I only smirked and bowed, and said the word ‘happy.
This reminds me of "Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was 'very glad'" (P&P chapter 11)
I only smirked and bowed, and said the word ‘happy.
This reminds me of "Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was 'very glad'" (P&P chapter 11)
In such instances, you can use DALL-E to quickly "manufacture" components and parts for your scene
I'm most impressed by the workflow implications of these. Reminds me that these are tools and considering them as such is powerful. Just as focusing on one writing tool is limiting, so is the case with visual tools. The aim is workflows, not tools.
ou may pick strawberries in December’s frost
If you are lucky and do not let jealousy get to you you will prosper. But do not let it get to your head and become ungrateful. Is what this section reminds me of.
I think the skill involved will be similar to being a good improv partner, that’s what it reminds me of.
that sounds like a useful analogy. Prompting like you are the algo's improv partner. The flipside seems to be the impact the author himself is after: being prompted along new lines of inquiry, making the script your improv partner in return.
When I’ve been doing this with GPT-3, a 175 billion parameter language model, it has been uncanny how much it reminds me of blogging
This is intriguing, seeing a similar return on prompting GPT-3 as from blogging. After reading this essay the first time, I played with GPT-3 myself, and even from a first attempt it is clear what he means. It feels like a similar process, prompting GPT-3 and pushing a notion, bookmark or question into my blog's feed. The first reactions on both types bring similar levels of surprial. What is however missing from GPT-3 in comparison with my blog is that blog networks are more than a 1-on-1 prompt and respons. They form larger feedback loops, which in turn lifts signals above the noise.
who had happened to arrive nearly at the same instant
This reminds me of Tom Musgrave in The Watsons waiting in his own room to conveniently arrive at the same time as, and become part of, the Osborne party
Like most things in life, the answer is a complicated balance. And you have to find your way and find your balance, which isn’t easy no matter who you are or what you do. After two years of trauma, I’m going to crack on loads more. Make some new memories, new good times, which in the future I’ll be able to look back on as part of my nostalgia. Just have to find that tricky balance.
Ruben is quoting Geoff Marshall in a video here. I recognise what Ruben says about his mental health, the melancholic funk, both from myself and E. Sometimes the current months are harder than when the pandemic first hit. Things seem normal, except they aren't. Geoff suggests adding new experiences now, so they become part of his future nostalgia, as a counterbalance to the past two years. Not pushing stuff away but balancing it. Reminds me a bit of what I used to say about 'hiding' unwanted Google results: publish more online so that it balances out and the unwanted things aren't the dominant search results.
not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays
This reminds me of Elinor Dashwood's "I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence." (S&S chapter 21)
I think it rather unnecessary in you to be advising me
This reminds me of Tom Bertram, the elder brother, responding to concern from his younger brother about the proposed amateur theatricals at Mansfield Park. "Manage your own concerns, Edmund, and I’ll take care of the rest of the family" (MP chapter 13). It feels very much like "I'm the older sibling, I know what I'm doing"
Fig. 2. A conceptual model of function discrepancies (from Chen, 2008 [45]).
This is brilliant - reminds me of a Kano analysis
https://www.kevinmarks.com/memex.html
I got stuck over the weekend, so I totally missed Kevin Marks' memex demo at IndieWebCamp's Create Day, but it is an interesting little UI experiment.
I'll always maintain that Vannevar Bush really harmed the first few generations of web development by not mentioning the word commonplace book in his conceptualization. Marks heals some of this wound by explicitly tying the idea of memex to that of the zettelkasten however. John Borthwick even mentions the idea of "networked commonplace books". [I suspect a little birdie may have nudged this perspective as catnip to grab my attention—a ruse which is highly effective.]
Some of Kevin's conceptualization reminds me a bit of Jerry Michalski's use of The Brain which provides a specific visual branching of ideas based on the links and their positions on the page: the main idea in the center, parent ideas above it, sibling ideas to the right/left and child ideas below it. I don't think it's got the idea of incoming or outgoing links, but having a visual location on the page for incoming links (my own site has incoming ones at the bottom as comments or responses) can be valuable.
I'm also reminded a bit of Kartik Prabhu's experiments with marginalia and webmention on his website which plays around with these ideas as well as their visual placement on the page in different methods.
MIT MediaLab's Fold site (details) was also an interesting sort of UI experiment in this space.
It also seems a bit reminiscent of Kevin Mark's experiments with hovercards in the past as well, which might be an interesting way to do the outgoing links part.
Next up, I'd love to see larger branching visualizations of these sorts of things across multiple sites... Who will show us those "associative trails"?
Another potential framing for what we're all really doing is building digital versions of Indigenous Australian's songlines across the web. Perhaps this may help realize Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly's dream for a "third archive"?
The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness. When we returned to the street light from the kitchen windows had filled the areas. If my uncle was seen turning the corner we hid in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed
I find this section interesting because of its repeated mentioning of the words “dark” and “odors.” There is also an immediate reference to “light” and “shadow” afterwards. This reminds me of a passage in the previous reading. It seems like the author likes using light and darkness and the contrast between them.
I did not smile.
This sentence reminds me of our discussion on how shorter, terse sentences/phrases tend to be "punchier." The boy clearly wants to go to the bazaar because of the girl to buy something, yet his uncle had forgotten to give him money. This short sentence perfectly encapsulates how the feelings of disappointment and frustration.
Connected learning environments have emergent propertiesthat develop through time, across a range of stakeholders who share power and authority.
I like the idea of "sharing power and authority." This reminds me of Kleon's "genius vs. scenius."
Similarly, the DMCA was used to quash parodies of the German World War II movie “Downfall.” In 2010, the movie’s production company, Constantin Films, started pulling these parodies from YouTube
Reminds me of one year and one anime I watched, its company, I believe it was Funimation had YouTube take down all videos that used that anime's clips, including fan made videos, so the company was the only account with that anime's footage
American copyright law gives creators the exclusive rights of reproduction, modification, distribution, performance, and display. The viral spread of a meme infringes on theses protections as the original image is modified and then displayed, distributed and reproduced when posted and reposted. However, within copyright law exists the doctrine of fair use, which allows for use of a copyrighted work in the creation of new work without permission, as long as the use fits within certain parameters. A legal finding of fair use takes into account the following factors: The purpose of the use, The amount of the work to be used, The effect of the use on the market for or value of the original work, and The nature of the copyrighted work.
This reminds me of a similar discussion regarding Youtube and movie scenes, behind the scenes footage, or soundtrack music, and to an extension fan made videos. Since in the before times such materials would be found on the film's official DVDs/Blu-Rays and soundtrack album, the discussion was about if uploading those materials and/or editing them to make fan creative content would fall under regarding both ethics and legal issues since the sharing of the film contents via Youtube makes it free for watching or listening instead of having to buy the film or soundtraack to have access.
The story’s charm disguises the invasion of privacy at its heart: the way technology is both eroding our personal boundaries and coercing us in deleterious ways.
This kind of reminds me of like fan-fiction that are based off of known famous people. Made up stories about real people though not thought of as an invasion of privacy like this situation.
Ed has stories about sneaking into packed concerts and late nights running around the city and ditching school because that’s what Jack is doing.Jack.
The way this is written reminds me of the way people talk about their arch-nemesis... specifically the way timmy turner's dad says "dinkleberg". Im visualizing stede shaking his fist like a cartoon villain
Al,you need to learn to treat yourself like you would treat anhonored guest in your house.”
This reminds me of the quote “you are your own worst critic”
uch of the public world is also structured as thougheveryone were physically strong, as though all bodies were shaped thesame, as though everyone could walk, hear, and see well, as though every-one could work and play at a pace that is not compatible with any kind ofillness or pain, as though no one were ever dizzy or incontinent or simplyneeded to sit or lie down. (For instance, where could you rest for a fewminutes in a supermarket if you needed to?) Not only the architecture, butthe entire physical and social organization of life tends to assume that weare either strong and healthy and able to do what the average young, non-disabled man can do or that we are completely unable to participate inpublic life.
this is a little too relatable. I feel like I need a place to rest or sit down all the time, and there are very few locations where this is actually possible. also, this reminds me of the study of psychogeography and the fact that there are almost no benches or accessible resting options in downtown Seattle and various other neighborhoods.
The breakdown of the population into generational tribes makes one realize how many realities coexist in the same space. They sometimes dovetail, overlap, affect each other, but they remain separate.
This reminds me of an essay I read long ago about conservatism (I think), which describes the value for people in being and/or feeling part of ‘the eternal round’ (or something like that). In part it’s a desire for your children and grandchildren to live in the same world as you, the depth of that connection.
Splish-Splosh! Splish-Splosh! The
This reminds me of the “Baa! Baa!” of the sheep. It seems like the narratir likes using descriptions of repetitive sound as well.
“How do you know?”
There are more characters and dialogues in this story. It reminds me of the conversational attribution we discussed earlier. But there were only two people at the time, and it might be possible to infer who said each sentence by calculation, but here, there are more people who build the dialogue together. Although most sentences are followed by a speaker's name, can the computer infer these few sentences without a speaker's name?
Oh merciful Death, let me see it before your arms enfold me, before your voice whispers to me, “Rest at last!
This reminds me of a catholic prayer. Also looking into it more, I wonder where "Rest at Last" is italicized and why death is capitalized. It makes me wonder, because rest at last and death are usually used interchangeable in other context.
the merciless dislike and distrust with which I am met by other people
Jennings' thoughts of self-worth, and the fact that he's brightened up by a modicum of kindness, reminds me of how tragic his isolation and history is.
Take a drop more grog, Mr. Franklin, and you’ll get over the weakness of believing in facts!
This reminds me of Betteredge's view on the benefits of being "superior to reason," a view he first presents after Cuff points Miss Rachel's suspicions behavior out to him. My interpretation of this is that Betteredge believes it is good to hold on to certain beliefs firmly, even when reason may suggest that they are wrong.
The first instinct of girls in general
Again we see a generalization of women; reminds me of Betteredge's comments before. This would be interesting to think about computational analysis-wise.
He might not have respected my life. But he did what none of my own countrymen had ever done, in all my experience of them–he respected my time.
This reminds me of Mr. Murthwaite's saying that the three Indians are perfectly great people even though they would not hesitate to kill for the Moonstone.
We must not judge others. My Christian friends, indeed, indeed, indeed, we must not judge others!
The irony is that she spoke in one way but but actually acted in another. However, I think she is not repulsive. It's the aristocratic education she received in her childhood that made her conservative. It reminds me of Lady Gratham in Downtown Abby.
The loss of her jewel seems almost to have turned her brain
This passage reminds me of another novel, "The Lord of the Rings", and how the power of the ring in that novel also poisoned the brain of its owner. The main difference between the two examples is that the ring in the Lord of The Rings is a magical object, while the Moonstone only has magical affects on people (it itself does not have any intrinsic magic properties)
The sacrifice of caste is a serious thing in India, if you like. The sacrifice of life is nothing at all.” I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves
There is a clear conflict here that reminds me of the topic of superstitious discussed yesterday. For Indians, they have a strong belief in the moonstone, and for them anything they do is a sacrifice (even life can be sacrificed). However, to the foreign British (such as the narrator), they are just murdering thiefs. The narrator does not understand this belief of the Indians. It is actually a conflict beween cultural beliefs.
The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adorned, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continues to be known in India to this day–the name of THE MOONSTONE.
I found this portion of the text very interesting. I am not sure if this text has any relation, but it reminds me of Ash Wednesday. Growing up catholic, my mom would always make me go to mass before school so my ashes would be on all day so everyone can see. This Moonstone seems like a similar resemblance to the ashes on your forehead because it signifies who you are and what you stand for.
One of the wildest of these stories related to a Yellow Diamond–a famous gem in the native annals of India.
This reminds me of the recent scandal involving the YouTuber Emma Chamberlain. At the 2022 Met Gala, Chamberlain wore a yellow diamond choker that had allegedly been stolen from India by the British Empire during colonial times. The necklace, which was commissioned as an heirloom piece by Maharaja of Patiala, allegedly went missing in 1948 before it was auctioned to Cartier in 1982. Chamberlain faced controversy over the imperialist and colonialist roots of the diamond. I wonder if this novel will follow similar themes.
I’m not entirely sure how to feel about it, to be honest.
i’m always like why don’t i like harry v much and then i realize he reminds me of me but i do feel like i like myself but anyway!!!! this would be me to a T
It refers to the shoddy police work, the flawed forensics, and the confirmation bias and tunnel vision of the Italian authorities whose refusal to admit their mistakes led them to wrongfully convict me, twice.
I was 17 when Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison, but I think my parents followed the story more closely than I did as I vaguely remembered the details of her case (until reading this article of course) but I immediately knew who she was upon reading her name in the headline. While what happened to Amanda was horrific and completely unjust, this kind of situation is not uncommon especially if you are anything but white. This story reminds me of the Central Park Five, the five young black boys coerced by police into admitting that they brutally beat and raped a woman and left her for dead in Central Park, 1989. The similarities between the two cases, besides the wrongful conviction, being shoddy police work and unfair treatment by the media. The shoddy police work is what really grinds my gears. American or Italian, they were pressured so heavily to place blame quickly and preserve their reputations that ultimately their biases against the American woman or the black boys and their inability to admit their mistakes determined the accused. How are they not heavily under investigation especially after the accused were eventually exonerated? How are people that are so easily willing to lock up innocent people to save their own jobs allowed to be a part of a justice system?
Perhaps my least favorite discourse is the crowing about how the whites have destroyed the meaning of “namaste.” They clearly haven’t, because Indians still say it. Nothing has been lost, you just spend your time around non-Indians now.
For some reason this reminds me of "everyone who posts on the internet is using marketing tactics now" – no, the people whose posts on the internet you see are using marketing tactics
But that is extrapolative and impermanent, armoring metaphorical cockpits, rather than thinking about what this episode has taught us about the wildness that lurks beneath modernity.
The wildness that lurks beneath modernity, reminds me of the racketeer guy from Atlas Shrugged. I guess there is a sect of the elites that want to speciate, Homo Deus.
there's a lot of discussion about complex systems you know we've been discussing complex systems and i just want to make a couple of points here because uh 01:31:28 commonly some it is not uncommon that someone will say a complex system well that just means that it's liable to fall apart at any moment you know it's just too complex it's going to crash uh but and that that obviously can 01:31:41 happen you know systems can collapse quite quite true but obviously life would not be doing very well if the if if the evolution builds complexity 01:31:53 in species and you know in organisms and ecosystems if life would be have a rough go of it if it was so fragile that uh complexity became a 01:32:07 burden and and uh you know come and then you know you reach a certain level of complexity and then you fall apart that's not really i don't think i mean that can happen but that's but but complex useful complexity 01:32:19 doesn't make you fall apart it actually just does the opposite it serves what we've been talking about all along and that's problem solving so we are anticipatory organisms we are problem 01:32:31 solving organisms it's our nature most of what the human brain does is to solve problems of one kind or another social problems physical problems whatever and maneuver in the world you 01:32:43 know in a useful way and complexity is what allows that there's a number of studies that i cite here that show that as an organism even as a robot you know 01:32:56 faces uh more difficult pressures from its environment it complexifies and complexifies by complexity then it's it's it implies 01:33:08 a greater number of parts coordinating or cooperating in some way uh to you know solve this new challenge and obviously as a human we're very complex we have 01:33:22 we have complex needs we have we can think not just what's going to happen in the next millisecond but what's going to happen we can think about what's going to happen in 100 years i mean part of this project is to think about what might be 01:33:36 happening over the next hundred years or even a thousand years so as an organism complexifies it become it at least potentially becomes a better adapted to solving more complex 01:33:49 problems so you could and from that sense you could almost ex equate complexity with problem-solving capacity you know at least in a uh you know in a 01:34:01 general sense and then i talked about well that just reminds me of in the free energy calculations that we um have gone over in various papers it's like accuracy is the modeling imperative and 01:34:14 then complexity is tolerated to the extent it facilitates accurate modeling so if you get the one parameter model and you got 99 and it's adequate and it's good then you're good to go and you're gonna go for simplicity 01:34:26 but then what you're saying is actually the um appearance and the hallmark of complexity in the world it means that that organism has the need to solve problems at a given 01:34:40 level of counterfactual depth or inference skill or temporal depth temporal thickness
While complex systems these days has connotations of being more fragile or more challenging to fix, In evolutionary biology, complexity has evolved in organisms to make them more adaptable, more fit. Human beings are complex organisms. Most of our brain is dedicated to solving one type of problem or another, we anticipate the world and problem solving involves choosing the best option based on anticipation and our models.
that's something that insect with a six-legged version is now it's the whole super organism oh well the ant colony is society that whole frame is actually the shadow of 01:18:52 what the evolutionary reality is which is that the ant colony is an organism not a super organism and the ants are tissues and so which level we prioritize or do we say no there's no a priori level ant is just i'm not even 01:19:05 gonna say there's anything out there called ants it's it's you how you're thinking about it or do we get lost or are we going to find a ladder in that multi-scale yeah well the latter is you know the 01:19:17 latter is active inference because it doesn't say active inference doesn't say make a make an internal model of the world that is accurate that actually accurately captures all the all the 01:19:30 details of the world of the universe that's not the point that's not what the mind does that's not the point the point is to act under uncertainty 01:19:41 given some useful model of the world act under uncertainty so that your fitness score improves and by fitness score here we essentially mean you know and anticipated uncertainty so i i would 01:19:55 very much like to be have some certainty that i'm going to be alive tomorrow and if it's freezing outside and i don't have a coat on uh you know that that becomes iffy so uh i'm going to be happy 01:20:06 if i'm going to be i'm going to go find a coat because it is going to reduce my uncertainty about survival over the next 24 hours but you can expand that you know outward right we we need to act the all organisms are acting under 01:20:19 uncertainty and and we can think about that as we can think about that um we can think from that perspective as a society of what are we doing and how do we measure 01:20:31 success well we're measuring success by acting under uncertainty and then re and then paying attention to what happens and then acting the same or differently or you know some other way or somehow some were 01:20:45 then choosing to act again in this cycle of act uh you know act uh process act process act process you know model act model act model that reminds me of course of the ooda 01:20:57 observe orient side act model and other sort of cyclic models of action and perception and then i would say that active inference provides a few nice little benefits over other phrasings of action and perception 01:21:10 qualitative and philosophical ones like inactivism as well as quantitative ones like cybernetics and other kinds of control theories so i totally agree this
An organism acts under uncertainty to reduce it to meet its objective.
They’re in middle school, now, and their group of friends is bigger than just the two of them. There’s a whole group of them – they all gather together during lunch time and they all eat together and they’re all very loud and they always have fun. They stick together when they go home, too, and the group thins out as their friends head off one by one until it’s just Seokjin and Namjoon left, walking together. Their homes are close. Namjoon doesn’t invite him over.
reminds me of elementary school :(
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/06/spring-83/
I've been thinking about this sort of thing off and on myself.
I too almost immediately thought of Fraidyc.at and its nudge at shifting the importance of content based on time and recency. I'd love to have a social reader with additional affordances for both this time shifting and Ton's idea of reading based on social distance.
I'm struck by the seemingly related idea of @peterhagen's LindyLearn platform and annotations: https://annotations.lindylearn.io/new/ which focuses on taking some of the longer term interesting ideas as the basis for browsing and chewing on. Though even here, one needs some of the odd, the cutting edge, and the avant garde in their balanced internet diet. Would Spring '83 provide some of this?
I'm also struck by some similarities this has with the idea of Derek Siver's /now page movement. I see some updating regularly while others have let it slip by the wayside. Still the "board" of users exists, though one must click through a sea of mostly smiling and welcoming faces to get to it the individual pieces of content. (The smiling faces are more inviting and personal than the cacophony of yelling and chaos I see in models for Spring '83.) This reminds me of Stanley Meyers' frequent assertion that he attempted to design a certain "sense of quiet" into the early television show Dragnet to balance the seeming loudness of the everyday as well as the noise of other contemporaneous television programming.
The form reminds me a bit of the signature pages of one's high school year book. But here, instead of the goal being timeless scribbles, one has the opportunity to change the message over time. Does the potential commercialization of the form (you know it will happen in a VC world crazed with surveillance capitalism) follow the same trajectory of the old college paper facebook? Next up, Yearbook.com!
Beyond the thing as a standard, I wondered what the actual form of Spring '83 adds to a broader conversation? What does it add to the diversity of voices that we don't already see in other spaces. How might it be abused? Would people come back to it regularly? What might be its emergent properties?
It definitely seems quirky and fun in and old school web sort of way, but it also stresses me out looking at the zany busyness of some of the examples of magazine stands. The general form reminds me of the bargain bins at book stores which have the promise of finding valuable hidden gems and at an excellent price, but often the ideas and quality of what I find usually isn't worth the discounted price and the return on investment is rarely worth the effort. How might this get beyond these forms?
It also brings up the idea of what other online forms we may have had with this same sort of raw experimentation? How might the internet have looked if there had been a bigger rise of the wiki before that of the blog? What would the world be like if Webmention had existed before social media rose to prominence? Did we somehow miss some interesting digital animals because the web rose so quickly to prominence without more early experimentation before its "Cambrian explosion"?
I've been thinking about distilled note taking forms recently and what a network of atomic ideas on index cards look like and what emerges from them. What if the standard were digital index cards that linked and cross linked to each other, particularly in a world without adherence to time based orders and streams? What does a new story look like if I can pull out a card either at random or based on a single topic and only see it or perhaps some short linked chain of ideas (mine or others) which come along with it? Does the choice of a random "Markov monkey" change my thinking or perspective? What comes out of this jar of Pandora? Is it just a new form of cadavre exquis?
This standard has been out for a bit and presumably folks are experimenting with it. What do the early results look like? How are they using it? Do they like it? Does it need more scale? What do small changes make to the overall form?
For more on these related ideas, see: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22spring+%2783%22
seamlessly
Reminds me of a common trope in technology: frictionless user experience. But for whom are these technologies very much a rough experience?
"yin" hacking accepts the aspects that are beyond rational control and comprehension. Rationality gets supported by intuition. The relationship with the system is more bidirectional, emphasizing experimentation and observation. The "personality" that stems from system-specific peculiarities gets more attention than the measurable specs.
This reminds me of my preferred approach to UI development. I can't get behind using design tools to completely architect solutions - I'd rather write the HTML myself and explore different elements, then pick the best ideas that emerge and continue with them! In this way embracing the idiosyncrasies of the web platform is a wonderful experience.
However, I'm not sure how we tolerate system specific peculiarities in other ways - it just doesn't make sense to rewrite every program for every device everywhere, which is why we have abstractions and standards. Business logic should always work the way it's designed!
Each society would maintain a 'master memex' containing all papers, references, tables "intimately interconnected by trails, so that one may follow a detailed matter from paper to paper, going back through the classics, recording criticism in the margins."
reminds me of Project Xanadu
It builds alliances as it travels, provokes translation or mistranslation, and creates new publics and debates. By losing its visual substance it recovers some of its political punch and creates a new aura around it.
This reminds me of those trad memes that have been widely circulated, often with zero regard to or knowledge of their origins in rightwing and white supremacist/nationalist spaces. Rather, the context has sometimes been completely rewritten to something less politically charged. What does it mean for someone to laugh at a meme, someone who the meme's original creators probably hate?? The image sparks these debates too, across social networks!
Do not wish to be called holy before one is holy; but first to be holy, that you may be truly so called.
This reminds me of the issue of announcing attainments in Buddhism.
Keep death daily before your eyes.
This reminds me of young Buddhist monks being made to stare at decomposing bodies.
“You heard it, Pat. He thinks Pence deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.”
This is so sophmoric. It reminds me of the mean kids in high school.
the institutional response to smart innovation is based on an evaluative mechanism which is driven by metrics of efficiency and a rationale of technocratic and post-political governance
This reminds me of various criticisms of smart cities' reliance on data for both operation and evaluation, as there are ways of knowing that data completely overlooks and, perhaps, can never truly see.
To Jacobs “the city” was not a plan, a grid, or a highway network, it was a disorganized collection of haphazard incidents and acci-dental encounters between strangers
Reminds me of Hannah Arendt's critique of attempts to replace governance with design. When we try to design around the inherent chaos/disorganization of communities instead of strategizing with it, we get problems.
everybody who submits a change to code should be given commit access, in order to reduce the bottleneck of a single maintainer reviewing and approving those changes
It kinda reminds me of Wikipedia's model. But are there tools/systems in place like Wikipedia has that prevent abuse?
For Jerome Bruner, the place to begin is clear: “One starts somewhere—where the learner is.”
One starts education with where the student is. But mustn't we also inventory what tools and attitudes the student brings? What tools beyond basic literacy do they have? (Usually we presume literacy, but rarely go beyond this and the lack of literacy is too often viewed as failure, particularly as students get older.) Do they have motion, orality, song, visualization, memory? How can we focus on also utilizing these tools and modalities for learning.
Link to the idea that Donald Trump, a person who managed to function as a business owner and president of the United States, was less than literate, yet still managed to function in modern life as an example. In fact, perhaps his focus on oral modes of communication, and the blurrable lines in oral communicative meaning (see [[technobabble]]) was a major strength in his communication style as a means of rising to power?
Just as the populace has lost non-literacy based learning and teaching techniques so that we now consider the illiterate dumb, stupid, or lesser than, Western culture has done this en masse for entire populations and cultures.
Even well-meaning educators in the edtech space that are trying to now center care and well-being are completely missing this piece of the picture. There are much older and specifically non-literate teaching methods that we have lost in our educational toolbelts that would seem wholly odd and out of place in a modern college classroom. How can we center these "missing tools" as educational technology in a modern age? How might we frame Indigenous pedagogical methods as part of the emerging third archive?
Link to: - educational article by Tyson Yunkaporta about medical school songlines - Scott Young article "You should pay for Tutors"
aside on serendipity
As I was writing this note I had a toaster pop up notification in my email client with the arrival of an email by Scott Young with the title "You should pay for Tutors" which prompted me to add a link to this note. It reminds me of a related idea that Indigenous cultures likely used information and knowledge transfer as a means of payment (Lynne Kelly, Knowledge and Power). I have commented previously on the serendipity of things like auto correct or sparks of ideas while reading as a means of interlinking knowledge, but I don't recall experiencing this sort of serendipity leading to combinatorial creativity as a means of linking ideas,
Reviewer #2 (Public Review):
This is a behavioural study (healthy participants) looking at how people trade-off a brief phasic pain stimulus with a monetary reward. People make pairwise choices between a painful electrical stimulus and an amount of money, with different groups receiving offers from different ranges (0-5$; 0-10$) and distributions (skew or not). This allows the authors to estimate indifference points.
There were several findings:
i) a curvilinear intensity x value function, regardless of context.<br /> ii) a context effect: people require more money to accept pain if the range of offers is higher<br /> iii) decisions slowed when accepting pain, especially for high pain<br /> iv) higher trait harm avoidance was associated with high pain avoidance in the task<br /> v) with a skewed (exponential) distribution of trials, subjects end up accepting less pain, but tend to accept higher offers when made.
Some comments on each finding:
i) interpreting the shape (linear, non-linear) of the value function is always a bit tricky - it reminds me of the old data on the power law for stimulus response functions. But especially the issue here is that ratings or %tolerance is bounded, but intensity isn't, so inherently one is likely to get a non-linear function when doing any mapping onto a bounded scale. Of course this isn't really the main point of the study, but is worth noting
ii) the context effects are interesting. Similar effects were shown by Vlaev for the context effect of range. The effect of exponential distribution I think is consistent with Chater's model of relative value effects.
iii) Slower decisions with more pain are interesting. Fields's motivation-decision model deals with inhibiting pain when accepting 'greater' rewards, and shows slower innate pain responses (e.g. tail-flick). Did the authors gather intensity ratings? The lack of a choice difficulty effect is also interesting - is a drift diffusion model applicable (I don't think they placed time-pressure on the response)?
iv) The harm-avoidance finding is not that surprising. How did the authors correct for multiple comparisons across the 5 principal components?
v) for the greater profitability index - is this confounded by the fact that these subjects overall received less pain. This would an issue, for instance, if there was a cumulative effect of overall pain ('I can only take so many pains in one experiment')?
So overall, the study supports and adds to previous findings of a context-dependency deriving from the distribution of rewards, which is a deviation from conventional rational choice theory. It's a nice experiment, appropriately powered and carefully executed, and develops the ideas behind the behavioural economics of pain.
You might update your board twice an hour or twice a month; you might amend one sentence or reboot the whole thing. Publishing a new version is instantaneous, as easy as tapping a button. You don’t have to manage a server to publish a board; you don’t even have to establish an account on a server.
reminds me of locket but web-based and with full user agency to create what they want. their own little pocket of the internet. Love the no account part and think that's super important..
Client applications display all the boards you are following together, laying them out on a 2D canvas, producing unplanned juxtapositions, just like the newsstand above.
Reminds me of the neocities webgardens (that list of creators is incomplete), doing something like this with iframes and friendly convention.
It also allows the Enslaved project members to make their database easily searchable and interlinked, a major advantage over traditional archives.
I want to echo this point about the database making it more advantageous, since it coincides with the exact idea that you mention later: they want to secure the humanity of those that weren't able to have that autonomy. There are so many records of human life lost for the fact that it was not valued as much as others, and it reminds me of the erasure Indigenous people face as well. The repression and potential subsequent loss of their native languages, the lack of acknowledgement for their humanity in many cases, (i.e. Ecuador is currently dealing with numerous lives lost in regards to Indigenous rights now), so a database as so crucial for the history of many different people. I wonder if there is something as such for specific Indigenous peoples around the world.
Fatherhood can be such a wonderful thing for both fathers and children, but all too often it is a relationship structured by the ugly power dynamics of patriarchy, marked by broken relationships, emotional distance, and psychological, physical, and sexual abuse.
I'm grateful for this thinking. The commercial sales pitch for Father's Day is aggressive in its hegemony -- the disconnected father celebrated on the one day a year he is made to engage. This reflection reminds me of the ethos of the origins of Mother's Day, started by peace activists and public health advocates. It was about the unique position of the mother to advocate against the meaningless deaths of her children -- especially sons in war. What is the equivalent ethos for Father's Day, a day whose roots are deeply entrenched in Catholicism and patriarchy?
Recommended preliminary reading Antonini A., Benatti F., Blackburn-Daniels S. ‘On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2’, 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (July 2020): 13–15. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372923.3404785 Grafton, Anthony. Worlds Made by Words : Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (Harvard UP, 2011). Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (Yale UP, 2001). –––. Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia (Yale UP, 2005). Ohge, Christopher and Steven Olsen-Smith. ‘Computation and Digital Text Analysis at Melville’s Marginalia Online’, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 20.2 (June 2018): 1–16. O’Neill, Helen, Anne Welsh, David A. Smith, Glenn Roe, Melissa Terras, ‘Text mining Mill: Computationally detecting influence in the writings of John Stuart Mill from library records’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36.4 (December 2021): 1013–1029, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab010 Sherman, William. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (U of Pennsylvania P, 2008). Spedding, Patrick and Paul Tankard. Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
An interesting list of readings on annotation.
I'm curious if anyone has an open Zotero bibliography for this area? https://www.zotero.org/search/?p=2&q=annotation&type=group
of which the following look interesting: - https://www.zotero.org/groups/2586310/annotation - https://www.zotero.org/groups/2423071/annotated - https://www.zotero.org/groups/2898045/social_annotation
This reminds me to revisit Zocurelia as well: https://zocurelia.com
No one was keeping detailed records of these deaths, nor was anyone making even more basic information about what had happened publicly available. “We couldn’t get that information,” explains Gwendolyn Warren, the Detroit-based organizer who headed the unlikely collaboration: an alliance between Black young adults from the surrounding neighborhoods and a group led by white male academic geographers from nearby universities.1 Through the collaboration, the youth learned cutting-edge mapping techniques and, guided by Warren, leveraged their local knowledge in order to produce a series of comprehensive reports, covering topics such as the social and economic inequities among neighborhood children and proposals for new, more racially equitable school district boundaries.
This paragraph reminds me of my personal experience of working with social enterprises. When I was in charge of a corporate social responsibility project, I had to do marketing but there was no available data of the company's csr activities. Same way as the young adults did, I had do gather data from local welfare centers and scraps of data from the company database that proved that the company is really a social enterprise and not whitewashing its brand. It seems that collaboration between local youth and companies can make progress in the digital humanities field in various sectors and methods.
No one was keeping detailed records of these deaths, nor was anyone making even more basic information about what had happened publicly available
This reminds me of the point made in chapter 1 about there being a lack of data surrounding maternal/birth data. It raises the question, "what data should we be recording?" and "when should we start recording data?". On one hand, one may argue that we should start collecting data as soon as it becomes significant, that is, there is a pattern to be seen. However, not all data can be treated in such a way. Perhaps yes, if you rolled a die that kept landing on 6, after the 4th time you may decide to collect data on how many times the die lands on 6 as there seems to be a pattern of it happening. You can't use the same logic when it comes to the example the is presented in the first paragraph of this chapter, that is, a number of black children being killed by white drivers at a very specific spot. At which point does one decide to start collecting data, and does it imply that the first few children killed were not important enough to start taking data then?<br /> It is something I hadn't much considered before these chapters, the idea that with humanities based data there is a vaguenesses as to how to deal with the data, because in many cases the data reflects real human lives. This then opens the door to another question I'll have to keep in mind as I go through this class, "what are the ethics of the digital humanities?".
On Williams’s Instagram feed, dozens of women began posting their own experiences of childbirth gone horribly wrong.
Great example of instagram # projects and initiatives, it reminds me of the recent Roe v. Wade protests on instagram about reproductive justice.
Alternatives have been developed by well-meaning groups, but adoption has been slow, in part because many designers have simply failed to consult the actual women for whom they are designing.
This reminds me of public toilets in urban construction. It is not hard to find that the number of men's and women's toilets is the same in almost all cities. Because most urban designers/planners in cities are men, they don't need or take into account that women have menstrual problems and may take longer to go to the bathroom, which is why there is always a line in the women's room and an empty men's room.
entered into discussions with Blackwell Publishing about editing a volume prospectively titled “A Companion to Humanities Computing.” Blackwell wanted a title that might appeal to a wider range of readers and so proposed “A Companion to Digitized Humanities.” Unsworth countered with “Digital Humanities” to keep the field from appearing to be about mere digitization, and the name has stuck, helping to characterize a robust area of research and teaching supported by a number of prestigious conferences, well-received journals, scholarly societies, and even a dedicated office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
This consideration of title got me thinking about the connotations surrounding the word "humanities". There's a good point brought up by the fact that "humanities computing" carries with it a sense of needing to know computer science in order to understand it, due to the term "computing". "Digitized" sounds like physical archives were photographed and uploaded online somewhere, which is an understatement as Miriam Posner's "How Did They Make That?" shows that the field is not simply about digitizing information, but instead using digital tools to present qualitative information in new and interesting ways. It reminds me of two years ago when I took LACOL's data science class, but with more of a focus on other things that I hadn't considered before.
When watching the LACOL DH introduction videos, I made a Slack comment on what I thought humanities meant to me and stated that I wasn't sure but cited literature and music amongst the first things that came to mind when I heard the word. "Humanities" carries a connotation associated mainly with the arts and history. I don't know if this is strictly personal and based off of both the culture and education system I grew up in prior to college, but "arts and history" feels like an understatement as well. The humanities looks not just at things, but the science behind those things. Take writing for example, when I initially started my creative writing minor I expected the classes to simply be writing drills and the occasional analysis of classical literature. However, it is instead the in depth look at what makes literature the way it is, hence why writing is called "a craft". Much like the research I do for my neuroscience major, my humanities minor pushes me to study different parts of a whole and see how they work together to form a finished product.
Therefore, although the title "Digital Humanities" stuck, is there not still a connotation that this title carries? Much like how use of the word "computing" would appeal more to those with more computing skill and "digitized" would imply simple digitization of already existing material, "digital humanities" carries its own implications. Fitzpatrick touches on this, yet, although the name has already stuck, and it would be confusing to change it now, I do wonder both what connotations the name holds for a variety of people and how that could be changed.
access to public transit plays in processes of gentrification
This wording is really interesting because it almost seems to frame public transit itself as the root cause of gentrification rather than the way it's marketed and used to further development. As this article mentions, this wasn't always the case and living by railways, etc was once a sign of less desirable neighbourhoods which means perceptions of whether this is a attractive things or not has to be constructed. This also reminds me of the findings of Gebru and Buolamwini that facial recognition technology is much less likely to detect dark skinned people's faces, and the subsequent tweet from an Indigenous man about how he would like it kept that way so he doesn't get over surveilled. This is an issue worth interrogating but the solution definitely requires a feminist lens and to look at other factors and context
gentrification
This reminds me of the debate currently taking place over the Broadway plan https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-tenants-union-broadway-plan-renters-survey
game of strategy
Indeed. This reminds me of Mehal Shah's Ignite talk, "Fighting Dirty in Scrabble." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aq6sJEuVU
Mrs. Walker brought a persimmon to class and cut it up so everyone could taste a Chinese apple. Knowing it wasn’t ripe or sweet,
I find this interesting here. She wanted to see if everyone noticed that it wasn't ripe? This reminds me of earlier in the story how the boy didn't know the difference between the two. He only knows what a persimmon is.
As we move into the second decade of fully exploring and enacting digital writing practices in our classrooms, my hope is that we can invite students to be knowledge creators, not just consumers and remixers.
This reminds me a lot of a digital writing assignment I did in 11th grade. Instead of doing a traditional research paper, we did an informational "thread" on this website called Edmodo. It was reminiscent of a Twitter thread, basically. We had to make 10 different "posts" for the thread, which would be equivalent to paragraphs of a research paper.
With that being said, I really think this project I did is a great example of allowing students to be "knowledge creators"; not just because we were pretending to be "content creators" from social media. We weren't just researching information and presenting it in a unique way, we were controlling how the information was presented.
my writing identity
Reminds me of the difference between identity and persona. I wonder if identity can wear through to become mere persona, shallow like a D&D character?
mulling
Reminds me of the word "muddling" and one of my fav books, Muddling towards Frugality by Warren Johnson. He argues that change must not be systemic and revolutionary, i.e. quick, it must be piecemeal, experimental, and ---muddling. Maybe consider your plight from this angle?
we need to be comfortablewith the restless nature of life
This reminds me of the phrase there is no growth in the comfort zone. We have to learn to accept change. It is a normal part of life.
the environment that you canbuild that is based on the child you see in front of you
How can I better built the environment I have for my students to be more individually appropriate for them?
This reminds me why canned curriculum can be a good starting place but it may not be most appropriate for the individual child.
sounded as though it had not yet settled into maturity.
This reminds me of how they treat their children and how they do not desire to be parents. He has not yet settled into maturity and he does not want to take the responsibility of being a good parent.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Gall's Law is a rule of thumb for systems design from Gall's book Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail.
It reminds me of the TCP/IP versus OSI network stack wars.
Identify winning.
This reminds me of the success criterion we use with our students. It helps students know how they will meet the object, and identifies what success 'looks like'.
She wanted a little room for thinking
This reminds me of Virginia Woolf's great essay "A Room of One's Owen"--that women need a space to call their own in order to be ourselves/to become ourselves. A room wasn't often provided like this in previous time periods.
"I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for?"
This reminds me of what Sonny's friend said at the beginning when the narrator asked if Sonny was trying the kill himself. He said to him that Sonny wasn't trying to kill himself but he was trying to live.
This student path is almost always individualistic in nature and requires a level of sacrifice that most teach-ers themselves are loath to make.
I see some of the older generation saying how they feel bad for the younger people because their generation messed things up and now it's up to us to deal with the repercussions. This reminds me of that. People give us advice that they haven't or wouldn't even do themselves. It's unfair and unrealistic, and if we can't meet their expectations we end up feeling really bad about ourselves.
I told them that if the mass of the native people chose to rise, and try to throw off the yoke, I would say nothing against it, but I could not approve of mere rioting.
reminds me of her comment describing hawaiisn as not tending to riot (after queen emma lost)
As teacher-researchers, we devoted significant time and resources to un-derstanding the nature of youth involvement in popular culture and the ex-tent to which systematic involvement with popular culture in academic settings could facilitate the development of academic skills and critical facul-ties.
As I read the articles from a couple of weeks ago, I've realized the importance of an educator being culturally aware. I think it is also to be aware of pop culture surrounding students so that you can understand the modes of communication. It reminds me of a pass lecture where Barry stated that teachers might see headphones in as rude or obnoxious. However, to the student who might live in urban city, uses the music as an outlet to study.
In summary, exactly who is going to pay is being shifted around, while utilities are going to have a harder time borrowing money because credit agencies have adjusted for the systemic risk unearthed by the winter storm. Reducing that systemic risk via winterization should restore the creditworthiness of the utilities.
I see... reminds me of this: https://www.kaseyklimes.com/notes/2019/3/15/003-nobody-to-shoot
The grim future I’d seen in Baghdad was coming home:
The collapse of infrastructure is very real. This reminds me of when there was rapid freezing in Texas along with other weather events and this caused mass groups of people to be without energy and heat. How can we solve this issue of dependent infrastructure with the global climate crisis? https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-winter-storm-power-outage-ercot/
When you say “Élan vital!” it feels like you know why your hand moves. You have a little causal diagram in your head that says:But actually you know nothing you didn’t know before. You don’t know, say, whether your hand will generate heat or absorb heat, unless you have observed the fact already; if not, you won’t be able to predict it in advance. Your curiosity feels sated, but it hasn’t been fed. Since you can say “Why? Élan vital!” to any possible observation, it is equally good at explaining all outcomes, a disguised hypothesis of maximum entropy, et cetera.
This reminds me of Feynman's observation:"It's a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it's called a halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call it a chung ling and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird."
Sometimes knowing a name stops our curiosity to push our understanding further because we cheat ourselves into thinking that we know more than the mere name. This is a fallacy.
plow major roads first
I am not sure if I can really make this argument as it might sound a little far fetched without researching city planning, but the idea of a major road reminds me of the idea of marketing and capital gain in the way that the major roads lead straight to the town, or to the most people or material goods etc...the most profit for the town or the most traffic, and in most cases the areas with the most money.
show orchestras and men’s choruses have re-corded sea music with pop arrangements in asort of easy-listening chorale style.
reminds me of the examples of Irish music we talked about
Academic labor practices, conditions, and structures have conspired to mask or reduce women’s roles in digital history.
This paragraph reminds me of a unit I'd learned in a history class about women in the workplace and the labor practices bestowed upon them in the 1920's. Following the First World War, when women in Canada stepped up to take the place of men away at war, they were often tethered to their workplace. From restrictive dress code to literal tethers to your desk, women have been constrained in the workplace since they entered it.
12, He Reads at a First-Grade Leve
This goes to show how faulty an education system could be, either within staff or the curriculum itself. It reminds me of how students have different learning styles and simply may not understand the teachers teaching style. This halts them from performing at their best.
The self has been refashioned as a commodity to be optimally maintained and incessantly improved upon. Spontaneous, organic bodily aliveness is preemptively displaced by a prescriptive, performative pseudo-vitality of self-surveillance and self-control. What need is there for repression?
The self is a commodity to be optimally maintained and incessantly improved upon.
Reminds me of the ethics of Transhumanisim.
What are all these people trying to be?
the books we have dog-eared into submission
Reminds me of the book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard. The public's interpretation of a book can be very different compared to what is actually there.
In example of a book dog eared into submission is Atlas Shrugged. When Yaron Brook goes in the Lex Friedman Podcast to talk about Atlas Shrugged he seems to be really missing the point. Sure it is nice to talk about living a principled life but there is also an attitude of the type of behavioral filth there exists in society.
I told my Mom,and she didn’t believe me, I told her laterand she didn’t believe me. I told her two years later and she didn’t believe me” (Ngo, 2022).
It is upsetting to read how parents chose not to acknowledge their child's preference in sexuality. It reminds me of how sometimes people suggest that a child Is too young to know their sexual preference, but do not realize how the child is left unheard. I feel that if parents are more informed on the different sexualities to further hear out their children and learn how to address these situations properly.
When asked how his K-12 experience was different from that of his peers-and how his identity as LGBTQ+ affected those experiences, Ngoexplains how his coming-out experience was never a one-time thing, In terms of coming out, I suppose I never necessarily “came out” as a whole event
This reminds me of the old YouTube videos I have watched where people have "came. out" as a whole event. I feel as of though we have progressed into a society where older people have became more accepting because gen-z people have been educating the conservative generation. Also the media overall, now the new generation has done a good job advocating for LGBTQ rights and overall keeping up with activism.
List of essays published online
This reminds me that we need a process for adding an essay that is not in the HTML file for the book (an online-only essay). Maybe this is just the CMS.
The Catastrophe is manifestly wrong, for an Opera must end happily. 91 Beggar. Your Objection, Sir, is very just, and is easily remov’d. For you must allow, that in this kind of Drama, ’tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about
I like how by stating that 'in this kind of drama' there aren't any happy endings because it reminds me about the connections that the play is making to real life. It's essentially portraying a more realistic side of humanity with a more morbid kind of justice and that not everyone gets a happy ending.
Macheath. I shall wish myself with you. Success attend you.
"Macheath" this name reminds me of the word cheat
Would I might be hang’d! Polly. Would I might be hang’d! And I would so too! Lucy. To be hang’d with you.
This reminds me of how Romeo and Juliet both died for each other
For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town
The darkness on the edge of town reminds me specifically of how in Severance Candace finds herself becoming the NY Ghost again after the collapse. Before, when she first moved to New York, the NY Ghost was a means to explore this concept of the darkness on the edge of town, the places where people don't often go, where secrets can be stored, where society begins to lose it's grasp on humanity. This darkness spreads from the edge of New York until it envelopes the entire city, the entire country, the world. By the end of Severance Candance is still looking for a place in this darkness. ****
He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain
Ah, the precipice. Springsteen is talking about two men, who are related, standing in different places. The father is dry and neither indoors or outdoors, he bridges both realms and is neither washed and clean from the rain (baptism) or dry and full of sin. This reminds me of Melody and Big Mat in Blood on the Forge as the Big Mat stayed within the precipice between sin and goodness, and Melody embraced the rain as does the speaker in the song. Big Mat betrayed his class, but only out of his own self interest, while Melody separated himself from the class struggles at the forge and survived.**
The working, the working, just the working life
This refrain, as well as the title of this song, reminds me of multiple works from this semester: "Life in the Iron Mills" and "Blood on the Forge". In both of these texts, our the working life is what defines the characters. They do not merely work for a living, work is in fact their lives and that means working round the clock and doing whatever it takes to keep working. Here, Springsteen highlights how even something as all consuming and crushing as factory work can become a way of life, and how that way of life becomes inseparable from people existence and experiences. Even when the whistle blows and the shift is over, that doesn't mean the working life ends, it only means the workers must go somewhere for the night, taking all the pain and toil that they carry, and get ready to return tomorrow.
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it They carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose
this reminds me of the scene in one of the dagoberto gilb stories when the protagonist is waiting outside the library and flirts with the idea of accepting having nowhere to live. While this Springsteen line is alluding to holding something in and Gilb's is about holding onto something, the tension is the same. they both depict a constant strain. they both romanticize a release.
I've done my best to live the right way I get up every morning and go to work each day But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode Explode and tear this town apart
Networking Annotation #4: This quote just reminds me of working in general. We work and we work and everyday we would wish it would end, but in the end we still work. It made me think of this quote from Severance where Candance went "“I was like everyone else. We all hoped the storm would knock things over, fuck things up enough but not too much. We hoped the damage was bad enough to cancel work the next morning but not so bad that we couldn’t go to brunch instead." I found it had the same tension and desire to run, but in the end many don't do that and just work. It really tell a lot about labor. We keep quiet exploding on the inside, but never on the outside.
Some folks are born into a good life Other folks get it anyway anyhow I lost my money and I lost my wife Them things don't seem to matter much to me now
This reminds a lot of Ruth and Martin Eden and how Ruth was born into "a good life" and Martin "[got] it anyway anyhow". It also reminds me of the final moments in Martin Eden specifically how the line "them things don't seem to matter much to me now" can be related to Martin losing his will for life and ultimately taking his own life. it really gives you perspective on work and how pursuing work and be very draining to the point of death. Losing a job can make one feel that they have lost everything but what's reinforced throughout the novels that we have read is the fact that work is necessary whether it be blue-collar or white-collar work .
Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price
That sense of having the hunger to work to achieve those dreams, and imagining what it might be like to achieve those dreams. the line "you want it, you take it, you pay the price", reminds me of Martin Eden and his willingness to take what he could and do what he needed to do to become a successful writer, paying the price. This is also somewhat reminds me of Gilb and how his characters are very work-centric in the sense that they have to work to make a living, and although they don't pay a drastic price like Martin Eden does, they still have to pay the price of doing the labor of Blue-Collar work.
When we found the things we loved They were crushed and dying in the dirt We tried to pick up the pieces And get away without getting hurt But they caught us at the state line And burned our cars in one last fight And left us running burned and blind Chasing something in the night
This last stanza reminds me a lot of Blood on the forge in the sense that the brothers loved each other but each one was essentially crushed in the story. Melody couldn't play the guitar anymore, Chinatown lost his vision, and Big Matt essentially lost a mental battle that eventually led to his death. They all tried to "pick up the pieces" but ultimately failed in one way or another. Overall they were chasing "something in the night", they leave at night via this train in search of better pay in essence chasing that working life up north.
But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes And she cries herself to sleep at night When I come home the house is dark
This reminds me of the fear that Martin Eden had for his future when he was averting the women of his "caste." he feared his own future if he continued to be a laborer and didn't get any success as a writer and the he judged the women in his community as an avenue for that fear. Springsteen is achieving something similar, the "girl" is withering at the consequences of the speakers lifestyle and the speakers actions. shes with someone who's sense of fulfillment comes through escaping their reality.
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life The working, the working, just the working life
Networking Annotation #5: A consistency to a patterned life is what producing in a job or workforce means. Springsteen, seemingly describing what looks to be a cycle of the same life in the lyrics "The working, the working, just the working life" is like a repetitive series of events that you relive each day to enjoy the little free time outside of working. This case of repetition and cycling reminds me of the novel "Severance" by Ling Ma, where the main character "Cadence" is working to keep her mind off of the life that is crumbling around her. Often times, when people are sad or life is getting troublesome, there will be these habitual formalities that are created due to stress and depression that lead people creating cycled habits like getting lost in their work. Keeping a steady and healthy workload is important but it is also more important to enjoy and recognize the life around you as well. This is what Springsteen is trying to teach when he talks about his father essentially working his life away.
She sits on the porch of her daddy's house
Annotation 3: For the woman to be struggling and feeling that she can’t make her dreams come true reminds me of Candace's old job when she used to work in a bible corporation. In Severance, Candace had moments where she dealt with bad working conditions which made her question if she could get herself out of the situation and pursue her dreams. Candace realized how capitalism in the west oppressed factory workers more than in the east. For instance, Candace recalls telling a client that making the gems for the bible can end up hurting the workers due to the gritty air. In other words, the working conditions causes Candace to relive those moments and make her question whether or not the job is worth it. The woman sitting on the porch represents Candace reflecting on her life. Springsteen, in this particular line makes it seems the woman is waiting for her dreams to come true while she thinks about her life.
I pick up my money and head back into town Driving cross the Waynesboro county line
Reminds me of Martin going back into town after working at the laundry springs. Working himself to exhaustion only to further exhaust himself with drink. The only way to relax, but it comes at a cost literally and physically.
End of the day, factory whistle cries Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight It's the working, the working, just the working life
I agree with Bunny and how we get the depiction of routine with the repetition of the "working life". However, these lines also remind me of Blood on the Forge, specifically the line "And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight". It reminds me of the Mills in Blood on the Forge and how if the workers weren't careful they could end up hurt or dead. the "death in their eyes" could also be representative of work day and night without getting proper rest.
You're born with nothing and better off that way Soon as you've got something the send someone to try and take it away
This line reminds me of Martin Eden and Ruth. Martin was born with nothing and when he tried to become a writer the woman he loved told him he wouldn’t succeed as one. The verse: “someone to try and take it away” really focuses on the idea of people’s dreams being crushed by someone else.
importance of gender differences to young students at a time when they also are working through different ways of being gendered themselves.
This reminds me of elementary school when the teachers would divide us to play girls against the boys and there was an immediate sense of tension and competition to see which gender was better. I remember even now I feel like these experiences have shaped me into becoming a more competitive women and supporter for girls supporting girls. I feel as of though because I also grew uo with females around me, I am a big advocate for feminism.
Where everyone can manipulate code like we manipulate word
Reminds me a gain of Roam.
What if humans spoke in compilable code? What if we thought in that? What if we do?
Ti Bon Ange, the spirit of the deceased, releases itself rapidly but lingers close to its corporal body
Reminds me of the Kalunga line which is often associated with bodies of water, with the Atlantic Ocean being prominent. They believed the soul after death traveled the path of the sun as it set in the west. The enslaved believed they were being taken to the land of the dead, never to return.
Rebecca. But you forgot the rule. You're supposed to raise your hand.
It's upsetting to see how common it is in schools for teachers to punish women students for being less disciplined, where it is deemed normal for male students to be less disciplined. This reminds me of my own middle school experience as I was more likely to get criticized for my opinions rather than my male peers' opinion.
Just as the constant surveillance experienced by Summer and Angelica mar-ginalizes students by making them feel that they are suspect, the spreading of rumors and shaming are also disciplining mechanisms that ostracize and impact belonging. In particular, during a two-hour group discussion with three Latina/o friends, the stigmatizing and shaming of pregnant students were pervasive.
It upsets me reading these high school experiences as it reminds me of my time in high school. It is insane how quick everyone is to shame students for anything. My high school administrations was quick to give detention or penalize students of color. When they would see a group of latinos gathering they would walk up to them and question them before passing.
purity
Reminds me of more contemporary commentary to “shut up and play” or “shut up and dribble”, etc
Listening to MiddleEastern music became a political act
so performative and reminds me of a lot of the "activism" that is common on social media today
they adopted or combined popular songs from North America,England, South Africa and elsewhere, and often translated them into variousAfrican language
reminds me of the ways we in the US sort of just mash up random "ethnic" things that aren't even that related to each other
It appears that the courses in school aren't really the hardest part about it. And the material taught in classes is probably the least of what is learned within these walls. But what kids learn, is it helping them or pulling them apart? School is more of a war zone-a place to survive
This reminds me of my own high school experience. I was taking honors and AP classes which meant my classes consisted of higher achieving students. I found myself often struggling to ask for help as my peers did not like to help one another. This could have possibly been because they saw everyone as competition.
Also, they're trying out [[cohousing]], which of course immediately pricks up my ears.
Awesome!
Reminds me of the [[hutterites]] which I learnt of only recently. And of course the [[kibbutz]]?
At Harvard, for example, Weissteinhas reported that women were banned from oneof the libraries because, as she was told, theywere thought to distract men from serious schol-arship. Weisstein was not allowed access to theequipment she needed to conduct her doctoralresearch; she was told that, as a woman, she wouldsurely break it.
This is so crazy to me of how men blamed women for “distracting them” while it was their problem for not how to respect a woman. This topic reminds me of today and how we are still fighting for men to stop looking at women just as sex figures and blaming us for their actions and lack of control. Still till this day men/women criticize women on how they dress/ present themselves and as well as create such a hostile environment through actions such as “cat calling”.
In 1851, at a women’srights convention in Akron, Ohio, SojournerTruth (1797–1883), a former slave, gave herfamous speech ‘‘Ain’t I a Woman,’’ in which shedemanded that her experience as an enslavedBlack woman be recognized in both the suffrageand the abolitionist movements
This speech reminds me of a current social issues surrounding Black Lives Matter. During the protests of 2020, there was a huge movement supporting specifically black women and women of color. Studies were showing that women of color were experiencing more discrimination throughout their lives compared to men of color and were more heavily oppressed. This oppression stems from the systematic racism that our history has allowed including this lack of inclusion of women of color in the women's rights movement from the very beginning of the movement.
The Act would requireregulation of everything from public postings to pri-vate e-mail messages.
This reminds me of the Patriot Act, signed into law by George W. Bush. Essentially, the Patriot Act called for the allowance of surveillance of people's private calls, emails, and internet usage for the purpose of stopping terrorist attacks before they are ever able to begin. Looking back, this invasion of privacy was very close to infringing on people's First Amendment rights. Attached is a video for a more concise definition and why it was so controversial.
the Internet appears to be a virtualplayground for pedophiles and anarchists to roam,thereby creating a demand for increased regulation.
This line reminds me of Fitzgerald's "Late Nights Online" article that we covered in class. Anyone on the internet can act like someone they are not. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to tell who someone online really is. In Fitzgerald's work, she talks about catfishing someone online. This is a part of the concern in the line that I am annotating currently.
acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships
reminds me of Charles Manson's polyamorous relationships with his "Manson Girls" and their use of sexuality for manipulation and resources
The muse, soft daughter of humanity! Will ever entertain.—The Ethiop knows, The Ethiop feels, when treated like a man;
This moment reminds me of Markman Ellis’s argument
But would’st thou see thy negroe-train encrease, Free from disorders; and thine acres clad With groves of sugar
These two are inherently tied. The slave population as like the sugar cane: different varieties, prone to pests, requiring specific "care," etc. The slaves and the commodity produced by their labor become one. (Reminds me of how the Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad were equated to the train itself to deny them housing and sustenance. As the laborer is alienated from both their labor and their humanity, they themselves become the commodity produced.)
How far more pleasant is thy rural task
Taps into the pastoral tradition of romanticing rural labor. Also recontextualizes much of the other passages on the beauty of the "island paradise"--the mere presence of rural beauty and proximity to nature is seen as ameliorating the inhumane conditions. It reminds me of how the Japanese American Incarceration in WW2 was so thoroughly associated with the grand vistas of the Rockies (e.g., in Ansel Adams' camp photography)--with natural beauty utilized to obscure dehumanization or to even claim the forced relocation was a gift/improvement.
Leave Europe; there, through all her coyest ways, [625] Her secret mazes, nature is pursued: But here, with savage loneliness, she reigns On yonder peak, whence giddy fancy looks, Affrighted, on the labouring main below. Heavens! what stupendous, what unnumbered trees, [630] “Stage above stage, in various verdure drest,”548 Unprofitable shag its airy cliffs! Heavens! what new shrubs, what herbs with useless bloom, Adorn its channel’d sides; and, in its caves What sulphurs, ores, what earths and stones abound! [635] There let philosphy conduct thy steps, “For naught is useless made:
Reminds me of the sublime and manifest destiny, as well as the frontier myth.
Monkeys are not indigenous to St. Kitts
reminds me of the thing about the cows in relation to King Phillips War (as in the different ways an ecological colonization can occur both intentionally and accidentally)
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Reminds me of Milton
How do we stand on the dead and smile? I carry so many black souls in my skin, sometimes I swear it vibrates, like a tuning fork when struck.
"Vibrates" really struck me because I normally encounter that word in science textbooks and occult texts, specifically the Kybalion. But Clark's line reminds me most of Ashon Crawley's work in black feminist studies and his assertion that "Because everything vibrates, nothing escapes participating in choreographic encounters with the rest of the living world." This resonates strongly with Clark's assertion, "sometimes I swear it vibrates." Her skin holds "so many black souls," which are not alive but they still vibrate through her skin. This vibration refuses her husband's white mother's insistence that the land could be redeemed, as these "black souls" still have an effect on the world and are received and held by others.
curate
curate reminds me of museums and the very explicit ways that white western museums of empire (british museum, met, etc) steal and pillage art and artifacts from colonized peoples and "curate" them into exhibits as a show of colonial dominance, but that these processes of extraction extends beyond museums and into the day to day workings of cities and food, etc.
the ghost of history lies down beside me, rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm
I like how the epigraph frames the content of the poem so well, showing that this is not a one-person problem but an issue that whole communities experience. The mention of history also reminds me of the "historical self," sort of alluding to the fact that history inherently haunts a person like a "ghost."
I-40 bisected the black community like a tourniquet of concrete.
This reminds me a lot of borders and border conflicts. in some writings rivers and such indicated stoping points for Englishmen who couldn't cross the river to pursue the Indigenous people. Here we see a similar situation occurring with the highway in which the imagery "tourniquet of concrete" invokes a similar violence and containment of people of color's bodies and territory.
In 2019, Smolyansky co-founded Connected Papers, one of a new generation of visual literature-mapping and recommendation tools.
https://www.connectedpapers.com/
https://twitter.com/ConnectedPapers
Something about the name Connected Papers reminds me of the same sort of linking name that Manfred Kuehn gave to his note taking software ConnectedText.
investigate both the places outside of school, in their homes and communities, where the two children and their families accessed literacy resources and the formal and informal literacy interactions that they con-structed there. In this way, we hoped to problematize the common privileging of school-centered literacy and education, challenge the discriminatory
I believe it is important in this research study to provide literacy access to the children. This reminds me of when my dad migrated to the states and would read new articles in English to help with his language barriers. Exposure to these resources impact children as they would have no knowledge to to seek it for themselves otherwise.
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings She has men who'll give her anything she wants but they don't see That what she wants is me, oh and I want her so I'll never let her go no no no
If Candy is a prostitute, then is the narrator deluding himself into believing the relationship is significant and meaningful when it is actually transactional? Reminds me of Big Mat's search for reaffirmed masculinity in Blood on the Forge...
When our study be-gan, our participants had spent at least two-thirds of their lives in their country of origin and spoke a native language other than English upon ar-rival. This study captures the realities of those youth who are contending with the profound changes of moving to a new country, with all that im-plies: culture shock, linguistic disorientation, the loss of old relationships, as well as the excitement of blazing a path to a new horizon.
This reminds me of my dad's experience moving to the states in high school. He faced a severe culture shock as he was bullied for his lack of proper speech. It made me appreciate his sacrifice for leaving his home country to better his and our future.
The view that Asians and their surroundings “stank of curry”abounded and became deployed by landlords to explain why they refusedAsians as tenants
this reminds me a lot of Zola's focus on smells in his Les Rougon-Macquart series, which equates odor with degeneration and generally low-class behavior
a wayto identify with and to celebrate the cultural heritage of their parents,
reminds me of our discussion of Irish trad music amongst Irish Americans
Alas, no actual player ever experiencesthe actual game from a helicopter or in slow motion.
I like this quote, it is really humanizing. No person has all of the experiences of the world or of both sides of a struggle that would allow them to act perfectly just or strategically. The comparison of people to players in the extended metaphor of chess reminds me of the segment of the French Dispatch we watched in class.
regular fodder for Eater’s infamous (retired) Deathwatch series, which tracked dying restaurants
reminds me of how things are always dying
In his practice, Leiris wrote,Duchamp demonstratesall the honesty of a gambler who knows that the game only has meaningto the extent that one scrupulously observes the rules from the very out-set. What makes the game so compelling is not its final result or how wellone performs, but rather the game in and of itself, the constant shiftingaround of pawns, the circulation of cards, everything that contributes tothe fact that the game—as opposed to a work of art—never stands still.
particularly:
but rather the game in and of itself, the constant shifting around of pawns, the circulation of cards, everything that contributes to the fact that the game--as opposed to a work of art--never stands still.
This reminds me of some of the mnemonic devices (cowrie shells) that Lynne Kelly describes in combinatorial mnemonic practice. These are like games or stories that change through time. And these are fairly similar to the statistical thermodynamics of life and our multitude of paths through it. Or stories which change over time.
Is life just a game?
there's a kernel of something interesting here, we'll just need to tie it all together.
Think also of combining various notes together in a zettelkasten.
Were these indigenous tribes doing combinatorial work in a more rigorous mathematical fashion?
The United States has long prided itself on the belief that anyone can succeed in this country—that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and reach their economic goals. Much of what is lacking from this discussion is the manner in which social policies and institutional arrangements reinforce poverty.
I feel as though that statement of "anyone can succeed in the U.S." is oftentimes now used as a way to put people down. It reminds me of the model myth minority in many ways as it utilizes miraculous stories of people overcoming their poverty/ hardships against all odds, without considering individual situations. Statements such as these seem to blame victims for their situations and I have firsthand witnessed the privileged use statements such as these to argue that poor people are choosing to stay poor.
Numerous judges gave examples of delinquents who had frequented "cow-boy" and" gangster" films, but most judges felt that it was unclear whetherthe movies had led adolescents into delinquency.
this really reminds me of the discourse today about whether video games encourage young boys to be violent
rmalities, including stuttering or a foaming mouth) endan-gered this process. 60 Unlike r
reminds me of the moral panic of the French second empire (Zola) but hit Germany much later
These visions of overly sexualor overly strong women and weakened men coexisted with the specter ofyoung men-whether postwar black marketeers, juvenile delinquents, orunderground members of the Hitler Youth (so-called werewolves)-whoseaggressive potential had not been tamed in the name of the state.
reminds me of the fears of degeneration and a loss of masculinity preceding the franco-prussian war during the second empire
singing along. The emotional impact of the monologuetext and its theatrical aim emphasized the solo singer's role as the centerof attention
Don't know if anyone else knows this reference but this really reminds me of Lorde shushing the audience when she was singing Writer in the Dark
The quest for a self, my blog, my apartment, the latest fashionable crap, relationship dramas, who’s fucking who ... whatever prosthesis it takes to hold onto an “I”!
This reminds me of a question I had asked regarding the egotistical and selfishly youthful desire to incite revolution. The drama, the need to say "me, me, me!" and the want to be a hero may be what drives movements forward. Whether or not they succeed is a totally separate issue.
I remember wearing my older brother David's suit for my senior pictures. It hung on me like a droopy Halloween king-sized ghost sheet. It was obvious that it was a borrowed suit of clothing.
Being brought up with a family of eight, hand me downs were very common. It was a norm to recycle clothes in my area but in cases of upper class schools I can see how a student could feel alienated not receiving the latest clothes or shoes. This also reminds me of nowadays how children are brought up on material items such as the latest sneakers so I can see how alienation could be more common.
At Halloween I wore overalls and a red plaid shirt with hay coming out of my shirt. A lifeless scarecrow of a child, I was no match for the beautiful cos-tumes purchased at local stores. Over and over and over again, holidays seemed an endless curriculum review of how I couldn't afford what the other children brought to school. My worst school holiday memory by far, though, was Easter
This reminds me of how older people claim our generation is more sensitive than the past generations. However, they failed to realize the exclusion caused by the past generations ideals. For example, when celebrating Mother's Day we know acknowledge those without mothers. I think it is best to rather than empathize with those who do not have parents but to eliminate the standardize norm of an American family. This help those who feel alienated to realize that all family comes in different standards.
child from getting necessary help; impairments in vision or hearing that go untested, undiagnosed, and untreated; or undiagnosed behavior disorders, such as AD/HD or oppositional personality disord
It's unfortunate how common it is in hispanic households for a child's mental illness to go undiagnosed because of how limited the parents are to resources for adequate medical care. This reminds me of my sister who is current diagnosed with ADD. My family was reluctant in seeking help for my sister, it wasn't until college she actively sought help for a diagnosis.
Urban poverty occurs in metropolitan areas with populations of at least 50,000 people. The urban poor deal with a complex aggregate of chronic and acute stressors (including crowding, violence, and noise) and are dependent on often-inadequate large-city services.
Would LA be considered at urban poverty? This reminds me of my friend who lives in Arizona and was so accustomed to the non crowded areas that when he came down to visit it became a culture shock. He was not used to the crowded spaces and loud noise that at times he felt overstimulated with the city itself.
Despite this lack of attention, psychology exerts enormous influ-ence in the lives of those labeled as intellectually disabled, as evidenced by the experts called by the prosecutorin the case this article is centered on, all but one were psychologists Whether it is the justification of dangeroustherapies—such as aversion therapy—or the continued reliance of the standards set by the normal curve to diag-nose and describe ideas of capacity, psychology defines the terms that determine categories and shapetreatment.
This reminds me of the old the old Willow brook facility, where they conducted similar or the same techniques to intellectually disabled patients.
I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land.
again this reminds me of James Baldwin's interview where he says: "they always told me change takes time. . .its taken my fathers time. .my mothers. . ."
I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land.
Reminds me of W.E.B DuBois' concept of the two-selves of an African American, and the right both selves have to their identity and ability to live freely.
I guess this reminds me of the term "white washed" that is used when describing a person born in the US but is Mexican (or another race/ethnicity) and has forgotten typical Mexican traditions or simply does not speak Spanish and has adopted American characteristics. This is seem as something to be ashamed of since you are not expressing the places you come from.
daily basis to subtle, negative messages that undermine the worth of their unique culture and history.
This reminds me of how when I was a child my mom didn't want me to speak Vietnamese because she didn't want me to be teased for not being able to speak English. It sucks because now I cannot speak Vietnamese and I grew up to be somewhat ashamed of my heritage.
massive student walkout in October 1989, and a number of school reforms sud: as site-based management, little has changed to significantly alter its underachieving profile. Seguin is locked in inertia. Steeped in a logic of technical rationality, schooling centers on questions of
This reminds me of the east LA walkouts which students fought for better education. The walkouts were originally initiated because of the abuse and lack of quality education the students were receiving. It is essential but nit easy for students to fight for quality education.
lthough of course we can’t real-ly know the motivations of Alan’s teacher, the mere fact of her anger— the oddity of it, under the ostensibly heartening circumstances of a student making extra eff orts to be placed in a more challenging class— suggests that she perceived his eff orts as a transgression of accepted boundaries, perhaps rupturing her sense of (racial) order.
This reminds me of the discussion we had in class on Tuesday and last week's discussion on implicit biases teachers may carry into the classroom. I wonder if in the hiring process, schools ask teachers about their comfortability with diversity and how they personally understand racism.
This white teacher is missing the point of how disturbing what was in effect cultural mocking can be on a young Asian American. Note too that the presenting child’s work was apparently not critiqued or contextual-ized by the teacher.Ann, a Vietnamese American, recalls an early incident in her life where she was made to feel different. She grew up in the Northeast and endured bullying from a white classmate regarding her Asian features
This reminds me of the previous learning where it suggests that how teacher's lack of culture awareness could lead to furthering stereotypes. In this case, the teach lack in addressing the issue of the stereotype of Taiwanese people. It is dangerous as the young students in the classroom could potentially carry this information and deem it as credible in the future.
y Asian American students were attacked on and around their South Philadelphia High School campus. Thirty of them sustained injuries serious enough to warrant a hospital visit. These Asian American stu-dents were targeted, and school officials had ignored their complaints of bully-ing and pleas for protection for years
This reminds me greatly of attacks that have recently happened to people of my culture. I come from a Mexican family and something that is very common within us is selling street food. By this I mean street vendors. Recently, people of other races have attacked them by beating them up or kicking down their little carts full of merchandise. These are innocent souls who are doing nothing wrong. Nothing was done to the people who did this and it made me a bit serious.
do both those tasks, he had become expert at counting money and knowing when or if the local grocer was overcharging. Still, he was unable to complete what appeared ro his teachers to be a simple worksheet. Without teachers having knowledge of his abilities outside of school he was des-tined to be labeled mentally incompetent. This story also exposes how curriculum content is typically presented.
This reminds me of my dads personal experience in high school. When he received his schedule he realized he was put in an ELD class that would set him behind on the path of attending college. His counselor was very reluctant to drop the ELD class because of his accent but fought against it and won. At the time he was also the main caretaker of his family in which enabled him to realize that he is capable of more than what he was told.
There's something about some users Pinterest pages that reminds me of a cabinet of curiosities, but in digital form.
Kira also attended an SAT prep summer program at the high school. "I just felt like I needed a little bit more help to feel more confident, she says. Adding, "In our junior year there were a few people who started bringing their books to study for the SAT in the five minutes between classes. It went a little overboard [laughs].
This reminds me of my own experience as there was a time period of my junior year of high school when my peers would carry their SAT books everywhere they went. I didn't realize the severity of my situation as I ignored their studying by thinking I'll eventually study. This left me at a disadvantage when it was my turn to take the exams.
That said, she also recalls chat she and her brother were occasionally shepherded home by friendly black teachers. Seeking greater safety, the family moved around South Central and southeastern Los Angeles, always in poor, mostly Latino neighborhoods. "We grew up in a com-munity where it was low-income, lots of drugs
This passage reminds me of the experiences my parents endure while moving to the states. They were also bullied by their peers as the language barrier made it very difficult to stand up from themselves. It saddens me to see how they hold resentment to the black community because of their experience from the past.
"That's also why we moved here," she says, "because the university was next to us, and I knew they offered courses for their age group. I did whatever it took to make sure that my kids were ahead a year. All three kids have always tested at least a grade or two above.
This reminds me of my own experiences, where as I first moved to California, the first thing my parents being concerned is which community they should be house in. And the factors they use to consider is the environment of the community, facilities of the community, and most importantly, the school district in the community as well as the score it is being rated. They always believe that it is important to live in a place where the school district has a high rated score and there are many access in the community that can help daily life and academics.
And as for solitariness, the great forests of the north, the expanses of unnavigated waters, the Greenland ice fields, are the profoundest of solitudes to a human observer
This narrative of "unnavigated" reminds me of the fronteir/a lot of the ways that land is seen as "undiscovered" to justify conquest. This also relates to the invocation of "human" here, which as Wynter and Yusuf point out is a category constructed around whiteness--what "human observer" is Melville talking about?
tortoises
this reminds me of sloane's descriptions of food and how people would eat turtles
British cuisine due to that nation’s central role in the sanctionauthorship. Though never as popular in Italy as coffee, afternoon tea quickly became potumnon grata. Ethiopian-produced hibiscus tea, called Karade, provided an autarkic alternative toteas from the British plantations in India and was ubiquitous in the period’s advertising.
so fascinating- the manipulation of ads to push a political agenda- reminds me of the dairy industry today
here was a kind of routine. They were very gentle modest people who would come in the door quietly with their instruments usually hanging down by their legs, like they were sneaking it in, and they would park their instruments somewhere around the stage, if you had a stage.
reminds me of jazz jam session culture.
Zion, a middle-class African American/Latino student, was an exception who managed to jump track. Zion was good in math yet found himself placed in an algebra backup class in ninth grade,
This reminds me of my dad's experience in high school. He would tell me of the struggles of being hispanic with a language barrier because of how often administration would dismiss his intelligence. For example, they would place him in ELD, a course that would affect him in the near future. As he was planning on attending college and this set back would affect his required courses to transfer to college.
This chapter focuses on I-tow the structures of Berkeley High Sch~l cqptribute to the reproduction qf racial and social class-based inequality at the school.
This reminds me of what I have often heard when I was in high school. During summer and weekends in high school, I have to take group classes and private classes for SAT. There are always adults and teachers mention that we need to use this advantage of taking the class while there are people who do not have the chance to do so in order to improve their SAT score. This is true that in SAT class, teacher will talk about the method to do problems as well as give advises about the way to write and solve problems in order to get a higher score, and this gives disadvantage to children that are from a lower income family where they do not have the chance for having this external support.
Easy to Jump Down, Hard to Jump Up lt is difficult, though not impossible, to "jutT1p track" upward (Harklau, 1994). Very few students try, and even fewer succeed.
This quote reminds me of how I felt through out my freshman vs my junior year in high school. Since I found myself hanging out with the wrong crowd my freshman year it was so easy for me to jump down and just not care about school. This has also to do with the fact that there was never a constant environment where adults were constantly motivating students to succeed. The reason why I started trying my junior year was because my friends began motivating me. It is true that you are who you hang out with.
compliance is also one aspect of schooling that keeps some students from feeling they can challenge the very structures that repress them. They often feel silenced and alienated from public education at an early age.
This portion stood out to me as it is common within households to not challenge authority. It's a subliminal action that carries onto adulthood. It reminds me if hispanic parents who hold the power to restructure and elect quality education officials to help transform the schools. The thought of not being able to question authority stops the parents from doing such an act.
They may not reach out to their professors when they are performing poorly in the class, fearing that they will be judged as lacking in the ability to succeed in school.
This reminds me of a Professor Rendon under the school of ecology, in which she addresses the issue of low income students who have little to no guidance often doing bad in college. This lack of guidance talked about in the passage resonates with us as a community as most of the time all college preparatory resources are very new.
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Reminds me of a lot of forms of media stereotyping in the US (ie the Blacksploitation films of the 70s)
Probably it’s important to remember the looming presence of climate change, as a kind of techno-social disaster
This reminds me of the movie What Happened to Monday as that was a disaster created in part, if not totally by human choices and decisions, that paralleled the technological advancements at the time.
Probably it’s important to remember the looming presence of climate change,
reminds me of The Maze Runner
lot of dystopias around these days,
this reminds me of that cinematic era between 2012-2015 where every dystopian, young adult book was made into a movie and it was always about the government being corrupt like in Hunger Games or Divergent.
Probably it’s important to remember the looming presence of climate change, as a kind of techno-social disaster
This kind of reminds me of the movie the 5th Wave. Where there was disaster everywhere and government had control over all technology advances but also implemented chips into all the younger people
Berlant’s “cruel optimism,” which is perhaps thinking and saying that things will get better without doing the work of imagining how.
This reminds me of the same in the Bible that faith without works is dead.
Parents were racing from activity to activity. In families with more than one child, parents often juggled con-flicts between children's activities ... Because there were so many activities, and because they were accorded so much importance, children's activities determined the schedule for the entire family ...
It is true that middle class families are hectic with their children's daily activities. Unfortunately this is a common factor in hispanic households such as mine. It reminds me of how my parents often struggled going to work and finding a ride from school to home. It was not very simple for my parents to pick us up as we were a 30 minute commute from school to home. With this my parents had me and my sister collide schedules as my sister would end her practice at 5 pm and I was left to go study at the library until 5 pm everyday after school.
, math and reading gaps between high-and low-income children have grown substantially over the past three decades. Data from a recent national study of children who entered kindergarten in the fall of 1998 allow for a more detailed look at income-based gaps as chil-dren progress through school (figure 3.1).
This reminds me of a personal experience as the schools in the Lynwood district did not accurately prepare me in subjects such as math or English. When I transferred to the Torrance School district I was instructed to take an exam to see where I stand academically. The results indicated I was at a 4th grade reading level as a 7th grader. I was extremely embarrassed but as time progressed I now know I wasn't at fault, it had been the schools curriculum that did not prepare for the upper grades of school.
With an income of more than $300,000, Alexander's family was able to spend far more money on Alexander's education, lessons, and other enrichment activities than Anthony's parents could devote to their son's needs.
This reminds me with my own personal high-school experience. Around my senior year of high school I was introduced to the SATs and have no prior knowledge of the importances of the exams. Around this time I would see my peers paying for private tutors or SAT bootcamps to help boost their score. I realized how unfair it was as I was forced to study for an exam that I had no resources for except the free online practice tests. It introduced me to the disadvantages of being a first generation student as I was experiencing the college prep process by myself while my peers had all the best resources.
All but the saxophone were extracurricular activities. They consumed an inordinate amount of the family's weekday and weekend time, and also cost a lot of money: "Soccer costs $15 per month, but there are additional, larger expenses periodically. The ... soccer team's new warm-up suits, socks and shirts cost the Tallingers $100. Piano runs $23 per weekly lesson per child. Tennis clinic is $50; winter basketball $30. It costs the family money to drive to out-of-state tournaments and stay overnight. Fees for Garrett's summer camps have varied; some have cost $200 per week .. .
This reminds me about my personal experiences. Starting at a young age, I have took many classes that needs additional money on education. Other than going to private school, private extracurricular activities classes they need to be take everyday every week is another big portion that my parents need to spend money on. It is also true that as I step into high school, I joined the tennis team and every season, everyone need to pay for a fee that uses to support the team. In addition to that, there are also cost for buying clothes, shoes, drinks, fruits, and snacks during practice and matches. This does not seem much but it actually come up with a lot, and it is true that children that interested in extracurricular activities need support from their family in economy.
Children are more successful in school when they are able to pay at-tention, when they get along with peers and teachers, and when they are not preoccupied or depressed because of troubles at home.
This reminds me of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Physiological and safety needs need to be met in order for a person to focus on other things. These needs are what low-income students struggle with most often. If they are constantly worried about them, it is not a surprise that their academic achievement is lower than more affluent students. When these basic needs aren't met, students can translate them into attitude problems. Teachers and school staff can sometimes think they are personal, but in reality it has nothing to do with them. One should try to be as understanding as possible and really listen to the complaints of low-income students because they can reveal why they are unable to focus or do well in school.
With the promulgation of the Immigration Act of 1891 that mandated the exclusion of persons suffering from a “loathsome or danger- ous contagious disease” and, additionally, that required steamship companies to disinfect passengers before transit and bear the costs of possible deportation, a new era of inspection began. This and subsequent laws—which rearranged and expanded the criteria of exclusion—turned entry into the United States into a passage partially defined by a medical vocabulary of pathology and health. Moreover, as the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) began to play an impor- tant role at ports of entry throughout the country, the mediation of immigration through a new set of medical criteria became quite real for those migrating dur- ing this period.
This reminds me of some of the stories I've heard from Ellis Island where if people were deemed as "ill" they received an 'X' on the back of their clothes and had to stay for days until cleared.
Ifthewriterhas donehisjob,thetravel willproveworthwhileandmaybeevenentertaining.
It reminds me of a certain feeling I get when writing is so good I just can't stop reading because I'm tucked into some seatbelt.
Can you imagine reading that, and you’re going to go home and do an experiment? What are you going to do?
-> definitions should be given in actionable terms - reminds me of Vernon Blake's belief that a good drawing should give enough 3 dimensional data to carve a statue (such data does not require light and shade or intense modelling - simply a 3 dimensional perception in the mind of the artist translated faithfully onto paper) - simply labelling is a learning trap: give real examples, actionable ones preferrably - if not then give multiple definitions (viz. I. A. Richards) to see around the concept
Davis (2006) wrote that “even the best phonics-based skills program will not transform a child into a strong reader if the child has limited knowledge of the language, impoverished vocabulary, and little knowledge of key subjects” (p. 15). Language comprehension consists of three elements that must be taught so that students apply them strategically (as opposed to automatically) during reading. As students interpret the meaning of texts, they must strategically apply their background knowledge, their knowledge of the vocabulary, and their understanding of the language structures that exist between words and within sentences.
This reminds me of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and his belief that language and cultural tools shape our thinking and development.
people’s brains actually register more satisfaction from cooperating than from winning alone
This reminds me of the concepts of individuality and team mentality. I think society can benefit a lot from a team mentality because it allows you to be caring and selfless.
It’s why those who can’t trust are the ones who can’t be trusted.
I really love this quote because it kind of reminds me of Jishnu and Leela. Both are very untrusting people and in turn are not trustworthy. Leela on the more face value level while Jishnu in his own tier.
visual dimensions of scientific racism
Unclear about the exact definition of this term, but it reminds me of racism in medical figures. Many diseases and syndromes in biology and medical textbooks only show examples of how the symptoms appear in white people. Especially for skin disorders, this makes diagnosis on non-white people very difficult!
Theinvisibility of a person
This reminds me of the novel "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison which addresses many of the social issues black people faced and continue to face in the 1900s. The main character feels often socially invisible in this novel.
f “fixes” for underexposure in order to calibrate the color;for instance they could add more lighting to darker subjects
Reminds me of the corporation who has installed sensors that were indifferent to black people. Offering fixes that keep the current status quo.
Sylvia
Hi Sylvia, I really like your summary and narrative that you did for this assignment. I love the way you explained that story about Gary Soto’s childhood. I enjoyed Gary’s Story because it was short and nice. Your childhood memory reminds me of my childhood memory, I also used to play restaurant games and used to cook sand and rocks as food. Your assignment was pretty good. I think you should give little more detail about Gary. Your summery was short and narrative was long if both the paragraph is similar length it would be better.
blution,” he said, aloud, taking pleasure in the
this entire paragraph reminds me a lot of portrait, and I mean there's generally been a theme in all of our readings of people that particularly enjoy how words feel on their tongue, but the whole "he could do without people, people were a waste" adds even more stephen-like
nder its sway, bourgeois society, freed from political cares, attained a development unexpected even by itself.
This reminds me of an interesting point in the film where the teacher is asking the students to give examples of the privileges that the upper classes hold.
being under that microscope has given me insight into how wrong a media narrative can be, how easy it is for all of us to consume other people’s lives as if they were mere content to fill up our Twitter feeds.
I hadn't heard of Amanda Knox before reading this article. I don't even think I'm aware of Stillwater, the film that she talks about throughout the article that is based on her story. This reminds me of other people that have had their lives turned into Hollywood movies. Even if they are considered "feel-good" movies, like The Blindside the people depicted often aren't pleased with how they are portrayed. The main problem with the dramatization of normal people's lives, is that the viewers will believe that it's how it truly happened. On some level, we all know that Hollywood blows things out of proportion. However, we love a "based on a true story" or documentary style film about "true events." More recently I've seen these types of shows become more popular, from "Inventing Anna" to "The Dropout." These stories are about real people, and we only get the dramatized version. Even if these people are "bad" people, they don't get to have their side heard. I've seen people complain about glamorizing certain events, but the people portrayed more than likely had no say in the matter.