beadsland

beadsland, 16 days ago

@inquiline

As someone who just myself pulled the same shit on someone else's thread...

Yeah. That fan club's gonna be pretty small.

beadsland, 16 days ago

Is a trigger, by the by, for myself having committed the very same speech act often enough my own self.

beadsland, 16 days ago

There is no timeline in which any speech act is univalent.

No discourse in which words don't do the work they do.

Never mind that we didn't mean them that way.

Never mind that we are or were talking about something else entirely.

Our language reinscribes our common reality.

Tropes are never accidental, even especially when they are incidental.

Every text is always already a broader context for the corpus as a whole.

That all said, myself was out of line.

That reply coulda been a subtoot.

beadsland, 16 days ago

The challenge, the trap, of parasociality, is that we can all too easily vest social media with weight of strong ties.

My mutuals ain't my allies, let alone my friends.

They're folk, like me, spouting off; appreciating affirmation, however indirect, however mediated.

All similar, in that respect.

Sometimes we even affirm one another directly in reciprocal exchange.

That don't make us confidants.

Each person's own threads—that's their own space.

We track mud across the carpet at own peril.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

Took this as a variation on what was a daily polar bear post for a long while.

A cute image that might get who would otherwise ignore the message to stop long enough to parse the words in the hashtag. (Or if they didn't, boost it... thus carrying those words to others.)

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

Edit is there for a reason, if you're committed to changing it.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

Oh, it's a visibility issue. I see, I see.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

Perhaps more effort than required.

Those who know, know.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

May this archive survive in some form for such time as our society finds itself ready for a reckoning by historical exhibition.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@inquiline

That all said, this really ought to have been a photo of geese crossing the sidewalk.

Just sayin'.

beadsland, 18 days ago

@C19LAP

To be clear, most hospitals were still voluntarily reporting once HHS handed data responsibility off to CDC:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420181964381951

Problem is that CDC, rather than continue to use data formats HHS was providing, replaced those with an aggregated average report that makes most data unavailable:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112425036847473802

Still being collected; hospitals by and large are still providing it. CDC simply has decided the Open Government Data Act no longer applies:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112430074444014571

beadsland, 15 days ago

@inquiline @rheinze

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

beadsland, 21 days ago

@inquiline

If anything, both singular and plural are less common now than before your students were born.

That said it is notable that despite being about as common in usage two centuries ago, the plural was increasingly overshadowed by the singular until the 80s, when the singular began falling out of use.

This, of course, doesn't account for differential use across language communities.

beadsland, 21 days ago

@inquiline

Conjecture: police-speak usage swaps out perpetrator(s) and diminutive form thereof, under outside pressure against presumption of guilt, then genericizes to other policing.

Others replies here speak to usage of individual as object in relation to a subject group. My go to for long while has been person(s), or where salient member(s), except when specifically seeking to emphasize disassociation of interests from such group.

Ref another reply: smells of ungendered econ objectivity.

beadsland, 21 days ago

@inquiline

So my own purposeful use of persons is specifically to distance from political overloading of term people. Interestingly, do this when persons in rapid decline.

To that point on subject, that dipped below individual in usage in my lifetime, about the same time that person overtook both.

Your experience, of course, might possibly be a case of Baader-Meinhof, should you perhaps have been thinking about the overtones or subtext of the term, or even "individualism" in other contexts?

beadsland, 21 days ago

@inquiline

So, by humanistic you don't mean strictly humanities—given that now considering genealogy via social psych?

Persons is a plural of the singular. It preserves the stem singularity to which the -s is suffixed.

People is "We the" and also the national signular (vs. peoples), yet also a compound with "those" and a hand-waive at the generalized and non-specific.

In particular, people echoes the Marxist project of conservative (as in forces) social physics—gravity that elides friction.

beadsland, 19 days ago

Only few dozen lines added to variants #dataviz "rajdash" submodule—as #AnnoPlot dev stalled this week attending to family health emergency.

That and a surprise household issue will consume available spoons next week.

Final refinements of rajdash bolt-on to variants #datavis, and thereafter HHS capacity replacement & CDC flu tracking dataviz, will hopefully see movement in June, followed by long overdue North American fire/smoke/AQI composite map, and longer overdue NHTSA & CDCWonder analyses.