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3 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
My daughter was hungry but I was doing the crossword so I told her to make herself some sourdough. Two days later she finally broke. Wish I had more wins like this
initially she accused me (by her Tone) of being lazy. Well look at her now
unrelated but 72 down is "ecru"
Anyway, if more of our 9-year-olds had been raised in underground bunkers -- an "unfashionable" yet practical option -- then perhaps more of them would have the values and (honestly) the *skills* of children raised in underground bunkers. Sometimes the truth hurts.

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5 Jan
This is what happens when you don't listen, or govern, in time
montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…
As we all watch the US in horror, the fact that Quebec has done worse throughout this crisis than *most* US states continues to get zero attention.
All the stupidity we laugh at -- people comparing being asked to wear masks in stores to totalitarianism, anti-mask marches, conspiracy theories, and people flaunting minimal (in fact insufficient) public health measures for the sake of having parties -- is here too, in heaps.
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4 Jan
Some were surprised that culture-warriors who began by attacking humanities disciplines in the name of science ended up as Covid-deniers.

But it only makes sense that people who want history without historians would also prefer science without scientists. The issue is expertise.
In both cases there is a widespread belief that the accessibility of "information" (online or in textbooks) obviates the need for academic research.

In both cases there is a failure to consider where that "information" ultimately comes from, and what kind of work it rests upon.
I think a similar naiveté about the kind of "information" past research yields and its fixity across contexts (be they disciplinary or social) plagues some of the more flawed instances of interdisciplinary research that have come in for criticism recently (e.g. portraits/trust).
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14 Dec 20
OK but what if they're terribly written and poorly argued
also I think we all know the real "editor" of a newspaper is the person in charge of the whole paper, enough with calling every so-and-so in charge of some tiny corner of page B6 an "editor". Feels fraudulent
pls drop the "editor" Mr Gigot. You're just an opinion-writer-organizer
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13 Dec 20
An example of the “impossible conversations” that fans of Sokal Squared, Quillette, and the rest of the radical center want to have — a bottomless display of ignorant outrage at... Indigenous students pursuing graduate degrees in information science

“Criminal!”
“Book burning!”
The anger is matched only by the lack of anything substantive to be angry about.

It seems the mere word “decolonization” — not a new word, and not a new idea either — is enough to rob self-proclaimed defenders of Great Books of their basic literacy, not to mention their decency.
And, inevitably,
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13 Dec 20
More semi-pro outrage. Here the panic is over a program of graduate study in information science. It has nothing to do with teaching or not teaching great books.

Great Books fans: I’d feel more confident in your literary judgment if you could successfully read a press release.
Because reacting to an item on *Indigenous students taking advanced degrees in library science* by yelling about “replacing greatness with mediocrity” makes you look like racist dipshits, not accomplished readers.
Love this bit of top-notch independent, critical thinking: “I didn’t see any evidence of what I’m saying so I just decided to echo someone’s rant and add my own bit about criminal intentions”
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13 Dec 20
It’s not odd that people who study things in social and historical context should use categories of race, class, and gender to analyze them. The sources invite this.

What’s odd is reacting to word of this not by reading or criticizing but by accusing them of calling you a Nazi.
If “oh, so now they think *I’m* a Nazi!” is genuinely your first thought, I think that reaction requires more explanation that the fact that *people who study societies evidently divided by race, class, and gender* should study those societies in terms of those divisions.
If, on the other hand, this reaction comes not from reading this work itself but instead from accounts or blogs that subsist by whipping up outrage, promoting race science, and claiming that academic work is brainwashing — well, the source of the problem is no great mystery.
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