workweek reading recs (3 March 2025)

[matsushima]

Good morning and happy Monday!

• Your Boss is Watching (2025/02)
• The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (2023/07)
• The Languages Lost to Climate Change (2025/01)
• Podcast: "Emotional Labor" on You're Wrong About
Academic: Librarians and Their Collections
• Fiction: The Eight Thousanders, by Jason Sanford in Apex Magazine

If you have the funds this week, please consider donating to the UNHCR fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees. (I know that donating through large organizations like the U.N. isn't necessarily the most efficient way to get funds to people in need. If you can point me to reputable, on-the-ground organizations or individual fundraisers for families, please post links in the comments.)

Comments

[tanaqui]

The two organisations I see consistently posted as the best way to support Ukraine and its people are Come Back Alive (https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card-monthly) and United 24 (https://u24.gov.ua/).

Come Back Alive provides support for service members in Ukraine's Armed Forces. This includes helping the Armed Forces to buy weapons and provide training and other material support to personnel.

United 24 is largely focused on helping civilians. It assigns its funds to the Ukrainian government for use in 3 areas: defense and de-mining, humanitarian and medical assistance, and reconstruction of Ukraine.

Neither organisation is supporting refugees, if that's what you're specifically looking for people to support this week, but my understanding is that these are the charities Ukrainians, including refugees, want people to support and that they are very strongly against donating to UN and ICRC fundraisers.