William McJunkin
@wmcjunkinmcjunkin.bsky.social
Academic editor | Translator from German to English
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Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone
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Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
academicpublishingpod.alitu.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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There is a broader institutional responsibility to do one’s best to provide “freedom to”: freedom to pursue the knowledge, even when some outside force is censoring it, undermining safe conditions or threatening the scholar trying to do produce or teach it.
My letter to university administrators, in the face of Trumpist attacks on academic freedom —…
(Letter written to a couple vice-provosts and deans of my acquaintance)
jimmillward.medium.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
There is a broader institutional responsibility to do one’s best to provide “freedom to”: freedom to pursue the knowledge, even when some outside force is censoring it, undermining safe conditions or threatening the scholar trying to do produce or teach it.
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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
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A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...
Workers know exactly who AI will serve
A new study shows workers aren't buying Silicon Valley's hype, and know just who will benefit from AI in the workforce if current trends hold.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...
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Dr. Strangelove is never not relevant: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... depended on the breaks."
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Dr. Strangelove is never not relevant: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... depended on the breaks."
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When we sweep away the illusions and false solutions, it always comes down to the one choice that humanity faces: socialism or barbarism.
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
When we sweep away the illusions and false solutions, it always comes down to the one choice that humanity faces: socialism or barbarism.
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“All Americans are now receiving therapy, and it’s called war.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
February 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“All Americans are now receiving therapy, and it’s called war.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
We should be so lucky.
gritty has seized control of the federal government
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
We should be so lucky.
Billionaires should be default gone. Not default there, default gone.
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
www.huffpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Billionaires should be default gone. Not default there, default gone.
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“So no, there is no point in making a Case for the Humanities to the people who are most excited about getting rid of them. What will work with these people, finally, is labor militancy.”
Glad to see this piece republished—an opportunity for me to re-post my favorite line.
Glad to see this piece republished—an opportunity for me to re-post my favorite line.
If you didn't see this from @philipchristman.bsky.social when it ran @plough.bsky.social, take the time today. The human work of the liberal arts is real, folks. www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
Opinion | Can the Humanities Survive AI?
Defending the true, the beautiful, and the good from technological disruption.
www.chronicle.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“So no, there is no point in making a Case for the Humanities to the people who are most excited about getting rid of them. What will work with these people, finally, is labor militancy.”
Glad to see this piece republished—an opportunity for me to re-post my favorite line.
Glad to see this piece republished—an opportunity for me to re-post my favorite line.