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can be found professing #STS #Commodon
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inquiline, to academia
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This is a very good piece by a colleague accusing university presidents of lying, in their own narrow self-interest, about what's happening on campuses. Their craven behavior barely protects them and makes everyone else far less safe. Including Muslim and Jewish students, faculty, and staff.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/23/all-hail-lord-voldemort-get-their-revenge-for-campus/

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I follow COVID scientists here on Mastodon. I've seen them post links to studies showing waning effectiveness of COVID vaccines after 6 months.

I received the updated booster last October and want to get boosted again prior to some planned travel in July. (Air travel to the MAGA anti-vax cesspool known as Florida)

I have contacted three pharmacies in my area.

One has no COVID vaccines at all and said they won't receive any until fall.

The other two say they will not vaccinate me because they must follow US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines stating that only people 65 years and older should receive boosters at this time.

They won't vaccinate me even if I am willing to pay out of pocket.

Both say I must get a recommendation from my health care provider before they will even consider it.

Less than 20% of people in my state are up to date on their COVID vaccines. For those of us who want to follow the science and not some arbitrary age limitation, why not let us get vaccinated?

inquiline,
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@shansterable Ugh, sorry to hear. We had a similar odyssey but then found one (a Rite Aid, SoCal) that was much more relaxed. I also heard on here that some people had success bringing in the CDC guidelines about how immune-compromised people can self-attest and self-attesting, but individual pharmacists might still not be moved. It should NOT be so difficult, and arbitrary!

ubikaritas, to disability
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My #CovidIsNotOver table at the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) at the Rhetoric Society (RSA)! Art by @JoBlakely and @violetblue ; zines by @hnewlevant ; flyers by @phpledge and bit.ly/lesscovid. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on how to make it engaging--it's been lovely to meet other #CovidCautious people and create some visibility around #disability and #COVID .

inquiline,
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@ubikaritas This is excellent! @JoBlakely @violetblue @phpledge

inquiline, (edited ) to academia
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"The entanglement between institutions of higher education and policing creates a nexus between two of the largest state forces"

https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2217&context=facultypub
(fixed broken link)

@academicchatter

inquiline,
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"To support the training and legitimacy of their own on-campus police force during the 1960s and 1970s, university leaders increased police budgets and lobbied for expanded statutory authority. University leaders steadily increased budgets to outfit and support police officers."

inquiline, to random
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Serious question: when and in which contexts did calling people "individuals" emerge as a common practice, as a synonym for people? Or "an individual" for "a person"?

I ask because I'm noticing it in student writing, and I associate it with police-speak. I don't know if it's in some corners of social science or medicine too

??

inquiline,
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@nic @beadsland Thanks! Agent: noted. And useful context. (I am now wondering about social psych... hm!)

inquiline,
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@skyfaller I can't say either but I really appreciate the direction you are taking this 😂

@billseitz

inquiline,
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@le "Formal way to refer to a person" = exactly. Hm!

inquiline,
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@beadsland I think what I noticed is "real" but sample size is very small so it could just be pretty random. Basically students with much more humanistic training using "individuals" leapt out to me, this does not seem usual practice in performance studies or media studies

What's diff btwn persons and people for you?

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@beadsland I may have been unclear--I am calling performance studies and media studies humanistic; the students have these kinds of background. I'm speculating (stereotyping if I'm being honest) that social psych might be a place this lingo can be found in lit, but I have no reason to think students have any conversance w it

What I think is going on maybe? is students just wanting to sound more formal.

Got it re people. I was wondering if you were invoking personhood.

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@blogdiva This seems entirely believable, but that's part of why I want someone to show me evidence ;-)

inquiline,
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@eco_amandine I think it being slightly ... not dehumanizing... but unhumanizing?... is part of why I'm interested in it. So thank you, that makes sense

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@ryanrandall Thanks, this chimes a lot with what I was thinking/not quite articulating.

Sports reporting isn't a link I'd have come up with but I think the observation that it's a way to not refer to any identifying/social group characteristics is dead on

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@doriantaylor @blogdiva Yeah! I was trying to tie it to neoliberalism and pin it on econ on another part of this thread, but an academic economist colleague chimed in to say they don't commonly use it in their writing. I believe the concept is underlying some of the belief system in part of that field, but I don't have any reason to disbelieve my colleague about the language.

inquiline,
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@doriantaylor @blogdiva Yep @eco_amandine said this here: https://mastodon.cr/

inquiline,
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@libroraptor Interesting! Maybe related to this reply I received (alas can't see inside the book and haven't dug further): https://thefolklore.cafe/@wolfofthewisp/112490302853264902

inquiline,
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@miriamrobern In this case, no, I'm confident that's not it. (In other cases I'd be less confident)

inquiline, to Israel
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Hard read but recommended:

"Biden’s stubborn malice and cruelty to the Palestinians is just one of many gruesome riddles presented to us by Western politicians and journalists. .. It would have been easy for Western leaders to choke off their impulse of unconditional solidarity with an extremist regime while also acknowledging the necessity of pursuing and bringing to justice those guilty of war crimes on 7 October..."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#Israel #Gaza

inquiline,
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"Popular West-is-best accounts of totalitarianism continue to ignore the acute descriptions of Nazism (by Jawaharlal Nehru and Aimé Césaire, among other imperial subjects) as the radical ‘twin’ of Western imperialism; they shy away from exploring the obvious connection between the imperial slaughter of natives in the colonies and the genocidal terrors perpetrated against Jews inside Europe."

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Sigh.

So look.

The "press" and the "media" are not the problem people. That so many of you think this is by design.

The press and the media are supposed to be the 4th estate.

The watchdogs of government.

The intelligence wing of the people.

Corporate media is a problem, yes, but the press as an institution are not.

But because so many people remain ignorant to the role of the press, I've no doubt that we will be without them in total sooner rather than later.

inquiline,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 There's something going on where too many people here have essentially a superiority complex and it leads to weird judgments & contrarian takes that are not fully thought out. IMO.

inquiline,
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@seachanger @Adam_Cadmon1 I nominate this for a pinned post for all of Mastodon

inquiline,
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@seachanger Bahahaah

impermanen_, to random
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Today I had a video chat with my mom (who’s 86 and non-ambulatory) and I walked all over the place with her to show her all the wildflowers. I was using my phone so could get right up close. I reminded her of all their names and that she had taught me them. She cried at that and then so did I.

inquiline,
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@impermanen_ ❤️

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@inquiline

icymi:

https://sometimes.social/@jordan/112487871298715433

inquiline,
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@beadsland I SEE 😂

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