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New from me, first of a series.
Life on the avoidant web: How our desire for a frictionless life online may be making us miserable.
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"I know you from Twitter"
- Embarrassing for everyone involved
- Humiliating
- Too online
"Your reputation precedes you"
- Cool and scary
- Mysterious
- Potentially ominous
- Old-timey villian
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there’s still occasionally some good stuff.
tf were they feeding 1960s photographers you do not see shit like this anymore
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It's worth taking this as an opportunity to think about this not only in terms of sanctions, but in terms of sociotechnical brittleness. There are consequences to putting everything on the Internet, and the they usually only become visible when infrastructure begins to crack.
Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer work on Moscow's metro system, leading to long queues as people fumble about for cash
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The true black pill is knowing that Fox News and Tucker aren't creating this audience, they're chasing it.
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the "let's replace public schools with khan academy and moocs" to "two weeks of remote learning will cause irreplaceable cognitive damage" pipeline.
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It honestly blows my mind that people don't realize that poor people not having access to healthcare is a threat to their own health.
Bernie Sanders goes directly in on linking coronavirus to Medicare for All as a policy issue:
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we've lost so much
In 1998 "G-mail" was an email service offered by the cartoon Garfield, with the slogan "email with cattitude".
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Re Texas/Pornhub: For the last couple of years, I've been trying to argue that anxieties about porn, an obsession with "taboo" content, and guilt about porn addiction were load-bearing pillars of evangelical and right wing politics in America. I hope everyone sees it now.
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hi computer expert here. this is not funny, websites only do this when they're in extreme distress.
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People are giving advice to incoming grad students. Here's some tips that you're probably not going to hear from other people that will make your life easier in the long run.
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Calling these protests "antisemitic" isn't meant to be persuasive or to be believed. It's meant to waste your time.
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My academic job search advice is to simply get extremely lucky.
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"students hate lectures" is one of those articles of faith that I've never heard an actual student voice.
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is the plan to yell "not fair" until november?
So when is Donald Trump going to face a national press conference?
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my man just invented ears
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I don't know why people think mask and vaccine refusal have anything to do with science communication. The problem is that we've spent decades destroying the idea that you owe anything to anyone else. We're standing in the rubble of the very idea of a "society."
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I don't think I have a good excuse for feeling as burned out as I do. My workload has been extremely modest. My immediate community has been very supportive. I just feel trapped in the futureless, textureless time of the pandemic.
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Truck/car convoys are the default mode of conservative protest because
1) They let you lazily sit around in the a/c.
2) They shield you from the terrifying menace of blue haired girls.
3) They allow small groups of people to appear much larger.
4) Vehicular manslaughter fantasies
WOW! Thousands of patriots showing their support for President Trump on Long Island.
The FBI made a big mistake.
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I want one of those 2006 jobs where you run a windows server or a linux server for a small company and mostly post on forums all day.
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Gotta wonder about the people who are only ever concerned about the 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 threat of fascism, the 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 of creeping authoritarianism, the 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 of violence, all while studiously avoiding what's already here.
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One of the strangest developments of the last few years has been the centrist insistence that HR department-inflected identity politics, the stuff that everyone actually hates, is the left's fault. They invented it!
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you really do have to block matt yglesias. yes, you. he feeds on your response to this shit.
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The main problem with protest on the left isn't around the legitimacy or illegitimacy of particular tactics. It's that the tactics themselves are fetishized, disconnected from goals, and seen as ends in themselves.
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who remembers when the sea was wine dark
Who remembers when the sun was golden not silvery, the sky was deep rich blue, not pale milky blue, and robust gorgeous cirrus clouds were everywhere, crisply delineated in the sky; when the sky was not plagued with weird streaks that spread with horrid inevitability, blocking
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The way the Black electorate gets talked about is so fucking weird. When polled, Black voters are split on whether or not Biden should drop out. Doesn't matter!
The base has rallied behind Joe and now the Black church has given him its blessing. The media and pundit class need to seriously move on to something else.
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I don't what to hear about AI sentience anymore. I want to hear about how bureaucracies are sentient.
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Some people are absolutely addicted to the idea of targeted policy. Give me the brute-force approach of the USPS test program over the means-tested, optimized, personalized style of program we've been dealing with for the last thirty years any day.
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1) Browser tabs stress you out. They are unstructured, visual reminders of work you haven't done.
Close your tabs daily and don't treat your browser as a todo list. If you want to read something later, save it in Pocket or Instapaper or put it on a real todo list.
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The Ron Paul coalition is an extremely funny thing to remember: new atheists, people who went to army surplus stores twice a week, college town erowid guys, 9-11 truthers, WoW guys, nazis, forum guys, guys thinking about applying to grad school for philosophy, linux guys.
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the software industry really seems to have no idea how much people hate what they've done to software.
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I think about this comment form the 2016 debates a lot. It's hard to imagine anyone else in contention for the presidential nomination saying Mossadegh's name, much less saying something like this.
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when someone asks you how the dissertation is going
Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!
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It's increasingly clear that right-wing think tanks and astroturf organizations are using "school reopening" as a way to demonize teachers unions ahead of nationwide local funding crises. This isn't just about reopening. It's about the existence of public education.
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polycules are nothing but an unconscious longing for medieval monastic life. it's obvious: the queer desire, the debauchery, the rules, the endless schedules.
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People often talk the addictive and attention-draining properties of the Internet. Underexplored, or maybe just underdiscussed, is the Internet as "avoidance machine," a device that discourages you from sitting with uncertainty, partial knowledge, or mental friction.
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The AT&T PC 6300's demo program was an entire goddamned aesthetic.
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Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime. He has better political instincts than 99% of the people in the Democratic Party. He also seems completely inadequate for this historical moment. It's a strange situation.
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5) Get in the habit of doing some kind of version control for your writing. Avoid terms like "draft" or "final" in your file names, use dates instead. If you use ISO 8601 dates (eg. 2021-09-01), they are machine sortable and will appear in order in your file manager.
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I don't love Joe Biden, but there are at least a dozen other people who *could* have been president over this past month who would have done something stupid because they needed to "look tough" or "show american resolve."
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The Democratic Party's message machine is calibrated to maximize donations from timorous cable news addicts. It does that job well. Unfortunately, organizing your entire message around fear of the other guy doesn't work when the other side gets off on the idea of being scary.
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I think one of my biggest problems with contemporary liberal politics is how much time people spend screaming at refs that don't exist. There's nobody there to enforce the norms but you. There are no stable rules. There's only power. That should be clear by now.
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One of the symptoms of a legal education is endlessly searching for consistency, coherence, and logical consistency when there's only the cynical use of instrumental reasoning and a lust for power and control.
Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide
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back on fin-de-siecle japanese firework catalog illustations.
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It's probably a mistake to see fascism coming to America in some highly centralized European form. The decentralized repression we're seeing now is probably a good indication of what it might look like. A distributed fascism that works within the framework of our federal system.
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14) If, like me, your primary way of coping with anxiety is through avoidance, it can helpful to think reflexively about it. When I was finishing my PhD, I asked myself nightly "What's something that I could finish in an hour tomorrow that would make me feel less stressed?"
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One thing the Biden administration seems to (finally) be learning from their predecessors is the utility of a constant barrage of announcements, plans, programs, and events. They really destabilize and disorient your opponents.
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I finally just looked at the "genocide joke" that Matt Christman allegedly made and all I can say is that there's a reason that people don't quote tweet it when they're talking about it. It isn't one.
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The most annoying part about inline citations is seeing name-dates like (Descartes, 1995).
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Having spent years of my life teaching undergraduate humanities courses almost entirely geared towards stem undergrads, these debates seem really detached from reality. Most stem undergrads are eager and curious humanities students.
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Lol, an inland city next to a major source of fresh water. Hard to imagine a city in the US more insulated from the coming shocks of the next 100 years.
Chicago is a great city in a bad location with a completely untenable fiscal structure. I'd write a column about it if I could figure out anything to say except "Boy, I don't see how this ends well."
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cops have airborne fentynl, spooks have havana syndrome. in the future, every profession is going to have a domain-specific mass sociogenic illness.
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I think graduate students should be paid at a rate that encourages TT faculty to think of them as colleagues-in-the-making and not just lowly wastrels loitering at a reception buffet, filling their pockets with rolls.
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Reminder that if you want a "popular front," you actually have to cooperate with the left, not just chastise them.
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Once the strike starts, the union asking that you not click on or share New Yorker links. They are *not* asking for you to cancel your subscription right now.
Our strike is imminent, and we’ve launched a new site where you can learn more.
@NewYorker
runs on union labor, and there are as many reasons to fight for a fair contract as there are members of our shop. In our own words, learn why we are ready to strike:
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TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY:
A socialist beat the Virginia GOP Majority Whip.🌹
A socialist beat the Virginia GOP Majority Whip.🌹
A socialist beat the Virginia GOP Majority Whip.🌹
A socialist beat the Virginia GOP Majority Whip.🌹
A socialist beat the Virginia GOP Majority Whip.🌹
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The whole "not voting is a reflection of privilege" line would make a lot more sense if the empirical evidence we have about voters and non-voters didn't say the exact opposite.
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Huh, apparently the 6-digit confirmation code for airline reservations is a carryover to the early SABRE days and was literally just the address where your reservation was stored in memory.
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5) Even more controversial: avoid propriety file formats, proprietary "database" software, proprietary *anything* as much as possible. It's not just that these expense of these things pile up, but you're also going to have a long career and software dies. But plaintext is forever
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Conservative men are slowly psyoping themselves into believing that being attracted to...farm girls is gay. Amazing to behold.
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16) Last, and most importantly, your work *is* work. Believe that in your bones. Don't let anyone tell you that because you care about it, because not everyone is able to do it, because academia is a *calling*, that you aren't entitled to decent pay and a decent work environment.
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I'm a graduate student (so this is a lateral punch), and I gotta say something: there's a general culture of unconstructively tearing books and peers down that's aggressive and unproductive. And I think pretty much everyone knows this?
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4) This one is controversial, but if you use a citation manager don't fill it up with aspirational entries. Only use it for things you've actually read/cited. It's very easy to build an overwhelming, mostly useless Zotero library. Keep a separate "to read" list.
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When the Maus ban in Tennessee came down a couple of years ago, there was a big push to uncover the "real meaning" of it. The was an idea that it had to be holocaust denial, that the nudity claims were a smokescreen.
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3) Unsubscribe to one email list every day. Along with the relentless wave of email advertising, you'll get put on a lot of lists. Go out of your way to keep your inbox clear of this shit. if there is nothing currently in your inbox, search your archive for "unsubscribe".
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It's strange that vaccine efficacy, breakthrough cases, etc. are still being treated in the media in an individualistic fashion, and not depending in large part on the vaccination status of those around you.
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The most basic fact about the pandemic is that it can't be understood as a legitimate problem because the solutions are politically unacceptable to too many powerful people. The same with climate change.
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Henri Lefebvre be like "i know a spot," but then he spends 500 pages telling you how it was socially produced and never takes you there.
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If historians cited like sociologists do, we'd be writing sentences like: "History (Herodotus, 1995) is a field of study typified by a methodological reliance on primary sources (Ranke, 2001)."
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@lodgepolepines
I heard they all came out and applauded after you finished. Said they had never seen an Asian boy put that much ketchup on anything before.
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That's been clear to anyone not completely captive to a Jon Stewart, media-centric worldview for a very long time.
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It's something which managed to misunderstand how evangelical antisemitism actually operates AND deny the fact that the right-wing has been having conspiratorial fits about "grooming" since at least 2016.
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I'm constantly shocked about how little liberal commentators on evangelical politics even seem to know about it. Porn is as important of an issue for these people as abortion. I grew up with two different people who now run anti-porn ministries.
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Programming is literally when a rock has tricked you into typing.
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i'm working through a course on C and every new fact i learn feels so unsafe that it should be an osha violation.
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The thing I keep think about the last several years is how all the old pre-pandemic problems are still around, we picked up a load of entirely new ones, our institutions are broken, and almost everyone's brain has been marinating in a vat of fear, rage, and loneliness.
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increasingly believe that this is the least bad social network, and the only reason people believe otherwise is that it's the easiest to study.
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every academic I know under 50 seems to be miserable, a condition that predates the pandemic.
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We got the Blade Runner future, just an extremely low budget version.
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I'm sorry, but saying it's "both" is just a cop out. It's true, but it's trivially true the way that "why not both" always is. It's maybe 10% "creating" and 90% chasing, but only the former ever gets discussed.
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2) Your download folder is not a todo list and if you treat it that way it will stress you out.
Empty your download folder every day. If something is important enough to read, it's important enough to write down on a list and schedule.
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Kinds of historians, a preliminary taxonomy
1) Someone who describes all encounters with primary sources as "geeking out."
2) Wants to relive their "cool years"
3) Pissed off about something, trying to figure out how to destroy it.
4) Nosy, wants to read people's secret documents
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A lot of the last 20 years of computing have really just been about making it harder to listen to mp3s.
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To that end, join your union. If you don't have one, find some people you trust and start one. It's a ton of work, but don't let that scare you. Alongside all the stuff you already know about unions, building one is a transformative, life-changing experience.
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very annoying that i became a massively better cook after i stopped thinking of ingredients as inputs and started thinking of them as objects with attributes and methods. the most computer-pilled thing possible.
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most people just want stable tools to do their jobs with and that's something the industry has absolutely refused to provide.
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6) Writing, editing, and formatting are different tasks, but modern word processors treat them as equivalent. It's very easy to get sidetracked by formatting options while writing (even if you think you are too smart for this). I did most of my drafting long hand or in markdown.
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People need to give their "This good thing is bad" muscles a rest for the day with the USPS covid tests. This is a government program working with crappy data in the context of decades of administrative and political neglect. Yes there are going to be problems.
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There's something so depressing about the way that the Democratic Party addresses voters. We're not allowed to have interests, made demands, feel underserved, or feel betrayed. We're told to understand ourselves as solely as mini-strategists, as people with duties but no power.
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Talk to librarians in the South. Talk to teachers. Qanon shit is just the tip of the iceberg.
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get your ass on signal if you're organizing literally anything.
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