inquiline

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

Hats off:

"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

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, 6 months ago to random

"We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand. The safety of each people depends on the other’s.

We also call on governments & civil society in the US & across the West to stand up against the repression of support for Palestine.

And we refuse to allow such demands to be suppressed in our names."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/

inquiline, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Welp. The buried lede in this study is that even people who had #Covid but supposedly don't have #LongCovid still show cognitive slowing (compared to Novids), and "the data indicate that this impairment does not improve over time"*
*in LC people, less clear for nonLC

Good luck with the plan to just let everyone get this all the time, eh

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00013-0/fulltext

inquiline, 11 months ago to random

Advice from California on bad air from the fires:

Recommend keeping windows closed, running air filters, & sending fossil fuel execs to The Hague

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 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, 4 months ago to random

Sea lion comrades (blocking riot police)

inquiline, 10 months ago to random

"A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy." -@Kendrawrites

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/its-time-to-change-the-way-the-media-reports-on-protests-here-are-some-ideas/

#Commodon

inquiline, 9 months ago to random

"My broader concern is that uni's are still pushing the model of social media that was the norm throughout 2010s – that every upwardly mobile ambitious academic needs to be highly visible on dominant platform & be seen engaging on a regular basis. That was always bad advice.. As that breaks down, our academic cmnties need to get much better at facilitating other modes of engagement so that we are never again so reliant on a big corporate platform"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2023/07/27/where-now-for-academics-on-social-media-post-twitter/

cc @ntnsndr #HigherEd

inquiline, 5 months ago to random

"Imagine if we had learned that pathogens in water caused enormous amounts of sickness and disease and then said well, you are in control of your own health. You can learn to live with cholera, or buy your own bottled water or filters, if you want. It’s a matter of individual choice.

That’s what we’ve done with COVID and air quality, and we are barely beginning to see the consequences." @philmoscovitch on #Covid

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/the-dangers-of-repeated-covid-19-infections/

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

inquiline, 3 months ago to disability

" After public outcries, the Census Bureau says it's no longer moving ahead with proposed survey changes that could have shrunk a key estimated rate of disability in the US by about 40%"

I filed a public comment about this. I believe I learned about this proposed change on Mastodon, and I believe lots of you filed comments too. It's worth it to raise a stink & pressure officials, good work y'all

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229547255/census-bureau-survey-disabled-people-with-disabilities

#Disability

inquiline, 10 months ago to random

"UPS strike would trigger pandemic-era supply chain issues, expert says"

Yes, this is the point of going on strike, to draw attention to the work that the workers do that's not getting adequately acknowledged with appropriate compensation and benefits

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4105815-ups-strike-would-trigger-pandemic-era-supply-chain-issues-expert-says/ #strike #UPS #SupplyChain

inquiline, 6 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, 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, 9 months ago to random

Geese: an untapped secret weapon in the war against the fossil fuel industry?

inquiline, 5 months ago to random

"right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90% of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020, far outpacing terrorism from any other source since 1990.

And since 2020, it’s gotten increasingly worse. A Reuters investigation published in August found that U.S. political violence is worse than it’s been at any point since the 1970"

https://inthesetimes.com/article/far-right-mainstream-media-right-wing-tea-party-oath-keepers

#extremism #RightWing #InTheseTimes

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, 1 year ago to random

"“Smart streetlights” — a network of pole-mounted artificial intelligence-powered cameras and microphones — are not just a tool. They do not even provide light. They comprise an infrastructure that, once in place, makes pervasive and dystopian surveillance just a system upgrade away."

Nice op-ed, @gleemie!

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/community-voices-project/story/2023-04-27/opinion-smart-streetlights-are-not-a-tool-they-lay-the-groundwork-for-automated-mass-surveillance-cvp-irani

#SanDiego #Surveillance #SmartCities

inquiline, 7 months ago to random

Holy sh*t, people are buying billboard space to "advertise" how #LongCovid is affecting them. Update the culture jamming & people's plague management handbooks I guess. #STS #Commodon #MedAnthro

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

The obligatory person-versus-huge-truck photo. This person (me) is just shy of 5'8", definitely 5'8" in those shoes. Disaster.

*1.72 meters I guess

inquiline, 3 months ago to random

This isn't a subtoot of anyone on here but do people in positions of workplace or other authority realize how profoundly our relationships with them have changed when we see them gaslighting us about pandemic safety?

Even if there were a miracle "cure" or way to halt transmission tomorrow, the moral injury perpetrated by peers and bosses is never going away

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, 9 months ago to random

Given the ugliness with which Indigenous folks on Mdon have been treated in the last couple days, I recommend these threads/posts from @KarenWyld & @Toastie.

I'm bookmarking them, too, for appending to future reports of anti-Native behavior; and encourage others to do the same. Some mods may need a little extra help on the nuances here, but giving this sh*t a pass isn't ok. :solidarity: to everyone actually trying to make this a better place.

https://aus.social/@KarenWyld/110800749043722885

https://journa.host/@Toastie/110799735248948144

inquiline, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to LosAngeles

Back on my bullshit again (criticizing my employer in the NYT):

Orig:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/university-of-southern-california-carol-folt-censure.html

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/EAt4I

#USC #GazaProtests #HigherEd #LosAngeles #GoesOnTheCvUnderService