Library materials are purchased for the common good using public funds. This includes science programs, storytimes, concerts, lectures, and a comfortable space to work and think. buff.ly/MnRl4m0 #Libraries #Services #Resources #PublicGood #Community #PublicServices

‘Praised by the White House for her co-operation in anti-drug operations, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has drawn the line at direct US intervention in Mexico. Yet her government is responsible for Rocha Moya’s flight.’ Forrest Hylton on US intervention in Mexico www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.

Documentário 'Bandidos de Farda' expõe crimes revelados por acervo escondido há décadas

"No matter what the Paz government attempts to do, repress the protesters or sanction us as terrorists... we will continue to uphold the sovereignty and rights of our peoples."

Bookmark! More evidence on how to break the far right. A welfare state that reduces labour market risk, reduces populist appeal: "Countries that devote more resources to labour market programmes and provide more generous unemployment insurance... tend to exhibit lower levels of populist support."

Subject associations like @histassoc.bsky.social & @1972shp.bsky.social & university #ITT provision provide a vital bridge between subject disciplines & schools. Routledge's 'Mentoring in...' series is good starting point for subject-specific #TeacherMentoring 3/3 www.routledge.com/Mentoring-Hi...

Eyes in Bolivia.

Some Sunday melancholy with Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade. The hands (My translation) Such useless melancholy these hands not even flowers offering themselves: when open they are just abandonment closed, they are immense eyelids heavy with sleep.

In the protestors' view, any revision to Japan's constitution risks remilitarizing Japan, hurting the reputation it built after World War II as a rule-abiding, nonthreatening economic power. They are also concerned that PM Takaichi will embroil the country in war. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/w...

Se o sujeito pede 132 milhões para fazer um filme de elegia ao seu pai, imagine quanto pediu para sua campanha a presidente? A republica da direita esta fedendo...

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Como a Igreja da Lagoinha, e sua teologia fundamentalista e neoliberal, transformou a fé em balcão de negócios em um dos maiores escândalos bancários da história brasileira.

this is an enjoyable review of my book, except for the bit where he’s clearly misread a paragraph of my conclusion and he thinks he’s disagreeing with me when we’re actually saying similar things - www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

não ironicamente o resultado da eleição vai ser assim

My latest at @hyperallergic.com looks at the new Homer papyrus on mummified remains from Oxyrhynchus—& what the press got wrong initially. Thanks to Celsiana Warwick, @robertamazza.bsky.social, @sentantiq.bsky.social & Leah Mascia (+ @christinajriggs.bsky.social & edits by @valentinadl.bsky.social).

This from Taylor and Levin is by far the best political theory of data center opposition I've seen. You pick from the fights available, and choose the one that has an accessible target, some clear demands, and the broadest possible constituency. Where else are we supposed to fight Silicon Valley?

The confluence of extreme weather and collapsing fertilizer supply chains this year bring to mind Florence Nightingale's comment in 1877 that, "The more one hears about this famine, the more one feels that such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before."

Sarah Rudd, who once ran analytics for Arsenal, made her name applying the tenets of probability theory to movements on the pitch. Even she admits not everything can be solved with data. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

one time i wrote a post about how AI could never replicate the human experience of writing and someone accused me of using AI to write it, like as a bit, and anyway AI is cooking all of our brains and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social says it so well here:

Bandido.

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee wrote an interesting contribution in the debate on Gabriel Rockhill's arguments against "Western Marxism." open.substack.com/pub/alextgle...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

Brazil's president Lula showing off his huge cock

🇧🇷 Relatório da Comissão sobre Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos conclui que JK foi assassinado pela ditadura militar em 1976, e não vítima de acidente de trânsito. Documento deve ser aprovado pela maioria dos conselheiros e pode levar à retificação da certidão de óbito do ex-presidente.

Here is my new article, "Inversions, Subversions, Reversions: Possibilities of the Literary Sertão," just published in Luso-Brazilian Review. The issue is open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social (you'll need to verify you are a human but no login should be required). muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/artic...

Tantas veces me mataron, tantas veces me morí. Sin embargo, estoy aquí. Resucitando. Gracias doy a la desgracia. Y a la mano con puñal. Porque me mató tan mal. Y seguí cantando. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0QF...

“At so many parties or book launches, a quick way to earn the scorn of attendees is to ask: ‘How do you really make a living as a writer?’”

AI data centers are putting strain on electric grids— forcing your bills to skyrocket. The average electricity bill this summer is projected to rise by nearly 9% to $778. The NYT says to help keep your utility bill low, people should "use fans" to cool down. Can't make this up.

In 2026, BRICS are increasing Chinese currency trading towards the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), a system created by China in 2015 as an alternative to the dollarized financial system.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elon Musk e Henry Ford Por Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff A substituição da integração global por um regime de enclaves tecnológicos que monetiza a adesão fanática e a hostilidade contra a alteridade racializada. aterraeredonda.com.br/elon-musk-e-... #aterraéredonda #QuinnSlobodian #BenTarnoff

The May 1968 protests began on this day 57 years ago. For a few brief weeks in France, not just a government but an entire system was called into question.

New book! This definitive history of right-wing conspiracy theory: "Cultural Marxism" uncovers the story of the cult leaders, intellectuals & White House officials who believe a coterie of left-wing scholars is plotting to undermine Western civilization: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

#NexoArquivo | Milton Santos foi o maior geógrafo brasileiro e se dedicou a entender como as cidades funcionam e se desenvolvem, sobretudo em países pobres. No dia de seu centenário, veja este vídeo com #acessolivre

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

The American Library Association and BBW Coalition unveiled art by (from l.) Hyesu Lee, Loveis Wise, and Mikey Burton to telegraph this year’s theme: “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.”

Renowned Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci died on this day in 1937.

"We can choose to interpret the Constitution so that it serves all of us — guided by the Reconstruction Amendments’ revolutionary purpose & their expansive conceptions of liberation & egalitarianism.” -- Madiba K. Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app In #10 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/ten-way...

#OtD 25 Apr 1974 Portugal's fascist dictatorship was overthrown by military coup. Workers then took over factories and farms in ‘the Carnation revolution' as people adorned troops with carnations. Learn more in our podcast episodes 41-42: workingclasshistory.com/2020/08/13/e...

Saiu na Folha @folha.com

just in case you didn't see the angry brazilians replying to this: this is just propaganda to let people know that if the US invades/bombs/kidnaps the president, it's justified in some way Brazil won't tolerate this kind of stuff while the real "global criminal" is bombing hospitals and schools

billionaire: we need radical solutions for Earth Day. Think bold. Biofuels. Space mirrors. Plankton fertilization. advisor: what about a 2% wealth tax? billionaire: …Cloud seeding. Turbine farms in the Sahara. A Dyson sphere.