Cassie Herbert
@cassieherbert.bsky.social
philosophy & wgss prof. she/her. often talks excitedly about philosophy of language, gender, and social media
Me, every morning
October 30, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Me, every morning
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One effect for me of observing the disinformation campaigns and manipulation by governments and institutions around recent events is the conclusion that linguists and philosophers working on meaning need to be better about providing tools not just to identify, but to push back.
October 27, 2023 at 3:44 AM
One effect for me of observing the disinformation campaigns and manipulation by governments and institutions around recent events is the conclusion that linguists and philosophers working on meaning need to be better about providing tools not just to identify, but to push back.
This is long and absolutely horrifying to read. But oh wow is it a phenomenally well done deep dive into online abuse in academia.
Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so much
Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so much
The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable
It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.
www.theverge.com
October 26, 2023 at 9:15 PM
This is long and absolutely horrifying to read. But oh wow is it a phenomenally well done deep dive into online abuse in academia.
Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so much
Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so much
So excited for all the fabulous people giving talks at the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm today!!!!
Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm
bwsah.org
July 27, 2023 at 10:26 AM
So excited for all the fabulous people giving talks at the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm today!!!!
One week into a 6 week trip to Seattle, Portland, Malta, Berlin, and Boston. Duolingo has decided now is the time to teach me how to say “I can’t find my passport,” “I need a new passport,” and “keep looking for your passport, your flight leaves in three hours.”
July 9, 2023 at 6:44 PM
One week into a 6 week trip to Seattle, Portland, Malta, Berlin, and Boston. Duolingo has decided now is the time to teach me how to say “I can’t find my passport,” “I need a new passport,” and “keep looking for your passport, your flight leaves in three hours.”
Sometimes I forget just how ridiculously happy kayaking makes me. And then I remember.
- at Baker Lake, WA
- at Baker Lake, WA
July 8, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Sometimes I forget just how ridiculously happy kayaking makes me. And then I remember.
- at Baker Lake, WA
- at Baker Lake, WA
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Always fascinated how pro-natalism leap frogs over policy decisions that make it easier to have and raise children and goes right to forcing and coercing people to have children
July 3, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Always fascinated how pro-natalism leap frogs over policy decisions that make it easier to have and raise children and goes right to forcing and coercing people to have children
Just watched strangers insist on clarifying the gender of this poodle before committing to describing it as “handsome” or “gorgeous”
Cishet culture is bizarre
Cishet culture is bizarre
July 1, 2023 at 5:10 PM
Just watched strangers insist on clarifying the gender of this poodle before committing to describing it as “handsome” or “gorgeous”
Cishet culture is bizarre
Cishet culture is bizarre
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My experience to date is that people building something to monetize will only value community as free labor someone else is doing that adds value to the thing to be monetized. They will never value the community in a non-instrumental way, because capitalism.
July 1, 2023 at 4:55 PM
My experience to date is that people building something to monetize will only value community as free labor someone else is doing that adds value to the thing to be monetized. They will never value the community in a non-instrumental way, because capitalism.
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a statement by philosophy faculty and graduate students on the attack at University of Waterloo
https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f
https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f
A Statement by Philosophy Faculty and Graduate Students on the Attack at University of Waterloo
To sign onto the below statement, please fill out this form.
medium.com
July 1, 2023 at 2:38 PM
a statement by philosophy faculty and graduate students on the attack at University of Waterloo
https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f
https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f
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corporate internet certainly seems like it's dying because it can't be trusted with user content and data. The deal was we give that up for convenience and good UX
Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies
Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies
I feel like my generation experienced Peak Internet and we’re now on a downward trend.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.
July 1, 2023 at 12:46 PM
corporate internet certainly seems like it's dying because it can't be trusted with user content and data. The deal was we give that up for convenience and good UX
Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies
Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies
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Starting a new social networking site called Vandl and it’s totally offline. Users write their posts on public or private property like bathroom stalls for example
July 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Starting a new social networking site called Vandl and it’s totally offline. Users write their posts on public or private property like bathroom stalls for example
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My houseplant looked like it was struggling so I decided to give it a vacation outside for a few days. As a treat!! To encourage it!!
June 30, 2023 at 1:29 AM
My houseplant looked like it was struggling so I decided to give it a vacation outside for a few days. As a treat!! To encourage it!!
So much this. ADHD can be my superpower - my brain is great at building bridges between ideas and when I get into smthing I can hyperfocus for hours. But I need a lot of scaffolding to survive. And this job loads SO MUCH onto profs and then gives us zero structure or help.
It feels like drowning.
It feels like drowning.
Moreover, there are no accomodations, no scaffolds except the ones that you build for yourself and we all know how that goes. Case in point: imagine having to manage multiple e-mail accounts simultaneously, all of which require almost immediate responses, which is taxing for even neurotypicals.
June 30, 2023 at 12:52 AM
So much this. ADHD can be my superpower - my brain is great at building bridges between ideas and when I get into smthing I can hyperfocus for hours. But I need a lot of scaffolding to survive. And this job loads SO MUCH onto profs and then gives us zero structure or help.
It feels like drowning.
It feels like drowning.
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Now is a great time to plug my paper on this new site, Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure, which will eventually be updated with stories like these:
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029
June 29, 2023 at 10:25 PM
Now is a great time to plug my paper on this new site, Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure, which will eventually be updated with stories like these:
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029
Plus universities are allowed to consider gender when “making a balanced incoming class.” If there are over 65% women, prestige drops and men stop applying. But more women apply to college than men. To keep a gender balance, colleges routinely make it easier for men, ESPECIALLY white men, to get in.
June 29, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Plus universities are allowed to consider gender when “making a balanced incoming class.” If there are over 65% women, prestige drops and men stop applying. But more women apply to college than men. To keep a gender balance, colleges routinely make it easier for men, ESPECIALLY white men, to get in.
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People warned the academy and the wider world about this. We said that uncritical support for this bullshit was costing trans and gender non-conforming lives. We said that it was making our courses unsafe. "Academic freedom," they said.
Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.
Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.
June 29, 2023 at 8:06 AM
People warned the academy and the wider world about this. We said that uncritical support for this bullshit was costing trans and gender non-conforming lives. We said that it was making our courses unsafe. "Academic freedom," they said.
Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.
Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.
A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them.
I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is
I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is
Three Stabbed in Philosophy Course at Waterloo
Three people were hospitalized following a knife attack that took place this afternoon in a University of Waterloo philosophy course. The suspect was arrested. No fatalities have been reported. The in...
dailynous.com
June 29, 2023 at 6:33 AM
A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them.
I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is
I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence is
😳🫣🤯 ngl this kinda makes me embarrassed to be a philosopher
SBF used customer funds to pay someone $300,000 to "[w]rite a book about how to figure out what humans' utility function is (are)"
i picked the wrong career
i picked the wrong career
![In addition to receiving transfers of commingled funds, the FTX Foundation also regularly directed the payment of “grants” directly from FTX Group bank accounts that held commingled customer and corporate funds. For example, on May 19, 2022, the FTX Foundation authorized a $300,000 grant to an individual to “[w]rite a book about how to figure out what humans’ utility function is (are),” and transferred the funds to this individual from North Dimension-8738, a Primary Deposit Account.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreif72k6vtvvqbpq6nm66nrl4sm4uq4fph33uqo27l7ekt3lc7vh2am@jpeg)
June 29, 2023 at 5:32 AM
😳🫣🤯 ngl this kinda makes me embarrassed to be a philosopher
Narwhals are the tadpoles of the unicorn lifecycle
June 29, 2023 at 5:21 AM
Narwhals are the tadpoles of the unicorn lifecycle