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uboat53 · 1 year

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Well this is fantastic, finally universities are starting to drop the US News and World Report rankings.

"While I sincerely believe that U.S. News operates with the best of intentions, it faces a nearly impossible task, ranking 192 law schools with a small set of one-size-fits-all metrics that cannot provide an accurate picture of such varied institutions. Its approach not only fails to advance the legal profession, but stands squarely in the way of progress… Unfortunately, the rankings system has made it increasingly difficult for law schools to provide robust support for students who serve their communities, to admit students from low-income backgrounds, and to target financial aid to the students most in need." -- Heather Gerken, Dean of Yale Law School

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with rankings, but there is something wrong when the metrics being measured become more important than the actual educational goals of an educational institution. It's also important that Harvard and Yale are the ones taking this steps, two schools with reputations such that they can afford to give up the prestige of these rankings.

Hopefully that example leads other schools to re-evaluate the best way to support and advance their educational goals as well.

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#us news and world report #harvard #yale #harvard law school #yale law school #academia

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qupritsuvwix · 6 months

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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-11-16/what-have-we-become-how-congress-came-to-be-so-boorish

#us news and world report #congress #boorish #trumpster fire #misbehaving

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hussyknee · 6 months

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Ayat Khaddura, 27, was a digital content and podcast presenter in North Gaza. She was one of the five journalists murdered by Israel's targeted air strike on Nov 20, along with her sister and grandmother in her home. She posted this video in the knowledge that these were probably her last moments.

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A young Arab woman in a hijab and abaya speaks into her camera in Arabic in a high, frightened voice. The subtitles read: "This might be the last video from me. Today the Occupation Forces dropped phosphorus bombs on the Beit Lahia residential area, and frightening sound bombs. And uhm, they dropped letters from the sky ordering us to evacuate. So of course nearly everyone evacuated for the most part. Everyone ran into the streets in a crazy way. No one knows where they're coming or going. Uhm, we're all split up and around. Me and some others stayed at home. The others evacuated and left. We don't know where they've gone, that's for sure. The situation is terrifying, the scenes are horrifying [voice breaking as she starts to cry], the situation is extremely difficult. May God have mercy on us." [She closes her eyes as she starts to cry openly. End clip.]

[New clip.] The same young woman is seated on a desk in front of a world map wearing a jacket over a t-shirt and her hijab. Large video caption reads "Message from Ayat Khaddura who was martyred yesterday". Her voice is sad and resigned, and her face is tired and tear-stained as she speaks in Arabic. Subtitles read:

"We are human beings, just like other human beings around the world. We had many big dreams, but unfortunately today our dreams are that if we are killed we will be martyred in one piece, one body (not torn to pieces) so that people can recognise us, and we will not be cut off in pieces and put in a bag. [struggles not to cry.] When we are martyred there will be a shroud for us and we will be buried in a grave. Our dreams have become that the war will stop, that we stop hearing the sound of bombing. We never imagined we would reach such a stage and live such a life that does not have the lowest basic necessities. [Blinks back tears.] There are things we can't talk about, there are things that people photographed and did not document. When the war will end, who will continue to talk to people? What happened to us, how we lived, what we saw. Everything is being destroyed before our eyes." [Looks down with a sob. End video.]

Israel dropping leaflets onto trapped and hiding people minutes before bombing them is nothing but a sick PR exercise— there's nowhere safe to go, no telling where the bombs will drop, no way to not leave family members behind while fleeing. Many people in North Gaza decided not to evacuate to the South, not only because similar calls to go South have ended in Israeli airstrikes massacring the refugees, but the possibility of being killed while trying to make the journey, the lack of food and water to sustain them, and inability to leave old and disabled family members behind. Some like Hind Khaudary, who had the opportunity to leave the Gaza strip entirely through foreign embassies, stayed behind to continue reporting the situation unfolding in the North. Meanwhile, Israel is continuing to bomb the South, despite their own evacuation orders.

Ayat is one of the fifty-three Middle Eastern journalists killed since Oct. 7. Forty-six of them were Palestinian, most massacred along with their families. Air strikes on other journalists managed to kill only their families instead. This is the deadliest period for journalists recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists in its thirty years of existence. In fact, Israel killed one of the CPJ's own journalists documenting the murders around the same time as Ayat.

Nearly all these are targeted strikes. Israel controls the census in Gaza and therefore has information on where everyone lives. They also track journalists cellphones and use surveillance drones and quadcopters (drone snipers). Journalists and their families are known to receive threatening phone calls from unknown numbers before they're eventually attacked.

As to why Israel is so concerned about journalists? For the same reason the Biden Administration has stated openly.

But the administration remains wary about Netanyahu’s endgame and seeming lack of a plan for what to do once Hamas is defeated. There was no sense that the pause would turn into a lengthier cease-fire, a senior administration official said. And there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.

Please spread news of these journalists' murders, show their faces, say their names. While Western journalists from CNN and BCC are embedded with IOF teams to safely "report" on Gaza, Palestinian journalists who have been reporting there for years, wearing a press jacket and helmet they know won't protect them, are documenting and broadcasting the situation on the ground, watching their colleagues being picked off one by one for the last month and half, not knowing when it will be their turn. Ayat was not a combatant. She was a young woman a lot like most on this site, young and angry at injustice, armed with only a degree and internet connection to fight for her people. She wanted the world to witness her last moments: documenting the situation till the end, her terror of dying, how she clung to her faith and wanted to live. Hers and her compatriots work is to resist letting their people disappear among the vast uncounted; she resisted it to her last breath.

Empires and colonizers win wars by reducing people to numbers. When people become numbers they become collateral, cattle, "unavoidable casualties". This is what Palestinians have fought for decades to show: "We Are Not Numbers". If the West wants to kill human beings with impunity, everyone gets to see exactly which lives and loves and hopes it's snuffing out forever.

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cozylittleartblog · 3 months

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i think i am going to make a pay what you want digital zine this year for people who want to get into making little artist alley knick knacks like keychains and stickers and enamel pins, cuz i get a lot of asks about that and i think it would be nice to put my design skills to the test and have it all in one place! that being said, what kind of questions do y'all have about this stuff that you would want answered? everything from packaging to shipping to the products themselves, what would you guys want in there? keep in mind i have only sold on etsy myself and a couple craft shows, so i can't give much advise about personal storefronts.

please put them in the replies on this post so it's all in one place!

#not art #etsy #enamel pins #stickers #keychains #zine #i will probably put my suppliers in it for everything but enamel pins but there's a whole laundry list of reasons #why people dont give up their pin manus and its all very good reasons i am sorry to report #and i say that as a collector who loves pins and wants more pins in the world #HOWEVER i will be giving as many resources as i can to put people down the right path at least!!#that being said you might not Want to just use manufacturers handed blindly to you :') so i will be including pros and cons #of the suppliers i Do give as well. sometimes a manu is great for one person and terrible for another and both experiences are valid #it will be pay what you want so you can poke around for free if you're just curious #but if you do go into business and get sales please consider swinging back around and putting a few bucks in my tip jar #for sharing copious amounts of time and research in one little place for you #not to mention all the time its gonna take for me to compile this together in a zine wjbhdfsbhgjdfg #it will be a fun project though :) something new i've never done before

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workersolidarity · 5 months

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🇺🇲🇰🇷 🚨 ✈️💥AMERICAN F-16 FIGHTER JET CRASHES IN SOUTH KOREA DURING TRAINING EXERCISE 💥

A U.S. F-16 Fighter is alleged to have crashed during a training exercise in the west of South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.

According to the report, a fighter jet belonging to the U.S. Forces, Korea (USFK) crashed Monday morning somewhere near the Kunsan Air Base in Gunsan, about 180km (112mi) south of the South Korean capital, Seoul during a training exercise.

No casualties were reported.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

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sonego · 7 months

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not the news calling PALESTINIANS the invasors. fuck you fuck you fuck you

#RAGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#decades of violent unrelented repression ethnic cleansing settler colonialism war crimes human rights violations #but palestine fights back and now THEY're the invasors. lol okay! funny how that works!#i feel so much anger at the way the world treats palestinian people #the same fucking people who support u/kraine and denounce r/ussia turn around and #call ISRAELIS the rightful owners of a land THAT WAS NEVERRRRRRR THEIRS!!!!!!!#fucking go to hell #oh i WILL be wearing my palestinian necklace i bought from a palestinian shop a few months ago EVEN MORE OFTEN #i will loudly and proudly support palestine until it will be free and i hope after - i hope i get to see the day they're free #it's truly insane to see the news talk about hundreds of israeli deaths when they NEVER report ANY of the COUNTLESS deaths tortures #imprisonment forced fleeing etc etc that israel have caused in palestine over DECADES. DECADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#of fucking course palestinians fight back. of fucking COURSE. they've TRIED peacefully getting the rest of the world's attention so they #could get HELP. what has the west done? given israel weapons and money to spend on killing palestinians #palestinians have TRIED peace. israel didn't listen. israel never intend to be peaceful. bc they're a settler colonial power. bc they do no #care about the lives of palestinians they do not care about peace #if they did. they wouldn't try to completely eradicate the palestinian people. you can't pretend you want peace and at the same time force #yourself on a peaceful people's land and use some of the most brutal cruel forces to do that too #i wish people would READ. LISTEN. GET INFORMED. bc palestine needs help. but people keep staying convinced THEY are the enemy #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #and until then LET'S HELP THEM FIGHT BACK!!!!!#so we can GET THERE

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lonestarbattleship · 1 year

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Damage report of USS Houston (CL-81) from the two torpedo hits on October 14 and 16, 1944, off of Formaso (present day Taiwan).

The first torpedo hit at midships and caused enough flooding to cause the order to remove topside weight. It was bad enough to cause the main deck to dip slightly in the water as she rolled. The second torpedo hit under the hanger bay. This caused her to take on more water and weaken her internal structure. 7 men were killed during these attacks.

She was towed to Ulithi island, arriving on 27 October 27. The damage was inspected and temporary repairs were made to allow her make her way to Manus Island, in Papa New Guinea and to be drydocked in the ABSD-2, arriving on December 20. Plates were welded on her external hull to make watertight and girders were installed to restore some of her structure integrity for her voyage stateside for permanent repairs. She arrived at the New York Navy Yard on March 25, 1945. All of the west coast facilities were already occupied.

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an-onyx-void · 6 months

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How climate change affects life in the U.S. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1206506962/climate-change-affects-your-life-in-3-big-ways-a-new-report-warns

#npr #us news source #science news #world news #climate crisis #climate change #an onyx void reports

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not-poignant · 9 months

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As a fellow trans person, thank you for not giving terfs a platform. I follow other writers who answer transphobic questions - not because they themselves are transphobic but because I think they think it's best to just answer whatever question is sent to them - and it's always horrible to come across on my dash. So thank you for not posting whatever that anon sent you.

Much love 💕❤💕

Honestly from a purely selfish perspective, I just get so tired of seeing it. Not just TERF bullshit, but sometimes even the activism and the responses.

Like, I'm existentially tired of the growing amount of hate and I don't want to have it here. I don't want someone scrolling past to see an ask from an anon and get that kneejerk 'oh my god, here too??' and I even thought about not making my PSA but then it was like, no I'll make the PSA, because I think some newcomers don't realise I'm trans.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm never going to let a TERF through unless I have a very very good reason to do so, and I honestly can't think of one right now. They can exhale their toxins in other spaces, they don't get to poison the well here.

Trans people are awesome, we deserve to not have our identities questioned, the language we use questioned etc. by the people who hate and fear us because they are small-minded asshats who want so desperately to feel hurt by things that are ultimately none of their business, while in the process hurting a lot of other people.

Anyway! Tl;dr - You're welcome, I did it for me too, because that shit's painful, and sometimes you do not want to see it every single day, on every single social media site. Would rather just be full of trans support instead.

Besides, I pretty regularly tear transphobes apart on Twitter so

#asks and answers #cw transphobia #honestly people who think the inconvenience of learning new ways of speaking - pronouns etc.#somehow harms them #are people who don't have enough to deal with in their life #and might want to pick up a hobby #and a heart #the world rolling back more and more protections for us?#fuck it I will put protections in place on my damn blog #I'm not letting them in anon #and if I ever see one in the replies I will LOVE reporting/blocking/deleting them

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uboat53 · 1 year

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Been a while since I talked about academia. If anyone's interested in a good take on how the university ranking system should work (vs how they do work), this is a pretty decent one.

TL;DR: The US News and World Report rankings put way too much emphasis on how rich a school is and don't include a diversity of perspectives.

#academia #us news and world report #law school rankings

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qupritsuvwix · 7 months

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https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-10-09/sleeping-on-the-job-gop-primary-candidates-blame-biden-for-hamas-attacks-on-israel

#us news and world report #hamas attack #joe biden #trumpster fire

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mochatheangelkiller · 4 months

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As someone who only has experience in covering protests, convoys and riots, the amount of colleagues that have been killed in Israel and Palestine over simply doing their job this past year is horrifying. It's a well known risk of the job that you could get threatened, yelled at, hated for your work. It's well known that journalists are killed every year for just reporting the news, giving the world their work as their last effort before they get killed by whoever doesn't want them to publish.

It's so well known that my professors would tell us that if we were a freelance journalist of any kind to get life insurance, write out your wills, learn and teach your loved ones how copywrites work and how to renew them. Just in case something happens.

The murder of journalists of all kinds happens so often that it feels the world is used to it. You rarely hear about it anymore unless you go looking for it and that, to me, is the scariest thing in the world. If we're at the point as a civilization that the sudden death of a person doesn't shake you to your core then I truely believe we need to take a step back and remember how short life is.

I've luckily never had to worry about if I would die on the job and I'm so glad I get that privilege but I hope for a world where one day we don't have to worry about coming home to an empty house. I want to live in a world where sudden death isn't so common that people talk about it like it's the fucking weather.

I want to live in a world where you don't need to worry about if that day will be your last or if the cops will decide to arrest you with the rioters even if they're not supposed to. I want to live in a world where journalists who report on war and exposées of government bodies don't have to worry about getting killed for it.

American media gives us enough crap as it is, we shouldn't have to argue about our professions continued existence and why it's needed and more importantly, we shouldn't have to argue over why journalists should have the right to not fear for the lives and safety of their loved ones and themselves over a fucking article.

Journalists deserve better and so do their families.

#dont get mewrong i know why so many dont trust journalists #i know there are some “reporters” who fucked that privilege up for us #but news is needed #news keeps the world informed about not just other countries but also their own communities #the news can and has saved lives and im so sorry that its had such ashitty past #i think its time we redeem ourselves #atlas rambles #journalism #long post

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aydascomprehendsubtext · 6 months

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If you're at all interested in going into the academic social sciences I absolutely cannot recommend Adam Mastroianni's substack enough. Guy who deeply loves learning and discovery and communicating new ideas but also makes fun of some of the real rotten basic incentives of the institution and ALSO has imo a flawed but fundamentally optimistic view of what you can do to change them

#its actually good even if you arent into academia. 100% written for a layperson and applies his conclusions to everyday life #but his dunk on us news and world report college rankings was the best part of my morning

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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🇲🇽🇺🇲 Another fantastic video from our friend Ben Norton at Geopolitical Economy Report

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greenedbeans · 1 year

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the way that d&d dragons are both sentient and complex creatures who can integrate with society to some extent, but that their body is still considered valid and ethically sound to harvest for all parts is just a whole hell of a lot to think about huh

#not that they have to get along with people for this to matter btw but the fact that they can and have but this still happens is much worse #im writing dragon lore and was trying to remember d&d lore (because i take d&d mechanics and change #literally every other aspect in my homebrew so i was trying to think of the justification behind their mechanics)#and its really hard not to think of this cuz this is like. why players fight dragons in the first place #anyway rest assured the world i run all my games in (d&d mechanics or otherwise) is one where this doesnt happen. cuz what the fuck #dragons shed their scales regularly and teeth too (like sharks). dragon skin is durable but on par with cow's leather so using it #is considered evil. also dragons will kill you on sight. and dragonkin #and general practice is that dead dragons are reported to the draconic inter-atmosphere flying islands #and the body is then taken to be given a proper funeral #99% of the times dragons make it back to the islandsnbefore they pass though #ask 2 tag #<- not sure if thats necessary but just in case!#worldbuilding ✨#<- new tag im trying it out like im in a mall fitting room

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jaggedcliffs · 1 year

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...at some point the definition of “unreliable narration” on this website has stopped describing actual unreliable narration and has just become...describing narration and point of view

#unless you have an omniscient narrator that is attempting for some sort of objectivity as if they're reporting the news...#most of the way I've seen the phrase 'unreliable narrator' used in the past couple years #has mostly just been in reference to 'a character with a pov'#that isn't an unreliable narrator my good dudes #that's just called 'telling a story through a certain voice'#anyway 'unreliable narrator' has a very distinct definition #and I've rarely seen it used correctly on here #and it is getting more and more irritating #'unreliable narrators' aren't unreliable because they're describing the world as they see it without getting at some objective truth #they're unreliable because they're lying and/or they've suffered a break with reality #either they can't be counted on to describe events as they perceived them #and/or they can't be counted on to describe an approximation of reality #like edgar allen poe's narrators as ur-examples are unreliable for one or both reasons #a character just telling a story through their pov does not fall under either category #technically every narrator is unreliable because everything is subjective an language contains ideology #hence: why there is a phrase for a narrator who is unreliable in a certain manner #literature #*screams into the void*#putting this in my queue so it comes out later

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