Very specific request: academic work that contrasts 'systems,' as cybernetics used the term, with 'networks,' as we use the term now.

The Nordic Noir boom is among the most significant global literary phenomena of the 21st century. Very happy, then, to publish 'The Nordic Noir in Translation Database, 2000-2020' by Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/the-nordic-noi…

A much more effective way to combat food insecurity is to pay your workers a living wage.

I wrote about the horrifying, hilarious, and deeply, deeply bizarre world of SHEIN for n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-47/revie…

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Fabulous Racquel Gates piece on the 'rediscovered' Charles Burnett film, and why so much Black film on ordinary life is undervalued in the first place.

I have not yet physically seen it in actual paper, but I am led to believe that this 𝓪𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬 image by U of MN Press is real and not generated using neural networks.
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“The Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) aggregates information on the reach and duration of European colonial empires from renowned secondary sources.” (Via Jeremy Singer-Vine) dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…

I simply cannot imagine how difficult the job market is for people in ANY field these days, people have a fuckton of skills and talents and knowledge that are vital and valuable and there are so many intentionally built barriers to them making a living.

What I do to #relax is, I sit on the edge of my bed and read a novel for the 15 minutes between serving dinner and putting the 4yo to bed. It’s like taking a vacation where your vacation is 15 mins and people are yelling at you.

Ugh, I'm so sick of Spotify's demographic profile of me.

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