"So long, and thanks for all the fish" - D. Adams
Profile Photo: Antonella smiling and a golden autumn tree behind.
Header Photo: lake's water illuminated by the sun passing through autumn-colored branches.
My interests include reading, baking, art, animals, nature, hiking, pottery, and libraries.
| Blog | https://afoderaro.github.io/ |
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“Anti-Asian online hate in US saw 'alarming surge' after election — report
January 2025 marked the highest number of online anti-Asian slurs by month since monitoring began in August 2022, the report says, with a total of 87,945 slurs.”
Link to article: https://www.trtworld.com/discrimination/anti-asian-online-hate-in-us-saw-alarming-surge-after-election-report-18267361
Link to report: https://stopaapihate.org/2025/02/20/post-election-surge-in-hate/
mass firings of US scientists…
https://www.science.org/content/article/mass-firings-decimate-u-s-science-agencies
An attempt to #introduction in addition to my homepage (in finnish):
A (re)tired academic professional interested in thinking, knowledge and understanding, and the obstacles for such at any level. Epistemic security, for instance, is a serious concern for me, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210209-the-greatest-security-threat-of-the-post-truth-age
My intellectual toolkit stems mostly from philosophy of science, epistemology, and teaching critical thinking at university-level. Deep learning and inquiry has been a constant lifeline for me, which a slowly progressing AD is (not so mercifully) severing. My physical toolkit stemming from a few martial arts and long hikes is eroded by other ailments.
I tend to listen carefully, think and respond slowly, forget way too easily, value silence, and have no more time for identity-politics or other ego-defensive pastimes. What I don't understand is why all the pain near and far hasn't stolen my incongruence-based sense of humour yet? 🤔
My boosts mirror my core-interests, but I tend to like people in general.
#esittely #introduction #philosophy #epistemology #ai #psychology #thinking #knowledge #understanding #criticalthinking #old
Henry Farrell: “We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics”
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
Kudos to #StephenCurry (@StephenCurry) for his open letter to the #RoyalSociety, pointing out that Elon #Musk has violated the society's code of conduct, and asking it to remove him from the Fellows of the Royal Society (#FRS), to which he was elected in 2018.
https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/02/11/open-letter-president-royal-society-stand-up-values/
(Curry calls for signatures from "all members of the UK or international scientific community" and I just signed.)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxqRCQJd8jNnNdXOmR7Ii3AvmO211SX76ai69LpbMHIWkfbA/viewform?usp=dialog
Kudos to #DorothyBishop (@deevybee) as well, who made the same call in her Nov 2024 letter of resignation from the society.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html
"The @wikimediafoundation is building new tools that it hopes will help #Wikipedia editors stay anonymous in part to avoid #harassment and #LegalThreats as Elon #Musk and the #HeritageFoundation ramp up their attacks on people who edit Wikipedia. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries with #authoritarian governments and where editing Wikipedia is illegal or extremely dangerous."
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies/
Statement from the Association for Psychological Science, APS
“Science is a global, collaborative endeavor that is strongest when scientists are free to participate, engage, share findings, and learn from colleagues. In recent weeks, scientific research and education in the United States has been disrupted and censored. Government scientists have been encouraged to quit their jobs and directed to not participate with their professional communities. We recognize that these recent attacks on U.S. science have been or are currently threats encountered by scientists in other countries. United, we have an opportunity to strengthen science around the world.”
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/message-aps-members.html
👆#AcademicFreedom might seem a small and esoteric thing to worry about in the context of what is unfolding in the US, but it is essential to science. It’s enshrined in UNESCO declarations and, in many countries, it’s enshrined in law. For example, in Germany, Art 5, III guarantees freedom of science (along with freedom of press and the arts) as a fundamental human right that constitutes part of the core of Germany’s constitutional order, an inviolable core that cannot be abolished by law, even through changes to the constitution itself (see Art. 79, GG). In the UK it is guaranteed by the UK universities act.
It matters!
Statement on academic freedom in the US by psychologists in the German National Academy of Science, Leopoldina
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