At Public Books, we feel it is imperative to collect on-the-ground narratives from individuals participating in, supporting, and observing campus encampments for Palestine and invite those in university communities to submit a wide array of reflections, details here:

my report from Columbia, where pro-Palestine students have been getting doxxed, harassed, intimidated, and even attacked for months:
theverge.com/24141073/colum…

If any current or former DHS employees have information about this program, my DMs are open!

'Our entire industry, like many industries around the world, from transportation to food services, is increasingly reliant on freelancers who do not make a living wage. It’s time for all of us to reckon with that.' Amy Littlefield bringing the 🔥
thenation.com/article/econom…

May 3 is #WorldPressFreedomDay – but for whom? The Federal Bureau of Prisons bans incarcerated people from being journalists & most states have banned them from being paid for their work. These writers, and others, are doing it anyway. Join them May 3: bit.ly/for-press-free…

Jeffrey Gibson will be the first Native American artist to represent the U.S. solo at the Venice Biennale—a complicated first. My profile of him, with gorgeous photos by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., is on the cover (!) of today's A&L section.
nytimes.com/2024/04/13/art…

What are the best things you've read (or watched) about AI?

This afternoon/tonight: I’m going to be on this great Zoom panel with Victor Pickard BrandiCD wrote BLACK SKINHEAD (on sale now) about building a better future for journalism.

Moderated by k.e. harloe and hosted by the great folks at Freelance Solidarity Project! Register here: freelancesolidarity.org/events/journal…

WTF
twitter.com/EmpowermentAve…

If I felt the earthquake but didn't go on twitter to see all the tweets and memes and jokes about the earthquake, did it really happen?

Well this is going to be a shitshow. The hardest thing to handle as a small press is distribution, and how distributors function, and the schedule by which they pay. SPD folding overnight is going to cost presses you love money. Good time to order a book directly from your favs.

helping organize this panel bc I refuse to believe that our industry is dead! Please join! We have a lot to learn!
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one of the scariest things about the boeing saga is you KNOW this — pushing out crucial expertise and institutional knowledge because m/billionaires deem them inconveniently costly — is happening in so many industries, and the consequences will keep piling up as things crumble.

there are two stable media jobs: white woman writing about her heterosexual romantic life as feminist resistance, or white man writing about campus cancel culture

I could use some good news right about now

I don't know what to do with myself after reading this paragraph.

newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

What newsletter service should I use now that TinyLetter is gone?

I know some organizers are on this already and it's one MOL lady's orchestration but any more noise we can make about this bullshit is always good gothamist.com/news/manhattan…