- Jun 2022
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alex-hanna.medium.com alex-hanna.medium.com
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I’ve also learned, thanks to my doctoral training in sociology, that one must expand one’s personal problems into the structural, to recognize what’s rotten at the local level as an instantiation of the institutional. Our best public sociologists, like Tressie McMillan Cottom and Jess Calarco, do this exceptionally well.
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www.theescalanteprogram.org www.theescalanteprogram.org
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thecalculusproject.org thecalculusproject.org
- Apr 2022
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Even as he was critical of overabundance, Gesner exulted in it, seeking exhaustiveness in his accumulation of both themes and works from which others could choose according to their judgment and interests.
Note here the presumed freedom to pick and choose based on interest and judgement. Who's judgement really? Book banning and religious battles would call to question which people got to exercise their own judgement.
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- Mar 2022
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www.cs.umd.edu www.cs.umd.edu
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Refinement is a social process
The idea that refinement is a social process is a powerful one, but it is limited by the society's power structures, scale, and access to the original material and least powerful person's ability to help refine it.
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There is a growing risk that advancing technology will widen the gap between rich and poor, and produce further disadvantages for poorly educated citizens.
Nice that he takes this sort of inclusive approach so early in the evolution of the internet.
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vi.to vi.to
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- Feb 2022
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www.ifthencollection.org www.ifthencollection.org
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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www.baltimoresun.com www.baltimoresun.com
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The Baltimore Sun begins grappling with its dark history.
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But the coverage, as our editorial page later noted in 2018, “deplored the inhumanity of the perpetrators without ever really acknowledging the humanity of the victims” or the community terrorized by their brutal deaths. The ire was directed at the “poor, white trash” killers, as Mencken put it; there was no empathy for — or even real interest in — the Black victims.
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Pretending we were all the same never worked, because it ignored the fact that we’re not all given the same opportunities to succeed or fail on our merits; some are privileged, others are oppressed. Refusing to recognize that only prolonged difficult conversations and much-needed soul-searching, dooming more generations to repeat the cycle.
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fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
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First, consider who gets to make the rules. Tenured scholars who, as we’ve noted, are mostly white and male, largely make the rules that determine who else can join the tenured ranks. This involves what sociologists call “boundary work,” or the practice of a group setting rules to determine who is good enough to join. And as such, many of the rules established around tenure over the years work really well for white scholars, but don’t adequately capture the contributions of scholars of color.
Boundary work is the practice of a group that sets the rules to determine who is and isn't good enough to join the group.
Link to Groucho Marx quote, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494102154839306240.html
On Yale not giving tenure to Michael W. Kraus...
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- Jan 2022
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Don’t rely on metrics that treat all users the same. Explore how subgroups of users interact with a platform, and develop metrics of user experience for these subgroups.
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- structural racism
- social media
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- mental health
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- biological determinism
- tech solutionism
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- move fast and break things
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- Nov 2021
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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COVID is disrupting scientific careers around the world. (2021). Nature, 599(7884), 179–179. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03049-6
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