Mastodawn

Relatively minor thing I hate about academia: we have to brag in order to get grants, get papers published, and generally advance our careers. I don't like bragging for it's against my religious and cultural values.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

r o w . ᚛ᚏᚒᚐᚇᚐᚅ᚜

:labrys-bloody:

2d ago

"""transhumanist""" techbros will literally be like "the singularity will result in such rapid technological change as to be impossible to predict!" and then immediately start making predictions.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

I'm bewildered by how my university still has the guts to evoke school spirit or pride when they already know the widespread discontent from their crackdown on protests and collaboration with ICE. I don't even bother to read the emails from the top admins.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

Aisha the R211A 1d ago

Not really political. A bizarre thought crossed my mind. Suppose you meet a young woman who is bald, and she's obviously not a Buddhist nun. Also, we're not in Star Trek so there are no Deltans. Then what's the first thing that comes to your mind?

	Cancer, or some other illness
	She's queer
	She's badass
	She's unique or creative

Poll ends at Apr 8 at 3:35am.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

Wanda ☪️

19h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/116331889217011060

Nah. Pride built on empire isn’t something to celebrate.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

The Human Capybara 5h ago

One more research in the looong list of studies proving the ultra-rich are parasites hoarding enough money to basically give universal healthcare to everyone on the planet.

With some money to spare.

"The world's ultra-rich have stashed around $2.84 trillion (€2.47tn) in untaxed offshore accounts.
A figure that surpasses the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of the human population."

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/04/02/untaxed-wealth-of-the-top-01-eclipses-assets-of-the-poorest-half-of-the-world

#taxtherich #economy #media #capitalism #fascism #tax #business

Richest 0.1% hide more wealth than the poorest half of humanity owns

The world's ultra-rich have stashed around $2.84 trillion (€2.47tn) in untaxed offshore accounts, a figure that surpasses the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of the human population, according to a new report.

euronews

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

I didn't grow up in so called Amerika, but I learnt Emperor's New Clothes in school. We learnt it in grade 7, when some students complained that they were too old for fairy tales. After seeing "the Emperor has no clothes" many times in the past year or two, I think it makes some more sense why we learnt this story much later than other fairy tale stories in school in retrospect. It's not like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, as it's an actual social critique still relevant today.

Aisha the R211A 3h ago

I also had that astronaut phase as a kid, one of the few good memories from my childhood. But now, space travel has really lost its appeal to me, because of billionaire space tourism, tie of aerospace to the military, how the ruling class is destroying Earth while dreaming about space, and the nationalism involved in space projects.

Aisha the R211A 4h ago

Gaza Notifications 8h ago

🚨Education in Gaza persists despite everything.

Israel destroyed schools and killed academics, university presidents, and deans. Yet, learning continues, classes in tents, exams on open spaces, even on the beach, because there are NO facilities, NO infrastructure, and space is extremely limited‼️

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza