Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

Science washing

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

Media literacy is at an all-time low. And chatbots will only make it worse.

🥖democracy manifest 🥪

Fellas, is it girly to treat your fellow workers as human beings with complex inner lives and emotions and not just our means of production?

If entryism didn’t work, organizations wouldn’t have such wide-ranging and effective immune responses to suppress internal dissent (a thread). #organizing #OrganizationalCommunication #change #TheoryOfChange #facilitation

I love Zotero so much 📝

did ross douthat ruin the newspaper

Did capital ruin the workplace?

My “this is not a bubble” bubble is raising a lot of questions already answered (in increasing large and distorted font) on my rapidly expanding bubble.

In my career in education I've long found students to be far more realistic about the impact of technology on their education than older adults. To students, the latest tech fad does not present as some radical transformation, it's just some thing they gotta deal with.

“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”

Strange Tales 72, 1959. Art by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.

Next week is #interfaithweek. If your school is planning an event, don't forget to include the non-religious! Invite in one our free, trained, and accredited humanist school speakers to answer your students' questions. understandinghumanism.org.uk/school-speak...

My “this is not a bubble” bubble is raising a lot of questions already answered (in increasing large and distorted font) on my rapidly expanding bubble.

Ink wells. I really don’t have room for another one. Currently running the mystery purple in the far left Morriset, red with the red pen, teal (Diamine aurora borealis) in the other side of that double well, and Pelikan blue in the USNavy Esterbrook. All Esterbrook pens, with my inherited nibs.

The difference with this inclusive kind of RE is that it does not teach children what to believe. Instead, it encourages them to consider all beliefs – including their own. It is not doctrinal, does not provide moral instruction, is not confessional in tone, and does not present religion as fact.

It’s an extremely important time for schools to teach understanding and tolerance when it comes to religion and belief. Good RE does this by teaching what different people believe through an objective lens – for example, what humanists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and Hindus believe.

The quest to commodify and destroy third places is intrinsically linked to rise of American fascism and the power of people like Mamdani proves community and shared spaces are both a bulwark against fascism but also a potent antidote to fascism and neoliberalisms enforced loneliness.

posting today for no particular reason costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

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of note: how workers worked to bring value and money to the publication but never actually got to use that money to continue investing in the brand. that shit hurts to read.

“Cuomo closed by demonizing immigrants, forgetting his own family history. Mamdani, in his closing video, honored the legacy of New York’s Italian-American political leaders who fought for workers.” www.signorile.com/p/cuomo-disg...

Happy #TownMeeting day for Longmeadow! Longmeadow's legislature convenes today. Participants in our direct democracy will deliberate. They may make amendments. And they will decide matters before them.

We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit! #Museum30 #Sketchbook

Important 🧵 on the mainstream media and the way they continue to control a narrative to the extent of invalidating very real, very valid works in favor of a truth they insist on pushing.

Owners are putting their thumbs down everywhere, across the nation. Publications will not publish writers, they will only publish takes crafted to look like independent, thoughtful writing, but with the message removed & massaged into the owner's own desires They love AI because they despise humans

the thread aptly notes that this “mission driven” professional culture is a labor control device that promotes acquiescence. the noble mythos of knowledge work is even explicitly deployed for union-busting

This job market seems designed to constantly make people feel unqualified or under-qualified for jobs that under pay and overwork you.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Have invented time travel but only for telegrams STOP

You know upper admin is really getting ready to fuck you over when they start talking about the need for faculty to be "flexible."

This is my fault for trusting this outlet. It's my fault for throwing good time after bad. But anyway here is the story of how asked to write about anti-Muslim racism, I had yet another incident of it.

4 pm I get a message - they want more edits. They aren't going to publish it for tomorrow morning as promised. Could I please continue to work with them? I let them know in no uncertain terms that they should be ashamed about this process, and pulled the piece. 7/

Re: Teen Vogue, WaPo—Uniformity of message, dumping cumulative decades of diverse thought and experience in favor of the same grey, fashy extremism—it’s all about money. They couldn’t care less who you are and what you bring to the table, it’s about big mergers &infinitely deep, velvet-lined pockets

The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time." Line in the sand. It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit. Disrespectfully, the rest of us.

Your favorite journalist is barely subsisting (if at all) on UI, side gigs, a struggling newsletter, SNAP, and/or a horrifying freelance rat race before either crashing out spectacularly or barely rebuilding their career while the worst ppl u know are raking in the dough at the top of CBS News

A terrible loss for readers and just...everyone. One of the few that has been stepping up to do necessary and incredible work amid the ongoing nightmare.

Happens at nonprofits, too—organize a union? Gone. Managers mismanage funds or rely too heavily on a single donor to keep the doors open and suddenly can’t support the skeleton staff they have? Gone. It’s all the same. You can be the best reporter on staff and it won’t matter bc $$ is king, always

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

The layoffs are everywhere and I don’t think we can just blame “AI” even if management is using that as a line