Chong-Ming Lim

@cmlim.eurosky.social

Philosopher at the University of Sheffield. Thinking about political resistance, public commemorations, disability, cats, dogs, naps, etc. www.cmlim.info

"Look, I’m not claiming that Gothbag the Terrible was perfect. He was only human. He made some questionable decisions. I don’t think hunting every man, woman, and child for sport on the Isle of Skye was a good idea. But you have to remember it was a different time."

We Must Not Destroy Our History by Tearing Down Statues of Great Men Like Gothbag the Terrible

“If we tear down the statue of him standing athwart the crushed bodies of his foes and drinking their blood from a skull, how will we ever remember all the g...

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“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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"Appraisive Things", my paper with @julesholroyd.bsky.social, now out in official typeset form! doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Appraisive Things | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Appraisive Things

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕@liao.shen-yi.org · 2w ago

@julesholroyd.bsky.social and I have a paper on material expressions of praise—monuments and memorials, plaques and trophies, grants and prizes—which we call "appraisive things". It is forthcoming at the Journal of the APA (open access!) and a preprint is available at philpapers.org/rec/HOLATB-4

"This case is one of several that have arisen over the past year and a half presenting the same basic fact pattern: A student or scholar, in the United States on a valid student or exchange visa, is detained by DHS on the stated basis of his or her political speech"

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2w ago

JUST IN: A day after the 2nd Circuit upheld the detention of Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi, the 4th Circuit goes the other way, upholding the *release* of Georgetown research Badar Khan Suri. 2-1 ruling. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Solidarity with Indian youth & students protesting despite brutal repression! Here’s a statement from the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative in support of the protest against the government’s ‘diversionary weaponizing of religion & nationalism & its criminal disregard for the futures of the youth’

"We will take, we will occupy. We have to learn not to tip toe through a space which ought by right to belong to everyone"
picture of street protests in DelhiStatement
The march to Parliament on 20th July saw a historic turnout, with lakhs of young people coming out on the streets and sending a clear message to the NDA government. People travelled from across the country to reject the BJP-RSS combine's diversionary weaponizing of religion and nationalism, and its criminal disregard for the futures of the young. Not surprisingly, the Delhi Police and riot personnel - under orders from the Home Ministry - responded with brutal violence, teargassing and lath-charging the peacefully protesting masses. Many students and innocent citizens have been grievously injured, left bleeding and waiting for hours before they could be taken to hospitals for treatment.
The current upsurge, as we all understand, is not just about NTA's repeated paper leaks or the colossal mismanagement of India's education sector under Dharmendra Pradhan. Instead, it is an expression of the utter frustration and angst of India's Gen Z - about an economy which neither guarantees jobs proportionate to their qualifications nor the basic dignity of rights-bearing citizens.
Our Gen Z is either parked in courses under the NEP 2020 which do not add up to skills required for dignified employment, or they are fighting for minimum wages in the industrial sector from Noida to Panipat. As a permanently swelling informal workforce, labouring under extractive contracts on delivery-on-demand mobile apps or continuing to be stripped of the most basic worker rights under the newly notified Labour Codes, Indian Gen Z has had enough. And over the past month, they have come out of their homes and factories and colleges and universities to say exactly this.
Given the convergence of struggles over education and employment, DTI holds that the current movement's primary demand for the resignation of India's Education Minister is only the first step towards a complete structural overhaul. In this regard, the disbanding of National Testing Agency (NTA) and repeal of the National Ed…

Just a reminder to everyone: join a trade union. And if you're already a member, please be active. Vote, volunteer, become a rep or an officer. You are the union. The larger the union membership the more strength and agency we have.

"The history of militant democracy is also the history of US interventionism in the Western hemisphere, a history of which the recent invasion of Venezuela is part. Advocates of individual militant democracy neglect this history." lareviewofbooks.org/article/olig...

The US Experiment with Militant Democracy | Los Angeles Review of Books

Would individual militant democracy work to untangle the global web of wealth concentration and political influence?

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"They added that although staff across the academic body were impacted, the cuts were "disproportionately concentrated in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), where 85% of all staff placed at risk of redundancy (445 out of 523 FTE) are based"." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.