In zijn afscheid bij Trouw somt Ephimenco trots de columns op die zijn carrière moesten definiëren. Een daarvan: zijn ‘Open brief aan de moslims van Nederland’ na 9/11. Ik heb die brief teruggelezen. Een reflectie:

Hell yeah I’d roll up to Costco on that baddie. Like a fucking boss

Ook goed om te herhalen dat als er gesproken wordt over 'vluchtelingen met een onbekende nationaliteit' het gaat over Palestijnen. Dit is dus hoe we mensen die een genocide ontvluchten behandelen: Zoals we het altijd hebben gedaan.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Last March, I published my own translations of 5 previously untranslated polemics by Max Horkheimer written for the ISR’s journal. I’ve continued to work on the translations over the past year & just finished my complete rework—read them for free here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

"Remember the hype over smartphones as educational tools? Now, there’s a global movement to ban smartphones and social media in schools altogether." Mind-boggling that people simultaneously advocate for cellphone bans AND for using "AI" in schools

Oké, er worden veel dingen gezegd over het importverbod met de illegale nederzettingen, hier zijn wat random gedachten erover van mijn kant:

May the people responsible for this know no peace

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Jeb Bush-ass move

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

BREAKING: Two Washington State residents are among the 400+ Gaza aid flotilla activists who have been abducted by the Israeli military and could be facing torture. gossipguy.net/two-washingt...

Gewoon twee rechtse bro’s, hanging out

Put it straight into my veins

This is the verified fund to help the family is murdered today at the Islamic Center of San Diego. You can verify it at their website. Just contributed. There will need to be a lot of healing for the survivors too. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...

Extrrrrrrrremely excited we get to welcome the head of history of the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social on Friday! Do join us, this will a fascinating conversation of relevance well beyond the #LowCountries www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Years ago, I wrote about the Mythical English Reader whose gaze I’m supposed to translate for. It has just been “reprinted” by Lithub and is now available to read online for the first time.

weird how this keeps happening!

“Lesson learned,” the speaker says. So you and the people who orchestrated this are going to resign in shame and leave higher education forever, right?

Monstrous

this is precisely the math, which is most often stealing public funds for corporate welfare, not unlike stealing public funds for grifter insurrectionist welfare, and is why ed tech went all in on authoritarianism

Niet “religie” in het algemeen, maar christelijke nationalisme

“I cannot express enough how much of a heart of gold she had. Everyone she knew loved her so so much. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over the aching void that's in my heart now after this. Just the most beautiful soul ever.” Unfathomably awful. Juniper, I’m so sorry. www.them.us/story/junipe...

Hip hop hooray!! Publication day for @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social's COLONIAL NEGATIVES: PICTURING HISTORY & IDENTITY IN MOROCCO! 🗃️ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Trump has destroyed America’s knowledge infrastructure. This is an opportunity for knowledge workers across disciplines-natural science, social science, humanities-to see their interests in rebuilding this infrastructure on democratic grounds as connected.

We have lost our way

Modi begrijpt het: Jetten = Rutte.

we love to see it.

bumping to ask again if folks can help support my friend michael, a philadelphia schoolteacher struggling to cover utilities while dealing with a cruel healthcare system

go go go

when will I see you at the picket line? you going to bring your lunch and cancel that event?

"Officers trying to put out the fire were also pelted, and firefighters were initially held back."

Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

I’ve taken many groups to Bamberg, but today was the first time we had a tour guide who was so betroffen that she couldn’t even bring herself to say that the allegory of the blind and broken Synagogue on the Bamberg cathedral is an antisemitic. Germans have really discoursed themselves into a corner

"Her views go beyond just antipathy toward same-sex marriage. She also speaks out frequently against surrogacy, in vitro fertilization and divorce."

industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft

what every “how to incorporate AI in your humanities classroom” article/email/workshop looks like to me

Three days left on the giveaway.

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Double congrats to all adjunct faculty who have been asked to find solutions, flex, innovate, and show grace continually since 2020 without job security , raises, bonuses, or benefits.

get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

Good thing the university is busy laying off staff…I’m sure admin’s “efficiencies” will make this an easy fix 💪

Hack student loans next

if they really wanted to fuck with me they'd hack the oed

Woot woot taz.de/Berlin-bekom...

Is this good

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Gefeliciteerd, bezorgde burgers 👏