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28 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I mean, how you think about things is generally a good indicator of your ideology, no? Imagine if it *wasn’t*
Maybe these pearls are supposed to land differently when they come from a fully licensed American Thought Leader but IMO this is pretty pedestrian stuff
Idk maybe this being surprising is just what happens when you build a career pretending to be a disaffected leftist while mouthing rightwing talking points. Seems peculiar as a hermeneutic for anyone else though
“Please do not confuse my pro-absolute monarchy opinions with my committed republican ideology”

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29 Jan
James Lindsay latest: "progressive Jews" create Nazis
glad Helen Pluckrose is bravely standing by him in this time of trial
but will what role will her new AntiWoke Constabulary play??? more to come
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27 Jan
Not for nothing, @mtlgazette, but this man is not a "Concordia University professor." He has never held an academic post.

montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/co…
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It'd be just great if we could distinguish between embarrassments caused by actual faculty members and those caused by non-academic admin, thanks.
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5 Jan
This is what happens when you don't listen, or govern, in time
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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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3 Jan
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"
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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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