Been adding more #autoethnography 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 & #transnational#care shaped by global #migration & 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..."
Migrant care workers are being betrayed by the tied-visa system that bought them to the UK... when sponsors are striped of their license, it tis the care workers who are effectively punished - forcing them into a precarious race for alternate employment.
This is just one part of a national political hypocrisy on 'economic migration'... we want/need workers to fill posts, but some just want to punish them for coming here;
Gran: “He’s never done any of it in a malicious way. Why didn’t the school system put in more filters, or firewalls, to prevent children from getting into that?”
County Spokesperson: "Threats to over 100,000 students’ safety, including hacking, will be met with the full force of the law and applicable District policy."
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Folks, I'm starting my post-#PhD job search low-key on the side while I write up my #thesis.
I have an odd collection of skills - #Linux, #Python, #Jupyter, #pandas, #DevRel, and I've done a lot of work in team leadership and management, and have led a multi-million $ not for profit in the past. Keynote speaker.
I'm looking for something that harnesses all of these skills - and it will be a senior role with senior pay, given my experience, qualifications and proven capability. I have time and will be discerning about my next step.
Job titles that might fit here would be Senior Research Engineer, Engineering Lead, Lead AI Engineer or similar.
Looking for fully remote work, with one day a fortnight max in #Melbourne, AU. If you don't believe in #RemoteWork or #WFH, we're not a good fit.
Super keen on something full time rather than splitting my attention over multiple part-time roles.
Looking to start around August, so a fair amount of lead time.
Keen on organisations that have strong values alignment - #FAIR and #CARE data use, #EthicalAI, AI for social good.
As a carer I found Celia Dale's book A Helping Hand (1966/2022) a strangely uncomfortable read. Its a tale of the banality of evil, with a couple taking advantage of vulnerable old women they move into their house & slowly encourage to die. Its sombre & unsettling fiction which in our age of unpaid carers is a timely criminal trade. Written largely in dialogue this is an all too believable tale of casual sociopaths at work.
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon I recall reading Maupassant's little tale "The Cask" (Le fût: I read it in Miss Shelly's Grade 11 class in French) wherein a publican, coveting a widow's property, introduces her to the wonders of calvados and supplies her habit until she freezes to death, and he inherits the property. Found it rather dark at that age, quite run-of-the-mill in my dotage.
Abolished but not retrospectively! What - were the decisions made by judges before 2012 somehow correct, sensible or humane? And for the ‘law and order' fiends, did this even reduce the costs of such inhumane treatment, or ‘lock em up and forget’ policy?
Over the next decade, 300 million people in China will age out of the workforce. Who will take care of them? The country’s past one-child policy combined with a slowing economy have created a mounting demographic crisis. The government has been urging businesses to build infrastructure for elder care, but insufficient pensions make profits far from a guarantee. Read more from the BBC.
If you're in Glasgow today, considering coming along to the Transforming Care symposium at Glasgow School of Art. I'll be giving a talk about the work we are doing on ownership of care records for children and young people in care.
@johnelalamo@ProPublica “Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature adjourned this month after passing a record 591 bills during its session. Lawmakers earmarked nearly $2 billion in tax subsidies to build an MLB stadium and an NHL arena. They doubled funding for the state’s school voucher program. And they cut the income tax rate.
But they made no direct financial investment in child care…”
Here in the UK, our governments ( #ToryScum and #Labour ) have turned our national asset, the #NHS and #care system, from a high quality, caring, safe service into fodder for global private equity companies, who are suckling every drop of value from us, while being supported by the British Taxpayer.
Much of Cory Doctorow's analysis of US private equity feeding off healthcare applies to the UK too.