Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

[tweet]https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1993159718794412117[tweet]

[Uncle]

 academia  

 macadamia

[Ribosome]

No one gave a shit when this nonsense had the good grace to stay in the fever swamp of the Berkeley sociology department.

[simiansmarts]

  
 
Picture of the guy the slenderman stabber was with when the police found her.
 
 
  
What's his mutual aid account?

[Eric Cartman]

The authors, drawing on “feminist, critical race, [and] violence and trauma studies,” argue that violence requires neither intent nor a perpetrator, and that simply “living under the Western capitalist cisheteropatriarchal regime renders the ‘everyday’ a site of trauma and violence.”

"In order to support the claim that marginalised people suffer violence daily, which has frequently been rebutted by the use of statistical evidentiary data, we sought to redefine the terms of what constitutes violence so that we could continue to maintain our claims about daily violence"

[TylenolJones]

Republicans actually running on the bad guy’s plan from the Recess movie.

[benji]

Shame on academia for even entertaining this sort of shit as valid.

As much as I hate to ever defend academia, it's mostly not treated as anything but a joke outside of the fields. The only reason any of this stuff gets cited in political science, for example, is because there's nowhere else to find the claims that the article writer wants to push.

I'd say the media, and even lay people, treat it more seriously than academia does because they have no sense of how much garbage is published across all humanities fields, even the decent ones.

[benji]

[benji]

[RetiredSkunk]

  
 
Picture of the guy the slenderman stabber was with when the police found her.
 
 
  
What's his mutual aid account?

Which is which?

[killamajig]

Looks like Plagerize. Isn't time he traded in his old wife and groom a new one?

[Ribosome]

Well this person didn't do the community any favors.

[simiansmarts]

  

[Besticus Maximus]

That dude could totally just go to the gym 4 days a week and literally all of his biggest problems would disappear overnight

[Alpacx]

[Ribosome]

"I am not arguing, as is commonly suggested, that wokeness was on the right track but went too far. Rather, by unwittingly accepting deeply regressive philosophical assumptions, it went in the wrong direction entirely."

Good. 

We're already seeing an effort to recast it as a well-meaning generally correct effort that had a few excesses that were blown out of proportion for political reasons. This will presumably accelerate as time passes and the Trump administration provides a convenient distraction.

[Rendle]

Well this person didn't do the community any favors.

[Ribosome]

Unreal.

[Uncle]

an interesting kulturkampf state of affairs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_considered_the_most_important

almost no yearly photos for the 2020s...and they keep removing the photo of trump post-assassination attempt

regardless of what you think about him, it's probably the most iconic photo of that year?

they keep going on about endless technicalities 

"photos only get put here if they meet our criteria, and our rules about common sense inclusion are not part of the criteria, so first you must enact a referendum to add common sense to our list of criteria, until then there is not consensus"

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_photographs_considered_the_most_important#Donald_Trump_raised-fist_photographs



supposedly an "unbiased" repository of human knowledge, cited worldwide by all sorts of organizations and apps

just yet another embarrassment

[HaughtyFrank]

Really the most amazing part about this is to me that the original translator was handpicked by the poet herself. Someone really went "No, honey, you don't know your own poetry, it can only be translated by a black woman"

[HaughtyFrank]

For the Aussies

Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy
Dr Lara Daley
$528,491


Guided by Yolngu and Gumbaynggirr Custodians, Dr Lara Daley’s project will help shape culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration.

Learning from songlines, creation stories and deep cultural connections between people and sky Country, the research will develop intercultural guidelines to help inform space policy, public education and industry practice. The project aims to broaden Australia’s understanding of space by recognising long-held Indigenous knowledge systems and their relevance to sustainable human activity beyond Earth.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/early-career-researchers-awarded-more-than-2.1m-arc-decra-funding-to-drive-future-innovation

[Ethan]

In an era in which the mere possibility of violence towards marginalized queer folkx is violence in itself, I'm not sure sending didgeridoo music in space capsules is the best use of public money. 

[Potato]

an interesting kulturkampf state of affairs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_considered_the_most_important

almost no yearly photos for the 2020s...and they keep removing the photo of trump post-assassination attempt

regardless of what you think about him, it's probably the most iconic photo of that year?

they keep going on about endless technicalities 

"photos only get put here if they meet our criteria, and our rules about common sense inclusion are not part of the criteria, so first you must enact a referendum to add common sense to our list of criteria, until then there is not consensus"

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_photographs_considered_the_most_important#Donald_Trump_raised-fist_photographs



supposedly an "unbiased" repository of human knowledge, cited worldwide by all sorts of organizations and apps

just yet another embarrassment

Just another example of the crazy left imposing itself and its preferences on society at the expense of accuracy, common sense and logic.

[Potato]

For the Aussies

Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy
Dr Lara Daley
$528,491


Guided by Yolngu and Gumbaynggirr Custodians, Dr Lara Daley’s project will help shape culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration.

Learning from songlines, creation stories and deep cultural connections between people and sky Country, the research will develop intercultural guidelines to help inform space policy, public education and industry practice. The project aims to broaden Australia’s understanding of space by recognising long-held Indigenous knowledge systems and their relevance to sustainable human activity beyond Earth.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/early-career-researchers-awarded-more-than-2.1m-arc-decra-funding-to-drive-future-innovation

We're really leaning into the whole magical native trope.

Biography

Lara Daley is a Research Fellow in the discipline of geography and environmental studies. Lara's research is grounded in trying to live their responsibilities as a white, non-Indigenous person on unceded Aboriginal lands. Their research takes place through intercultural, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, human and more-than-human research collectives on Gumbaynggirr Country (mid north coast NSW) and in North East Arnhem Land. Led by Aboriginal Elders and Custodians, Lara's research attends to human and more-than-human connections and protocols, the urban as Country, and so-called 'outer' space as already known, cared for, and inhabited through Indigenous ontologies and systems of governance.

Lara is a member of Yandaarra, from Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid-North Coast of NSW. Yandaarra means 'shifting camp together' in Gumbaynggirr and, together, the group, led by Aunty Shaa Smith and Uncle Bud Marshall, looks to better understand, and practice, caring for ourselves, each other and Country in this current time of radical environmental change.

Lara is also a member of the Bawaka Collective with Dr L. Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs and Banbapuy Ganambarr, four senior Yolŋu sisters from Northeast Arnhem Land with their daughter, Djawundil Maymuru, and Kate Lloyd and Sandie Suchet-Pearson from Macquarie University, and Sarah Wright from the University of Newcastle. The Collective’s work promotes a deeply collaborative Indigenous-led understanding of time/place, extending more-than-human methodologies and challenging human centred, non-Indigenous and Western understandings (and practices) within the academy and beyond it. Together they have explored what it might mean to take Indigenous ontologies of co-becoming seriously, in ways that might help better understand theoretical concepts such as space and place, and also to move towards a de-colonised, Indigenous-led practice in development studies and natural resource management.

Lara completed their PhD on the interface between urban activism and Aboriginal ways of knowing and being in/as Urban Country in 2019.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Geography, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Communication, University of Technology Sydney

Somehow, indigenous people are inhabiting and caring for "so-called" outer space?

Oh well, I guess astronauts better start practicing their acknowledgement of country speeches for when they land on the fucking moon.

Also, started with a Bachelor of Communication, so she originally wanted to be a PR Barbie, but got consumed by the woke mind virus.

[Nintex]

[Ribosome]

Wholesome Thanksgiving message from the New Right. 

[benji]

Somehow, indigenous people are inhabiting and caring for "so-called" outer space?

This is actually really common in a lot of the social sciences, they take something material and concrete like "outer space" then switch it to being a metaphor and therefore can make a claim about something completely unrelated as if they're citing science. The Sokal hoax was targeting academics who would do this with physics.

A really big one is the observer effect, none of them understand that it's a specific concept about quantum physics and doesn't apply to anything else. Which doesn't stop them from citing as proven scientific fact that simply observing anything in any way changes the results and then extrapolating from there using related metaphors.

Without even reading this article I know she's going to say "aboriginals have knowledge about spaces outside of mainstream ones and live successfully despite being in this 'outer' space while having their own concepts of space as in area so therefore they must also have accurate knowledge about actual outer space because it is also a space and an area while being actual space." And because of standpoint epistemology no white person can actually understand this, except a select caste with the proper ideology, so has no grounds to say it's incorrect. There will be a bunch of examples of random ass aboriginal words and terms and she'll say "who are we to say when they say this they don't mean the ways planets orbit and what's on Saturn and how much thrust a rocket needs to get there?" And because of all of this then what we need is quotas and mandatory laws forcing everyone to waste their time pretending this knowledge has equivalent scientific value to modern value, all with lots and lots of funding. No, that's not enough funding. More.

[HaughtyFrank]

What makes it extra funny to me is that all the other grants sound super practical 

Identifying the best land for forest restoration to boost carbon, biodiversity and economic outcomes

Innovative design of stretchable structures for next-generation technologies

How environmental change alters sperm RNA — and what this means for future generations

And then you got the one that sounds like it'll be 90% esoterics

[benji]

When you have a committee formed to distribute grants just give each faction on the committee one (or other equal number) of them unless grant type is already dictated. (Which is usually the case, like make at least one grant for this specific thing because that's what the money provider really wants and here's a bunch of extra money to divide up.)

I wouldn't be surprised if the mandate was regarding some kind of scientific thing but the dumbass department had a seat on the committee so they had to come up with this convoluted stretch to fit a grant to that department and then also find somebody who would do it. I generally try to assume the actual academic doesn't want to truly write this nonsense but the money is too good for the department to pass up. I'm sure she's a true believer of course but would rather write something else.

[Potato]

Half a million dollars. 

Fucking hell.