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The proper way to translate this, if you want to assimilate the value of America's higher education sector into brute economic terms, is:
"Exports of one of America's world-leading industries dropped by more than a third this year."
Where's that headline in the business press?
among other ways of being far outside normal standards, DT also has a weird way of using degree constructions and comparatives: "he said the war was “very complete, pretty much” and ahead of schedule, [also] saying: “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.”"
Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"
When people in the future ask what America was show them this
Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought
really a sad and unnecessary story. it's so disappointing
any update on the to me highly disappointing dylan carlson / earth zionist situation? a statement or any news except for them closing all instagram comments?
usa a scary place right now .. stay strong everyone
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that:
1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul;
2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.
Vice headline reads: "Zara, Nike, and Abercrombie’s Indian Factories Weren’t Fully Paying Workers" The story was reporting on something put out by the Workers Rights Consortium.
Story at Mind The Gap reads: CASE STUDY: Zara fights sanctions for forced labour in Brazilian supply chain Spanish fast fashion giant Zara, an Inditex brand, has been found to source clothes from Brazilian workshops with modern slavery conditions but fought against sanctions in court – showing how corporations seek to avoid liability by hiding behind complex supply chains.
Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.
wasnt this the plot of a martin amis novel
I hope to see everybody here in the beautiful late summer (early fall?)!!!
linguistlist.org/issues/37/500/
does anyone know when are salt notifications?
Poster for workshop, with pictures of windows and the names of speakers.
My colleague Tamara Dobler is organizing this very cool workshop on the semantics-pragmatics distinction, taking place at VU Amsterdam on June 25-26. (It is possible to register as a participant by sending Tamara an email.) My talk will be on joint work with @celinehenne.bsky.social
Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch 2002 is one of the most cited papers in linguistics. Hauser has since been found guilty of research misconduct. Chomsky told his racist, slave-trading, child-raping friend that he thought MeToo had gone too far.
Maybe it‘s time for better role models.
terfs say "we are the daughters of the witches they burned" ... but turns out they are actually the daughters of the witches of male fantasies
These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
Audre Lorde's words, for no particular reason:
"The master's tools... may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those who still define the master's house as their only source of support."
straight up idf playbook
This is probably the most instructive moment in the evolution of the Democratic Party on Palestine so far— AIPAC is now running ads against one of its (now former) closest allies in Congress, Tom Malinowski, because Malinowski did not commit to *unconditional* support for Netanyahu specifically.
what is the barcelona spanish school equivalent of berlin's babylonia (german integrationschule, queer & lefty)?
greenland is not really an icy wasteland, but the point still holds
maybe we should all, independent of location, move our computing to services that are subject to actual regulation. a useful site:
european-alternatives.eu/categories
omg we failed to send an abstract to a conference bc we only emailed each other and forgot to email the abstract submission site! today was notification day ... shit whoops!
the end of "usa passport is powerful" era is here
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
someone should do it / write it! you? me? us? bsky team of whoever is interested?
It would absolutely not be ethical I think! I'm suggesting that even in a WEIRD zone there would maybe be interesting differences between groups.
I didn't mean twitter specifically! More "online environment which uses argument and polarization as attention mechanism." I agree there is a lot of similarity but also different styles of linguistic communication (overt/covert, group vs individual oriented etc) plausibly influence the effects?