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Subjunctivitis is a painful but treatable condition.
 
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briantrumpet

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Discuss.

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Could be interesting:

https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers

On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (ā€œFTCā€) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000 the EU has relied on the ā€œindependentā€ FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times. Max Schrems: ā€œGiven that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.ā€
 
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A little bit of context in this TES article about the proposed cuts in Humanities at Exeter University:

https://archive.ph/FBSGU

She said there feels like there is a ā€œsplitā€ between academics and management, and that academics feel ā€œcheatedā€ as ā€œwe’re very successful in terms of what we were hired to do: delivering research outcomes, writing books…but the managers aren’t concerned with those metricsā€. Instead, ā€œthey’re concerned with student recruitment and reaching particular targets, so it’s like we’re speaking two different languages,ā€ said Maguire, who herself is at risk of redundancy.

David Miller, a former head of marketing at Exeter who now works as a consultant, highlighted how undergraduate numbers studying history at Exeter have dropped by a quarter and languages enrolments are down by 37 per cent. ā€œIf anything, Exeter has made the call to reduce staff numbers in these subjects later than other universities. All they are doing is aligning resources with demandā€, he said on LinkedIn.

But Maguire said she believed that the government could be doing more to protect humanities subjects, and that government’s own strategic priorities could be fuelling the cuts.
 
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