Notices by Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)

Are there contexts where users actually prefer complexity over simplicity?

Folks on the TL (just confirming how common it is to know this in these circles)

Do you understand proportional reasoning behind profit, margin, cost price, selling price calculations?

Can you determine how to adjust prices for buying or selling during negotiating discounts without losing margins

Happy new year everyone!

Hey Tim @tchambers a member of your instance is doing a targeted harassment for a post that mentioned twitter link to a video drawing parallels between zionism and nazism.

At no point in the video there is mention of what the member of your instance claims "Holocaust revisionism"

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/113221532940413580

The video acknowledges Holocaust and after that draws parallels, citing quotes from the founders of the zionist movement and Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé

Every country should pass a labour law banning use of ATS

https://x.com/immigrant_boy88/status/1839686091177439536?t=67nDBRMOjn8kqZeCqQ077g&s=19

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112661554290379561

Wow this is such a useful to find academics on mastodon

Find Academics on Mastodon by Mark Igra @markigra, founder of sciences.social

https://find-masto-folks.vercel.app/

Data comes from : Academics on Mastodon, this repository contains a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon. Maintained by Hendrik Erz @hendrikerz

https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

Atlas of the Future | Cities copy Cleveland's prosperity model | https://atlasofthefuture.org/project/the-cleveland-model/ @atlasfuture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQKaDYtmjs

Boundary Objects: A Field Guide by Sveta Stoytcheva

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/boundary-objects-guide/index

Part I: What is a Boundary Object?

"The idea of boundary objects, first introduced by Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer in 1989, is a very useful theoretical tool that has been adopted by many disciplines"

"Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

https://bsky.app/profile/patrickmccray.bsky.social/post/3l4e4yrnt4u27

Woah

Academic job politics in a nutshell

"You can turn an entire academic discipline into a self-referential and incestuous network of mutual citations, hirings, sinecures, and other kinds of back-scratching by just one highly organized minority faction"

From an essay that profiles an economic historian and heterodox economist — Frederic Lee. It talks about his journey and also how heterodox economists were suppressed by neoclassical ones

https://archive.is/20230619023931/https://strangematters.coop/frederic-s-lee-profile-part-one/#selection-2423.244-2423.524

A few words on Doug Engelbart by Bret Victor https://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

The least important question you can ask about Engelbart is, "What did he build?" By asking that question, you put yourself in a position to admire him, to stand in awe of his achievements, to worship him as a hero. But worship isn't useful to anyone. Not you, not him.

Interview with Nancy Fraser: Germany Canceled Me for Supporting Palestine | Jacobin

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/nancy-fraser-germany-palestine-letter

Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned visiting professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine.

German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy at the New School, condemned killings in Gaza carried out by the Israeli military

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/10/nancy-fraser-cologne-university-germany-job-offer-palestine

A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

@nlnet @NGIZero @nlnetlabs

"@NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet"

Wow that's amazing, you guys rock!

@thatloststudent Yes I understand your point about the exclusivity of these spaces because of cost and their criteria.

My post was just about admiring their interdisciplinary pedagogy not about the inequity of their institutional model which you are quite right to point out.

"Critiques of Israel are not presumptively antisemitic: Israel does not represent all Jews. While the signatories have profound disagreements about the State of Israel, we agree that it is dangerous to frame all critiques of the state or government of Israel, or all critiques of Zionism, as antisemitic"

"We also reject the narrative pitting Jews against pro-Palestine protesters. This narrative ignores the diversity of the Jewish community and the presence of Jews within the protest movement"

An Open Letter to the UCLA Community from Jewish Faculty and Staff

https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-jewish-faculty-staff/

Wow

"Jews who support the liberation of Palestine must not be devalued: We reject the notion that those Jews who embrace and work with the people of Palestine, whether in Palestine or in the United States, have sacrificed their Jewishness. We emphasize the view that many Jews who embrace pro-Palestinian work regard themselves as fully Jewish and act as Jewish people of conscience"

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. A kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures"

From David Graeber's 2008 text "Hope in Common" by @DGI

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/hope-in-common/

@dahukanna They have made learning and its assessment carceral and so the notion of "cheating" comes into play.

@dahukanna Instead of spending hundreds and thousands of dollars for "preventing" cheating ed policymaking douchebags never stop to reflect on why is it that cheating exists in the first place, why are we assessing kids learning in a way where the notion of cheating comes into play.