drjuliawester.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, educator, organizer | Field School and UMiami | Unironically loves Florida, even when it hurts me
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That’s a helpful framing for me actually. I’ll cop to not being super into the SW universe outside of Andor, though I’ve enjoyed some of the movies throughout my life, but I also appreciate there’s significant lore here that’s it’s reasonable for the show to want to incorporate
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Makes me think of Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax
Nanny Ogg: "You mean you weren't chosen?"
Granny: "Me? No, I chose."
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One of the show's greatest strengths so far has been granting its characters real agency. Just the fraught, devastating, disappointing, beautiful reality of people making choices.
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Woof, this is messed up and I don’t find their justification very compelling. I tell my students that IRB exists because a bunch of social research before was just crime, but that IRB approval is not a substitute for their own moral judgment (it is necessary but not sufficient)
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In our house whenever one of the cats does something stupid, one of us says in a singsong voice “did we learn anything?” And then together we all chorus “no!”
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“Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.”
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In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS rules that the blood-dimmed tide is to be loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence should be drowned. Sotomayor dissents
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PUBLIC BELIEF IS FORMED BY PEOPLE TALKING TO EACH OTHER. IT IS NOT FORMED BY EACH PERSON CAREFULLY CONSIDERING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES IN A SILO.
If you don’t take part in the talking, the public will probably not magically develop views that align with your own!
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All of these can be true:
1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views.
2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism.
3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
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Anyway, we can't go on like this. Culture has to rescued from the fascists, the tech bros, all who want to drown us in profitable slop. A country in touch with the best humanity has created, where people can make a living broadening and adding to that canon. This is the America I want.