kate metcalf
@technophobos.bsky.social
science studies phd candidate @ ucsd | hermeneutics of postgenomic suspicion | surveillance & sociality | genetic data, research infrastructure, privacy
reading beatty's white boy shuffle was a big part of my interest in becoming an americanist in college; reading the sellout a few years after i'd moved on from that was the first (and maybe last) thing that made me regret leaving lit studies behind.
Today's book rec is Paul Beatty's THE SELLOUT, which possesses in great measure what all powerful satires possess: beneath its comedic madcap zaniness there is a scratching, a tearing; an overwhelming sense of the terror of history bubbling up from below; a profound and wholly justified cosmic rage.
September 9, 2023 at 5:59 PM
reading beatty's white boy shuffle was a big part of my interest in becoming an americanist in college; reading the sellout a few years after i'd moved on from that was the first (and maybe last) thing that made me regret leaving lit studies behind.
googled 'when does daily writing habit get easier' in a low moment; first result was 'slowly, don't despair if you're getting only 800 words in two hours!'
my feelings about this are unspeakable
my feelings about this are unspeakable
September 9, 2023 at 5:54 AM
googled 'when does daily writing habit get easier' in a low moment; first result was 'slowly, don't despair if you're getting only 800 words in two hours!'
my feelings about this are unspeakable
my feelings about this are unspeakable
I'm already out $3k for fall conferences and I've developed some kind of carpal tunnel issue but in my elbow (??) from terrible typing posture..... what more can grad school take from me before the quarter even starts 😔
September 6, 2023 at 5:05 PM
I'm already out $3k for fall conferences and I've developed some kind of carpal tunnel issue but in my elbow (??) from terrible typing posture..... what more can grad school take from me before the quarter even starts 😔
there is nothing braver than revisiting your own interview data as audio rather than transcript, and listening to your own voice (awful) ask the worst possible questions (terrible) and make no good inferences at all (useless).
August 30, 2023 at 5:46 PM
there is nothing braver than revisiting your own interview data as audio rather than transcript, and listening to your own voice (awful) ask the worst possible questions (terrible) and make no good inferences at all (useless).
listing the song before the band name is psychotic behavior. i don't care about the song title if i don't care about the band; by omitting my off ramp you've subjected me to four extra words that i didn't want to read (12 if its midwest emo)
August 29, 2023 at 1:47 AM
listing the song before the band name is psychotic behavior. i don't care about the song title if i don't care about the band; by omitting my off ramp you've subjected me to four extra words that i didn't want to read (12 if its midwest emo)
i hate that you have to write the bad draft before you can write the good draft. that really sucks and if i was in charge it'd be the other way around.
August 28, 2023 at 9:11 PM
i hate that you have to write the bad draft before you can write the good draft. that really sucks and if i was in charge it'd be the other way around.
need to find a single detail in this book to clean up one last citation on an almost-finished manuscript.... but the book has NO INDEX *twilight zone music*
August 25, 2023 at 9:12 PM
need to find a single detail in this book to clean up one last citation on an almost-finished manuscript.... but the book has NO INDEX *twilight zone music*
does someone have a gift link or something for the merve emre piece? i have an english degree i will literally perish if i can't read it
August 24, 2023 at 9:00 PM
does someone have a gift link or something for the merve emre piece? i have an english degree i will literally perish if i can't read it
casting zooey deschanel as the mocking, prettier-than-you interior voice in the new season of physical was an inspired choice for a show designed to appeal exclusively to alt-inclined millenial women--most of whom experienced new girl-era zooey in this way for themselves
August 2, 2023 at 5:52 AM
casting zooey deschanel as the mocking, prettier-than-you interior voice in the new season of physical was an inspired choice for a show designed to appeal exclusively to alt-inclined millenial women--most of whom experienced new girl-era zooey in this way for themselves
still waiting for a social media platform to come back around that's based on just posting cryptic song lyrics about how you feel, i think that could do really well in the y2k renaissance
July 20, 2023 at 5:41 PM
still waiting for a social media platform to come back around that's based on just posting cryptic song lyrics about how you feel, i think that could do really well in the y2k renaissance
bad paper reviews range from nbd to sort of funny for me, so then why are bad grant reviews an absolutely world historical amount of soul crushing?
July 19, 2023 at 5:10 PM
bad paper reviews range from nbd to sort of funny for me, so then why are bad grant reviews an absolutely world historical amount of soul crushing?
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This is an excellent piece on the misleading framing of "AI ethics" & "AI safety" as two equally valid research endeavours, while the former is grounded in reality, the latter adds no value
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
July 6, 2023 at 10:17 AM
This is an excellent piece on the misleading framing of "AI ethics" & "AI safety" as two equally valid research endeavours, while the former is grounded in reality, the latter adds no value
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
Are we doing paper announcements here? Check out my ✨new essay✨ in Surveillance and Society (with Lilly Irani and Vero Uribe del Aguila), which examines institutional Covid data management and the limits of "privacy" through the lens of feminist surveillance studies. https://tinyurl.com/2p89tpud
View of Contested Care: COVID-19 Surveillance and Health Data in the Workplace
tinyurl.com
July 9, 2023 at 5:25 AM
Are we doing paper announcements here? Check out my ✨new essay✨ in Surveillance and Society (with Lilly Irani and Vero Uribe del Aguila), which examines institutional Covid data management and the limits of "privacy" through the lens of feminist surveillance studies. https://tinyurl.com/2p89tpud
no but really if i live past the NSF august deadline my life will be good again ferreal this time i really mean it, if i live past the NIH september deadline--
I'm not one of those idiots who keeps myopically thinking they just have to make it through the next week, every week of their life. I just have to make it through the next two weeks.
July 9, 2023 at 3:27 AM
no but really if i live past the NSF august deadline my life will be good again ferreal this time i really mean it, if i live past the NIH september deadline--
reading sandra mitchell like borges poetics
July 8, 2023 at 4:02 AM
reading sandra mitchell like borges poetics
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(annoying person at the union meeting who you know is going to be a huge fucker) "oh no I don't have anything to say I'm just here to listen"
July 6, 2023 at 5:42 PM
(annoying person at the union meeting who you know is going to be a huge fucker) "oh no I don't have anything to say I'm just here to listen"
a treat to go to the palm springs art museum--i've routinely thought of this piece (Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Side Profile of David Theodore) since i first saw it a few years back, nice to visit
July 7, 2023 at 2:51 AM
a treat to go to the palm springs art museum--i've routinely thought of this piece (Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Side Profile of David Theodore) since i first saw it a few years back, nice to visit
this is a july 4 song, and also a labor day song, and also a flag day song if you wanna get weird about it
July 5, 2023 at 4:03 AM
this is a july 4 song, and also a labor day song, and also a flag day song if you wanna get weird about it
fridge as database is my whole dissertation
July 5, 2023 at 3:59 AM
fridge as database is my whole dissertation
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pulling up to the death of the internet
July 3, 2023 at 11:48 AM
pulling up to the death of the internet
finding it very hard to get set up on this website when "sts" returns exclusively mass transit content and every tech critic appears to have been forcibly converted into an AI ethicist
July 3, 2023 at 5:24 PM
finding it very hard to get set up on this website when "sts" returns exclusively mass transit content and every tech critic appears to have been forcibly converted into an AI ethicist