Category: Control
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I asked Google Bard to explain…
Google Bard helps folks understand how all social media and tech companies get SO VERY MUCH free labor from all those who use it.
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Back to beginnings
Sometimes, it is better to junk some efforts with which you have been engaged than to continue their upkeep while simultaneously wasting your time. Social media was this for me. I was big proponent way back in 2008-2010. I saw that it could have some real world impact. Then it…
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Loving as heeding the vocation of humanization
Lecture from PHIL 2306, Intro to Ethics, 07March2023: Finding the ground for ethical theory and moral action. I propose that most “vicious” / vice-ridden reactivity to our circumstances arises from dehumanization. Therefore, if there is a place where we can overcome such a perspective it must be in the realm…
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Health as Shame Generator
Lots of shame comes out of the Health Industrial Complex. Whether it’s a physician measuring your failure in pounds or a fitness guru manipulating your desire to “look fit and attractive,” shame plays a HUGE role in keeping most people miserable with their self-image. Aubrey Gordon has produced an excellent…
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Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist
We are seeing the culmination of Neoliberalism’s Society of Control as more people turn to accumulating cultural capital as a means of increasing power which includes wealth rather than gaining wealth that generates power
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Caring about the immunocompromised
Good article for thinkering about an ethics of care for those who are most vulnerable during this pandemic… Close to 3 percent of U.S. adults take immunosuppressive drugs, either to treat cancers or autoimmune disorders or to stop their body from rejecting transplanted organs or stem cells. That makes at least 7…
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The American Maginot Line
A couple of links to very helpful information for those who have never given much consideration to how the US/Mexico border represents and enforces American Imperialism and settler colonialism. For most Americans, there is a lot still to learn; these are good starting places.
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Tattleware developed for the next BS War on Workers
There absolutely has been a breach of trust between employer and worker, but it’s not up to us – the underpaid and the stressed-out and the very tired and exploited – to prove we deserve our independence. Employers need to treat their workers as something more than an interference with…
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Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL
Until faculty realize that their vocation as MAGISTERS and DOCTORS, as those with TEACHING authority, actually transcends the MINISTERIAL and CURIAL power of adMINistrators and trustees, they will continue to launch little more than empty critiques of neoliberalization.
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A Black Odyssey: Coming from Slaves and Studying Slavery | Society for Classical Studies
My nephew, Javal Coleman, who studies Classics at UT-Austin just published this reflection. When I began my undergraduate career at the University of North Texas, I was not sure what period of history would keep my attention. I enjoyed American history, but I was not sure about it as a…
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Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around
Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me.
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Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we share in common.
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In all this extremism, can abolition work?
Abolitionist philosophy is precisely what is missing from the current conversation. #transist #transform #transcend
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame.
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Two front institutional battles
Progressives are always fighting the system to change rules and struggling to overcome bad faith actors who abuse the rules within the system.
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order of Flo” trans-imagines dance, tarot, poetry, and glossolalia. The evening…
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens.
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