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inquiline

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can be found professing #STS #Commodon
AAUP-AFT

Here: magpie, general nonsense, mouthing off, gloomy, inner monologue, books/reading, typos, boosts #ToxicLA #HigherEdWorkersUnite #asstodon #CounterPort

My 📙 OIL BEACH is out now!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

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header: camel made of colorful post-consumer plastic, Cynthia Minet

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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

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The argument started regarding the technical aspects of using photography to adjudicate race winners and the worst part is we will probably have it again after some passage of time

https://www.littleredfeather.com/who-invented-the-photo-finish-camera/

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@pussreboots It started here https://union.place/@inquiline/112466279600470640

And household member was citing images like this one; and I was trying to draw us further back to Muybridge, but frankly it's easy to mix up Edgerton and Muybridge as names, and then also the tennis racket (Edgerton) and the gymnast (Muybridge) confused us further until we sorted it out.

But: what was yours!??!

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<haunted feelings intensify>

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$1.81 in 2024 money for a single bean in a decorative box is a bargain
https://botsin.space/@NoveltyBot/112438861775517550

inquiline,
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@jonny Hashtag

(in plenary talk literally today, a discussion of pumpjacks as artistic springboard for queer sexuality in dialogue w ecocide, Heather Davis' talk, I can't remember the artist's name tho)

inquiline,
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@jonny I'm now just annoyed that I can;t surface the artist. If only there were a viable search engine technology...

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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@beadsland Agree. I am just still not forgiving or forgetting of the "pandemic is over"-"public health emergency is over" conflation and the you-know-whose CDC and administration that did that.

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

inquiline,
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@libroraptor See, I didn't even know you were among the potential rhubarb posters when I posted this, but I'm glad you are (tho sorry it cooked down too much--next time!--still would have tasted good I suppose)

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if you have an idea what this is, please let me know!
found under a woodchip pile in north-central minnesota. my dad says "didn't have a plant attached. it doesn't smell like anything offensive, just dirt. isn't notably firm or soft"

inquiline,
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@rose_alibi Cmon fedi, pull through!

inquiline,
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@rose_alibi @mastobit not yet?

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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LOS ANGELES DREAMS ITSELF A POST-OIL CITY hana cohn,

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Acrylic (which is still oil) painting of the land in Richmond where Chevron has sited its refinery, by Bz Zhang

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Electric trucks as a boundary object in the Star & Griesemer sense

A joint featuring @athena

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Yesterday I was waiting for the bus in LA after transferring from 2 trains, and I thought, "wow, it's really good to be in the city. There's so much random beauty and vibes and I can truly be part of humanity up close in all its forms." A couple of minutes passed. Another person came up to the stop, turned to look at me, and started yelling, "YOU CAN TAKE OFF THAT MASK, YOU KNOW! COVID IS OVER! THAT SHIT'S DONE! TAKE OFF THAT MASK!"

inquiline,
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@athena I guess I understand why you didn’t punch that person but you’d have been within rights. Life’s rich tapestry indeed

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Biobot has removed its covid wastewater dashboard and will no longer show covid wastewater data for the US.

~3 weeks after CDC stopped covid hospitalization data.

The page now: https://biobot.io/data/covid-19

Surprise announcement: https://biobot.io/from-raw-data-to-actionable-insights-biobots-evolution-of-public-data-sharing/

inquiline,
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@violetblue This is an amazing sentence: "The public health emergency may be over, but the public remains interested in respiratory health."

(TYSM for your work!)

inquiline, to random
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Jaw on floor, how did manage to censure our admin & did not:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/ucla-gene-block-palestinian-protest.html

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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

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making an app called vimno that sends money but only after pressing 13 complex keyboard shortcuts

inquiline,
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@rwg @samplereality Sending the dinner party guests a personalized red wine debt payment demand

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The word "pseduoscientific" isn't as bad as it sounds if you decenter science as a place of truth (or if you also understand science to be a mutable and adapting means of discovery).

Something incapable with the scientific method isn't "false" or "not true".

inquiline,
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@seachanger And the incentive/reward structures in science also encourage basically falsifying results so you can keep your research going

To @jalcine 's OP, science only came to have the moral cast of truth thru substantial effort, and that "truth" bore the imprint of social structures, and there are some good things as well as some bad things about that edifice getting questioned. We always needed better science, more democratic & accountable

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reception was a success as far as I'm concerned

inquiline,
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Today, I’m happy to report, masking went wayyy up. Not perfect but most people just needed a reminder. Hope is not lost.

inquiline,
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In a different world I might be posting more about people’s talks but that’s not the world in which I find myself.

Howver, today’s plenary was a hastily-organized roundtable on the politics of divestment from people who’ve organized divestment campaigns at and elsewhere, glad it came together

The final challenge: getting masked people to not reflexively lower their masks to speak

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