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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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profsavage.bsky.social
The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg.

This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines.

cawls.ca/en/2026-annu...

#canlab #LabourStudies
2026 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies
The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.
cawls.ca
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Come work with us! We’re pretty awesome. www.academicwork.ca/jobs/four-4-...
Four (4) Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor Positions - Faculty of Law - CAUT | Academic Work
www.academicwork.ca
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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thetolerantweft.bsky.social
Forget gift guides, why don’t we just share our favorite living, radical artists?

(quilt by Daryl Meador)
A List of Labor Artists
I’m not the only one making work about unions and socialism. These are some of my favorites.
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December 17, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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xntl.info
Just so you know who your allies are, the plaintiffs in this case are Tesla, Amazon, and Trader Joe's. I'm not sure any litigation could be a better metonym for the image of lawmaking as class war
August 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘The court’s concession that the group’s members are not terrorists in the ordinary sense of the term is significant and its importance will increase: any finding that proscription is proportionate will be hard to sustain.’

David Renton on Palestine Action: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support?
With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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irinaceric.bsky.social
"Air Canada has to learn not to call mommy and daddy every time they reach an impasse at the bargaining table. They have to actually sit down and get a deal done with their workers." - @stufts.bsky.social Solidarity with flight attendants! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
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August 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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gcalder.bsky.social
Check out this important online and free symposium, June 27th: educatinghumanlawyers.com/about/
Schedule & Program
educatinghumanlawyers.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
June 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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mylesjaybee.bsky.social
Good morning rebels...
Meme: Drawing of a baby rabbit wearing an armoured helmet and leaf armour shawl, carrying a book under one arm, holding a spear with a teapot, hooked onto the metal spearhead that is trident shaped.
June 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Feeling this bigly. From @irinaceric.bsky.social
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.
It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” That future may arrive sooner than expected when you consider what a short window college really is. Already, roughly half of all undergrads have never experienced college without easy access to generative AI. “We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”
May 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
the technodystopia is here

nymag.com/intelligence...
Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
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As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy regulations.
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Calgary police is monitoring social media of citizens
As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy...
drugdatadecoded.ca
May 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 30 Apr 1963 a boycott was launched of buses in Bristol, England, by a group of West Indian workers in protest at the bar on Black and Asian workers working on buses in the city by bosses and the union. Months later they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1026...
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well we do love to detain migrants indefinitely.

CBP detaining ppl trying to enter Canada through the Windsor Detroit crossing and transferring them to ICE.

archive.ph/h5GJ8
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April 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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davidmackau.bsky.social
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April 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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michaelfakhri.bsky.social
Two years into the war, civilians in Sudan continue to experience the most extreme hunger crisis globally. Both sides in the civil war are using starvation tactics.

8.6 million people internally displaced and nearly 4 million forced to flee across borders.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Sudan faces worsening humanitarian catastrophe as famine and conflict escalate: UN experts
GENEVA – As the conflict in Sudan reaches the two-year mark, UN human rights experts raised alarm that widespread starvation and a distressing surge in acute malnutrition are unfolding.“Sudan is exper...
www.ohchr.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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numet.al
if you weren't there already, this should be the loud and clear message just how dependent upon the global south's exploitation your comfort is
April 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech.

inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk
What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.
inthesetimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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knownagitator.bsky.social
also they're now black-bagging union organizers.
ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
www.seattletimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It’s outrageous.
marinavelickovic.bsky.social Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Mar 21
the fact that the LSA has sent nothing about either going hybrid or refunding conference fees for people who no longer feel able to travel to the us is… not great & very global north coded
March 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM