Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

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Professor STS & Comm/Media
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Mouthing off is here; work-only (quiet) is Christina D-H (npub1yfe…hr3y)

#ToxicLA #HigherEdWorkersUnite #asstodon #CounterPort

📙 #OilBeach is out now!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

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header: colorful post-consumer plastic camel, Cynthia Minet

profile: California oil field at night, vintage postcard

present/ past homes: SoCal/ PHL NYC MSP
refer to me as: she/they/some guy
Posts: Searchable. Ask me to quote. No scrape. Many disappear after 2 months

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2024-08-10 05:38:48

Not enough people are talking about truck spills dot com
http://truckspills.com/

2024-07-10 06:55:45

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Christina the professor is too exhausted, the bots the bots can just have all of it without a fight. What's a little bit of confabulation between objects

2024-07-10 04:10:54

How it started/how it's going:
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/760/229/331/243/668/original/e8c2fee5ae7ae689.jpeg
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/760/229/966/440/773/original/f3fdd94268593ac9.jpeg

2024-07-09 18:34:20

Congratulations to @npub1hmq…tzeg on the publication of Lifehouse!!
I had a chance to read a little of the ms in development and I am so happy to see it out in the world now! We need this kind of thinking and planning for the future that is already unfolding 💛
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2536-lifehouse
@npub1ny7…uv57

2024-07-08 03:28:05

Another one for #YallMasking. That’s my dad, masking to go into the grocery store, last month
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/748/738/886/582/200/original/e3ae761690dc0c2f.jpeg

2024-07-07 20:30:06

Important read on coordinated rightwing attacks on #HigherEd
"the current wave of legislation targeting higher education is a coordinated effort between wealthy elites, a network of right-wing and libertarian think tanks, and Republican politicians at the state level"
https://truthout.org/articles/inside-the-right-wing-network-trying-to-dismantle-higher-education/
#AAUP #Truthout

2024-07-07 18:42:36

Tired: Allyship
Wired: Comradeship

2024-07-07 18:31:24

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Meanwhile #California appears poised to ban #AI replacing qualified human instructors in #HigherEd
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240702214317879
#CommunityCollege #Academia

2024-07-07 18:30:09

Bleak: #Morehouse is apparently using AI teaching assistants come fall.
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2024/07/04/morehouse-ai-teaching-assistants
#HigherEd #Academia #AI

2024-07-07 18:22:24

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Here is a piece I wrote about the competition between #oil, #shipping, and #wildlife habitat in Southern #California:
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/04/12/environmental-conservation-southern-california/ideas/essay/
#LosAngeles #Conservation #Ecology #ports #LosAngeles #OrangeCounty

2024-07-07 18:07:38

While this article is perhaps especially enraging because it's about Musk, this pattern plays out further south too: industrial activity takes precedence over wildlife, even endangered and nominally protected wildlife.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/politics/spacex-wildlife-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U0.GMSq.w5Q7OuOXxQUD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-07-06 03:00:59

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Here, the center shuts out the left, who have noticed...

2024-07-06 00:26:19

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"When we recognize that all of our people power is being thwarted when we funnel it all into the inadequate institutions of electoral politics and law, it becomes more clear that we need a separate power center that sits outside of those things that can exercise people power effectively in a way that cannot be so easily shut down by the courts.
That thing is organized #labor.
...The Democratic Party-led effort to funnel all progressive energy into electoral politics has failed."
-H. #Nolan

2024-07-06 00:23:15

"Pretending that the American system is robust enough to withstand Donald Trump and this Supreme Court and that all we need to do is vote and get back to decorum in Congress is a discredited idea and the more that the leadership of the Democratic Party voices this rote bullshit the less they deserve to be followed.
Why couldn’t Biden see where all of this was leading? He was too much of an institutionalist"
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of-liberal-institutionalism
#uspol

2024-07-05 20:46:44

Real nerd question, help me Mastodon:
Has anything been written about the history of the Shannon Diversity Index in biodiversity or ecology? How it got picked up there, when, by whom?
ETA, primarily looking for history of science type lit, if anything is out there? TY! @npub1rgq…tqw7 @npub1uc0…cpgf
#HistSTM #Histodons #STS #EnvHist #Ecology

2024-07-05 20:35:01

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I know some people know this but I keep banging on about it because in convos I see here, other people are still self-soothing with the idea that if Biden* wins, salvation occurs. And that's not the thinking we need now, sorry
*or Harris I suppose
#uspol

2024-07-05 20:31:19

Boosted some posts about how even if they hold onto power, Dems aren't willing to and don't have any meaningful plan to expand the court. This is true.
But also: even if they win in November, the radical right isn't going to let them take those offices without a fight. J6 was a dress rehearsal.
We already voted & got a relative best-case scenario in 2020, *and yet we're here now anyway* 👀
#uspol

2024-07-03 22:13:07

Brett "I Like Beer" Kavanaugh: angry possum
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/723/903/653/121/175/original/479bef21d9dbf0da.png
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/723/908/008/494/943/original/3856980cb6ca3afb.png

2024-07-02 21:21:31

If I were to want to send a message about non-compliance in the event of some sort of massive antidemocratic power move, I might consider where the infrastructural chokepoints are and whether they could be strategically occupied for a while.

2024-07-01 19:47:06

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Lolol. "I" here is a stand-in for anyone who hasn't spent their whole life self-grooming to be SO HIGH on their own ego-supply that they're literally wearing a robe and acting serious in the presence of Clarence Thomas
(also you wildly, if flatteringly, overestimate the impact of academic books 😂)

2024-07-01 18:43:43

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If I were a "liberal" justice I'd already have resigned instead of continuing to legitimate this shit with "dissent"--but there's a reason I'm not them and vice versa.

2024-07-01 18:27:57

We've been here already, for a while, but some people were refusing to see it. And I guess still will be.
#uspol

2024-06-30 18:32:25

"demonstrators were not outside that synagogue to protest Jews in general, the Jewish faith, Zionism or even #Israel — they were there to protest the sale of land in illegally occupied Palestinian territory"
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/29/no-the-la-synagogue-wasnt-a-pogrom--thats-a-gross-misuse-of-history/
#GazaProtests #LosAngeles

2024-06-29 20:51:19

#GrantsPass #SCOTUS ruling explicitly takes aim at student protesters:
#PolicingTheCampus #uspol
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/701/877/433/685/579/original/af6cf24cad112ac0.png

2024-06-29 18:59:28

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I'm really sorry. Glad you have the kitty tho <3

2024-06-29 18:43:37

I generally wouldn't ever say someone deserves Covid but in this case I might
https://newrepublic.com/post/183289/los-angeless-mayor-contemplating-mask-ban-just-got-covid
#LosAngeles #CovidIsNotOver

2024-06-27 18:01:30

#Israel documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around #Gaza war
"There’s a fixation on policing American discourse on the US-Israel relationship, even college campus discourse, from Israel, going all the way up to Prime Minister Netanyahu”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism
#GazaProtests #PolicingTheCampus

2024-06-25 20:05:08

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A lovely update: the troll network targeted me again today from a new account and this time vaguely threatened me over my tenure status.
Someone may want to think about who's really on the wrong side of history here. It's not people posting in opposition to mask bans.
I do NOT recommend engaging with this poster, but for the historical record here's a screenshot of this POS troll, who has many other sockpuppet accounts:
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/679/042/319/707/171/original/309eba842113edee.png

2024-06-25 18:22:19

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Here's summary from LA Times, containing many infuriating morsels. I'll comment on just one:
"When a mob attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA in May, it was difficult to ID suspects because many wore masks that hid their identities. Police said they would use tech that captures facial images & outlines & compares them with other photos on the internet & social media to put names to faces."
A masked, violent counterprotester was ID'ed anyway & DA *refused to charge*
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-25/masks-restriction-protests-after-violent-protest-los-angeles-synagogue

2024-06-25 18:07:25

Woohoo, congrats to the #postdocs at #USC for voting to form a #union!! #HigherEdWorkersUnite Let's Gooooo!
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/06/25/usc-postdoctoral-scholars-unionize

2024-06-25 04:58:32

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If anyone is curious, it is worth reading this about what happened--"protest outside of a synagogue" is not the full extent.
https://westsidetoday.com/2024/06/24/violence-erupts-at-protest-outside-adas-torah-synagogue-in-pico-robertson/

2024-06-25 03:03:57

Oh hell no
https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/112674542496269682
#LosAngeles

2024-06-24 18:15:40

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I have never seen a starfish, or maybe one ever, since commencing clambering around the SoCal coast ~8 years ago. 😿

2024-06-23 22:24:59

This is why they want to ban masks.
Movement for Black Lives Juneteenth march, NYC AIDS Memorial, June 2020. Photo by Nick Mirzoeff, appears in his book White Sight.
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/668/265/685/638/819/original/191ddfe6d2fe3eee.png

2024-06-23 18:51:21

Anyone else notice that the notes function behaves a little weirdly? I often post and save notes to accounts; and then short-term they appear not to have saved, but sometimes they later are actually there. Glitch in my instance?

2024-06-22 17:27:11

"A new book brings much-needed clarity to the debate on #antisemitism, and how the fight against it is tied to our collective liberation... [The authors] expertly weave together the struggle against anti-Blackness, Islamophobia and transphobia ... 'major systems of oppression are interlocking.'."
Review of Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism, by Shane Burley and Ben Lorber
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/06/burley-lorber-antisemitism-guide-to-organizing/
@npub1ny7…uv57 #Israel #Zionism

2024-06-22 06:19:51

I suppose there are a lot of things we should not find "surprising", but we should still find shocking and outrageous, and this is one:
#LosAngeles DA doesn't move to charge the young man filmed violently attacking #GazaProtests students at #UCLA
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/us/edan-on-ucla-palestine-encampment-attack/index.html

2024-06-22 05:22:53

Not sure the photo did it justice but this is one of my better yard-bouquets-in-a-jelly-glass. IRL it looks like a firework exploding. #Bloomscrolling
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/658/591/397/835/363/original/faf49a0c972ef744.jpeg

2024-06-20 22:04:43

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Yeah, I have lately been wondering the degree to which the conceit of Six Feet Under centers around it being normal to have a vintage hearse and they then had to write a show about a funeral home around it 😂

2024-06-20 21:52:16

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The weirdest part is that everyone here thinks this is normal, that they are just being normal. Lol

2024-06-20 21:44:08

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Normally I'm careful to scratch out license plates in vehicles I post, but in this case, someone clearly wants to be noticed. Also: is it just me, or should someone be the medical examiner, or have this display at home, but perhaps not both? (look closely)
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/651/117/715/593/095/original/8e2d956377c73c32.jpeg

2024-06-18 08:27:45

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It's not to ornithologists' credit that this is not a hot topic.

2024-06-18 08:15:21

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I gotta go to bed but a full-circle comment first: yesterday saw two ravens snacking upon a squirrel that had had the misfortune to perish on the roadway, then both up in two palm trees doing something that I really thought was essentially flossing their beaks, getting the carrion off the outer beaks by vigorously raking them on the palm leaves. Maybe I should be trying leaves.

2024-06-18 08:06:31

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Taxi drivers, makes sense
Here the crows drop street chicken bones in the swimming pools, circle of life

2024-06-18 07:49:00

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Maybe a more industrial zone? I think a lot (by no means all) of the gloves are from food service. I see bottles of piss here too, they're from Amazon drivers delivering toxic floss to people and pissing in bottles and leaving on the side of the road

2024-06-18 07:34:19

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Ugh, subway nail-cutting is maybe the thing I miss very least from NYC!
This is by no means the best photo in the roll but it does have placefulness going for it. But now I’m thinking about what’s litter and what’s just errant ground detritus. Does litter have to be thrown a la the Vancouver hand lettered sign?
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/636/451/710/299/428/original/606bb2362e4342c9.jpeg

2024-06-18 07:18:19

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As long as I can walk I'll just be staring at the ground (at litter, trying not to fall in holes, trying not to fall down generally). SoCal litter is less dense and less variegated, natch. I'll have my eye out for flossers.

2024-06-18 07:03:08

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This started in NYC, actually, because a visitor asked about all the gloves

2024-06-18 06:57:04

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I've been not wanting to confront this directly but this year I feel like there are Many Fewer Birds Than I Have Ever Seen and it's very upsetting to think about

2024-06-18 06:55:58

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I've never seen Dr Who but I have started and enrolled other people into littered hygiene product conspiracy theories (longstanding snapshot series of urban latex gloves, pre pandemic)

2024-06-18 06:23:03

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OMG, I'm looking at this and mine also says it's really LG. Multinationals combining and brands no longer existing is not in itself strange, but it's still kinda strange. LG makes a ton of things. But IDK why N American too-thin dental tape is in their stable.
>> RoIFedz or SuseeSweetEar.
This is getting into George Saunders territory

2024-06-18 06:11:19

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On what grounds do you say counterfeit? Not challenging it, the opposite actually, as I just got some waxed dental tape that seems a bit... not tape but more like floss. Did they shrink-flate dental tape? WTH is going on??

2024-06-18 00:45:03

Everyone on here needs to chill about computers

2024-06-17 23:24:29

Heard via my dad that #HackingDiversity got a plug on Minnesota Public Radio in a conversation about "diversity in AI" today so what the heck, publicizing that here.
🌈🕸️📘:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity
📻:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ais-gender-gap/id1445601454?i=1000659288359
#MPR

2024-06-17 01:10:57

This is the dystopia we're living in: unhoused person on food assistance committing robberies for cash, tracked to his tent by police zeroing in on his benefits cards transactions. Hashtag Democrat supermajority
https://lbpost.com/news/crime/ebt-card-pizza-habit-robbery-spree-bixby-cal-heights

2024-06-17 01:05:43

Is the sky orange from smoke, #LosAngeles? #caWx

2024-06-16 19:49:17

"You posted something publicly, so I'm entitled to criticize you and then have an absolute meltdown when you don't back down on your statement, which was not addressed to me"
- way too many people on #Mastodon

2024-06-16 02:35:20

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I wish you remembered so you could share your note. The one I'm appending now just says Biden stan arguer, which is pretty weak sauce

2024-06-16 02:18:38

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Somehow seems not forthcoming.

2024-06-15 22:43:35

-How would you grade Biden on how he’s handled the pandemic?
-I’d give him an F. Biden’s administration has continued to promote the false idea that the vaccine is all that is needed, perpetuating the notion that the pandemic is over & you don’t need to do anything about it. Biden stopped the funding for surveillance & he stopped funding for renewing vaccine advancement research.. Biden admin policies have allowed more than 800,000 to 900,000 deaths & counting.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans
#Covid

2024-06-15 17:03:31

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In addition to the story itself, two things I keep thinking about from this story yesterday:
Stanford just dissolved the research group on its campus that did this kind of internet forensics work (and it looks like that group directly contributed to the discovery of the antivax psyop);
And the actions weren't carried out by US govt/military employees but by contractors, General Dynamics IT, who were sloppy about it. (Not saying it'd be *good* if they were less sloppy, per se)
Bad, bad times.

2024-06-15 07:51:20

"In a campaign where Democrats seek to contrast their values with those of Trump & his neofascist supporters, supposedly liberal Democrats are alienating a significant proportion of the electorate—not only young students of conscience & of color but also Black churches & elderly white Midwesterners horrified by the images coming out of Gaza. As the stakes rise, the distinctions are blurring, & liberals have only themselves to blame"
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/liberal-police-state-campus-protests/
#GazaProtests #USC #PolicingTheCampus

2024-06-14 19:24:58

This story is a monumental outrage: "A health crisis was the wrong time to instill fear or anger through a psychological operation, or psyop, they argued during Zoom calls with the Pentagon." Ya think?
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

2024-06-13 19:10:46

Happened to see on another site:
For Mother Jones: if you're a chronically ill/disabled Jewish New Yorker who has thoughts about masks potentially being banned in the state because of concerns of some Jewish leaders, Julia Métreaux is seeking comment and you can email her at jmetraux@motherjones.com
#MaskBans #Disability #KathyHochul

2024-06-13 18:38:50

"we are not going to be able to effectively stop the erosion of free speech, academic freedom, & shared governance by issuing reports & statements & censuring offending universities. We have to contextualize this recent assault on the principles of academic freedom as part of a much longer attack on the university. This began between fifty and sixty years ago with the racialized & gendered disinvestment in uni's..."
Good read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/do-much-more-to-meet-this-moment/
#HigherEd #Academia #GazaProtests #AAUP

2024-06-13 18:33:48

Cops abusing (inherently abuse-prone) power of facial recognition pairs well with mask bans:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/cop-busted-for-unauthorized-use-of-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-resigns/

2024-06-13 01:39:06

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Im in Minnesota actually but tbh if I saw a turkey in Long Beach I wouldn’t bat an eye— and i’d mind my business 😂

2024-06-13 01:27:19

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I gave these neighbors space for similar but also additional reasons #CovidIsNotOver
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/606/704/890/650/989/original/b68fd42a8c12be87.jpeg

2024-06-06 06:41:51

Just discovered on my hard drive. RIP.
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/568/305/311/426/047/original/fc24f28e9ec83559.png

2024-06-04 21:05:04

It's simple really: borders are bad and wielding milkshakes is good
(block me, ye who would disagree)

2024-06-04 19:49:07

Did I share this here earlier? Over 1300 Jewish faculty urge against turning "Antisemitism Awareness Act" into US law:
"Criticism of the state of #Israel, 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 #antisemitism that conflates antisemitism with criticism of the state of Israel"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lButpIiajBJ3vYIykA-mj5gV35btDhwfczfFUoXQRMQ/edit
#Academia

2024-06-03 16:59:27

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

2024-06-01 19:19:24

"campus mobilizations have compelled dozens of universities across the world to commit to steps toward divestment from complicit companies and/or cutting ties with complicit Israeli academic institutions"
https://bdsmovement.net/news/universities-are-ending-complicity-israeli-apartheid-and-its-gaza-genocide-numbers-never-seen
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #BDS #Academia

2024-05-29 07:05:25

"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
#unions #HigherEd #UAW #GazaProtests #UCLA #strike

2024-05-24 17:28:10

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/
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #Policing #Academia #USC

2024-05-23 21:31:56

"The entanglement between institutions of higher education and policing creates a nexus between two of the largest state forces"
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2217
#Policing #HigherEd #Academia #PolicingTheCampus @npub1vuz…esa4

2024-05-17 04:14:59

Wear A Goddamn Mask
No one has to know whether you:
have Covid;
don't want to get Covid;
don't want anyone to see your face;
want to exercise the right to not have your face seen;
want to protest that legislators in some places are taking away the right to mask;
&c.

2024-05-17 00:59:17

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

2024-05-09 03:34:19

Back on my bullshit again (criticizing my employer in the NYT):
Orig:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/university-of-southern-california-carol-folt-censure.html
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/EAt4I
#USC #GazaProtests #HigherEd #LosAngeles #GoesOnTheCvUnderService

2024-05-08 18:04:25

In an interview I just taped with Rashid Khalidi about #Columbia he said words to the effect of "this is the neoliberal dream of the university--no students, no professors, just administrators and cops on campus"
-Brian EdwardsTiekert on another site
#HigherEd #policing

2024-05-07 21:02:31

"police raids do not serve a university’s own interests in maintaining peace and civility on campus. The 1960s made that crystal clear. Bringing law enforcement to campus invariably intensifies protests, fuels acrimony, and creates a climate of distrust. Police involvement doesn’t dampen protests; it accelerates them, often with devastating consequences"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/college-presidents-behaving-badly
Can fw if anyone doesn't have access
#Policing #HigherEd #GazaProtests

2024-05-06 04:11:56

An Open Letter to the #UCLA Community from UCLA Jewish Faculty and Staff
https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-jewish-faculty-staff/
#Palestine #HigherEd

2024-05-05 22:24:59

#LAPD entered our campus in riot gear again overnight and tossed out the protesting students. No arrests bc guess what the students have been peaceful and disciplined this whole time, and decided to just comply this time around instead of getting arrested
The only thing swifter than LAPD militarized response to bunch of kids sleeping in tents is #USC President Carol Folt's lying about the entire situation which is nonstop
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-05/la-me-usc-camp

2024-05-02 04:15:05

"#UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement. It placed scores of anti-war demonstrators in the encampment in direct and serious danger.
Moreover, the actions last night do absolutely nothing to assure the security and well-being of Jewish students, staff or faculty"
https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/

2024-05-02 01:34:35

#USC professors showed up in safety vests and regalia to tell the admin to keep #LAPD the hell away from our campus
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/368/909/690/508/229/original/b28cf6681aa63192.png

2024-04-29 07:48:07

"With calls for divestment only growing louder, we asked students nationwide to share how their schools have responded to protests calling for a ceasefire and in support of #Palestine"
https://www.972mag.com/campus-protests-gaza-us-students/
#Gaza #HigherEd [@academicchatter](https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter)

2024-04-23 06:44:56

Hats off:
"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.
The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

2024-04-21 06:09:35

Back on my bullshit (criticizing my employer in the LA Times, as if I don't have other things to do with my time)
"administrators have already embarrassed USC considerably and they owe Asna and the entire campus community an apology.
Many including myself are hoping to hear a fuller explication (including details about security concerns) and a path forward from our President, Carol Folt”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-19/usc-axes-high-profile-guest-speaker-from-commencement-lineup-amid-backlash-over-cancelled-valedictorian-speech

2024-04-20 05:16:25

"we must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community...
In the meantime, we must be aware of the pain that all this is causing our fellow Jews who have not yet found their way out of the web of false beliefs. As James Baldwin said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/why-they-hate-us-anti-zionism-in-the-jewish-community/
#Zionism #Israel [@jewishvoiceforpeace](https://mstdn.social/@jewishvoiceforpeace)

2024-04-19 18:38:49

Open letter from North American academics condemning scholasticide in #Gaza
If that's you, please consider signing
"“[T]hree university presidents have been killed in the Israeli attacks, along with more than 95 university deans and professors [...] Meanwhile, 88,000 students have been deprived of receiving their university education"
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7_K7qybzbeiBAg7sYTxbp1VOyYBrYPaxRf8jvHuBa0kQHlg/viewform
#HigherEd [@academicchatter](https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter)

2024-04-18 16:50:30

Whoops, I'm in the LA Times:
https://www.aol.com/news/free-speech-campus-safety-collide-100039656.html
#USC

2024-04-17 21:16:00

#ClimateDiary #Mood
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/112/288/628/315/956/740/original/0d2db4c1d597982c.png

2024-04-17 07:01:53

The world:
is on fire
My #STS Mastodon people:
keep remarking on and boosting this article about maintaining undersea cables 💙
https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

2024-04-16 20:24:23

Statement by #USCAAUP on the #USC administration's decision to cancel 2024 valedictorian Tabassum's commencement speech:
"By casting aside the achievements and USC’s own recognition of such an acclaimed student, the USC administration does not merely create a chilling effect on the academic freedom of the entire USC community. It actively strangles it."
https://www.uscaaup.org/
#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom [@academicchatter](https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter)

2024-04-16 01:50:01

Never a dull moment: my employer has just canceled the valedictorian's commencement speech, seemingly because they are afraid she will say something about human rights in #Gaza
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/provost-announces-valedictorian-wont-speak-at-graduation-in-may/
ETA, Here is a #CAIR statement:
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-la-demands-usc-reverse-cowardly-decision-to-cancel-muslim-valedictorians-speech-in-response-to-anti-palestinian-hate/
#USC

2024-03-29 03:36:55

"Like most #neoliberal institutions, #Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs"
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

2023-06-18 04:06:59

We need to talk about all the vintage hearses in my neighborhood
https://media.union.place/media_attachments/files/110/563/240/013/647/913/original/18e17df6a803d77e.jpeg