This week, I have been mostly sick as a dog. I might have read the following, though it could all have been a delusion brought on by fever and lack of sleep:

• Using Wikipedia: a scholar redraws academic lines by including it in his syllabus - Ellis Jones at the Conversation: Hooray! And well, d'uh. But mostly hooray!
• First we take Amsterdam, then we take The Hague - Nicholas Vrousalis, Robin Celikates, Johan Hartle, and Enzo Rossi: "On April 1, representatives of staff and students from the occupied Maagdenhuis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) came to an agreement with the University’s Executive Board (CvB) concerning the formation of two independent committees, one to investigate UvA’s finances and another to investigate possibilities for decentralization and democratization."
• Students, Solidarity Strikes and Shutting Down Austerity at the Point of Production: The Social Vision of the 2015 Quebec Student Strike - Jonathan Leavit, Toward Freedom: "Bela recounts how inside his organizing conversations, technical education students were skeptical about organizing around education, because their programs are already commodified, privileging market demands over educational outcomes. 'If you tell them, well, you won’t have any kindergarten. You will have to stay at home or your partner will have to stay at home. What kind of society do you want? Then they’re ready to strike.'"
• Time Is Money Is Work Is Virtue - Colette Shade at the Baffler: "The iPhone has allowed office workers to be available anywhere, at any time. The Apple Watch is both a logical next step and a throwback to time measurement’s industrial origins."
• Warwick Uni to outsource hourly paid academics to subsidiary - Fighting Against Casualisation in Education
• The Automatic Teacher - Audrey Watters at boundary 2: "This does not mean, in any unfortunate sense, the mechanization of education. It does mean freeing the teacher from the drudgeries of her work so that she may do more real teaching, giving the pupil more adequate guidance in his learning. There may well be an ‘industrial revolution’ in education. The ultimate results should be highly beneficial. Perhaps only by such means can universal education be made effective."
• The Australian Sharia Lobby - John Quiggin: "The prospect of any significant legislation being based on Islamic sharia law seems pretty remote. On the other hand, those who claim to be concerned about sharia law (the Arabic term simply means ‘religious law) might want to consider the much more relevant issue of ‘sharīʿat al-Masīḥ’ (the Arabic term for ‘religious law of Christianity’)."
• The Big Chill: How Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money - Robert Reich: "It’s bad enough big money is buying off politicians. It’s also buying off nonprofits that used to be sources of investigation, information, and social change, from criticizing big money. Other sources of funding are drying up. Research grants are waning. Funds for social services of churches and community groups are growing scarce. Legislatures are cutting back university funding. Appropriations for public television, the arts, museums, and libraries are being slashed."
• Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not, and should not be the internet - SavetheInternet.in coalition, Hindustan Times
• Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Joseph Stiglitz on the Eurozone Crisis – at the INET-OECD conference, 9 April 2015 (video)