why did nobody warn me that trying to setup a research lab requires one to become a salesperson
Anyone with pattern recognition and a strong sense of justice has basically been cycling in and out of burnout non-stop since February 2020.
It takes a special mind to go from ‘wow the shit is really hitting the fan from our underinvestment in health’ to ‘we should maybe give up being a first world country with a high standard of living and stuff like that’
“Reporting that this individual is ‘one of the good ones,’ news coverage routinely suggests that the systems governing society are in place to punish the unequivocally guilty — not the innocent. The basis for outrage, then, lies in a system malfunction, not the system itself…”
"Write one too-specific article, and tribal historic preservation officers might find themselves fighting off new age gatherings of non-Natives appropriating Indigenous worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropological “research.""
At Indigenous Sacred Sites, Seeing Things I’m Not Supposed to See Western journalism tends to value transparency as a public good. But as an Indigenous reporter, I face a unique set of challenges: Include too-specific cultural details, and I risk endangering my community.
Western journalism tends to value transparency as a public good. But as an Indigenous reporter, I face a unique set of challenges: Include too-specific cultural details, and I risk endangering my comm...
see, *this* is what I mean when I tell the undergrads I would so much rather read their own original writing than boring chatgpt
This year a team from @skeuomorph.bsky.social#DhMakes
some dingbat on amazon is selling sukkot decorations that, due to printing the hebrew backwards, say "tuchus" instead
