jordinn

jordinn, 1 month ago to random

the middle schooler: then I installed linux on my [school] chromebook

me: um are you allowed to do that?

middle schooler: I asked our tech teacher and he doesn't know what linux is so I decided yes

jordinn, 8 months ago to random

We're late for some interrogation of what centrism actually is, what it shows up for, what its aims are.

Centrism's self-identifiers wield a facade of 'norm-at-neutral' that claims reasonableness, obviousness, and above all, lack of culpability (and underlying lack of agency).

This is, quite likely, bullshit.

jordinn, 20 days ago to random

Huge shout out to the Israeli people who, like many everywhere else, have totally had it and are now out in force demanding a ceasefire, blocking traffic, disobeying their government, trying to bring hostages home, and generally saying ENOUGH.

Every one of them is putting themselves in grave danger from an unhinged regime. GO, brave Israeli peace movement- we are cheering for you, too.

jordinn, 10 months ago to random

Leaving coal unburned and oil in the ground IS carbon sequestration.

Oil deposits and coal formations are the ORIGINAL carbon capture. Not burning them is the highly efficient strategy that the oil, gas and plastics industry hopes you won't think of when it touts soil carbonization as savior tech.

jordinn, 4 months ago to random

Meanwhile, I'm in a text convo with a ministry colleague who caught covid for the second time a month ago and hasn't stopped being sick since.

Y'all, if you're waiting for the time, like in 2020, when people in power literally tell you out loud that it's ok and important to protect yourself: that isn't going to happen.

If you need to hear it from someone external: IT IS OK AND IMPORTANT TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM CATCHING COVID. That's a reasonable, healthy, future-oriented, ok thing to do. 👍🏻

jordinn, 26 days ago to random

Thank you, McSweeney's

jordinn, 6 months ago to random

The last five years were a test of whether publics will accept governance, discourse, and social life predicated on the idea that it's ok not to care whether human lives are lost.

This experiment was covid-inclusive and in many ways covid-accelerated, but it wasn't covid-initiated.

"Do we HAVE to care about other humans, to come to their rescue, to hold sacred their bodies; MUST WE help effectively where harm happens?"

Governance for profit & amid disruption is easier where the answer is no.

jordinn, 4 months ago to random

Individual choices are not going to solve a single problem that we collectively have. Not a billionaire's. Not your in-laws', if they'd just see the light. Not your own, if you just choose hard enough.

None. Individual choice is insufficient as a model. Always has been. That's why it's pushed so relentlessly and so morally normatively by those who have everything to gain from prolonging stasis.

jordinn, 1 month ago to random

Germany arresting the entirety of Jews against Genocide in the name of [checks notes] protection of Jewish personhood and freedom is one of the absolute weirdest forks on an already batshit timeline

jordinn, 2 months ago to random

Y'all, you know @seachanger for her take threads that are second to none 😂 (seriously tho we love them), but check out this gorgeous essay she wrote. I read it a few days ago and haven't really stopped thinking about it. Thanks, Malena.

https://salmonlife.org/lifestyle/coho-my-year-of-living-vulnerably/

jordinn, 7 months ago to random

Human rights are not either/or.

'Human rights' is literally a universalizing legal and moral stance, holding that some things are irreducible based ONLY on our shared humanity.

Thus, applying a human rights framework only to some people, to one group, to one "side," is the moment that it ceases to exist.

Selective application turns an inherent-rights-of-humans framework into a question of privilege.

Through selective application, we - all of us- lose even the concept of fundamental rights.

jordinn, 5 months ago to random

Spouse, surveying the packed, twinkling-palm-tree parking lot of the combined Target-Cost Plus-Barnes and Noble asphalt extravaganza: Wow, this is peak capitalism

Our 16 y.o.: This is peak consumerism. Peak capitalism happens where you will never see it.

jordinn, 5 months ago to random

"The Fediverse shouldn't block; we should WIN ON THE TERRAIN OF CAPITAL by innovating and out-competing [one of the best funded companies in the entire world, and one that has literally evolved to enclose and parasitize all competitors]"

is a really stupid take

jordinn, 7 months ago to random

Arielle Angel's gorgeous and courageous as fuck essay is worth your time this week. It hurt to read, but in a different way than everything else ... this hurt because it reopened my heart to hope, the bloody and bruised kind that feels like it asks too much of any of us.

https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other

jordinn, 4 months ago to random

Might want to lay off the turmeric lattes, y'all. Whoa. (This study was linked without comment in an article about the applesauce lead poisonings in the US/ the growing suspicion that the issue is additives to/intentional adulteration of cinnamon.)

Do I appreciate adding 'spice adulteration resulting in acute lead poisoning' to my list of things to worry about?

No. No, I do not.

https://www-sciencedirect-com.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/science/article/pii/S0013935119305195?via%3Dihub

jordinn, 5 months ago to random

Economists don't read their own history (like, at all), and mostly, no one else does either. BUT, If you want to know how we arrived here, econ policy writings from the 1950s and 60s are illuminating.

This is Canadian H Scott Gordon. After publishing this 1954 take (italics are mine, but the words are his), he received a MacArthur award (you know, for being a genius). By 2019 when he died aged 95, 65 extinct and 87 possibly extinct fish were listed; he was eulogized as a game changing thinker.

jordinn, 7 months ago to random

Game master: This story takes place at a crucial hinge point. The future of humanity is at stake. Immediate changes must be made; your task is best possible outcomes for the broadest coalition of people. Choose your tools.

Me: Uh ... I'll take ... institutions created two centuries ago ... the dregs of neoliberalism as envisioned by Thatcher ... ✨ journalistic neutrality✨ ... and "not getting political." 👍🏻 👍🏻

jordinn, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

More CHILDREN have been KILLED IN GAZA since October 7th THAN HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ALL GLOBAL CONFLICTS ANNUALLY SINCE 2019.

-UN Works and Relief Agency, 10/31/23

jordinn, 7 months ago to random

"You are at a crossroads, my friend."

-spouse, addressing our cat blocking the doorway

jordinn, 9 months ago to random

I wish academia could get through its brilliant-but-conditioned-toward-polite-neutrality-head that what's happening with cuts and winnowing and targeting is not a misunderstanding; it's a hostile takeover. There will be no 'educating' your administrators into seeing your value. You're not going to open-letter your way into the security to write freely.

The academy as a whole is undergoing an asset conversion which is tantamount to theft of a public inheritance; your ONLY option is to organize.

jordinn, 1 month ago to random

A thing that might interest you to know, and it does feel extremely complicated, is that in general Iranians HATE the Iranian government and some of them hate it so much they are actively cheering for Israel. I know that sounds unbelievable. It's the truth.

The leaders involved and the rest of the humans potentially involved in armed conflict are not the same people. At all.

This is always true, but I don't know if there's a conflict on earth where it's MORE true than Israel-Iran.

jordinn, 9 months ago to random

The start of semester countdown is on, and I would actually love some first year #PhD advice if that's a thing that Mastodon delivers.

*What do you wish you had known?
*How would you begin if you were doing so again?
*What should you have paid more attention to, and what, as it turns out, could you have safely ignored?

Thanks! 🙌🏻

(If you're in the 'no one should get a PhD in this era' camp, I've already heard from you and considered the take at length. This is not that question.)
#PhDLife

jordinn, 10 months ago to random

As of yesterday, Harvard is being sued over legacy admits on title VI civil rights grounds. Did not realize how much public money the Ivy League receives, and did not think we'd ever see the day.

jordinn, 3 months ago to random

Canadians, if that "thought piece" on immigration 1. invokes international students but 2. mentions NOTHING about immigrants' millions of dollars of purchasing and millions of hours of labor filling holes across sectors, and does not 3. address the conversion of housing to an asset class in which properties are held largely outside of traditional housing markets ...

that piece you are sharing is Poilievre propaganda, controlling dialogue and asserting its agenda, and you're letting it ride free