It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.
University of Minnesota’s Department of English are seeking an assistant professor in c20/21 literature with a primary focus on colonialism and its afterlives; postcolonialism, decolonialization; migration; or transnational/ transcontinental/hemispheric studies cla.umn.edu/english/news...
Tenure track position in 20th and/or 21st Century Literatures in English! Application deadline: Oct 11.
It can be lonely to make decisions (for yourself, your family, for communities and organizations you hold responsibility in) on the basis of where we are in the polycrisis when...
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Charts the moments in Black women’s science fiction and fantasy where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory, transforming it from passive recollection to social action.
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“New Zealand has lost at least 264 glaciers. The western United States has lost about 400 glaciers since the middle of the 20th century. Swiss researchers tallied more than 1,000 small ones lost. East Africa has less than 2 square kilometers of total glacial ice remaining.”
For decades, scientists have been warning that glaciers are melting — one of the most identifiable consequences of a warming planet. But now, many have melted.
But T & F had to squeeze out that extra (paltry) $10M giving away all that unpaid work to Microsoft for AI.
Heads up #envhist#envhum#wceh2024newnatures.org/greenhouse/ Here's a thread rundown so you can put them in your calendars.
Burn the justice system to the ground.
Breaking news: A judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer charged with killing the man who sex trafficked her as a teenager to 11 years in prison plus five years of extended supervision.
The decision ends a six-year legal saga that sought to test the limits of the court’s leniency toward survivors of sexual abuse who commit resulting crimes.