Me, every morning

One effect for me of observing the disinformation campaigns and manipulation by governments and institutions around recent events is the conclusion that linguists and philosophers working on meaning need to be better about providing tools not just to identify, but to push back.

This is long and absolutely horrifying to read. But oh wow is it a phenomenally well done deep dive into online abuse in academia. Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so much

So excited for all the fabulous people giving talks at the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm today!!!!

One week into a 6 week trip to Seattle, Portland, Malta, Berlin, and Boston. Duolingo has decided now is the time to teach me how to say “I can’t find my passport,” “I need a new passport,” and “keep looking for your passport, your flight leaves in three hours.”

Sometimes I forget just how ridiculously happy kayaking makes me. And then I remember. - at Baker Lake, WA

Always fascinated how pro-natalism leap frogs over policy decisions that make it easier to have and raise children and goes right to forcing and coercing people to have children

Just watched strangers insist on clarifying the gender of this poodle before committing to describing it as “handsome” or “gorgeous” Cishet culture is bizarre

My experience to date is that people building something to monetize will only value community as free labor someone else is doing that adds value to the thing to be monetized. They will never value the community in a non-instrumental way, because capitalism.

a statement by philosophy faculty and graduate students on the attack at University of Waterloo https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f

corporate internet certainly seems like it's dying because it can't be trusted with user content and data. The deal was we give that up for convenience and good UX Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies

Starting a new social networking site called Vandl and it’s totally offline. Users write their posts on public or private property like bathroom stalls for example

So this just dropped

My houseplant looked like it was struggling so I decided to give it a vacation outside for a few days. As a treat!! To encourage it!!

So much this. ADHD can be my superpower - my brain is great at building bridges between ideas and when I get into smthing I can hyperfocus for hours. But I need a lot of scaffolding to survive. And this job loads SO MUCH onto profs and then gives us zero structure or help. It feels like drowning.

Now is a great time to plug my paper on this new site, Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure, which will eventually be updated with stories like these: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029

Plus universities are allowed to consider gender when “making a balanced incoming class.” If there are over 65% women, prestige drops and men stop applying. But more women apply to college than men. To keep a gender balance, colleges routinely make it easier for men, ESPECIALLY white men, to get in.

People warned the academy and the wider world about this. We said that uncritical support for this bullshit was costing trans and gender non-conforming lives. We said that it was making our courses unsafe. "Academic freedom," they said. Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.

A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them. I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is

😳🫣🤯 ngl this kinda makes me embarrassed to be a philosopher

Narwhals are the tadpoles of the unicorn lifecycle