‼️ Note the power of #laborunion #unions 👀

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Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir. #edirne #selimiye #unesco #mimarsinan #türkiye #turkey #sanat #tarih

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir. #edirne #selimiye #unesco #mimarsinan #türkiye #turkey #sanat #tarih

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #selimiyecami #arthistory #cumhurbaskanligi

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status. Full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3... #Turkey 🗃️ what’s history #ottoman #arthistory

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status. Full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3... #Turkey #menasky 🗃️ #ottoman

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

SALE! 50% off my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe until September 8! www.sup.org/books/histor... @stanfordpress.bsky.social #bosnia #habsburg #ottomanempire #menasky #balkansky #whatishistory 🗃️

Um, ok. Thanks, GPT-5.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

@istanbulbuyuksehir.bsky.social‘den de aynısını bekliyoruz 😍 #istanbul #beton #concretejungle

Some great material here in time for the start of new semester. Check out this site by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social against-a-i.com/short-readin...

Istanbul, the capital of Austria-Switzerland, is located right on the border with Slovenia-Hungary...

The gist of the #Serbia issue in a thread.

Some good news. #UWS @columbiauniversity.bsky.social www.ilovetheupperwestside.com/popular-pale...

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.

Many thanks to Jared Manasek for reviewing The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe in the American Historical Review @historians.org url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... 🗃️ menasky balkan bosnia bosna

“We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril.” buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

There is nothing emancipatory about nationalism. Nothing promising, nor hopeful. Nationalism is a guarantee of destruction both internally and externally.

So much hope here, in NYC. ♥️

PSA—Do not review books for the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. They asked me to review a book, I spent quite a bit of my time reading and writing it up, only for IJCS book review editor Lucas Lopez Arrastia to tell me that editors couldn't contact me, so they pulled my review. AVOID

Hey NYC, you've given the world a lot of horrors. Giuliani, the Yankees, the New York Times, Chaya Raichik - but you can make up for all of it really easily. Just rank Zohran Mamdani somewhere in your ballot, and do not rank Cuomo anywhere on your ballot. Easy!

They’re so afraid of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, they’re doing airplane messages now?? #NYCvotes #NYCElection

Concert! This Friday June 20 at Greenwich House Music School at 7:30

“The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.” “If I went to the top of the 19 story building I’m in, and I believed with every ounce

This piece is a how-to guide for analyzing cartoons as historical documents and propaganda, but the questions within it apply to all media: Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?

Joy is critical for survival. You have to have something worth living and fighting for

Many thanks to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social for reviewing my book The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) in the #SlavicReview 83:4 W2024 doi.org/10.1017/slr.... ✨ #skystorians🗃️ #menasky #balkansky #islamicstudies

Hallelujah

Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.

Um, what? No, we are not on a dystopian movie set.

Vaccines are vital. Masks (n95 or p100) are community care. And we can also clean the air! Quoted post is re hospital air. This article is re school air. We have the tools. Make them use them. Contact local officials, schools, hospitals, etc. Demand health & disability justice. #CleanTheAir

Remember #Napster

More funding for privatized, for-profit concentration camps and armed agents who are virtually unaccountable

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to never miss our Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/j81PfcR

Same here. Urgh.

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Brutal. “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point” www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...