Thanks to the nexus of three Twitter social circles for insights I gleaned today, and three accounts in particular:
Tony Wuersch
- 16 Followers
- 137 Following
- 51 Posts
age mid-60s; 2nd Gen Swiss/Black US; online since 1984, omnivore; from Fall River, MA; 1976 TASP, Yale/Stanford sociology; long-time Echoid; loving Providence, RI; late-diagnosed autistic; pronouns he/him
And @draliceevans for a thread (focused on Mexico under the Bourbons) about how Enlightenment activists saw educated mothers as critical to success of the Enlightenment project, which depended on such mothers raising enlightened children.
https://scholar.social/@E_Mondragon for noting a stellar article from 2011 titled "Making the illusory correlation effect appear and disappear: the effects of increased learning"
Esther Mondragón (@[email protected])
540 Posts, 352 Following, 422 Followers · My opinions are mine only. Hic sunt dracones. She/They #learning_theory #computational_models #ai #computational_cognition #associative_learning
@kjhealy for pointing to some truly grotesque characterizations of "learning styles" taught in education classes required to get teacher certifications;
@fivetonsflax @Mer__edith It's hard to generalize about motives for layoffs apart from that no one stands out as a villain when everyone else is doing it. VCs imo have little to say with respect to these big firms, they all have their own capital to invest. States, not VCs, threaten monopolies. Elon is the exception there; none of the others are sick children corps. I still think a reduction of the threat of mobile human capital lets these moves happen, now that a "coming recession" gives cover.
@Mer__edith my different theory is that top tech firms strategized to forestall competition, by hiring people who would otherwise fuel startups or build open source. The main threat now is anti-big-tech regulation, tho, not startups.
Prof DynarskiFantastic new dataset for research on postsecondary education
Please boost!
@fivetonsflax @grrrr_shark Owners and upper mgmt are chronically dishonest to employees in the USA. The law of free hire or fire gives them the *right* to be so. They can be almost unlimitedly capricious, and they exercise that right. They can always say circumstances change. You're naive if you think Musk is unusual there. Unregulated duplicity is a norm that only contracts can control, and often contracts endorse it with nondisparagement clauses. Again, that's USA capitalism, not Musk.
@fivetonsflax @grrrr_shark Musk feints and threatens, but it's not psychopathy or compulsive lying. There are goals and narratives behind his tweets -- which we're not compelled to agree with, or be fanboys of, to recognize. One can disagree without throwing mud. Oolong throws mud, and autistic apologies at the same time. It's a pose, and it's not about Musk. Musk is an owner. His rights aren't autistic supremacy because he's autistic. They're USA-style capitalism. Blame that.
@grrrr_shark I thought Oolong's was a sad piece, mis-applying labels that are slurs, and pinning them on Musk.
A simpler account of Musk is to point out he's Dutch extraction, and Dutch famously believe in "honest authenticity", which means expressing unpleasant truths to show autonomy and independence, and to encourage the same in others.
"honest authenticity" goes over poorly in the USA.
Peter Thiel suggested aspie supremacy once, and Musk's women are creative intellectuals to a fault.