inquiline

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to mastodon

Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

#STS #Mastodon #Commodon #autoethnography #DareIUseTheHashtag #Donkeygate #FirstMonday

inquiline, 1 day ago to random

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, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to ai

The future is here and it is fucking atrocious:

"In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-university-suggests-replacing-striking-grad-students-with-ai

EDIT: If you want to give to the striking BU students' strike fund, here's the link: https://givebutter.com/bugwufund

#AI #HigherEd #unions #strike #HigherEdWorkersUnite

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

Are we allowed to be glad Lieberman is dead on here

(affirmations only)

inquiline, 7 months ago to random

Oh you think you've seen the worst global capitalism has to offer? Not unless you've watched this, you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lJc3PMNIg

#SupplyChain #BeltAndRoad #Capitalism

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

This place can be pretty special sometimes (always)

inquiline, 6 months ago to random

I appreciate mostly not seeing overt Nazis here but it's a bit weird that 100% of the fascists think they're not.

inquiline, 10 months ago to random

Re a series of boosts: I can now say I've been harassed on Mastodon by an apparently maladjusted donkeykeeper, over the proper use of a hashtag I started.

I wasn't going to write about this but now I may, maybe. In any event that wasn't a sentence I thought I'd ever write!

inquiline, 7 days ago to Columbia

Well well well

"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

#GazaProtests #policing

inquiline, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Oh cool it looks like @dasharez0ne mastodon.social is blocking people who respond to their posts accusing them of stealing their schtick

(edit, someone else can provide receipts of their stealing; I don't have them but recall finding them convincing when they went by earlier, so I willingly participated in said accusations and am now blocked)

(edit 2, receipts in replies here)

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to california

This is my shocked face:

"#California would need to triple the rate of emissions cuts that the state has undertaken since 2010 in order to meet its #climate goals for 2030"

ETA, apparently the Beacon Economics research group cited here has had some uhhh problems:
https://www.highlandernews.org/86606/uc-riverside-needs-to-halt-its-business-with-beacon-economica/

(Not sure this changes the overall conclusion, but wanted to flag that, as someone brought it to my attention)

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4534747-california-not-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goals-report/

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

What is a "conspiracy theory" that you actually believe?

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

Plea for one (1) day without people starting absolutely gratuitous arguments with women*, social scientists, and women social scientists on here

*whatever we want it to be

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

Guys I have the mother of all reply guys on the line

inquiline, 1 month ago to Neoliberal

"Like most #neoliberal institutions, #Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs"

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

inquiline, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Can I get away with calling New Jersey the armpit of the nation in the concluding sentence of this draft?

ETA, the paper isn't actually about NJ, it's about somatic metaphor. This is why it's so tempting to invoke the armpit and NJ is right there 😂

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

Do I have this straight... the US is air-dropping aid bc a country won't stop bombing long enough to let the US in to offer humanitarian aid on the ground, but the US supplied the weapons to the country that won't stop bombing

inquiline, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Well this is an epic bummer: taking Paxlovid didn’t reduce the risk of #LongCovid in vaccinated people

*edit: 1, as some a-hole in my mentions mentions, this is only one study; 2, if you don't mean to have your remarks read as trivializing Covid or LC, maybe take care in how you word them.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/01/426906/study-finds-paxlovid-treatment-does-not-reduce-risk-long-covid

#Covid

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

"I want to eat in restaurants but my immune-compromised husband is being a buzzkill"

Hoo boy, this article is pretty disgusting:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1236975472/wrestling-with-my-husbands-fear-of-getting-covid-again

inquiline, 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

#BonkBonk

My new favorite song ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHp_Fhggwzs

*edited to remove link to Xwitter

inquiline, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

#USC students have begun a #Gaza Solidarity encampment

*ETA, both #LAPD and USC's private police force are on the scene. One student allegedly detained.

https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/24/gaza-solidarity-occupation-to-at-alumni-park-live-updates/

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

"is it true that #longCOVID rates are going down?

HANNAH DAVIS: No. That is a narrative that has been perpetuated, I think, in order to help communicate that the pandemic is over when it’s not. The CDC and census have a Household Pulse Survey that actually just released new data, and showed that the rates of long COVID in the U.S. adult population have actually jumped tremendously since the last time they counted."

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/4th-anniversary-of-covid-19/

inquiline, 11 months ago to random

We need to talk about all the vintage hearses in my neighborhood

inquiline, 5 months ago to Israel

Actually in awe:

Over 1,000 workers have simultaneously blocked four arms factories across the UK which provide components for arms used by #Israel in its bombardment of #Gaza

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/12/four-arms-factories-across-the-uk-blockaded-in-solidarity-with-palestine

#Palestine

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

People are wrong on the internet, ♾️