[T]he bromide of just being balanced is a terrible dereliction of journalists’ first defining responsibility of reporting the truth. Soon-Shiong apparently would have the Times deliver an on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand presentation to readers. But there is no “other hand.” Trump is an inveterate liar, and journalists have a defining responsibility to call that out."
Harry Litman on his decision to resign from the LA Times:
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just-resigned-from-the-los
Rather than asking the experts in their institutions who think about technology and society, or about how to write well, or about the history of technology and capitalism to weigh in on a thoughtful, informed response, administrators have been outsourcing their reactions to the GenAI hype machines.
Because actually showing the power of critical thinking would ruffle too many feathers. Instead, let individual instructors flap ineffectively.
University admin is effectively telling us to either invest our own time and energy (of which most of us have no more to give) or to close our eyes and pretend that nothing is wrong. But, doesn't this lead to everyone eventually choosing the second option? Even the most determined can only continue for so long with zero support. And then what do we have? The open secret that all you have to do is pay tuition and enrol in the required number of courses to be guaranteed a diploma?
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Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #news
As an independent musician, I'm basically begging everyone to stop giving Spotify free advertising for their exploitative business model by posting your "Spotify Wrapped" on social media.
Especially THIS year, after Spotify set a new PER TRACK minimum of 1000 streams PER YEAR before musicians are paid for ANY streams on those tracks.
Edit: I have a new medieval course! Check it out here and please 
https://mstdn.social/@KentNavalesi/114455884303425839
I'm excited to announce that registrations are open for my online course, "Relics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages," hosted by @medievalists!
What: Six weekly Zoom sessions, starting Jan. 15, where we'll discuss the varied & strange powers of sacred objects in the premodern world.
Where: Zoom
When: Weds, 1:00-2:30 PM ET
Fee: $149
Registration: https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/relics
I'm excited to announce that registrations are open for my online course, "The Barbarian Kingdoms (376-751)," hosted by @[email protected]! What: Six weekly Zoom sessions, starting May 29, where we'll discuss the history and culture of the Franks, Visigoths, Lombards, and others! See the module descriptions below, and feel free to DM with questions! Where: Zoom When: Thurs, 1:00-2:30 PM ET Fee: $149 Registration: https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/barbarian @[email protected] #histodons @[email protected] @[email protected] #history
This study explores the unique world map produced around 1448 in Constance by the Benedictine monk Andreas Walsperger. With reference to texts and maps of the time, the analysis focuses on their content, processes of production and construction mechanisms as well as their networks in the north and south of the Alps. Based on the history of knowledge and culture, this approach encompasses the complex forms of cartographic processing of information.
If you've got 7 minutes to spare, check out "Rotinonhsión:ni Ironworkers: The Indigenous Ironworkers that Built New York City" a short animated film produced in partnership with the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language & Cultural Center and Six Nations Polytechnic and co-directed by Allan Downey and Carlee Loft, with animations by Saki Murotani.
HAPPENING TODAY: Our Forbes Union has walked out in a one day ULP work stoppage timed to coincide with Forbes release of its annual 30 Under 30.
Read more here.
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