For those at #aseh2024, check out the special roundtable on new histories of mining, which I'll be on with several other scholars of different understudied materials.
My bit will be about high purity silicon, for those curious about how sand becomes the computer tech you're viewing this on.
#aseh #aseh24
Hard to believe Millie Bobby Brown really opened her new book like this
when airbnb charges a $89 cleaning fee but also makes you clean the entire place
who had "Drew Barrymore getting deplatformed in a notes app apology by the National Book Awards for scabbing" on their 2023 bingo card?
Rami Malek at the hearing
just finished my second course as instructor of record, Food in World History! It's a fun class to teach; we get to cover plant/animal agency, "The Dawn of Everything," local Kalapuyan food systems, the Plantationocene, NAFTA, and pizza, and it all somehow coheres because of food.
Laughable statement from the head of Instagram/#Threads on why they will not encourage political and "hard news" discussions on the platform. The vapid timeline there is intentional.
#twitter #fediverseI have to appreciate that, while I'm just trying to find a better word to use in something I'm writing, DuckDuckGo also keeps me up to date on the latest in union-busting news
#labor #unions #wgawhen you read "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" for the first time
