inquiline

gloomy technoscience scholar

here: magpie, nonsense, muttering, books/reading, typos, boosts (you can hide em)

also @cdh

#ToxicLA #asstodon #CounterPort #PolicingTheCampus #HigherEdWorkersUnite

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

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pers acct, obvs

header: colorful post-consumer plastic camel, Cynthia Minet; profile: California oil field at night, vintage postcard

(new acct, 1st joined Oct 22)

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2024-11-06 21:17:21

We need Mastodon or something like it more than ever now; but we also need something better than Mastodon as it currently exists

2024-11-06 18:29:47

Every day, but also today, is a good day to:
give to strike funds
abortion funds
bail funds
and your local & independent media
(if you can)

2024-11-05 05:02:48

Tidepool timeline cleanse
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/428/585/828/737/134/original/d98701b5c0a5e6e2.jpeg

2024-11-04 01:12:50

Peter Thiel isn't gonna stop after this attempt, but I hope he loses this round. RIP Gawker, actually

2024-11-01 16:41:12

Our conference #Petrocultures2024 got a nice writeup in #ArtForum:
https://www.artforum.com/columns/melissa-ragain-petrocultures-2024-559597/
#oil #energy #LosAngeles #energyHumanities #Petrocultures #arts #Climate

2024-11-01 01:19:43

"a federal judge in Austin determined on Monday that pro-Palestinian student groups can sue multiple Texas universities' presidents & board members for alleged discrimination & 1A violations.
The judge's decision is "a major win for anti-genocide protestors" ..."The government cannot make special rules insulating Israel from criticism, & pretending those rules are about antisemitism does not save them from constitutional scrutiny""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/college-campus-protests-gaza
#PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests

2024-10-28 23:28:50

Hundreds of authors pledge boycott against #Israel-i cultural institutions
There is a link at the bottom for authors to add their names
https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-pledge-to-boycott-israeli-cultural-institutions
#BDS #publishing #Palestine

2024-10-28 00:58:44

With gods [sic?] as my witness, this is one of the weirdest places on earth (Long Beach, California)
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/382/317/981/390/473/original/47c5920da4ab48be.jpeg

2024-10-24 20:34:32

Selective outrage indeed:
"Greenblatt found time in the past two days to tweet about his loathing for Jewish pro-Palestine student protesters, but didn’t have a moment to spare for the single-most terrifying thing an American Jew could read: that the potential next president thinks Adolf Hitler was good"
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-hitler-adl-greenblatt
#ADL #GazaProtests

2024-10-23 22:32:29

This is fine... something like a SWAT team raids students living in off-campus housing for Gaza protest activities, throwing paint on a statue
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/23/upenn-cops-students-raid-gaza-palestine/
#Penn #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests

2024-10-17 19:38:29

JFC. Higher ed admin who are pulling this shit should all walk into the sea
"During the study-in, Securitas guards recorded the participants’ names and Harvard ID numbers and distributed sheets of paper warning of possible penalties"
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/17/harvard-faculty-protest-in-widener-library/
#PolicingTheCampus #academia #HigherEd #GazaProtests #Harvard

2024-10-16 03:23:19

Big round of public revelations/accusations came out late summer 2019(?). I remember this because my book Hacking Diversity had gone to print, not one comma could be changed
(Which was a relief in some ways--just from the standpoint of an author with a manuscript, I mean)
Anyway it seemed then that he was going to be deposed but then somehow people kept protecting him, he was off, then back on the FSF board(?)?
Hope the new report changes that, finally:
https://stallman-report.org/

2024-10-14 06:19:01

Today in "things I did not make up":
Meatingplace, a trade publication for meat processors

2024-10-14 02:29:40

Snapped these today for y’all #Monsterdon
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/303/412/571/152/257/original/aa564f4761b75272.jpeg
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/303/412/593/697/207/original/2f8f5cbc749f5c3a.jpeg

2024-10-13 19:08:06

"meteorologists are “going to reach a point of burnout. What other profession are people targeted for simply doing their job?""
IMO it is journalistic malpractice to let that quote from a meteorologist stand without adding context re what has happened to, e.g. public health officials, librarians, and poll workers in the past few years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation

2024-10-13 04:03:34

Utterly exhausting living in a low-trust, low social cohesion society

2024-10-13 01:34:21

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@npub1857…gk3l @npub1zdp…vqv8 Here to add a squirrel replete with ears and an acorn, from my walk just now!
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/297/536/369/976/339/original/db2efd3eebcfa077.jpeg

2024-10-10 18:54:00

"We estimate that the average [hurricane] generates 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, exceeding the average of 24 immediate deaths reported in government statistics. Tracking the effects of 501 historical storms, we compute that the.. mortality burden ...is equal to roughly 3.2–5.1% of all deaths"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07945-5
#ClimateChange #Hurricane #Cyclone #ExcessMortality #ExcessDeath #Nature

2024-10-09 03:09:52

What do we think the US could pay for domestically if it hadn't quadrupled its #military aid to #Israel in the past year? Non-expired Covid tests for everyone, for a start. Sick leave? School lunches? IDK...
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-annual-military-aid-israel-quadrupled-7-october

2024-10-06 20:52:48

"The University of California Regents approved the purchase of military equipment at September’s UC Regents meeting at UCLA. The unanimous vote took place behind closed doors while the #UCLA Police Department, dressed in riot gear, forced those who came to give public comment outside of the building"
https://lapublicpress.org/2024/10/ucla-military-hardware-protest-ab481
#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #academia #California #militarism #UC #LosAngeles #LAPublicPress

2024-10-05 23:11:53

Favorite academic papers or books using qualitative virtual methods/primarily online data collection?
Field open, tho #STS, #Commodon, #HCI, #anthropology, organizational studies are especially welcome

2024-10-05 21:54:50

Some asshole has emailed me offering to create a Wikipedia page for me, for a fee (which is not required up front). Deliver me

2024-10-05 20:52:31

Important new resource!
"Faculty First Responders [exists] to proactively educate and support faculty and administrators about the causes and consequences of right-wing attacks on faculty, while providing advice about how to effectively respond to targeted harassment"
https://facultyfirstresponders.com/
#AAUP #HigherEd #academia @npub1t7d…h3ud

2024-10-03 19:21:10

"We have witnessed antisemitism get stripped of its meaning and used as a tool to silence legitimate criticism of these very structures and their failure to stop the killing. We are told consistently that there is no right way to speak out against a clear wrong because systematically every method of protest is framed as an amorphous attack on Jews everywhere as opposed to focused critiques of a specific wrong being perpetrated by a few powerful individuals."
https://newrepublic.com/article/186577/ta-nehisi-coates-media-antisemitism

2024-09-28 17:00:39

The LA River is art:
#LARiver #ToxicLA #LongBeach #LosAngeles
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/216/238/840/891/715/original/fa5b8c33e040640b.jpeg

2024-09-28 04:59:21

Technical but accessible deep dive on #Novavax, how it differs from #mRNA (including lighter side effects)
https://youtu.be/4WJQbAW7WD8
#Covid19 #Vaccine #CovidIsNotOver

2024-09-24 20:49:57

Just discovered in my study drawer, from May 2020. Plane is flying past Empire State Building, trailing a banner that reads #CapitalismIsThePandemic
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/194/488/850/212/411/original/78df99ac154e9f77.jpeg

2024-09-23 20:36:23

"nothing exceeds the shame and revulsion I feel about the events of the last five months: the violent arrest of our own students, subsequent charges against them for trespassing on their own campus, harsh academic sanctions, and the apparently permanent lockdown of our campus.
You can bet that other university presidents are keeping a close watch on USC’s experiment, to see if this kind of repression can stand"
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/22/usc-the-university-of-lockdown
#PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests #USC #academia #HigherEd

2024-09-22 18:39:56

Whiteness is not reducible to "white people" (not least because that boundary is flexible and contingent):
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea
#whiteness

2024-09-19 22:27:25

It is actually racist to imply that someone who has witnessed racist behavior and deemed it racist, was bewitched or tricked by people into thinking it was racist, rather than clocking it as racism and forming an independent judgment

2024-09-19 18:12:11

#Bloomscrolling
https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/165/562/836/246/970/original/106e08b661c266ad.jpeg