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Juliet Schor
@julietschor.bsky.social

Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955 .. more

Juliet B. Schor is an American economist and Sociology Professor at Boston College. She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic inequality, and concerns about climate change in the environment. From 2010 to 2017, she studied the sharing economy under a large research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. She is currently working on a project titled "The Algorithmic Workplace" with a grant from the National Science Foundation. .. more

Economics 30%
Business 17%

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Want a party that actually fights back? That doesn't fold? Run for office. We’ll help you.
Tonight was a very bad night.

Read the latest installment of @billmckibben.bsky.social's The Crucial Years. Invaluable every week; this one just about brought me to tears. But there is always an uplift too. Solar through the roof. (sorry for the terrible pun...) billmckibben.substack.com/p/whale-oil-...
Whale Oil and Wind
Energy transitions, graceful and otherwise
billmckibben.substack.com

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Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That? By @julietschor.bsky.social

AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.

behavioralscientist.org/americans-ar...
Americans Are Overworked. Could AI Change That? - by Juliet Schor - Behavioral Scientist
AI promises to help us get more done in less time. It’s an opportunity to reverse the trend of American overwork, but powerful structural factors stand in the way.
behavioralscientist.org

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"Improved employee wellbeing as well as organizational productivity" --Juliet Schor presents findings of study on 4-day, 32-hour work week during presentation at Mass Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour
WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

Amazing Boston! Love you.
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Phenomenal crowd in NYC #NoKingsDay
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Don’t fall for it
Reject it now or it’ll be even harder after that meeting
BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact
The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.
www.insidehighered.com
BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
White House to Meet with Universities Regarding Compact
The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.
www.insidehighered.com
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

/1

And then there were five…
Another domino falls @bakerdphd.bsky.social
L.A. Times:
University of Southern California Rejects Trump Education Compact Aimed at Shifting the University to the Right
Another domino falls @bakerdphd.bsky.social

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Monday, Oct. 20 at 4pm ET: Juliet Schor presentation on the "Movement for a Four-Day Workweek" Join us: Mass Amherst, Gordon Hall. Free & open to the public.
#letsworkfour #4DayWorkweek #FutureOfWork #JulietSchor #WorkFour @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social

Keep it up! Good start.
Last week it was MIT. Yesterday, Brown said no. Today, UPenn has rejected the compact, making it 1/3 of the schools who were initially asked rejecting it.
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com

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Last week it was MIT. Yesterday, Brown said no. Today, UPenn has rejected the compact, making it 1/3 of the schools who were initially asked rejecting it.
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com

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“The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com

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“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Join us for a talk by Prof. Juliet Schor: "Does the Future of Work Mean Less Work? The Movement for a Four-Day Week."

In person - Monday, Oct. 20 at 4pm ET / Gordon Hall, @UMassAmherst / Free & open to the public @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social #4DayWeek

Stand together, always. Universities, take note.
WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Be sure to spread it around
WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
forward.com
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com

I’m with you. I wear mine every day. It’s my favorite possession.

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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 9 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

🚨PROP 50 IS SO IMPORTANT 🚨

BALLOTS HAVE BEEN MAILED

Dear Californians please help tell your friends and neighbors to VOTE YES ON PROP 50

Many of us are phonebanking to California Voters & we need your help !
Tell them YES

I testified today at the HELP Committee's AI hearing. Thank you @sanders.senate.gov for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about why we need a 32 hour, #4DW to cope with the disruptive effects of workplace AI. And TY @markey.senate.gov for your AI bills. www.help.senate.gov/hearings/ais...
AI's Potential to Support Patients, Workers, Children, and Families | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Full Committee Hearing on October 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
www.help.senate.gov