The #UngradingSlowChat is going really well, meeting inspiring new people at Twitter! And now on to some content I'm saving for future use:
From Emergence Magazine, a beautiful piece of autobiographical writing: Felling Light by Amaud Jamaul Johnson.
Important information from Sarah Burstein about Internet Archive (whole thread):
I'm not going to link to that press release. But here's the new copyright case against @internetarchive: https://t.co/b7Kkybassx— Sarah Burstein (@design_law) June 1, 2020
As others gathered from the press release, this is going after both the National Emergency Library and Controlled Digital Lending. pic.twitter.com/Pqgu4AFDlu
And from Tweeting Historians on Islamic art:
A thread of threads on @stephenniem's posts on Islamic art, archaeology, and cultural heritage this week, in which we traveled from Damascus to Delhi and from Palmyra to Palermo and back to Damascus again pic.twitter.com/cGYSIyFUPF— Tweeting Historians (@Tweetistorian) June 1, 2020
From Blog Kerim on thugs: Thuggee.
From Roy Peter Clark himself:
So excited about this book! Via Rajeev Kinra: Translating Wisdom.
From Aeon, beginner's mind: How to foster ‘shoshin’
For a video today, here's Amitav Ghosh:
@GhoshAmitav's book The Great Derangement, interview with @svaradarajan talks about #Mumbai ,what should have been obvious now looks prophetichttps://t.co/s49jDtTVWM— Venkat (@Venkatcal) June 2, 2020
Ghosh's book & Dreze's Sense & Solidarity should be handbooks for policymakers#Nisarga , 🙏with #Mumbai