tbfld.bsky.social
Ex-academic, ex-artist, editor/writer (EU research network grants đŻ), Open Syllabus co-founder, nettime mod 25 yrs. I âworked at the intersection ofâ when it was a red-light district not a venn diagram. Deep South đ Deep North.
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Now you did too
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Alternatively, that actually was you walking off, your memory that youâre you was no longer true, and the whole thing is actually the canniest thing thatâs happened to whoever you are now. Or something like that.
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The sooner everyone affected coalesce around a single, concrete, consistent message that includes *everyone affected*, the better. âAttack on scienceâ doesnât meet any of those criteria. [3/x]
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Trump & Co saw one court ruling after another going against them, so theyâre returning to the most effective tactic theyâve found to date: the wholesale defunding of universities. [2/x]
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The right has never let go of Reaganâs fetishes, and theyâll never let go of Trumpâs. Destroying NIH etc will *always* be one of their aims, so those agencies will lose one of their key virtues â stability. If you were an early- or mid-career researcher, how would you see that as a career path?
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I ask because Iâm becoming more sharply aware of how everyday internettisms â âplaybooks,â âtimelines,â âweâve seen how this movie ends,â etc, etc â cast the descent into fascism as inexorable, and in doing so tacitly justify passivity. And I donât like it.
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What are the upcoming phases, then?
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I explained how this would go down months ago:
Feb 11: www.facebook.com/tbyfield/pos...
Feb 18: www.facebook.com/tbyfield/pos...
Mar 4: www.facebook.com/tbyfield/pos...
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Iâve seen them peering out of shrubbery with an unmistakable mix of hope and anxiety, but Iâve never been able to catch one. One day.
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Itâs amazing how persistent the â90s-era âjust block people!â approach remains. As if no practical or theoretical progress had been made on this ubiquitous, systemic problem over the last 30 years, and weâre all still trapped between the Scylla of libertarianism and the Charybdis of the algorithm.
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Mall rat
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Funny to see Isotype there. A decade ago datavizzies routinely, even dogmatically insisted that it was unrelated to what they do.
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Wrong. NYU is, because Barron goes there. Russia is. Fascists are. The list goes on and on.
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Yes, lots of people who argue itâs an attack on science, and (obv) they arenât wrong. But Trump & Co are attacking *much* more, and, as I said, narrow framings are a mistake. For ex, several weeks went by when academics outside of the life sciences fooled themselves into thinking they were exempt.
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They definitely donât understand, even in narrow areas â for ex, life-sciences academics casting NIH cuts as an âattack on science,â when really science was just a vector for attacking higher ed, with impact calibrated to prestige. Misframings like that are everywhere, and theyâve been catastrophic.
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đŻ right. But if they do it, we will *be* Nazis and fascists for the rest of our lives, because itâs our responsibility as citizens to stop them. We donât get to say âthatâs just our government, not me bro, Iâm cool.â
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đ neologism there đ
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If I said yes, the average people would assume Iâd at least sampled it, or even that I was a deviant â for example, that I valued p or something. Those assumptions may be the norm, but I think theyâre regressive or just plain mean.
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I hope Iâm not being too forward, but you might consider exploring your feelings with a caring professional, like a randominatrix. OK, now Iâll stop.
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Looking for entropy in all the wrong places đ
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PROBLEM SOLVED! It means ârandom with an elaborate footnote.â I avoid using it, but the phrase *stochastic terrorism* is a thing.
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Just because you see things differently doesnât mean you should be so closed-minded! It takes all kinds to make a world â just not poor people, who technically arenât a âkindâ of person, they just donât have stuff. If they wanted it they could get it, but they donât bc theyâre biased against wealth.