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Politics of data infrastructure. Automation and port labor. Disasters otherwise

Asst Prof @ Erasmus University
Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine @ MIT Press
PI of Digiports project @ ERC

Pro solidarity + trans folk + Palestine
Anti fascism + capitalism + white supremacy
Pro snowflake. Anti antidisestablishmentarianism

http://jessbier.org
She/all

This quick guide to abortion privacy is the best + easiest I’ve seen:
https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy/#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1651771016254_439983

Also the Euki app for period tracking looks great—free, useful, and privacy focused: https://eukiapp.com/

Not in the US but we do go there regularly and I hate the idea of supporting companies that sell out its users who might get abortions, or of my phone somehow being used to track someone who’s accessing abortion services.

Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund

Digital Defense Fund

"Eva," you ask, "What does good, practical digital privacy advice for abortion-seekers look like if I'm not supposed to tell them to download Tails?"

It looks like this: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund

Digital Defense Fund
Please don't clog up the Transgender Concerns Form with so many spurious reports that it becomes unusable, and the Missouri government gets Big Mad. Because that would be wrong. Here's a link to the form so you'll know exactly where not to do that: https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns
Transgender Center Concerns

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Het is #TransDayOfVisibility. We vieren het bestaan, de kracht en de moed van trans personen wereldwijd.

Maar we staan ook stil bij de afschuwelijke haat en het geweld waar zij dagelijks mee te maken krijgen.

Daar blijven wij tegen vechten. Want #TransRightsAreHumanRights

As we hit the home stretch for the #TransRights in Florida #TTRPG bundle, I wanted to amplify my own thread — about once per day I’ve picked a random item in the bundle and talked about it a little. This is my way of encouraging people to spend $5, get great games, and help trans people who live in Florida. All proceeds go to on-the-ground charities in Florida. They need our help.

My thread: https://dice.camp/@bryantd/110019780472815232
The bundle: https://itch.io/b/1753/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-florida

And I never say this, but: please boost!

Bryant Durrell (@[email protected])

Last time there was a big trans rights bundle on itch.io, I did a big Twitter thread about it — quick thoughts on one or two games from the bundle every day, randomly chosen. So let’s do that again, starting right about now. #TTRPGs #TransRights

Dice.camp

Devastated to learn of publishers' motion for summary judgement granted in their case against the Internet Archive.

https://www.docdroid.net/qM0MbI7/ia-sjm-order-pdf

IA SJM Order.pdf

Case 1:20-cv-04160-JGK-OTW Document 188 Filed 03/24/23 Page 1 of 47. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ─────────────────────────────── HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC., ET AL.,. 20-cv-4160 (JGK). Plaintiffs,. OPINION & ORDER. - against INTERNET ARCHIVE, ET AL., Defendants. ──────── ...

"I have come to think of academic librarians as akin to the engineers who maintain the electrical grid. Without them, many university systems would go dark. But colleges increasingly treat librarians like convenience-store clerks waiting to help faculty members and students at their points of need or impulse. Why is it that academic librarians are rarely viewed by their faculty colleagues as experts, collaborators, and equals?" https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-librarians-are-not-ok
The Librarians Are Not OK

A years-long attack on their status is bad for all of us.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

I'm hiring 2 PhDs and a Postdoc in Rotterdam as part of an ERC-funded ethnographic project on racial capitalism and critical logistics! Deadline 4 June to start 1 Sept.

More details, and please note I'll be away in April/May:

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325284/two-phd-positions-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-2-x-1fte/

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/325285/postdoctoral-researcher-as-part-of-an-erc-funded-project-in-critical-logistics-and-racial-capitalism-10fte/

Two Ph.D. Positions as part of an ERC-funded project in critical logistics and racial capitalism (2 x 1fte)

The Department of Public Administration and Sociology is currently recruiting for two Ph.D. positions as part of an ERC-funded DIGIPORTS project Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping, led by...

AcademicTransfer
Two Ph.D. Positions as part of an ERC-funded project in critical logistics and racial capitalism (2 x 1fte)

The Department of Public Administration and Sociology is currently recruiting for two Ph.D. positions as part of an ERC-funded DIGIPORTS project Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping, led by...

AcademicTransfer

RT @nielsvdoorn
Just a reminder that we, here at Platform Labor, have a blog that welcomes contributions by anyone working in/on the platform economy. We're especially interested in pieces by junior scholars & gig workers! For more info on how to contribute, see:

https://platformlabor.net/contribution

Platform Labor (Update)