John Jackson

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I write on the history, philosophy, and rhetoric of science. I specialize in the study of scientiific racism.
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The Russians are stealing ideas from the Republican party. https://boingboing.net/2024/10/19/russia-plans-to-ban-ideology-of-childlessness.html
Never change, kid.
In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed

My latest in The Guardian Announcements from major employers, including Amazon and Tabcorp, that workers will be required to return to the office five days a week have a familiar ring. There has be…

Crooked Timber
This is my seventh year at Michigan State University. I have never been at an institution where the administration is so malignant and dishonest in my 30+ years of experience in higher education. https://statenews.com/article/2024/09/msus-handling-of-exhibit-featuring-pro-palestinian-sentiment-raises-concerns-of-censorship-racism
MSU's handling of exhibit featuring pro-Palestinian sentiment raises concerns of censorship, racism

In a series of secretive decisions, MSU canceled an art opening and added a disclaimer to the exhibition. The university later admitted it had acted in response to a complaint over a piece depicting a protest in support of Palestine. The closed-door discussions have sparked debate over censorship and academic freedom on campus.

The State News
If you thought you'd have to go the whole day without seeing something perfect, I give you this. And, if you don't know why they cast the character of "Little Bim" as they did, I urge you to look it up. https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/watch-the-credits-of-an-imaginary-70s-cop-show-starring-samuel-beckett.html
Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show Starring Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, poet, and…gritty television detective? Sadly, no, but he had the makings of a great one, at least as cut together by playwright Danny Thompson, cofounder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck.

Open Culture
I have an idea of a scheme.
I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die — let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".

Social media & email may be
part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.
Cop-killing drug kingpin freed by Trump jailed for choking wife

Jaime A. Davidson, a convicted cop-killing drug kingpin whose life sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump on his last day in office in 2021, was convicted of domestic…

Boing Boing