sageanastasi.bsky.social
Pākehā, dream avatar of gender magic. PhD student working on political & social polarisation, trying to make data scientists read Laclau. Opinions mine. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Mastodon, where I am not active but there are DMs: @[email protected]
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www.theguardian.com/music/2022/a...
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We did it, we found the only guy the pandemic made normal
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there’s a whole mindset where symbolism and “dignity” are more important than living. it’s like they’ve taken Zapata’s “better to die on your feet than live on your knees” and turned it into “better to die on your feet alone than live on your feet with american aid”
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Since people don’t seem to be aware of this: the global aid sector was in fact in the midst of a massive amount of work around fostering local control and sustainability right up until the moment Elon Musk shot it in the head.
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In retrospect, this piece from 2009 was prescient:
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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“magical realist Zohran Mamdani” would be like if everyone on his team was human except for his ghost campaign manager and you could see a bodega cat levitating in one of his ads
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Parents don't own their children, they are their children's medical proxies and are legally required to make decisions in the best interests of their children. If they don't, the court appoints someone else. Somehow we can all understand this when it comes to cancer treatment.
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Core to our approach is that people's personal risk differs considerably -- a senior white male professor with tenure is more secure than a visiting scholar from the majority world, for example. Hence we structure possible actions around a personal risk assessment: 7/12
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The killing can be automated. The dying, alas, can never be outsourced.