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Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
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Why do cats head butt your hand right as you're pouring their food in their bowl goddammit.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Tenure is like giving a hot fudge sundae to a toddler. The toddler says they want the biggest hot fudge sundae EVER. You pile that shit sky high with the works, make it art. And the toddler will spill it on the floor because he only wanted vanilla sprinkles, not rainbow sprinkles.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Oh also I was told everything I do isn't enough for me to keep my job hahahahahahahaha

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This semester I taught two classes (one met for 6 hours a week), wrote a 50k word book, wrote three other papers, developed a study abroad course, ACd a conference, gave two invited lectures, submitted two funding applications, completed major updates to my tenure and promotion documents ...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I finished the manuscript today and now I want to throw up and set my laptop on fire.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

That any person finds utility in an AI system that normalizes their speech and presents them as "respectable" for the purposes of gaining access to resources and society is not praise for AI, but a condemnation of society.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Kitty is helping!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is fundamentally different than what Wendy Brown talks about as a 'wounded attachment' bc Brown is thinking explicitly in the context of the lib public sphere, and this sits at the neolib/fash convergence on private individual/property. The claim is not political wrong but property loss.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

When we discuss functioning labels and advocate against their use, people often come up with a new euphamism or complain that they can't talk about "their issues" (with someone else's needs).

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments