Growing up, we had a fancy brass barometer from a ship by the door. I've decided I need one now, so at least I understand why my head feels like I'm under miles of ocean right now.
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bri(ching) experiment, hyperbolbri, librar* worker, likes weird noises and weird jokes, really really really Winnipeg. Some forms of Open Access & skull comms, copyrights from the lefts. ☠
jonny (good kind)cops are cutting off the occupied building from the plaza outside it, most people are in the plaza, so a dozen are now totally on their own and people seem to be barricading them in from the back to they can't fall back and rejoin the others. ugh i am so scared for these students
Björn BrembsAcademic publisher with a reputation for exploitation doubles down:
"In its most recent annual report (for 2022), Springer Nature posted an operating profit of €487 million (around £410 million) on revenues of more than €1.8 billion (around £1.6 billion)."
https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nature-staff-hold-unprecedented-vote-on-industrial-action.html
That's a 27% profit margin and then they offer their employees a real-term pay cut. The only thing anybody should be surprised about is that they went for so long before going after their own employees as well.
Truly love to see a "revitalization" plan for downtown that permanently reserves empty space for seasonal, exclusionary, and just fucking stupid, hockey parties. Really making things vibrant, there, Winnipeg.
Albini, huh.
breath in bassSpringer rolled out a new search interface a little while ago, and in the process they broke their DOI resolution which fucks up pretty much everything (our discovery layer / knowledge base, Google Scholar, etc)
Like https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1 redirects to https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1 which gives HTTP 404, when it should redirect to https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-57860-1
How do you screw up a redirect that simple? And how do you not fix it within minutes?
Al Jazeera is reporting on Rafah, and Hamas accepting ceasefire proposal. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-pounds-rafah-as-truce-talks-stall
This is a garbage headline that is fractally wrong and also why biden has lost 20% margin in youth vote in a year. The only violence at the #UCLA encampment was committed AGAINST them by the police and the fascist mobs the police gave carte blanche to. The encampment was NOT chaotic - it was highly orderly, well disciplined, and a place of education and solidarity. The encampment is a protest AGAINST violence sanctioned by the Biden administration.
Camp is fucking TOUGH. they are still linked up and resisting with an entire army of cops bearing down on them. Some scattered arrests but like most of the camp is still chanting and fighting. Theres no way for anyone outside to get there or back them up since there are so many cops making multiple layers between us and them.
Student just exited the camp wounded, cops are using tear gas, rubber bullets, everthing theyve got. Shitloads of explosive rounds overhead