Holy shit they actually tried to bait me into something like that in 2022 when I was at Texas State. Thankfully for me, it stopped here. Being white and male (...or so we all thought at the time lmao) and generally having a lower profile probably helped. But Jesus fuck that must have been terrifying

Your pfp is me reading this post. What the balls were you thinking

Hell yeah 🤘

Did Steaphen remember to tell you your first 3 classes are free? It's how he gets us

Come on back and swing some swords next time!

This idea of craft can be increasingly important as AI replaces much of human labor. As a tailor friend put it: it's the difference between a hand painted Mona Lisa and a computer copy. Even if others can't tell the difference, some people may value the handmade version bc it represents human skill.

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I don't think they really caught my attention until college but once I learned neutrinos could change flavors and we still don't really know why, I was hooked!

The real problem is that capitalism has created such deep inequalities that it requires ever-escalating brute force to impose them on people.

Until we achieve real social change, we are only going to see more violence. Legitimizing capitalism means justifying murder.

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And now I've made myself sad so I'll just pay @miawong.bsky.social a tribute and end with

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.

These are fundamentally the interests that science serves when done on behalf of nations and it's why government-funded science is even a thing. And that sucks because it could so easily be so much more.

No, competition like I'm talking about only comes in when there is a national need to dominate. American companies need to dominate global markets to maintain the economic hegemony of the global north. The American military needs to dominate through the possession of superior weaponry.

And even then, you're working towards the same goal: expanding human knowledge. At that point it's just a ego thing of who gets the credit, and more than likely, there's still collaboration occurring there.

What is inherently competitive about learning more about the workings universe around us? Okay maybe you have a rival research team at a rival university working on a similar project. That's obviously not what I'm talking about here though.

But I hate seeing people need to try to argue for the validity of that by appealing to American economic and military interests via the intentionally vague notion of "American competitiveness in science."