Lauren Jade Martin
@laurenjaded.bsky.social
Researcher and recovering academic | Retired riot grrrl and ex-zinester | from NYC to Philly and back again
Really sad to read as a former prof at a nearby PSU branch. In Berks County alone, Albright is competing with four other colleges (two public, one CC, and another private) over the same dwindling population of students, not to mention the dozens of other schools within a 60-mile radius.
For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.
Why a College Fighting for Survival Is Slashing Econ and Physics Majors
At Albright in Pennsylvania, the new president is cutting programs, selling art and real estate, and vowing not to hire anyone with tenure. Is this the way forward for liberal arts colleges?
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Really sad to read as a former prof at a nearby PSU branch. In Berks County alone, Albright is competing with four other colleges (two public, one CC, and another private) over the same dwindling population of students, not to mention the dozens of other schools within a 60-mile radius.
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Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Emotional labor, when your affect is an essential part of your job
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Emotional labor, when your affect is an essential part of your job
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Perhaps it’s an apt time to rewatch The Great Muppet Caper
Great Muppet Caper (1981) Original Theatrical Trailer [4K] [FTD-0465]
YouTube video by FT Depot
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Perhaps it’s an apt time to rewatch The Great Muppet Caper
“You don’t have to burn down Black Wall Street with torches when you can do it with spreadsheets.”
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
The New York Times Can’t Admit That Rising Black Unemployment Is a Racial Purge Disguised As 'Economics'
This Substack is reader-supported.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“You don’t have to burn down Black Wall Street with torches when you can do it with spreadsheets.”
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
Advance.
The local paper on Staten Island is known as the AD-vance, not the Ad-VANCE.
The local paper on Staten Island is known as the AD-vance, not the Ad-VANCE.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Advance.
The local paper on Staten Island is known as the AD-vance, not the Ad-VANCE.
The local paper on Staten Island is known as the AD-vance, not the Ad-VANCE.
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Oh this is the first time I've seen a timeline.
The notification window is not terribly long, which means the more we can blast this information out the better. I will be screaming about it A LOT once the submission link is live!
The notification window is not terribly long, which means the more we can blast this information out the better. I will be screaming about it A LOT once the submission link is live!
This is the most complete information I've seen about the Anthropic copyright settlement — dates of when things are likely to happen, what to do now, and what it all means for different types of writers. nwu.org/anthropic/
Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU
On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
nwu.org
September 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Oh this is the first time I've seen a timeline.
The notification window is not terribly long, which means the more we can blast this information out the better. I will be screaming about it A LOT once the submission link is live!
The notification window is not terribly long, which means the more we can blast this information out the better. I will be screaming about it A LOT once the submission link is live!
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My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
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If you have a kid aged 6-12ish who loves making comics - or wants to learn how to make comics, my son's Comic Book Club runs every Thursday over the summer at the Adams St. @bklynlibrary.bsky.social branch in Dumbo!
July 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you have a kid aged 6-12ish who loves making comics - or wants to learn how to make comics, my son's Comic Book Club runs every Thursday over the summer at the Adams St. @bklynlibrary.bsky.social branch in Dumbo!
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lmaoooo YouTube recommended this to me and I was like
::squint::
is that MAMDANI???????
::squint::
is that MAMDANI???????
Young Cardamom & HAB - Kanda (Chap Chap)
YouTube video by Young Cardamom & HAB
youtu.be
July 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
lmaoooo YouTube recommended this to me and I was like
::squint::
is that MAMDANI???????
::squint::
is that MAMDANI???????
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a song about chapatis??? I stg...if NYC doesn't elect this man who rapped about chapati I will be extremely upset
July 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
a song about chapatis??? I stg...if NYC doesn't elect this man who rapped about chapati I will be extremely upset
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I have been doing this for two decades now, and I have never, ever seen an election where the under-30s outvoted the senior citizens. I cannot underscore how unheard this is. The typical American doesn't even start voting until after they get married and/or have kids.
June 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I have been doing this for two decades now, and I have never, ever seen an election where the under-30s outvoted the senior citizens. I cannot underscore how unheard this is. The typical American doesn't even start voting until after they get married and/or have kids.
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Budapest Pride thread, from the ground
June 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Budapest Pride thread, from the ground
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when this was new it was so completely of the moment. it's hard to communicate how hard it hit
There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
June 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
when this was new it was so completely of the moment. it's hard to communicate how hard it hit
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There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
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the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants
Not just an affirmative good, it’s supposed to be central to what we are as a country. This is where we lift the lamp beside the golden door.
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants
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I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.