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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm building the syllabus for the new course on predictive fictions I'm teaching at @ASU_SFIS next semester and there are soooooooo many cool potential readings how am I going to winnow it???
That said, anyone with further ideas is welcome to share them! More cool stuff! More!
The course is going to be sociology + scifi. So far I've got readings on futurism, meteorology, economization (by @epopppp), college rankings, economic forecasts, cost-benefit analysis...
Related: does anyone have any favorite sources on that old fashion for 50-year plans?

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Doctora Malka Older Profile picture
8 Oct
"Believes in democracy" should be the absolute minimum qualification for serving in public office in our aspiring democracy.
As I wrote for @ForeignPolicy, democracy is a principle of government that we should be able to come together around, far more powerful and near-universal than some sort of shared reality foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/25/bui…
But this comemierdería from someone who supposedly got his power from a supposed democracy is not a new argument. Opponents of democracy have long argued that you can get better outcomes if you just let someone - them - be in charge without all the fiddly voting & other people
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17 Sep
For @ForeignPolicy, I wrote about the fallacy of public panic in disasters, and why elites keep using it as an excuse even though it isn't true. foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/tru…
I honestly had to struggle with this assignment not to write "Don't lie to the public about a pandemic because that is stupid" and send that to the editor as the entire piece BUT there really is a bit more to say so I'm glad I had the opportunity to break it down.
1st of all, this article is largely a synthesis of existing research; I'm not the person who came up with these concepts, nor the only one who has tweeted about them (see @SamLMontano's feed, among others).
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Doctora Malka Older Profile picture
5 Aug
"a lack of basic supplies like ladders and cable" gives me the squicks because of the research I did on Fukushima Dai-Ichi. The meltdown happened because they couldn't connect to grid. They kept trying & failing because wrong cables, broken transformers, no electricians.
Workers were desperately unraveling cables across the debris-strewn, tsunami-soaked plant and trying to figure out how to connect different sizes and voltages while the water in the reactors evaporated exposing the cores and bringing them closer to catastrophe.
If you MUST build your society on a dependence on electrical power, don't fuck around with this stuff.
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Doctora Malka Older Profile picture
6 Jul
I've taken courses in person and online and I've taught or assistant taught courses in person and online. Either way can work; some things are easier in person and some things are easier online.
Support pedagogy. Pay teachers. Don't overcharge students. Stop fucking around.
Teaching online courses takes some adjustment and some learning.
Guess what? The same is true for in person courses. People aren't born knowing how to lecture or moderate or structure classes effectively, as should be obvious if you I don't know go listen to some.
The online courses I've taken/taught have been effective because of thoughtful use of the available technology and engagement on the part of the professor.
The same is true for in-person courses.
Support pedagogy. Give professors the tools they need. Pay them properly.
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6 Oct 19
It's Sunday afternoon and I'm not being productive anyway, so: 1 like = 1 public policy proposal.* #SpeculativeResistance

*may vary in level of detail, realism, and response delay.
1) Make cigarettes illegal: small fine for use outside home, large fine for retail, jail up to CEO level for wholesale and production. Make all addiction support programs free/subsidized, incentives for tobacco farmers to switch to organic crops.
2) Raise absolute minimum wage AND link any given firm's minimum wage to its maximum wage (eg, no maximum wage may be more than 20x the minimum wage at that company)
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9 Sep 19
ok look. we have a problem with "democracy" as it's practiced now.
BUT MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT VERY GOOD DEMOCRACY.
MAYBE THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT DEMOCRACY DOESN'T WORK, BUT THAT OUR SYSTEMS ARE NOT DEMOCRATIC ENOUGH.
from the article: "Democracy is hard work." ✅
"And as society’s “elites”—experts and public figures who help those around them navigate the heavy responsibilities that come with self-rule—have increasingly been sidelined" WAIT JUST A MINUTE politico.com/magazine/story…
who is being sidelined now? are we talking about the 24/7 high-paid pundits? the NYT columnists? the party machines? quote continues: "citizens have proved ill equipped cognitively and emotionally to run a well-functioning democracy." HOW TF DO WE KNOW THAT?
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