Ugh NYTimes, you might want to note that eugenic laws were incredibly common not just in Japan but in the US and helped embolden Hilter. Perhaps the reporters are clueless about eugenic history but this really is a hack job for how neutrally it treats something abominable

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1624795488057786373

"Critics worry that his comments could summon the kinds of sentiments that led Japan to pass a eugenics law in 1948, under which doctors forcibly sterilized thousands of people with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders." The US was at this BS since 1907

If you teach on disability, eugenics, and related topics can't recommend this website enough. It holds an astonishing wealth of information, from timelines to entries about eugenics in different countries eugenicsarchive.ca e.g. eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/world…

Hell yes it does: nature.com/articles/d4158… I appreciate all the attention given to gas stoves, but compared to the way that mold makes some people so sick, they often leave their homes or will sue the heck out of landlords/builders, which likely fails to happen with gas stoves.

Used to teach a course at McGill to science students addressing this very problem: scientists/doc often *think* they are often open to new data and paradigms but the data shows otherwise: they tend to be, in the words of Kuhn, fiercely "dogmatic." *Excellent* thread on this topic

https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1612196453258256384

The irony, too, is that since many scientists/docs think their enterprise is rational, they may, in fact, be more susceptible to dogmatism of the sort that @loscharlos unspools in his thread. The stakes of this problem, of course are huge in the medical field.

Chocolate lover? If you are ever in Manchester, NH make a pit stop here. Most sublime chocolate experience in my 40 + decades of life dancinglionchocolate.com The owner knows so much about then science, archeology and history of chocolate he publishes papers on the topic

Fungus is especially common in cancer. nytimes.com/2022/09/29/sci… "Deepak Saxena, a microbial ecologist at New York University who was not involved in either study, was surprised at the sheer scale of the findings. “I was not expecting this amount of fungus in cancer,” he said. “This will change the way we think about it.”"

@DaleBeran @3r1nG @cho0b @KarmaOneSixOne @Kirtaner @TheAtlantic No doubt 420 was very important and key to many raids but 2 of my sources both told me, one in 2020 after Dales's story came out, one in 2014 when I was asking about the history of Anon due to another legal case that 7chan is where Anonymous came into being. @DaleBeran @3r1nG @cho0b @KarmaOneSixOne @Kirtaner @TheAtlantic Not saying that this is the case but curious and assuring that a key key key player in 2014 provided an explanation that matches one given in 2020 by a different person when asked about the history.

Watching someone trick a bunch of journalists into rewriting history and push their narrative (successfully) is a reminder of how easy it is to manipulate what we might otherwise consider legit journo outlets. Easy to lose sight of this disconcerting fact, especially now 1/ It's far easier and comforting to point fingers at Fox News and the Alex Jones's of the world because so much of their stuff is so blatantly false 2/

Today's plan, see you all later. Source: incredible illustrators/illustrations

https://twitter.com/tropical_toxic/status/1385698382589698048

Because pandemic, and because they are so good, I assigned 3, yes, 3 movies for my last hacker class. I recommend all of them. Sooooo good. Thread. 1. Hack the System by @submedia // along with a bad aesthetic, it is a wonderfully done documentary, it provides a super overview of hacktivism, features @FreeJeremyNet and also explains technical issues in an accessible way kolektiva.media/videos/watch/f…

Great thread on epistemic humility: here are some good resources for teaching on it

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1331597435630743553

I start my STS light class on this topic with the help of Ignorance by Stuart Firestein college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/wi…

So many patients in lyme & other chronic illness communities have been yelling, screaming, pleading, cajoling, begging for better testing around long term infections. #longcovid patients/research are paving the way for a better future, I hope, in this regard.

https://twitter.com/ahandvanish/status/1332468551899353088

PS: I've followed and studied many of these communities for over a decade and the fact that many have been left on their own, sinking, with no help is who a chunk of them don't trust ... mainstream medicine or public health directives.

Thank you @philipdisalvo for sending your new book. Already started it and it's so very illuminating. We are still accounting for the changes in journalism wrought by hacker led interventions and this book helps us understand those massive changes. On a more personal note, it is awesome to see books and articles by a bunch of students who attended the hacker summer school a few years ago come out in the world! Very grateful to have learned so much from these students.

How it Started (March 2020)
How it's Going (November 2020) Most of the middle

Going after #criticalrace theory as Trump is doing and linking it to ideas of communism and propaganda shows how powerfully effective academic ideas are and how the academy is not some marginal, irrelevant ivory tower. 1/ But when anything is powerful & effective, so too is the backlash and response. And it is frightening as Trump can marshall a whole media empire (Fox) and more. So the question is how to respond to the backlash in ways that continues the powerful and important work being done 2/

Endearing, entertaining, and well done: the film, which tracks the many lives of Pepe leads into all sorts of topics from the power of memes to bind communities, transform, and so much more. I really recommend and you can catch and watch it online via @FantasiaFest I would have maybe introduced memes and 4chan slightly differently and also told the pivot to the far and alt-right differently well but all in all remarkably savvy film. Would work in all sorts of Internet-related courses if you can get access to the film

All those op-eds about how face-2-face learning is cognitively superior to online learning. I agree. Until you get covid-19 and your brain is (potentially) hit with neurological symptoms. Then what? ctvnews.ca/health/brain-p… In the span of three months, we went from this is 1. respiratory 2. to this impacts multiple organs 3. to even mild symptoms can cause neurological problems. We are still figuring this out and we should apply the precautionary principle

A couple of ironic bits about the Harper's letter: 1. they are condemning ... the very thing they are supporting .... speech. They want controlled speech without consequence. That's just not how speech works. Enough people pipe up, there are consequences harpers.org/a-letter-on-ju… 2. I am against government censorship of speech. It is good to be confronted with some degree of diversity of opinion and difference. But liberalism ideology around speech & free speech is often damn naive and needs an upgrade and Harper's letter clings to the naive version.

Even as someone who writes about the DNC hack and will write more about it, I'm more convinced by @YBenkler (et. al) argument that Russian hacking was *not* decisive in the election outcome. Story here washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/1… and details about book in the article. It's significant for other reasons tho. But so glad that there is more solid research after years of people debating it. Still room for debate but at least we can do so via a more solid bed of facts.