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Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci & Tech || How do data & scientific communities make each other? Current projects on: social genomics; environmental regulation

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bennettmcintosh.com
your post put this image in my head so now I'm putting it online
a doctored photo of a WeWork building, in which the letters "w-e" on the building's sign have been replaced by the letters "j-e-e" in a shoddy photoshop job. The building has a glass facade framed by tan concrete on the top floors and dark gray stone on the bottom floors. Palm trees slightly soften the edges but do not mitigate the imposing looming of the building
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
bennettmcintosh.com
Fantastic news, and bless you for standing up not only for yourself but for countless students and scholars!
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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mantzarlis.com
Sidenote: Grokipedia includes more than 1,000 citations to conversations between X users and Grok. The seventh citation for the entry on former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt points to this chat asking Grok to "dig up some dirt" on Verhofstadt

indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
bennettmcintosh.com
Also, for a great read on why replacing the "race" terminology with the "species" terminology doesn't solve the problems here, I highly recommend Claire Jean Kim's DANGEROUS CROSSINGS

www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
> "The easy way to make sure that there is that moral struggle between good and evil is just to say that individuals of a particular group are inherently evil." > One of the most enduringly legible symbols that a character is different and therefore more disposable is race. Of course, the fact that this is also true in the real world is the reason it became such an effective shorthand.
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
bennettmcintosh.com
this throw-away line stood out: Musk, Meloni &c see cosmopolitan exchange as erasing old "specificities" but queers & creoles & immigrants are behind countless *specific* cultural innovations. Labeling them undifferentiated Others or genetically-doomed subhumans is a worldview designed to hide this
paragraph highlighting the ways that reactionaries love Lord of the Rings: Thiel and his minions like Joe Lonsdale & JD Vance name their companies Palantir, Andruil, Erebor & Narya; Dubya's surrogates used Jackson's films as a metaphor for the war in Iraq. Highlighted is a line about how Italian PM Georgia Meloni is a "defender of 'Italianity' against what she sees as the dilution of immigration [and] a Tolkein obsessive who sees in hobbits, dwarves, and elves the 'value of specificity'"
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
bennettmcintosh.com
oh they're trying to cram the 4 Nations Face-Off into a Basketball-shaped hole?
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
bennettmcintosh.com
THE COST OF LIVING IN AMERICA is both a great book and a double entendre I am endlessly jealous of
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM