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Secular decolonial humanist and materialist. Autistic & ADHD. There is no absolute objective frame of reference.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusY'all⊠no. The assumed, unexamined rectitude of the intersection of hegemony, militarism, white supremacy, Western Christianity, in the historical underpinnings of "AI" are PRECISELY where most of our present day problems with "AI" come from:
"âJudeo-Christianâ roots will ensure U.S. military AI is used ethically, general says"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/air-force-general-ai-judeochristian/
Pariah CareyCurrently selling these earrings that I've made with 925 silver hooks, to support a refugee family located in Greece. I have a number of pairs already made up, but alternatively, can make them in 74 different colours, 3 shapes (circle, triangle, square), & 2 sizes (40mm & 30mm). They come packaged in cardboard envelopes that can be re-used or recycled.
I also take orders for larger pieces, like the shawl pictured (not for sale- only shown for example).
#MutualAid #CommunityCare #HandMade
I also take orders for larger pieces, like the shawl pictured (not for sale- only shown for example).
#MutualAid #CommunityCare #HandMade
Robin DeRosaEducation as Privilege Laundering: The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into âmerit."
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/07/10/education-privilege-laundering-opinion
I feel like a lot of what makes me different and odd is that I really had to consciously make the decision to live.
I didn't have that instinct naturally I had the other one. I had to actively build a new worldview that would allow for my survival. And it's nothing like Normal. But I think it's pretty awesome.
Self worship and self hatred are both so dangerous and toxic, yet in this binary society they keep getting pushed as the only options.
There is a space in between. But finding it means making peace with uncertainty and subjectivity and not knowing everything and that can be really hard.
When I would try and explain how I felt and why I was sad people would always try and reassure me that I was Smart and Rational and Good and that meant I didn't really have anything to worry about. I understand now why that was so frustrating and upsetting for me now. It is an incredibly toxic attitude that's unfortunately also completely Normal.
When I first started to recover from the resulting depression and burnout/breakdown I thought everyone else already knew it wasn't that simple. But they don't. They're comforted by the idea of their own objective certainty so they believe it and don't really mind how much dehumanisation it takes to maintain.
They're certain harm only ever comes from the dangerous Other, the people who aren't like them.
This paper about attitudes to prejudice and bigotry in physics explains/demonstrates something I have deep personal experience of and think is really important - yet often denied.
I am white and also studied physics and I used to inhabit this STEM mindset of believing that I was (/should be) perfectly rational and logical and objective. But I could see I didn't truly live up to it despite academic success so I felt like a fraud and hated myself for it.
How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction
Background: We present an analysis of interviews with 27 self-identified progressive white-male physics faculty and graduate students discussing race and gender in physics. White men dominate most STEM fields and are particularly overrepresented in positions of status and influence (i.e. full professors, chairs, deans, etc.), positioning them as a potentially powerful demographic for enacting systemic reform. Despite their proclaimed outrage at and interest in addressing inequity, they frequently engage in patterns of belief, speech and (in)action that ultimately support the status quo of white male privilege in opposition to their intentions. Results: The white male physicists we interviewed used numerous discourses which support racist and sexist norms and position them as powerless to disrupt their own privilege. We present and discuss three overarching themes, seen in our data, demonstrating how highly intelligent, well-intentioned people of privilege maintain their power and privilege despite their own intentions: 1) Denying inequity is physically near them, 2) Locating causes of inequity in large societal systems over which they have little influence and 3) Justifying inaction. Conclusions: Despite being progressively minded, well-meaning, and highly intelligent, these men are frequently complicit in racism and sexism in physics. We end with recommendations for helping these men to engage the power they hold to better work with women and people of color in disrupting inequity in physics.
There is a single material reality that exists.
But we can only ever experience and understand it through human narrative space, through creating stories to make sense of the world constrained within our personal frame of reference.
We can choose to expand and understand other frames (people) and gain deeper understanding. But it is hard work and it definitely isn't Normal.