FAIRMaurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
Arabica Robusta
@pickinjava
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Resisting epistemic and other extractivism. Boost ≠ endorsement, but only that I find it useful at the time I boost. Proudly suspended permanently from Twitter for an unnamed egregious spammy manipulation of the platform. I'm glad to have a new home in Mastodon.
How many bison were killed by the US government and white settlers as a way of dispossessing the Native American nations? ……. 60 million
Wolfgang CramerBrilliant new paper by Naomi #Oreskes, concluding that "our overall situation suggests that it does not suffice for scientists simply to supply #factual #information, and leave it at that. Scientists need as well to engage actively with the recipients of that information." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-022-00121-1
The trouble with the supply-side model of science - Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy
Many scientists operate under a mental model that I label the “supply side model of science.” It assumes that the job of scientists is to supply information that governments and citizens can use to make good decisions, and that governments and citizens will use that information once they have it in hand. Therefore, scientists need only do their job—which is to supply accurate, high quality, well vetted information—and all will be well. Events of the past few decades have challenged this model severely. Across the globe, governments and citizens have rejected established scientific findings on climate change, on evolutionary biology, on the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and other issues. Typically, this rejection is ‘implicatory rejection.’ That is to say, people reject or deny science not because the science is weak, unsettled or too uncertain to inform decision-making, but because they and don’t like the actual or perceived implications of that science. In some cases, for example evolutionary biology, the perceived implications are erroneous; in these cases, scientists can help to clear up misunderstandings by engaging seriously (and not dismissively) with people’s concerns. In other cases, for example climate change, the perceived implications may be partly true. In these cases, scientists may help by suggesting ways in which the negative implications might be mitigated or redressed. Often, this will require collaborating with other experts, such as experts in communication, religion, or public health. But whatever the details of the particular case, our overall situation suggests that it does not suffice for scientists simply to supply factual information, and leave it at that. Scientists need as well to engage actively with the recipients of that information.
Via CampesinaLa Via Campesina: Reflections on COP27 https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-reflections-on-cop27/ #ClimateandEnvironmentalJustice #AgroecologyandPeasants'Seeds #FoodSovereignty #Peasants'Rights #december2022 #COP27
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters@anubis2814
1/2… market manipulation (#spoofing), hegemonic and organised destruction of people and places via conflict, drugTrade (see CIA #CocaineImportingAgency), #conflictMining, coups, other pushFactors which create displacement and a pool of desperate refugees from which to draw from. Finally #lawfare/#suppression such as that seen against #Donziger, #Assange, and many others which keep costs and damages for abuses low, or non-existant.
1/2… market manipulation (#spoofing), hegemonic and organised destruction of people and places via conflict, drugTrade (see CIA #CocaineImportingAgency), #conflictMining, coups, other pushFactors which create displacement and a pool of desperate refugees from which to draw from. Finally #lawfare/#suppression such as that seen against #Donziger, #Assange, and many others which keep costs and damages for abuses low, or non-existant.
Democrats follow Trump and continue #chevron persecution of #Donziger. https://mastodon.social/@kylebronsdon/108077167962705646
One of the most frustrating words to read in an #ethnography, especially an ethnography about #corporateexploitation and anti-#hegemonic resistance, is the word "unfathomable." It, often combined with "ambiguous," positively screams for continuance of authoritarian status quo, even if surrounded by words like "#colonial" and "injury." #socialmovements #anthropology #humangeography #imperialism #postmodern #actornetwork #latour #academicculture
Will Hanley
Gary M KoekemoerThinking out aloud.
If we take Mbembe’s notion of the neo-liberal world’s creating “the entrepreneur of the self” in its assigning a market value to everything, could social media be the “marketplace of the self”?
Which explains why good people remain attached to the bird branch, and a note of caution for the communities within Mastodon?
#Twitter #Mbembe #neoliberal
If we take Mbembe’s notion of the neo-liberal world’s creating “the entrepreneur of the self” in its assigning a market value to everything, could social media be the “marketplace of the self”?
Which explains why good people remain attached to the bird branch, and a note of caution for the communities within Mastodon?
#Twitter #Mbembe #neoliberal
Tim ChambersMy team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.
We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.
Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!
Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf
