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16 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I remember trying to pay my RAs more than $12 an hour and VCU HR pushing back hard. Said it would set a bad standard. From above and below.
I thought I remembered this #onhere:
My point is that our academic labor “market” is heavily subsidized and we act like it isn’t to feel more moral than our actions.
Because all that’s going to happen is that the PI’s indirects and salary costs are going to be reconfigured and they’ll hire the same number of heavily subsidized student workers they always hired. The only reason to jump out here with that statement is politics.

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14 Jan
Man wrote the perfect Tressie bait of a tweet, I tell ya what.
Far too early in my academic career, I questioned if network theory was robust enough to model racial discrimination. Pissed off many real academics.
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Oh! Please let me academic hijack. :) perceived status is about extrapolating from minorities they see. But what Elijah Anderson called the cosmopolitan canopy is fragile and arguably greatly diminished by another cultural institution: the media.
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Listen y’all, those pots have never been cleaned a day in their life or yours. Do. Not. Use. Not even those god awful swill machines that use the pods.
I look at hotel rooms this way: what wouldn’t I clean in this room if I was being paid $14 an hour and given 19 minutes to do it? The answer is: that coffee pot, any jacuzzi tub, inside a drawer or cabinet, under anything. It’s a sensible choice.
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Which is to say, the symbols and the ideology aren’t exclusive to the aggressively white supremacist but is the foundation of the idea of whiteness. (Image from The History of White People, Painter)
My annotation, for posterity
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5 Jan
Hi. Currently losing my entire mind. This actually feels like pencil and paper. Image
I just tested what the annotations look like on the other end and I GASPED. I can’t show you but they’re beautiful. Crisp, clear, not those messy pdf annotations. I just...this is too good. It must be evil.
Annotations on an article. Sent it via email and this is how it renders. Just beautiful. Image
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The next stage in the Joanna & Chip dynasty launched today.
She talks to the crew off screen a lot, substituting for Chip basically. She is much more comfortable bantering than talking to herself. It’s very very...genre.
She works so hard to not have you hate her for being: preternaturally beautiful, slim, tall, “exotic”, rich and married. She has said “but I’m not a fancy person!” four times so far. And they mix in retakes so you see her make a “mistake”.
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