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inquiline

@inquiline@union.place

can be found professing #STS #Commodon
AAUP-AFT

Here: magpie, general nonsense, goofing and/or 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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pers acct, obvs

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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 #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

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Sigh.

So look.

The "press" and the "media" are not the problem people. That so many of you think this is by design.

The press and the media are supposed to be the 4th estate.

The watchdogs of government.

The intelligence wing of the people.

Corporate media is a problem, yes, but the press as an institution are not.

But because so many people remain ignorant to the role of the press, I've no doubt that we will be without them in total sooner rather than later.

inquiline,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 There's something going on where too many people here have essentially a superiority complex and it leads to weird judgments & contrarian takes that are not fully thought out. IMO.

HeavenlyPossum, (edited ) to random

Heads up, the following accounts are all run by the same pro-genocide troll:

@jopy

@dial

@plan

@gentleegg7079

@shinyhat

@8124

@monsoon

Pretty sure this is a backup they’re not using but are keeping around:

@kindness

inquiline,
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@HeavenlyPossum Can confirm that Fuzzy is out in force trolling, they went after me a couple of days ago (and are now deleting some posts that show their vile trolling, only leaving a few up at a time so the record appears thinner than it is).

inquiline, to random
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"This is the first US surge with no hospital data... Remember when CDC said that hospital metrics would be the trigger for prevention protections, like the return of masking?"

Thanks @violetblue for your work 😷❤️

https://www.patreon.com/posts/105208504

inquiline, to random
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People shaming others to vote and saying we mustn't say anything bad about Biden/DNC makes more sense when they reveal that they think the problem is the voters, not the very, very rigged system we are forced to submit to

inquiline, to random
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It's simple really: borders are bad and wielding milkshakes is good

(block me, ye who would disagree)

inquiline, to Israel
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Did I share this here earlier? Over 1300 Jewish faculty urged against turning "Antisemitism Awareness Act" into US law

"Criticism of the state of , the Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or Zionist ideology is not – in and of itself – antisemitic. We accordingly urge our political leaders to reject any effort to codify into federal law a definition of that conflates antisemitism with criticism of the state of Israel"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lButpIiajBJ3vYIykA-mj5gV35btDhwfczfFUoXQRMQ/edit

jonny, to random
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Yall as someone who is striking and generally existing on a campus that is crawling with roughly one security guard per picketer from no fewer than 5 private security companies, if they even slightly change the laws so that private security get some form of qualified immunity or ability to use any amount of force we are totally fucked.

inquiline, (edited )
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@jonny They are all over my campus too. ANd it must cost a fortune. Disgusting. They have given me the weird surveilling stink eye, and thye followed a colleague to his car.

Thanks for the updates, stay safe out there.

inquiline, to random
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While I myself might not agree with everything student protesters choose to do, I find a certain genre of handwringing about their (not centralized/top-down) choices quite tiresome. If only demands could be expressed sufficiently moderately, then they'd really succeed! 🥱

inquiline, (edited ) to accessibility
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Really loving seeing several different models for safer conferencing pop up on here in the past week. Good job, Mastodonians! 😷❤️

Oh and here's the accessibility policy for mine that ended last week. (We learned the hard way we should have sent a masking reminder immediately before the first full day of conferencing--but one went out and people honored the policy much better after receiving reminder)
https://www.petrocultures2024.com/accessibility-policies.html

inquiline, to academia
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This is a very good piece by a colleague accusing university presidents of lying, in their own narrow self-interest, about what's happening on campuses. Their craven behavior barely protects them and makes everyone else far less safe. Including Muslim and Jewish students, faculty, and staff.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/23/all-hail-lord-voldemort-get-their-revenge-for-campus/

inquiline, to Unions
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"The strikers are demanding amnesty for grad students and other academic workers who were arrested or face discipline for their involvement in the protests, which union leaders say were peaceful except when counter-demonstrators and other instigators were allowed to provoke unrest"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/ucla-academic-workers-strike-pro-palestinian-protests

inquiline, to random
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All right Mastodon scolds and liberals, you win, I will never post about voting/electoralism nuance again...

but to a person, you didn't convince me that you're right, just obnoxious

inquiline, to worldwithoutus
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"Massive modern port projects across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean in the twenty-first century are where anxieties about the global economy, state sovereignty, and climate change converge."

Special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on #ports in #SouthAsia

https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue/44/1

#CounterPort #Infrastructure #shipping #EnvHist #ClimateChange

inquiline, to acab
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One of the reasons I will believe just about any story of cop bad behavior is that the ones I don't know firsthand tend to be cut from the same cloth as the ones I do know at close range

A very trivial example is a story from a friend who was a public defender in Philly who had a client, who was denying the charge. His alibi was that he was smoking crack with on-duty cops at the time, and he'd admit the wrongdoing if he had done it. She was like, ok but we can't use this in court.

inquiline, to random
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Queens man convicted on 34 counts

inquiline, to random
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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, (edited ) to academia
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"A university fired a faculty member almost immediately not for out-of-classroom speech but for an optional course assignment. The assignment asked students to, among other things, explain “the impact of genocide/ethnic cleansing on the health/biology of the people it impacts.”"

ETA: Petition to sign in support of reinstating the fired adjunct! https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/q9iroj

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/06/03/depaul-adjunct-ousted-optional-gaza-assignment

#Academia #STS

inquiline, to random
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Love too live in a country led by a corpse in an electrified tank shouting “fund the police!”

inquiline,
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@stevenbodzin If you think Biden's problem is me saying shit about him online and not things Biden has or hasn't done, then, lol. Ok. Feel free to post about this on your own timeline, but there's nothing to discuss here. Truly, I am not influential, and I'm entitled to my opinion, as are you.

inquiline, to random
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Politics of refusal, some of you need to look it up

And some of you will be super mad at me even suggesting such a thing is legitimate

Me, I'm just upset, not mad at refusal tho

https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca31.3.01/367

inquiline, to random
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If anyone is inclined to block and/or report this person, I'd be grateful. This is way over a line (and needless to say, untrue). Thanks.

https://mastodon.social/

inquiline, (edited )
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I have loads and loads of receipts of the account starting shit with me/in my replies. ETA, here's one from mid-April; it's on me to have forgotten to block him in that moment. But I was kinda preoccupied.

(The post at the very top was mine, about university canceling valedictorian's speech; RM then appears in replies to fight about something the valedictorian linked to but did not say. I do stand by my objections to assholes shitting up my mentions, irrespective of class, creed, religion)

inquiline, to random
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We shouldn't live in a world where there are as many private cops for hire available to hire as are on college campuses right now.

inquiline, to random
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Just discovered on my hard drive. RIP.

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