Honestly, the sheer amount of self-satisfied pontificating and moralising on this issue - much of it from well-known reactionary goons in my own field - is going to negatively polarise me into a pro-plagiarism position.
Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
This is such a grotesque attempt to make it impossible for trans people to exist in public. To do it in the name of "equality and human rights" is especially cruel. Solidarity to all UK trans friends and colleagues facing this collective madness. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ehrc-gu...
EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces a ‘big shift’ for universities
New code confirms trans people can be excluded from facilities on basis of biological sex but experts say that does not make grappling with competing responsibilities any easier
timeshighereducation.com
Me, Neasa and the kids after we put water from the dehumidifier into a watering can
Man, the replies to this. I'd forgotten what the fbpe crowd were like, jfc.
Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d agoI think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm
I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm
It's raining, cold and dark in Cork. The kids are going to bed at a normal time. I could not be happier.
The first time I spoke at an event that had a green room, I went in - stupidly excited - and the only other person in the green room was rod liddle. A useful corrective!
Six years later and we're still having to insist that the state making people to stay in their houses under threat of the police and courts is not, in fact, an example of solidarity.
I very much wish there was more focus on C*mbridge University in this discussion, as an unabashedly colonial institution trying to make individual scholars symbolically remediate its own dreadful relationship to the world. But of course individuals cannot possibly play this role, and here we are.
I think my big takeaway from the guardian plagiarism article is to wonder if this is the first time something actually newsworthy happened at the british sociological association annual conference.
I really hope we all agree that this is, in fact, extremely bad.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d agoAnthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...
I'm several months into trying to roald dahl books to the kids, and am slowly arriving at the conclusion that the major works of roald dahl are, in fact, borderline-unreadable shit.
I would happily read something long, deeply researched and psychoanalytically-inflected on the sheer reliable dreadfulness of Obama's taste in music and literature.
Just out of Moana and my brain is so broken that every time they broke into song all I could think was "wow, Emily Wilson would hate this."
We're into day ??four?? of this, which feels like the the right time to lean into "it's not actually a review of the film, it's an essay about the film."
If I was in charge of the popcorn at the cinema, I would pick a quiet time to bring out the black bin bag of popcorn from the back. Maybe I wouldn't even store the popcorn in a bin bag!
Amazing if the documentary was just a one-hour interview with an AI Ian Hacking, patiently explaining how he resolved this stupid question several decades ago.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
We're going to need a lot more milkshake for this duck.
There's lots that's batshit about UK academia of course, but this thing where every year a selection of everyone's publications get anonymously scored by their senior colleagues is by far the craziest aspect.
Delighted to say I've always hated Monty Python and their twee English public school humour. Always kind of felt like it was being performed for an audience of misanthropic ex-colonial administrators. The absolute worst.
It's interesting that when I was an undergrad, 25 years ago, the construct, 'the culture industry,' read as dull, safe, platitudionous even, whereas today the same set of claims feel vital and urgent, maybe even alarming to the 1st-time reader.
How did people who take themselves to be broadly on the left become so convinced that any critique of mass/popular culture is morally, even politically bad? It's obvs a minor part, but still a part I think of understanding the last decade.
It's brilliant that it's an unbearable 21° and 80% humidity here - at 8pm - when I specifically returned to this benighted island for the reliable cold and gloom.
I'm not saying the kids are deprived but when I came down this morning the not-quite-literate 5yo was trying to write "I want a video game" in the netflix search bar" 💀
<Mood: aggressively reading exiled Irish intellectuals on all Ireland final day>
