Catherine Frieman

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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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A total catastrophe, followed by bitter recriminations, a circular firing-squad, and the only survivor facing his comeuppance from the police is exactly how I expect the time in office of Reform’s MPs to go actually.

ah yes reservoir dogs, in which things famously go great for the characters

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Wikimedia Australia is pleased to present this first-of-its-kind report, which provides insights into the interactions between First Nations peoples and the digital encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/First_N...

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the french have voted: france is now bi

French exit poll news and which seems a good sign

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Taniel

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

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How fitting that the kicker for Jane McAlevey's NYT obituary is a link to her teaching "Building the Power to Win." video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDc...

Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

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Lot of questions about why Macron called snap elections. One clear factor: By ordering speed campaign, he expected Left could not unite, & so they'd be knocked out in Round 1, helping his own party. Instead, Left united within days—& now surged to win biggest bloc in Assembly.

my union stumped up for some training with her org and it fundamentally changed how i understood organising.

We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

being from boston i did not discover many flavourful things, including bouillon cubes, until getting my own kitchen. in Boston dairy is the only acceptable spice. white pepper if you're feeling really frisky

I found this interesting because if you're West African, your grandma and mom used these to the 100th degree, lol. www.seriouseats.com/bouillon-cub...

The History of Bouillon Cubeswww.seriouseats.com How colonialism and convenience made bouillon cubes a popular ingredient in kitchens around the world.

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Andrew McCabe

Sympathy. I don't do purity people in any sphere of life. Get out there and try to make things as least bad as possible by whatever means available, rather than waiting for the perfect politician for your virginal vote.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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"In her 4 yrs @ StonyBrook, McInnis’s admin repudiated a professor who had criticized the local police. And she created an expanded safety dept" — an office of "enterprise risk management" — "complete with intelligence capabilities," "sweeping authority" + a Sliwa/Giuliani-backed former-NYPD leader

The Yale Daily News picks up a story about the school’s new president, Maurie McInnis, being awful, including and especially wrt Palestine protests. She will be no better at Yale than she was at Stony Brook—this is her style. Spread the word. yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/06...

Pro-Palestine students, faculty criticize McInnis’ appointment as president - Yale Daily Newsyaledailynews.com In the wake of mass pro-Palestine protests on campus, students and faculty in the divestment movement expressed concerns about free speech and policing ahead of McInnis’ presidency.

Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook Universitywww.nytimes.com In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

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I had watched a few recent appointments with amazement and wondered how some people continually fail up. And then I realized that it was the institutions failing down.

University presidencies and governing boards increasingly select for all the worst possible qualities. Good at quashing dissent, securing defense funding, upping sports rankings, enhancing exclusivity, attracting strings-attached dirty-money-laundering donations from alums? You're in!

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Chemistree ⚛️🧪

*woman yelling and pointing* this overly verbose meme *cat hissing at salad* brevity is the soul of wit

You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Life’s tough for a whole lot of people & I try to temper my optimism for the future with the realities many of us face. Yet I still want to say that forming community that uplifts no matter how small does move the needle forward. Joy IS an act of rebellion and is fuel that helps us face adversity.

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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.

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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...

are we allowed to observe that a meaningful proportion of the Biden Old pundit freakout is white men getting up in their feelings about aging and losing their virility?

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THEY DID IT!!

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Faine Greenwood

You can also just put `cooked.wiki/` infront of the URL! Almost all recipe sites publish the bare bones recipe in a machine-readable format for scrapers. That’s how Paprika etc get the data these days. Cooked.wiki is a web based & free variant.

Cooked - Your Smart Cookbookcooked.wiki Are you tired of scattered recipes from the internet? Cooked transforms those long cluttered pages into a short version which you can save and read while cooking. Even works with videos!

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"If the taking of data without consent is generative AI’s original sin, the widespread labor exploitation is its dirty secret. Lastly, there’s the energy usage, water consumption, and sustainability problems of generative AI." #AIEthics fortune.com/2024/06/27/g...

AI's original sins and dirty secrets. Thefortune.com Today's LLMs are built on a foundation of data theft, exploitative labor practices, and unsustainable energy and water consumption.

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Jamie McKelvie

Must be embarrassing to be standing next to some prick in a ridiculous costume who treats politics like it's a game. Probably why he's wearing the balaclava.

well done cornwall for booting out all 6 of your tories

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KJ Charles

truss 0 - head of lettuce 2

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With the electoral demise of Jacob Rees-Mogg, I thought I'd dig out my Mogg-related posts from the Old Country.