Reposted by BrooklyneDean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025@brooklyne.bsky.social makes a compelling case that it's beyond time to focus on corporate accountability, not citizen education, in the fight for a healthier information ecosystem www.techpolicy.press/its-time-to-... 163
Reposted by BrooklyneChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2025When I was 17, I opened my first checking account w/a couple hundred bucks. I didn’t meet the min monthly deposit, so they kept charging fees until I owed them money. It stuck with me—I still won’t bank w/BofA. There’s no upside to this move for anyone who isn’t rich—just cruelty for cruelty’s sake 1134173506617
Reposted by BrooklyneDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid: www.theverge.com/news/637228/...theverge.comMadison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt designMSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees. 5284127
Reposted by BrooklyneMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.thecrimson.comHarvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard CrimsonInterim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist... 15454681419
Reposted by BrooklyneJean-Paul Marthoz @jpmarthoz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025"Robert W. McChesney was probably the most prominent academic critic of US media from the left, focused on all the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government" @edwyplenel.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robe...niemanlab.orgRobert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has diedAfter studying the early days of radio, McChesney developed a holistic critique of media structures that exposed how open they were to manipulation by those in power. 0139
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024What is the life hack for getting people to respond to RSVP’s in a timely manner? 100
Reposted by BrooklyneRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni... 561567652
Reposted by BrooklyneTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 19/11/2024This will amusingly tell you that you forgot to follow yourself, and also reveal who's blocking you :) But it's super useful as a source of people to follow — and if you select "sort by proportion," it has less seniority bias than starter packs do. 26218
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Started a Substack out of sheer rage and frustration that the right has hijacked all the leftist ideals.open.substack.comSpoiler Alert: There is No Soft Life Under Capitalism.A brain dump on the revelation that Nara Smith and her husband are probably Trumpers and the refusal to see influencer escapism as a form of propaganda. 041
Reposted by BrooklyneEvan F. Moore @evanfmoore.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Sucka s—t chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...chicago.suntimes.comComEd lured TikTok historian out of safe union job, then fired him.Popular Chicago historian Shermann Dilla Thomas had a six-figure day job at ComEd; then he took the CEO's suggestion and ended up canned. 13336109
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social · 27/05/2023I know I’m old because tonight I got concerned about the welfare of a small child who was out without a jacket 020
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social · 16/05/2023Participating in my department’s graduation ceremony has been the most joyous thing I’ve done as a professor. All the students excitement, the families… omg the grannies! I spent so much time just walking up to grannies and asking them who they were here for. They were so excited to talk to me 071
