a coalition of 11 international unions, such as the SEIU, AFT, UAW, and CWA, representing faculty, staff, and graduate workers across college and university campuses around the country issu...