Jonathan

I study systemic risk for a living, and want to point out that the current global computer outage is an inevitable byproduct of the kind of technical monoculture you get with monopolies. See the 1970 North American corn blight, in which 15% of the corn yield was ruined because of monoculture risk.

I just went to check on mine. Still working today.

Invest now: paper-run handpress printing shops at airports and near banks. #crowdstrike

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Nodding in agreement today at this sticker on my office door (you can get yours here www.etsy.com/listing/1468...)

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But it just doesn't make any sense they said; it's a useless old relic they said; you should simply switch to our centrally-managed solution fully protected by CrowdStrike they said

history stephen said is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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The young men who were very antisemitic remembered Smiths' speech fondly because they loved how tough he'd been on "the enemies of the American people." Same speech, remembered by fascists as excellent red meat remembered by non-fascists as "less radical than I'd expected, mostly just pro-American."

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A University of Wisconsin sociologist returned to the town 2 years later to interview young white men about how they remembered Smith's appearance. What she found is that most people had a positive impression of him. The ones who weren't all that antisemitic remembered how moderate Smith sounded....

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This is the message that an American fascist named Gerald LK Smith delivered at the centennial celebration in Viroqua, WI in 1946. Most residents hadn't wanted this notorious racist and antisemite to speak, but a small cohort of far right civic leaders (one who had been a KKK leader) made it happen.

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In 1946 a Wisconsin Town Invited a Fascist to Deliver the Keynote Address at their Centennial Celebrationsethcotlar.substack.com Few people in Viroqua, Wisconsin WANTED Gerald LK Smith, the head of the America First Party, to speak, but when they ALLOWED it, they fanned the flickering embers of the American Fascist Tradition

I've been thinking a lot about the distinction between the hardcore of Trump supporters who positively want a fascist regime vs. the portion of his voters (probably the majority) who don't positively want it, but would almost certainly accept it. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/in-1946-a-...

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You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.

I could not have afforded the 40% cut in salary, but lately I am wishing I had taken a full year sabbatical not a one semester.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Democrats: {bash nominee for two weeks} Democrats, also: Weird. Our nominee is not polling particularly well.

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gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

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Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

This is absolutely the way forward for academic publishing. It's in everyone's interest except the for-profit publishers'. It just requires overcoming some pesky collective action problems. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If anyone would like to double down on their crypto-rage, this article will radicalize you time.com/6982015/bitc...

Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Towntime.com A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.

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Texas is subsidizing $10 billion worth of new fossil fuel plants, citing new demand caused by climate change and population growth. But in reality, much of the new demand is coming from supercomputers for AI and crypto. Guess where the new plants will be placed: capitalbnews.org/crypto-minin...

Crypto-Mining Creates New Environmental Injustices for Black Texanscapitalbnews.org Texas energy companies plan to build new fossil fuel power plants in communities of color to meet energy demand created by supercomputers.

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Roses are red, It's 2024,

Book

Love this.

@rose-alibi.bsky.social and I finally finished writing/designing _Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter_! add yourself to our list & we’ll contact you for your shipping address once they're ready to ship: shorturl.at/lnVQs. more details here: othernetworks.net/2024/07/10/c... #othernetworks

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UVM Launches Nationwide Effort to Grow Local News Reporting at Colleges Across the U.S.www.uvm.edu The Center for Community News (CCN) at the University of Vermont (UVM) will dramatically expand efforts to grow partnerships between local news outlets and universities across the country, forging a p...

"The Center for Community News @ U of VT... is the first and only organization in the country devoted to growing news-academic partnerships – a model that has emerged over the past decade in response to shrinking local news resources, fewer beat reporters and diminished statehouse coverage."

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Sarah Pyke

We argue that #QueerBibliography is nothing new. Queer readers have long been practising vernacular bibliography–(to adapt Matt Cohen’s useful phrase)–supported by bibliographic labour of librarians, archivists, educators, booksellers & artists, inside & outside professional & institutional spaces

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Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2www.journals.uchicago.edu Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

Now it's open til 8 Sept (ty, U Chicago Press & PBSA editor @wynkenhimself.bsky.social!), a little intro to 'Queer Bibliography: A Rationale', in which @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social & I ask, firstly, not 'what is #QueerBibliography?' but rather, *where* is it? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Sarah Werner

And don’t forget that @jsench.bsky.social is our new Associate Editor—another great reason to support the journal by reading and submitting (and joining BSA). We’ve got great things afoot and I couldn’t be more excited about being the PBSA Editor! bibsocamer.org/news/jonatha...

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Queer Bibliography: A Rationale | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 2doi.org Abstract The advent of critical bibliography has seen critical theory put to work to reappraise the field’s foundations, methods, and practices in response, in part, to categories of oppression. Recen...

In advance of the Queer Bibliography conference later this month, we’ve made @sarahpyke.bsky.social & @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s PBSA article free to access through Sept 8. Read and enjoy!!

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What Happened to Edwin Forrest’s Burned First Folio? The Power of Cataloguing and the Logic of Discoveryacademic.oup.com Before staging its 2011 exhibition, “Fame, Fortune, & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio,” the Folger Shakespeare Library requested the loan of an unus

This essay by Whitney Trettien and me was a labor of love about a favorite object at the Kislak Center. In it, we try to think in new ways about narratives of "discovery" in the archives. And we quote a bunch of tweets along the way. Free access, with very pretty pictures! tinyurl.com/taa8eh43

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Time to Face Realitywww.bookforum.com Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon – A.S. Hamrah

Hamrah w the judgement that is a critic's responsibility: "They are the shows in which people are literally soiling themselves + by extension, the viewer. Would we be better off if The Bachelor, or Cops, or The Apprentice had never been made? The answer is yes." www.bookforum.com/culture/time...

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The Bibliographical Society of Americabibsocamer.org The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.

Google “Massachusetts crisis pregnancy” and this link pops up. It’s part of a statewide campaign, including public signage (highway billboards!), urging people to avoid crisis pregnancy/anti-abortion centers. The Commonwealth is not fucking around with this.

"We are delighted to share with you the happy news that Jonathan Senchyne has been named PBSA Associate Editor and began work with the journal on 1 July." bibsocamer.org/news/jonatha...

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In "Reading in the “Grafted Space”: Public/Private Pleasure Reading and Sexual Identity," Jen (J.L.) Pecoskie aims to explain the dynamic between social and solitary reading for female, adult readers who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer. doi.org/10.7202/1009...

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