inquiline

inquiline, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to mastodon

Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

#STS #Mastodon #Commodon #autoethnography #DareIUseTheHashtag #Donkeygate #FirstMonday

inquiline, 19 days ago to random

Serious question: when and in which contexts did calling people "individuals" emerge as a common practice, as a synonym for people? Or "an individual" for "a person"?

I ask because I'm noticing it in student writing, and I associate it with police-speak. I don't know if it's in some corners of social science or medicine too

??

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to ai

The future is here and it is fucking atrocious:

"In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-university-suggests-replacing-striking-grad-students-with-ai

EDIT: If you want to give to the striking BU students' strike fund, here's the link: https://givebutter.com/bugwufund

#AI #HigherEd #unions #strike #HigherEdWorkersUnite

inquiline, 7 months ago to random

I appreciate mostly not seeing overt Nazis here but it's a bit weird that 100% of the fascists think they're not.

inquiline, 1 year ago to random

Love too live in a country led by a corpse in an electrified tank shouting “fund the police!”

inquiline, 10 months ago to random

Re a series of boosts: I can now say I've been harassed on Mastodon by an apparently maladjusted donkeykeeper, over the proper use of a hashtag I started.

I wasn't going to write about this but now I may, maybe. In any event that wasn't a sentence I thought I'd ever write!

inquiline, 25 days ago to Columbia

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

inquiline, 14 days ago to random

The deeply serious reply-guys of Mastodon: conducting an argument (that they started, natch) with "what ifs"; and their main points of reference are "small tribes" and their assumedly deep, universal, and primitive need for "police"; and Mr. Bean. Oh also refusing to read the abolitionist links people are providing.

Don't ever change, Mastodon

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

Are we allowed to be glad Lieberman is dead on here

(affirmations only)

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to california

This is my shocked face:

"#California would need to triple the rate of emissions cuts that the state has undertaken since 2010 in order to meet its #climate goals for 2030"

ETA, apparently the Beacon Economics research group cited here has had some uhhh problems:
https://www.highlandernews.org/86606/uc-riverside-needs-to-halt-its-business-with-beacon-economica/

(Not sure this changes the overall conclusion, but wanted to flag that, as someone brought it to my attention)

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4534747-california-not-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goals-report/

inquiline, 8 months ago to random

Oh you think you've seen the worst global capitalism has to offer? Not unless you've watched this, you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lJc3PMNIg

#SupplyChain #BeltAndRoad #Capitalism

inquiline, 5 months ago to random

The obligatory person-versus-huge-truck photo. This person (me) is just shy of 5'8", definitely 5'8" in those shoes. Disaster.

*1.72 meters I guess

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

What is a "conspiracy theory" that you actually believe?

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

Plea for one (1) day without people starting absolutely gratuitous arguments with women*, social scientists, and women social scientists on here

*whatever we want it to be

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

Guys I have the mother of all reply guys on the line

inquiline, 3 months ago to random

Do I have this straight... the US is air-dropping aid bc a country won't stop bombing long enough to let the US in to offer humanitarian aid on the ground, but the US supplied the weapons to the country that won't stop bombing

inquiline, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#BonkBonk

My new favorite song ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHp_Fhggwzs

*edited to remove link to Xwitter

inquiline, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Well this is an epic bummer: taking Paxlovid didn’t reduce the risk of #LongCovid in vaccinated people

*edit: 1, as some a-hole in my mentions mentions, this is only one study; 2, if you don't mean to have your remarks read as trivializing Covid or LC, maybe take care in how you word them.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/01/426906/study-finds-paxlovid-treatment-does-not-reduce-risk-long-covid

#Covid

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

This place can be pretty special sometimes (always)

inquiline, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#USC students have begun a #Gaza Solidarity encampment

*ETA, both #LAPD and USC's private police force are on the scene. One student allegedly detained.

https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/24/gaza-solidarity-occupation-to-at-alumni-park-live-updates/

inquiline, 3 months ago to random

"I want to eat in restaurants but my immune-compromised husband is being a buzzkill"

Hoo boy, this article is pretty disgusting:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1236975472/wrestling-with-my-husbands-fear-of-getting-covid-again

inquiline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Oh cool it looks like @dasharez0ne mastodon.social is blocking people who respond to their posts accusing them of stealing their schtick

(edit, someone else can provide receipts of their stealing; I don't have them but recall finding them convincing when they went by earlier, so I willingly participated in said accusations and am now blocked)

(edit 2, receipts in replies here)

inquiline, 11 months ago to random

We need to talk about all the vintage hearses in my neighborhood

inquiline, 8 days ago to random

People shaming others to vote and saying we mustn't say anything bad about Biden/DNC makes more sense when they reveal that they think the problem is the voters, not the very, very rigged system we are forced to submit to

inquiline, 6 months ago to Israel

Actually in awe:

Over 1,000 workers have simultaneously blocked four arms factories across the UK which provide components for arms used by #Israel in its bombardment of #Gaza

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/12/four-arms-factories-across-the-uk-blockaded-in-solidarity-with-palestine

#Palestine