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bennett

@bennett@assemblag.es

HistSci / STS PhD candidate studying the politics of scientific data sharing. Herbivore. He/him.

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bennett, to random
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can't get past how on-the-nose it is to cancel your Muslim valedictorian's speech in favor of an orgy of drones and pyrotechnics; pure militaristic aesthetics

bennett,
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@inquiline
I... what???

bennett, to random
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shoulda been obvious from the name but I just now realized that @fesshole isn't just the musings of one person with an extremely messy life

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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Even with all the collaborative work tools available out there, we don't talk enough about the very sophisticated practice of 2-3 colleagues editing a draft together by texting chunks of the draft back and forth 😬

bennett,
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@inquiline My partner and I do this all-too often on each other's work. Signal adding markup options, including strike-through, is a moral hazard

bennett, to random
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Is milk safe?

Just as "will a rogue AI kill us all?" is a more cinematic, but less important question than "what social/environmental problems is the drive for AI at all costs creating?"...

So too is "will a contaminated milkshake kill me, personally?" a much less important question than "what epidemiological problems is the drive for milk at all costs creating?"

Not milk safety, but milk ethics!

bennett, to random
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A cheese contest using blind taste tests was shaken when a plant-based blue cheese was set to win.

The contest first considered awarding joint winners (but only if the plant-based cheese won) and then changed the rules mid-contest to exclude the plant-based cheese entirely

Click through for the Vermont dairy farmer waxing apoplectic about "fraudulent cheese"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/04/27/vegan-cheese-good-food-awards-climax/

bennett, to random
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Princeton preemptively announced that Gaza solidarity protesters would be arrested and banned from campus, then made good on this within minutes of the protest starting.

The university defends this as viewpoint-neutral "time/place/manner" restrictions, but this is ridiculous -- there's no precedent for this, even in the 2011 Occupy, 2015 BLM, and 2019 Title IX camps/occupations.

Organizers have shared phone/email zap script; Office of the president is 609-258-6100

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RW7bPFRxv7w5K5ItxpilgzM_TELlazLM/edit

bennett, to random
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Oh, @inquiline, one of my urbanist youtube bois did a video about Long Beach, and how dismaying it is to see active oil drilling there. Also mentioned the port, but didn't much connect them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXffDuVG2tQ

bennett, to random
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idk man like the macro-level forces behind this aren't new to anyone here but it stinks what they're doing to our ability to know about the world and talk about it in public!

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2024/the-intercept-is-running-out-of-cash

consider donating to The Intercept, they ain't perfect but there's a lot they do that nobody else would if they're gone

https://join.theintercept.com/donate/now/

bennett, to Texas
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I guess I'm going to start threading these: 40% of cows in the panhandle infected with

That's staggering!

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2024/04/11/texas-bird-flu-outbreak

bennett,
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The shitty (literally) cattle feed that might be a vector for

https://assemblag.es/@bennett/112244773670287812

bennett,
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The & industry really don't want you to say "bird flu" and "cow" in the same sentence

https://assemblag.es/@bennett/112237803277035468

bennett,
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"Because humans have no natural immunity to , the virus can be particularly lethal to them. Despite assertions of an overall low risk... to the general population, the reality is that the understanding of this risk is limited, and it’s evolving alongside the virus. The situation could change very quickly, so it is important to be prepared

"Americans would find it challenging to get a prescription filled for [flu antivirals] within the optimal [48hr] time frame"

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/12/h5n1-bird-flu-in-cattle-wake-up-call-to-action/

bennett, to food
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"Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called 'poultry litter' – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/chicken-waste-fed-to-cattle-may-be-behind-bird-flu-outbreak/

bennett, to random
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> "Normally, operatives are over the age of 17, but that was not a condition" in Gaza after Oct. 7 according to one of Abraham's sources. Again, that's not a mistake. That's the reflection of a parameter programmed into Lavender.

https://www.forever-wars.com/kill-lists-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

bennett, to random
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a child worker has died on the Governor of Nebraska's hog farm

https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-death-investigation-teen-dies-on-gov-jim-pillens-family-farm/60373764

bennett, to random
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In the world of The Matrix, humanity's blacked out the sky to fight the robot uprising. This was of course terribly destructive, but nowhere near as idiotic as the implicit plan @charliejane sees in Silicon Valley's embrace of geoengineering -- blocking out the sun in order to hasten the robot uprising.

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-incredibly-risky-scheme-that-bill-gates-keeps/

bennett, to random
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Sure looks like a case of cow-to-human transmission of bird flu in Texas, which would be really bad!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04/01/bird-flu-human-case-cow-texas/

bennett, to random
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"Lead usage has actually been on the rise worldwide, even in the US. The proliferation of lead-acid batteries globally and less stringent rules in the developing world for everything from cookware to spices has allowed lead consumption to grow despite its known health risks."

(to say nothing of lead ammo)

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24115827/lead-poisoning-symptoms-exposure-children-cinnamon-paint-battery-pollution-global

jilleduffy, to random
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"The male midlife crisis is well-documented and parodied, but we have no concept of what a deep reckoning with the female self looks like."

I wrote a deeply personal essay for a new website for Gen X and elder Millennial women

This one is a little scary to put out there! Hope you enjoy it.
https://jennymag.com/2024/03/27/what-is-a-female-midlife-crisis/

bennett,
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@jilleduffy
Thank you for writing this, it's such a beautiful exploration challenging how we think about growing older.

That there's no good literature on women's "midlife crisis" is an intentional omission, historically speaking - when Gail Sheehy coined the term she meant it to describe mid-century women reclaiming their autonomy after their kids moved out. But a bunch of chauvinist psychologists deliberately smeared Sheehy and appropriated her idea for men.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156772/promise-feminist-midlife-crisis-gail-sheehy-passages

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"Formula is one of only two products with international recommendations to prohibit its marketing. The other is tobacco."

Yet under Obama, Trump, and Biden, the US has intervened time and again to discourage formula regulations in jurisdictions on five continents.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-america-waged-global-campaign-against-baby-formula-regulation-thailand

bennett, to cyberpunk
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"Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO" 🙄

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104890/figma-ceo-dylan-field-cyberpunk-solarpunk-trends-sxsw-2024

bennett,
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@steveportigal ooh I'm less familiar with the history of steampunk than these others, but did it have, or were there attempts to give it, any particular political valence before being aestheticized?

bennett, to Health
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A hospital says a patient died… and it takes him years to correct the record; A new data tool promises to lighten workloads, but even more doctors & nurses burn out. What's going on here?

I reviewed Klaus Hoeyer's DATA PARADOXES for @hnet_reviews. It's a good book for STSers, but an even better book for anyone who's deciding whether and how to deploy data-collecting infrastructure, whether in medicine (Hoeyer's case) or any other domain

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60009

inquiline, to random
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TFW you accidentally email a household member a note meant for yourself and the sole contents of said note are “soy milk”

bennett,
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@inquiline where tf is masto's "I'm in this toot and I don't like it" button

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