Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com

According to anti-cyclist replies, here's evidence that cars and bikes are equally dangerous: 🚗: They kill ~40000 people in the US annually 🚲: I saw a cyclist run a red light 30 years ago

Instagram ads in your 30s: you’re not gonna believe this viral exercise bike/all-natural footwear/mochi waffle place they tried to gate keep Instagram ads in your 40s: we turned colonoscopy prep into a mocktail

There's an irony in the fact that, to make her argument that Sociology has sacrificed science for activism, Ms. Paul cherry-picks quotes that support her views. 1/

THE SATURDAY ESSAY
Is It Time to Liquidate'
the Study of Sociology?
Sociology has long been tasked with
investigating society's most pressing
challenges. But these days, sociologists
greatest obstacle may be themselves.

Die Forderung nach mehr «Wissenschaftlichkeit» ist einerseits wohlfeil. Niemand kann dagegen sein. Zugleich ist sie perfide, wo sie «Wissenschaftlichkeit» gegen «Sozialkritik» & «Politisierung» ausspielt und jenen Unwissenschaftlichkeit unterstellt, die das eigene Forschungsparadigma nicht teilen 1/

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

nytimes.com

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

Wüsste schon gerne, auf welche Daten sich so ein Statement bezieht. Das wird alles seit Jahren erforscht, aber von der Forschung scheint in der aktuellen deutschen Debatte so gut wie nichts anzukommen...

SIgrid Graumann im Freitag: "In Kalifornien sind es vielfach prekär lebende Latinas, die sich als Leihmütter verdingen...: