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beadsland

@beadsland@disabled.social

Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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beadsland, to random
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Radio news just now, talking about "job growth" and listing medical as first in their list of where such number goes up is happening.

Now why might we be seeing more need for medical jobs in now our fifth year of pandemic?

Meanwhile, ex-administration official they bring in to talk to the issue, skips right past this; talks about growth in hospitality jobs "after" pandemic "lock-downs".

To explain job openings in 2024.

Because of course he does.

beadsland,
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Walked away before segment ended, but 99% confident that despite opening with a gesture toward "growth" in medical jobs, the "what does this mean for inflation" news person let their guest expert's explanation by way of diversion to the bottom of the list… go unchallenged.

Because of course they would have. This is the fourth estate of , after all.

Also, notably, second on the list? Oh, look, "government" jobs. Orly? What sort of "government" jobs are those?

beadsland,
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Via Labor Dept:

"Health care added 72,000 jobs in March, above the average monthly gain of 60,000 over the prior 12 months. In March, job growth continued in ambulatory health care services (+28,000), hospitals (+27,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+18,000).

…employment in government increased by 71,000, higher than the average monthly gain of 54,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment increased in local government (+49,000) and federal government (+9,000). "

inquiline, to random
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“Is it cake” for the STS set: Is it infrastructure?

(had a slightly more academic convo about this w the grad class yesterday) (and i do mean slightly)

beadsland,
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@inquiline Thinking of every discussion of "successful" academics (or, you know, any other career where individual "success" is an externally ascribable quality) and the spouse keeping said success's home life in order.

The step from culturally-specific familial codings of domestic labor as institution, to institution as infrastructure, would seem, in this case esp., a mincing one.

Cf. Annemarie Mol's work on eating as excorporation of those who grow and prepare our food.

inquiline, to random
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Never sure whether to lean into a riotous clashing print aesthetic or a gray sackcloth aesthetic, especially as I get older

beadsland,
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@inquiline Gray sackcloth embellished with with gratuitously-added riotous clashing print patches?

beadsland, to random
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Curious if there's any SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data for U.S. dairy cattle.

Thinking about deer (and cats) testing positive, in context of known consequence of immune senescence in humans.

We've been worried about crossing species barriers for decades. Was expected to happen eventually, even without covid in the mix.

Nonetheless, one wonders how much more susceptible are U.S. livestock to cross-species spillover & zoonoses than they would have been five years ago?

divya, to random
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    beadsland,
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    @divya @inquiline

    Archived copy of article, as link on truthout website is now returning 404.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240403024215/https://truthout.org/articles/why-is-the-stop-asian-hate-movement-following-the-lead-of-zionists-and-police/

    beadsland,
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    @divya @inquiline

    Thought perhaps they renamed it and that broke the link, but searching for the author and various key terms is turning up only older articles.

    Thought perhaps a botched restore to an older backend database, but it was posted Monday, and am finding articles from today.

    Odd that it was pulled within an hour of your sharing the link.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline @divya

    Hard to judge these things these days, no longer having a real sense of activity levels on site that shall not be named, but article appears to have gotten very little attention, judging by extant posts, even when author tweeted it.

    One would expect at least some reply-guys or abuse on such a topic, yet it looks to have passed unnoticed.

    That said, the explicit shout-out here suggests that perhaps there was back-office resistance to releasing the piece in the first place?

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline

    "Fearless Independent Journalism"

    beadsland, to random
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    Wow.

    Just peeeked in at the latest replyista in a mutual's thread.

    A self-identified anti-plagarism expert couching her argument in terms of "Yeah, we should be imprisoning more white people for drugs".

    Carceral mentality is a powerful…

    Oh, wait.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Perhaps a wise choice.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Perhaps my use of the term casts a wider net than others would.

    That said, in a country where Jewish folk are being jailed† for challenging genocide, on the basis of violating (checks notes) antisemitism laws, that zeal for punishing perceived rule breakers, rather than addressing injustice, seems...

    Consistent.

    †Of course, those perceived as of certain other social categories suffer worse than mere arrest.

    beadsland, to random
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    There's a famous line where someone shouts something like "I'm furious, I tell you, furious!" Only the words not furious (I don't think) and myself am not clued in enough about pop culture to put my finger on what have only the vaguest of recollections.

    Jog anyone else's noggin?

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline @YakyuNightOwl

    My recollection is of something much pithier, and almost reminiscent of an earlier 20th century vocal delivery, but perhaps played up to comic effect in a more recent production.

    godsouza, to random
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    The Biden administration is saying with its connect on that whatever bogus reasons are provided this week to safeguard civilians will be believed so that Israel can attack and make unlivable.

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/02/aauk-a02.html

    beadsland,
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    @CassandraZeroCovid @noyes @godsouza

    The first estate would have an imperial interest in maintaining U.S. power in the region through a proxy settler state—even as military support for same serves to subsume latent domestic antisemitism under jingoist Islamaphobia—regardless of lobbying.

    That AIPAC is there to remind them of the benefits of letting their offshore partner develop & export occupation police training and automated weapons systems…is gravy, sure.

    But interests go back to Balfour.

    inquiline, to random
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    😱 My two most hated things, AI and mandatory HR training, have converged!!! FML

    "In this topic, you’ll follow several faculty and staff who are using AI tools to streamline their work.

    As you help them navigate unique challenges, you’ll have a chance to think critically about how these individuals can act responsibly and mitigate risks.

    Although we’ll cover a range of use cases, keep in mind that these scenarios aren’t fully comprehensive of all possible considerations when using AI tools."

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Anticipating a thread to rival my long-ago live tweeted critique of Landmark Education.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Am disappoint.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Vector.

    K. That name alone don't bode well.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Any company that advertises itself with a scroll of industries already would ick anyone who is critical of monological ways of seeing.

    Such "yeah, it's all the same to us" pretty much heralds lack of discernment in that regard.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline Ooooh, priceless:

    At the top of industries page: 24,000+ customers

    At the bottom of same page, following an array of logos:
    24,000+ industry leaders

    Beyond the fact that apparently none of their customers aren't an industry leader, the math, given industries listed, would suggest that there are on average near a thousand leaders per industry...

    Even for an international concern, there ain't that many countries to lead in.

    Yeah, Landmark's got nothing on them.

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline That antique tin of jacks someone found while cleaning out the attic is a dozen things—if the rubber ball hasn't degraded and we count the tin itself—yet only one (salable) item.

    But flipping that nomenclature of greater and lesser around, and now it makes less sense. (Cue math lady meme.)

    But yeah, Vector's subtext would seem to be either they don't accept non-leaders as customers (everyone's gotta specialize somehow!) or they make all their customers leaders (again cue Landmark…).

    beadsland, to random
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    There's no surer proof that logic ain't work like folk desperately want to believe it does⋯

    Than a liberal confidently opining on how ableism and health supremacism must be down to something wrong with people's brains. 👀

    blogdiva, to mastodon
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    WOW! there's a bumper crop of in my mentions. the new seems to be older, but not wiser

    btw: the collective of Reply Guy is a buffoonery. voted on it and now it is so.
    https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110936977347567483

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline @blogdiva "a fedinope"?

    inquiline, to random
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    A beset by reply-guys (sea lions) (ok, they're mostly seals)

    beadsland,
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    @inquiline

    Interestingly, a group of sealions is known either as a "colony" (on land) or a "raft" (at sea, same as for otters); a group of seals is sadly either a "harem" (misappropriating the original term of a women's living space through the western gaze) or a "rookery"; and a group of manatee either a "herd" (for protection while grazing) or "aggregation" (when brought to together for no such purpose).

    TIL that for many animals, their collective nouns are context-specific.

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