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can be found professing #STS #Commodon
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Here: magpie, general nonsense, mouthing off, gloomy, inner monologue, books/reading, typos, boosts #ToxicLA #HigherEdWorkersUnite #asstodon #CounterPort

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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

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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, (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, 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, to random
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Another day, another do not feel like working

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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No one is ever as amused by my as I am but oh well

inquiline, to random
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TFW Thomas mf'ing Friedman is reading the room better than the DNC

"Bibi Is Choosing Stefanik and Trump. President Biden, Don’t Be Fooled"

#uspol

inquiline, to random
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Is it grandiose to think (nearly) everyone else is simply wrong? 🤔😂

inquiline, to random
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Kolektiva, come get your person.

There's someone arguing in my mentions that the student protesters haven't succeeded in any way bc there aren't "celebratory parades" in honor of US/universities ceasing to support the Gaza war.

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This the first week I have of unstructured time (still tons of work to do ofc) and while I am grateful to have made it I am so, so weary. Not sustainable.

inquiline, to random
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Just accidentally read a whole mess of replies to a couple bad posts, in agreement with/filling in the thesis of the bad posts, and hoo boy there are some bad takes on here

inquiline, (edited ) to Palestine
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A variety of pretty interesting thoughts in this Peter Beinart podcast (I skimmed transcript):

"among Jewish students who were involved in pro- organizing, it is awakening a kind of much greater interest that they had in what it means to be Jewish"

"the more powerful they grow, the more the repression we will see... the US government at state & federal level will start to punish these universities even more severely"

https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-campus-protesters-are-winning

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If there is any justice in this world, Mastodon will make my last boost go super viral

inquiline, to random
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Such a bounty of prickly pear fruit I didn’t even know how to compose my snapshot! For @cour13r5

Prickly pear cactus with yellow flowers and ripening fruit in a garden setting with a house entrance in the background.

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Whoever invents a not-gross, not-toxic sunscreen will make a mint. I hate them all

inquiline, to random
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Now that the school year is actually over I suppose I will turn towards processing the last several weeks instead of just reacting, and get more mad

inquiline, to random
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Just typo'ed TERF as TERD and might keep this as they're not feminists anyway

What's this linguistic formation, tho. Acronymic spoonerism-ish, tho not that

(The reason I made this typo was making a note on this acct before hitting block, as they just replied to me. A spin thru posts is all RW conspiracy stuff https://mastodon.staycuriousANDkeepsmil.in/@DavidKnestrick/112469688114339131)

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Sometimes I get real gems in my campus mail:

inquiline, to random
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Hate it when arguments (in good fun) with a household member result in a stalemate bc we are both right. Today's edition, please enjoy these 1887 frames of an ostrich running by Eadweard Muybridge

inquiline, to random
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This contains encouraging news

"if these cross-reactive antibodies do not rapidly wane they may confer some or even substantial protection against a pandemic caused by a related coronavirus"

(but let's be very clear that I am not sharing it for the opening sentence: "The COVID-19 is over, but the virus that caused it is still here, sending thousands of people to the hospital each week and spinning off new variants with depressing regularity" 🙄)

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

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I am very here for all the rhubarbposting, please keep it up, you know who you are

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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🛢️🖥️ Heather Davis and Stephanie LeMenager in dialogue in 40 minutes! 11am Pacific
final keynote, link for remote attendance : https://usc.zoom.us/j/93406362156?pwd=ampoMjI2L1J2emlYUXhzd3o2MWtwQT09

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Been adding more to teaching & this piece caught my eye. However not sure when I'll be able to read, seems like such a gut-punch:

"intergenerational relationships & shaped by global & aging. I reflect on the dynamics of my relationship with my mother, beginning with my departure from my home & spanning a period of 40 years. I contemplate theoretical models of intergenerational solidarity, ambivalence, & role ambiguity..."

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/2/56

inquiline, to random
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Billionaires: we have all the money and we also have private armies, extremely sophisticated tracking systems, and lethal weapons

Liberals: But we have this piece of paper

inquiline, to Columbia
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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 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

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Everyone who is worried about being replaced by AI has it all wrong

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