flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
One thing that I have learned is that policy language is NEVER accidental. Policymakers mean that shit.
Act accordingly.
"What’s also striking to me is that autodidacts often begin with some very tiny topic, and through researching that topic, they end up telescoping out into bigger-picture concerns. When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics." quote from Celine Nguyen, research as leisure activity, www.personalcanon.com.
My most meaningful, energizing, and profound moments of existence are when I can connect what I know and what I've researched with the other questions swirling around us, when I can introduce people who will become collaborators and co-conspirators, when I can point us toward building the future.
Among my colleague-friends, we identify the "researcher at heart," when the research process is an insatiable need or soothing balm or delightful adventure beyond vocation. I *need* to do research, to learn, and to weave connections, and doing research *fills my soul.* #AcademicSky
SO MUCH to think about after reading Celine Nguyen's "research as leisure activity." In my new (Researcher) position, I have been thinking about the overlap between research as a job responsibility and research as leisure, passion, urge. #AcademicSky #Research open.substack.com/pub/personal...
My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers
Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.
SELF consistently put out some of the best articles on migraine. This is a big loss for that type of exposure and sharing information.
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
I rewatched with my husband last night. I similarly had not watched since maybe 2008, and it destabilized everything I thought I knew about the movie!
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Yeah that particular script is one that I was told to use pre-chatGPT by my social skills classes even!
He also got a fellow scientist to identify the fucking massive spider in the vestry. What incredible service to faith-science relations.
The Priest: *asks me a question about bird lifespans*
Me: "I have no idea... But do you know who does? Our Ornithologist in residence!" *phones Alex and puts him on speakerphone*
Of course you cannot usually say this in academia when someone asks you that. Thankfully there are other things I can say that are also true, such as that i enjoy learning and education, etc.
I've never made a zine before–despite loving to collage and scrap–but I think that's a thing I'll be doing today.
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Tim Curry, in every role: Here mr. director, I made it real extra sexy like you wanted
mr. director: hey what
I haven’t been posting as much about bipolar because I am working towards a mindset where I don’t think of myself primarily as someone who is bipolar. I want to think of myself as a builder and connector, and while they’re not exclusive, the constant reminders were dragging me down
I’ve already been accused of being emotionless more times than I can count. It is an intentional practice to start my emails with a greeting, one that I have to WORK to do. And I am willing to adapt, but please I also wish people would learn plain language practices and stop punishing directness.
people punish autistics for being too blunt > autistic people learn and incorporate scripts to avoid punishment > large language models use the same scripts > people get suspicious of the script > people accuse autistics of being AI > people say “Don’t do this,” without offering solutions 🙃
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
something about how living as a sick person means necessarily living through time outside of linearity, illness predicating stops and starts, yet being expected to (impossibly) subvert that lack of cohesion and then being faulted for not adhering to expectations of unimpeded time.
thinking always about how people often feel that my chronic illness inconveniences them yet they don’t understand or care how it inconveniences me and my life far more.
I think that issue needs to be pushed hard by candidates in every election:
The USA policy and practice should change to
a. we don't bomb any civilians, any time, any place;
b. we do not supply arms to allies who do; and,
c. we employ and support harsh sanctions on any countries who bomb civilians.
‘You’re putting students at a disadvantage if you don’t use gAI in your classroom’
I TEACH FUCKING HISTORY.
AND COMICS.
AND DISABILITY STUDIES.
WHY DO I NEED TO REPURPOSE MY CLASSROOM INTO AN OPENAI TRAINING ARENA
I think feminists and queer activists would do well to look at how disability studies posits separate overlapping models of disability.
I think it's reasonable to speak of medical, functional and social models of gender and queerness.
I would also add an economic model.
I'm not happy with how the language of "neurodiversity" tends to imply bioessentialism.
But whatever.
Anyhow critical psychiatry, disability, mad and neurodiversity studies have long struggled with similar issues and have well thought out answers on these issues.
How, for instance, as disabled people/critical disability studies scholars can we not think of the job losses ongoing/in the future impelled by gAI universalization?
Who do you imagine will be first out the door?
We're already perceived as "too much" a "burden," and "not productive" enough.
what's the plan for when we tax the rich to make sure it doesn't all go to the police