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Duke University Press
about 15 hours ago
Editor
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joins The Academic Publishing podcast to talk about how the finances of a press work, and how authors should think about the funding of their books, from subventions to list price:
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Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
https://academicpublishingpod.alitu.com/episode/500f3809-cfc3-4368-9da2-457f7321cf53
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
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LOL, naturally the NYTimes, engaging in just the most open self-parody, has a big homepage video for Ross Douthat "Mamdani's victory is less significant than you think" so you have to scroll down to see anything else, because they have to be sullen and bitter about it.
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Jason Koebler
about 18 hours ago
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
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Edwy Plenel
about 13 hours ago
En France aussi, la peur du grand mĂ©chant Mamdani : assumant leur panique islamophobe et leur conservatisme social, les porte-voix d'une gauche prĂ©tendument « laĂŻque et rĂ©publicaine » reprennent tous les clichĂ©s d'extrĂȘme droite.
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En France aussi, la peur du grand méchant Mamdani
La diabolisation du nouveau maire de New York, socialiste et musulman, dĂ©borde largement de lâextrĂȘme droite. Pis, ses arguments sont recyclĂ©s par lâautoproclamĂ© camp de la raison, pour lequel tout eâŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/061125/en-france-aussi-la-peur-du-grand-mechant-mamdani
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Moira Donegan
about 12 hours ago
Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdaniâs supposedly radical policies as ânormalâ
Critics of New York Cityâs mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe itâs a given
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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3 days ago
from Hackett edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond; or the Secret Witness
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Dr Selena Wisnom
4 days ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Nicole Ferroni
17 days ago
Bienvenue Ă Jean-Pierre Farandou, nouveau ministre du travail đ Ă qui il en reste (du travail) en thĂ©rapie.
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Margot Finn
6 days ago
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary âchurch and kingâ mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered studentâs work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of childâs burial place
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/01/lost-grave-daughter-black-abolitionist-olaudah-equiano-found-by-a-level-student
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Clémentine Autain : « Méfions-nous des habits de la respectabilité »
Lâex-Insoumise et cofondatrice de LâAprĂšs a portĂ© lâamendement taxant les multinationales adoptĂ© mardi par lâAssemblĂ©e nationale. Tout en mettant SĂ©bastien Lecornu au dĂ©fi de respecter le vote, elle âŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/291025/clementine-autain-mefions-nous-des-habits-de-la-respectabilite
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Machine Pun Kelly
7 days ago
This might very well be the greatest Halloween costume ever.
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Stuart Elden
7 days ago
"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday"
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A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
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Edwy Plenel
8 days ago
C'est un tournant historique et sinistre : les partisans de l'AlgĂ©rie française et de l'OAS, jusqu'au-boutistes du colonialisme, obtiennent leur revanche Ă l'AssemblĂ©e nationale avec l'adoption d'un texte du RN dĂ©nonçant lâaccord franco-algĂ©rien de 1968.
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LâAssemblĂ©e nationale adopte pour la premiĂšre fois un texte du RN, portant sur la dĂ©nonciation de lâaccord franco-algĂ©rien de 1968
Lâaccord franco-algĂ©rien signĂ© en dĂ©cembre 1968 offre aux AlgĂ©riens des clauses spĂ©cifiques en matiĂšre de circulation, dâimmigration et de sĂ©jour en France.
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/10/30/l-assemblee-nationale-adopte-pour-la-premiere-fois-un-texte-du-rn-portant-sur-la-denonciation-de-l-accord-franco-algerien-de-1968_6650281_823448.html
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Aaron Rupar
9 days ago
New in PN: The triumph of bullshit "Weâre a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."
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The triumph of bullshit
Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas
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Sam Brody
10 days ago
âI am interested in history and Rome constitutes a large part of the history of western civilisation,â Musk said... [AI] would fill knowledge gaps by writing âa new history book based entirely on ancient material and archaeologyâ. Translation: Grok slop history with only interpretations he likes
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Le Monde
9 days ago
Le Nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature en 1986, voit son visa américain annulé
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Le Nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature en 1986, voit son visa américain annulé
Le dramaturge avait rĂ©cemment comparĂ© le prĂ©sident amĂ©ricain Donald Trump Ă lâex-dictateur ougandais Idi Amin Dada, au pouvoir entre 1971 et 1979.
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/10/29/le-nigerian-wole-soyinka-prix-nobel-de-litterature-en-1986-voit-son-visa-americain-annule_6650178_3212.html
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Aparna Nair
10 days ago
Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ârevolutionizingâ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
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Julia Carrie Wong
9 days ago
itâs kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
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What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/zohran-mamdani-bowdoin-college-new-york-mayor-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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CFP, Jameson conference at Duke in Durham, April 10-12, 2026.
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Kelly
9 days ago
A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. Itâs retaliation & itâs wrong
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Higher Edâs Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you donât work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
https://defector.com/higher-eds-rush-to-adopt-ai-is-about-so-much-more-than-ai
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Avec la nouvelle Fondation Cartier, le centre de Paris poursuit sa mue au service du luxe
La nouvelle Fondation Cartier, construite par Jean Nouvel, ouvre ses portes samedi Ă Paris, en face du Louvre. AprĂšs les fondations de François Pinault et des Galeries Lafayette, câest une nouvelle dâŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/241025/avec-la-nouvelle-fondation-cartier-le-centre-de-paris-poursuit-sa-mue-au-service-du-luxe?utm_source=global&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SharingApp&xtor=CS3-5
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Seth Cotlar
19 days ago
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to Americaâs streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like âoh man, the Dems are in trouble?â Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didnât even make the NYT front page.
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Stephen Shapiro
20 days ago
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"A nation that does not colonize is doomed to socialism." Ernest Renan, accidentally left-wing.
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Alice de Cha
20 days ago
« Une nation qui ne colonise pas est vouée au socialisme. » Ernest Renan, accidentellement de gauche.
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Seth Cotlar
24 days ago
Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.
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NY Times Pitchbot
24 days ago
In Zohran Mamdaniâs vision, New Yorkers will be given status and privileges that ought to be based on merit. by A.G. Sulzberger
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Mediapart
24 days ago
Lecornu lùche sur les retraites pour éviter la sienne Par
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Lecornu lùche sur les retraites pour éviter la sienne
Le premier ministre a recueilli les applaudissements du Parti socialiste en annonçant, lors de sa dĂ©claration de politique gĂ©nĂ©rale, que la rĂ©forme tant dĂ©criĂ©e serait suspendue jusquâĂ la prĂ©sidentielle. Ă lâAssemblĂ©e nationale, le soulagement lâa emportĂ© du PS Ă la droite Les RĂ©publicains : la voie de la non-censure est dĂ©sormais ouverte.
https://l.mediapart.fr/iSy
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David Osland
25 days ago
On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
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Agence France-Presse
24 days ago
đ«đ· Lors de sa dĂ©claration de politique gĂ©nĂ©rale Ă l'AssemblĂ©e nationale, SĂ©bastien Lecornu a proposĂ© de suspendre la rĂ©forme des retraites de 2023 "jusqu'Ă la prĂ©sidentielle" de 2027.
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Le Monde
24 days ago
En Belgique, une manifestation massive à Bruxelles contre les coupes budgétaires du nouveau gouvernement fédéral
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En Belgique, une manifestation massive à Bruxelles contre les coupes budgétaires du nouveau gouvernement fédéral
La police a dĂ©nombrĂ© 80 000 manifestants dans la capitale belge, un pic nettement supĂ©rieur aux 60 000 personnes mobilisĂ©es aprĂšs la mise en place du nouveau gouvernement fĂ©dĂ©ral. Ce dernier prĂ©pare dâimportantes coupes dans le projet de budget 2026.
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/14/en-belgique-une-manifestation-massive-a-bruxelles-contre-les-coupes-budgetaires-du-nouveau-gouvernement-federal_6646623_3210.html
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The French Republican Calendar
25 days ago
Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate turnips.
#JacobinDay
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Laprofmme
25 days ago
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Alice de Cha
25 days ago
đHĂ© mais vendredi 17 c'est la rentrĂ©e du SLAC ! 14h, 29 rue d'Ulm Ce sera sur la notion de littĂ©rature mondiale, feat. Pascale Casanova et GisĂšle Sapiro.đ Avec Marianne Hillion et
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Weltliteratur. Rentrée du Séminaire littéraire des Armes de la critique (SLAC), ENS Ulm
Le sĂ©minaire reprend ses activitĂ©s la semaine prochaine, le vendredi 17 octobre, Ă 14h, au 29 rue dâUlm, en salle U209. Cette annĂ©e, nous avons souhaitĂ© renouer avec la vocation initiale du SLAC, Ă sa...
https://www.fabula.org/actualites/130128/weltliteratur-rentree-du-seminaire-litteraire-des-armes-de-la-critique-slac-ens-ulm.html
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Johan Faerber
26 days ago
Pour Halloween, ils ont sorti le fantĂŽme de Blanquer Ă lâĂducation nationale
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Marine Tondelier
28 days ago
Nous sortons de cette réunion sidérées. Nous n'avons aucune réponse, aucun engagement sur rien. Mais nous savons une chose : le prochain Premier ministre fera partie du "socle commun" déjà testé et désapprouvé 3 fois. Je suis trÚs inquiÚte ce soir : tout ça va mal se terminer.
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"Nous sommes sidérées" : réactions de Marine Tondelier et Cyrielle Chatelain à la sortie de l'Elysée
YouTube video by Europe Ăcologie Les Verts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7-a50IeoY
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Edwy Plenel
28 days ago
« Hegel fait quelque part cette remarque que tous les grands Ă©vĂ©nements et personnages historiques se rĂ©pĂštent pour ainsi dire deux fois. Il a oubliĂ© dâajouter : la premiĂšre fois comme tragĂ©die, la seconde fois comme farce. » (Karl Marx, Ă propos de la France)
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Emmanuel Macron renomme Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon
Peu aprĂšs 22 heures, lâĂlysĂ©e a annoncĂ© dans un communiquĂ© la reconduction du premier ministre dĂ©missionnaire, Ă qui le prĂ©sident « donne carte blanche ». Celui-ci a « acceptĂ© â par devoir â la missiâŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/101025/emmanuel-macron-renomme-sebastien-lecornu-matignon
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Marine Tondelier
28 days ago
Je suis abasourdie par la reconduction de SĂ©bastien Lecornu. Je suis triste et en colĂšre pour la France ce soir, et je mâexcuse auprĂšs des Français·es de lâimage que cela donne. Mais je me rĂ©veillerai dĂ©terminĂ©e Ă me battre demain matin. Je vous en fais la promesse.
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Marine Tondelier réagit au retour de Sébastien Lecornu : "je suis en colÚre et triste ce soir" (LCI)
YouTube video by Europe Ăcologie Les Verts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_qQyk9L5w
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Edwy Plenel
27 days ago
EnfermĂ© dans son cockpit Ă©lysĂ©en, le pilote envoie la France dans le mur. DĂ©monstration est faite aux plus incrĂ©dules que ces institutions sont dangereuses : aux mains dâun irresponsable, fou de lui-mĂȘme, elles plongent la politique dans un abĂźme.
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Ce mĂ©pris venu de lâĂlysĂ©e
La reconduction de SĂ©bastien Lecornu Ă Matignon, cinq jours aprĂšs sa dĂ©mission, est stupĂ©fiante parce quâinsensĂ©e. Le prĂ©sident de la RĂ©publique a dĂ©finitivement renoncĂ© Ă aligner ses dĂ©cisions sur lâŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/111025/ce-mepris-venu-de-l-elysee
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Nick Seaver
29 days ago
nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them
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Sam Brody
28 days ago
Do I actually think MIT is a paradise where merit alone is rewarded? No. But is this a good tack to take in response to an administration that is pretending that âmeritâ is the reason to oppose âDEIâ while making the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment the Secretary of Education? Yes
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Kathleen Clark
28 days ago
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your âpremise ⊠is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. ⊠Americaâs leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
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The French Republican Calendar
29 days ago
Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate sunflowers.
#JacobinDay
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NY Times Pitchbot
28 days ago
Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves heâs not a fascist.
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Sur Telegram, une possible suspension de la réforme des retraites met le feu au camp présidentiel
Lâappel dâĂlisabeth Borne Ă suspendre la rĂ©forme des retraites a dĂ©clenchĂ© un dĂ©bat houleux dans la boucle interne des dĂ©putĂ©s macronistes. Entre ceux qui veulent Ă tout prix convaincre le PS pour Ă©âŠ
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/081025/sur-telegram-une-possible-suspension-de-la-reforme-des-retraites-met-le-feu-au-camp-presidentiel?utm_source=global&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SharingApp&xtor=CS3-5
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Sam Brody
29 days ago
The New Testament was written in a slave empire. It didnât call for abolishing slavery in the same way that it didnât call for abolishing Roman imperialism. Itâs so funny to me to be like âthis is how it is in the Bibleâ as if the Bible was recommending that everyone live in first-century Rome
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The French Republican Calendar
about 1 month ago
Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate pumpkins.
#JacobinDay
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L3 G33K
about 1 month ago
Le saviez vous ? Le gouvernement Lecornu est tombé avant que les sondes Voyager 1 et 2 ne reçoivent l'information de sa nomination.
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