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independentpen

@independentpen@mas.to

Writer. Artist. Folklorist. Strategist. Probably definitely autistic. In Corvallis, Oregon.

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AlexSanterne, to academia
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Modern #academia is perversed.

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independentpen,
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@buermann
Darwin's version of evolution was pretty good. It was the social evolutionists like Morgan, Tylor and White who applied the theory to culture in a gross and racist way, whose impacts are still reverberating
@fabiocosta0305 @AlexSanterne @academicchatter

FantasticalEconomics, to TodayILearned
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Good news everyone!

"ChatGPT Edu, powered by GPT-4o, is designed for universities to responsibly integrate AI into academic and campus operations. This advanced AI tool supports text and vision reasoning, data analysis, and offers enterprise-level security."

Based on everything we know about AI, I am sure nothing could possibly go wrong with this new tool to integrate it into our #teaching and campus operations more broadly.
/Obvious sarcasm

https://neurosciencenews.com/openai-chatgpt-edu-ai-26206/

@academicchatter #HigherEd

independentpen,
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@FantasticalEconomics
Did an AI write that article?
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president, to random
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Tired of people claiming beef only exists in rap as if Dante didn’t write an entire fuckass book about putting his haters in super hell

independentpen,
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@president
Also the rebuttals section of academic journals is lit
@Adoxograph @academicchatter

chevalier26, to actuallyautistic
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What are your thoughts on self-diagnosis being belittled by many in the autistic community?

For clarity, I’m not asking to start a debate, just a genuine discussion. I currently don’t have the option to get a diagnosis, but feel fairly confident that the research I’ve done over the past year and a half has been legitimate and credible.

I don’t feel comfortable saying that I am definitively autistic, but I am ok with saying I’m “self-suspecting.” @actuallyautistic

independentpen,
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@chevalier26
In my observation it's not belittled at all, but actively affirmed
@actuallyautistic

independentpen, to random
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I'm making the switch to Proton Mail!!! @protonprivacy #protonMail

LehtoriTuomo, to actuallyautistic
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Only very lately, I've started to understand how loud sounds affect me. It's a strange combination of self-controlled loud music (yes, please) and uncontrollable, sometimes sudden, loud sounds making me very tense. I mentioned a loud stop signal in a bus yesterday.

The tensest I get is when our dog, who just turned one, starts to whine at the end of a car ride. We try to teach her that she needs to be quiet in order to get out. When she's agitated it might take a while. It's loud and I feel empathetic and get very tense. I can feel it everywhere in my body. Another example is when she repeatedly barks in a small space, such as our sauna cabin by the summer cottage. It might reverbarate in the structures, and my head.

Another type of sound that gets to me is the sound of brushing. It's physically uncomfortable, has always been. The worst is when a tractor is brushing gravel off the road after the winter. Almost makes me shudder to think about it. Always wondered why it's so uncomfortable. Now with self-diagnosed autism I get it.

@actuallyautistic

independentpen,
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@LehtoriTuomo
Not that you asked, but you can help your dog learn to be quiet by first teaching her to vocalize on cue, then teaching her to stop vocalizing on cue
@actuallyautistic

independentpen, to art
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New #art post: Monstrous Fish.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/journal-pages-102897572

Join my Patreon to get weekly art in your inbox! plus #folklore talks and other things

@art @Curator #supportArtists #commissionsOpen

independentpen, to random
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My dog is happiest when I'm training him. His self esteem dives when he has a chance to wonder what's on my mind

the_etrain, to random
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Given my middle-ageness, I will only be using this account to complain about the sodium content of food from here on out.

independentpen,
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@the_etrain
Don't stop there. You have a lawn to defend!

easysociology, to Sociology
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Relationships and Processes within Schools: Exploring Teacher-Pupil Dynamics, Pupil Identities, Subcultures, the Hidden Curriculum, and Teaching and Learning Organization

https://buff.ly/3JAlW0K


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independentpen,
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@easysociology
I teach at a college. I design classtime this way: students do the reading ahead of time; in class they are part of a small cohort; I give them prompts that they process as a cohort; we come back together & they share their conclusions with the class; I add context, introduce new ideas, or course-correct based on what they say. There's more to it, but this is the backbone of how we use classtime, because ...
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independentpen,
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@easysociology
... the thing that's unique about classtime, the thing that can happen there that can't happen anywhere else, is interaction with peers and mentor. So I focus more on using interaction to make sense and meaning of the material in class than I do on teacher-to-class content delivery
@EVDHmn @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite

purplepadma, to random
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I’m struggling and I need cuteness or soothing things in my feed, anyone able to oblige?

independentpen,
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@purplepadma
She loves this sweater

Same cat, same sweater, her face smushed into it with delight

independentpen, to linguistics
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To all my etymology-curious friends, this is my new favorite podcast: The History of English
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes/
#actuallyAutistic #linguistics #etymology #histodons

Alexlee, to Palestine
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In an era of post-truth, the strategy of rigidly defending your version of truth and attacking other people's view of the truth is a largely self-destructive excercise that just creates a never ending argument

Understanding the logics and rationales of those people we disagree with is a far better way but requires humility and nuance

Naomi Klein in Doppelganger and Büscher in The Truth About Nature show us how this can be done with , and

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independentpen,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm is a good framework for understanding how logic and story intertwine to shape belief. His theory of "good reasons" is powerful. Isolated logic accomplishes little; it's the logic embedded in and expressed by the story that pulls weight
@samohTmaS @Alexlee @academicchatter

independentpen, to webdev
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Hey fam, my agency is looking to hire a full stack web developer fluent in css & js (including React), on a contract basis. Company located in the Pacific NW, remote work no prob, great culture, lots of potential work. DM me!!!

Please boost, everyone! #pleaseBoost #job #webDev

independentpen, to actuallyautistic
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For my @actuallyautistic friends, here are two linguists demystifying small talk. I found this episode interesting and enjoyable: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/637790657255227392/lingthusiasm-episode-51-small-talk-big-deal #actuallyAutistic

independentpen, to random
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It's my birthday!

RickiTarr, to random
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Call them Some Mores, correct anyone who calls them S'Mores.

independentpen,
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@RickiTarr
Because contractions aint right
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juergen_hubert, to folklore
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A question for the #MythologyMonday crowd:

I have curated this list of public domain folk tale collections from around the world on Wikisource, and I am contemplating turning this into #BookWyrm lists - which would include creating entries for the books at OpenLibrary.

However, I am not sure how granular these lists should be. Should I arrange them by continent or by country or what?

Any suggestions?

#folklore
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Folk_literature

independentpen,
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@AimeeMaroux
How many tales do you have per country? Can you use cascading filters as Aimee suggested or is the category structure flat?

There are lots of ways to categorize folktales (geography, language, topic, character type ... ), each of which has its strengths and problems. And there is an existing list of folktale categories I could try to dig up; it was authoritative at one point, though like any schema it has its problems
@juergen_hubert

johncormier, to random
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A couple of months ago, I read something on here that quite literally changed my life. It sent me on an unexpected journey of self-discovery that continues to this day. When you’re 54, you don’t expect too many surprises about who you are. But when I read a thread on here about being autistic, something just clicked. So I went down the rabbit hole, read a bunch of articles, did some self-evaluations, and came to the inescapable conclusion that I am autistic. #actuallyautistic

independentpen,
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@EmilyMoranBarwick
Yeah my dad was like, I don't think there's anything wrong with you. And I said, well neither do I, but I still think I'm autistic
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petersuber, (edited ) to academia
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From a survey of @penn_state : "72% …reported they had not purchased a course’s required , and 33% said they had not registered for a specific course because of its cost of required course materials. In addition, 33% said they had earned a poor grade because they couldn’t afford to purchase a course textbook, and 17% dropped a course because of the cost of materials required for the course."
https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/students-may-avoid-paying-textbooks-expense-academic-success/


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independentpen,
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@petersuber
This suddenly reminds me of US healthcare, where you pay a lot every month and then need care and have to pay a whole lot more. Students pay so much in tuition; what if the cost of materials & fees were bundled into that, so that once you become a student (which is hard enough) you don't have to face additional costs for the learning you're there to do?
@penn_state @academicchatter

independentpen, to Anthropology
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Last November, within the wild space of three weeks, I was in Portland, Oregon, then Toronto, Ontario, presenting papers at two conferences. Both talks have everything to do with change, social and ecological.

Take a listen ... and enjoy the photos! https://elisabethcarolharveymccumber.com/climate-stories-in-the-pacific-northwest/

#anthropology @anthropology #folklore #folklorethursday @folklore #histodons @histodons #archaeology #climateChange #climateCrisis #conference @academicchatter #narrative #ethnography

ImmedicableME, to mecfs
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The isolation of #MECFS has gotten bad enough that I signed up for an online group thingy that includes Zoom calls. And now my #autism and social anxiety are making me dread each minute as I watch the clock tick closer to the call time. Gahhhhhhhhhhh.

independentpen,
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@ImmedicableME
Podcast, because it distracts me into getting interested in something. Art, because it's a whole different mode of being. Sensory pleasure, because it's nice and life can be nice.
@actuallyautistic @mecfs

18+ o76923, (edited ) to random
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I see lots of people joke about #ClickerTraining #kink, especially transfems and #CatGirls / #FoxGirls. I get that the basic idea is to use Operant Conditioning on them to encourage some behavior but what do you condition them to do? Is it animal commands like "sit" or "heel"? Is it laundy? Is it sex acts?

independentpen,
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@o76923
I know very little about kink but quite a lot about operant conditioning, and let me just say, Karen Pryor invented a cocktail party game where you clicker train a volunteering human to do something - really any action the group agrees on - and it's a blast. So I would say the possibilities are endless

mekkaokereke, to random
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Happy !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

independentpen,
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@mekkaokereke
I moved to TX from NJ in 6th grade and I have a vivid memory of my social studies class there - we got TX Hst, not US Hst - where the teacher asked, what was the cause of the civil war, and all these TX kids said slavery! and he literally told the class they were wrong. I was so confused. We were kids and he was an authority figure. To say that from the front of class

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