Paperback cover of The Last Human Job: Seeing Each Other in an Age of Automation by Allison Pugh
@allisonpugh.bsky.social's The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize, value, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world.
Now in #paperback!
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#AI #Sociology #Labor
Trump's attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which have included gutting its workforce and dropping enforcement actions, have cost consumers nearly $20B in the last year alone.
It's a new golden age for corporate crooks.
And Trump is happily letting them rip us off.
Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome by Martha Feldman
A new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern Rome.
Castrato Phantoms by Martha Feldman is now available (7 April UK pub).
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#History #Musicology
Der Halbmarathon-Weltrekord von Jacob Kiplimo 🏃🏾 in 56:42 Minuten wird vom Leichtathletik-Weltverbandes nicht anerkannt, weil er zu nahe am Führungsfahrzeug in dessen Windschatten lief. Ok, aber das war am 16. Feber 2025 gewesen, und da kommen die jetzt drauf?
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People outside of Minnesota, in
case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding.
www.standwithminnesota.com
@lericdax.azothcorp.com are You still in the humabn realm or already digitized ¿? 🤪😜🙏
Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.
But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.
Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.
😉🙏
The FDA has approved the first GLP-1 pill for weight loss, a milestone in the growth of the revolutionary drugs.
Here's what you need to know:
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Der US-Präsident erklärt das bedeutendste Medium des Landes zum „Volksfeind“ und verlangt, dass es „gestoppt“ wird.
Aber Europa hat ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit… 🤯🤯🤯
What is eco-facism & when, where, how & why did it emerge in the U.S.?
Miroslava Chávez-García has a working argument that she's developing in book form. She's exploring how one player, Garrett Hardin, provided much of its intellectual underpinnings. She talked about it in her CASBS fellows seminar
Beschte Wünsche fia Ench...
In DIE RUNDE haben wir heute versucht mit @corinnamilborn.bsky.social @ckahlweit.bsky.social Thomas Hofer und Michael Fleischhacker in 50 min das politische Jahr zu bilanzieren:
Die Schlagzeilen von damals sind heute noch relevant... oh my...
Der Innenminister will künftig Frauen nach Afghanistan abschieben und Personendaten mit den Taliban teilen. Damit sprengt er alle moralischen Grenzen.
Wenn ein Buchtitel schon so viel intellektuelle Kapazitäten verbraucht, dass dessen Inhalt komplett an dem vorbei geht, was erforscht wurde, dann ist die #AFD etwas ganz großem auf der Spur.
🙁🙁😠😠🤮‼️
Democrats swept key elections on Tuesday, delivering a rebuke of President Trump’s second term and boosting the party’s hopes ahead of the midterms.
Here are some of the top wins:
Killing the Dead by John Blair provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic.
Now available in the UK, & coming to North America next week on Nov 11.
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Barnett Newman: Here by Amy Newman book tour
Tomorrow (October 28th) at 6:00 pm, help us kick off Amy Newman's book tour at Rizzoli Bookstore! Come hear her discuss her book, Barnett Newman: Here, in conversation with Michael Brenson, followed by a book signing!
Register for this event here: buff.ly/zuwTF62
Column by Monica Hesse: “Death in Apartment 603” is television for women.
Perhaps because women, attuned to bodily harm in real life, feel a sense of catharsis seeing danger play out from the safety of a screen.
Chicago and Portland braced for more confrontations between protesters and federal agents as legal battles escalate between state officials and the Trump administration over its sweeping immigration agenda and deployments of federal agents and troops.
Bad Bunny said his selection as the Super Bowl’s halftime performer is an achievement for all Latinos, “proving that no one can remove or erase our mark and contributions to this country.”
Hope is essential in love. But it is also important to be realistic, especially when you begin to get to know someone.
A therapist gives advice:
