After Sol

@Locus_of_Ctrl

void
medium.com/@Locus_of_Ctrl/
Joined November 2016
306 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @Locus_of_Ctrl

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @Locus_of_Ctrl

  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Jun 2017

    The metaphor burst out from Kane's chest, hissed, and ran away.

    1 reply 4 retweets 30 likes
    Undo
  2. Oct 18

    what is happening to Elon's account?

    Dog saves her puppies
    Show this thread
    1 reply 1 like
    Undo
  3. Oct 18

    Is there academic freedom at present -- or as pointed out, "a very particular regime"? If you call what exists "freedom," then I'm right to question your beliefs

    If you don’t believe in academic freedom for people in disciplines you think are absurd or bad, then you don’t believe in academic freedom at all!
    Show this thread
    2 likes
    Undo
  4. Oct 18

    You almost win the game, but then the final boss appears. "I'm a true liberal," he says...

    1 reply 4 likes
    Undo
  5. Oct 18

    You even got socialists on board, and yet you're still afraid of calling for government defunding

    This! This, from in interview with Eric London for the the World Socialist Website, explains why we, as members of the left, want to clean up the left, getting it off the identity politics and grievance studies crack pipe.
    Show this thread
    Undo
  6. Oct 18

    Ideas have consequences. /fin

    2 replies
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  7. Oct 18

    It was easy to dismiss this in 1969 as an obscure academic fad that will have no impact on society at large. But that’s not what happened. The entire country is a college campus now.

    1 reply 1 like
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  8. Oct 18

    Imagine you’re religious. You wouldn’t want a single penny collected from your taxes go to a field that explicitly advocates destruction and overturning of social norms you believe in. Now consider that that almost everyone is religious—simply not everyone is a theist...

    1 reply 2 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  9. Oct 18

    The more people defend GS in order to prove their “true liberal” credentials—the more danger there is from the type of institutional corruption GS represents—because it fed on and flourished for 50 years precisely in the environment where people love to be seen as liberals.

    1 reply 1 like
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. Oct 18

    You have to reason from specific cases. Given the course of instituitional corruption (not simply academic) stemming from introduction of GS in 1969 there is *no doubt* whatsoever that outright ban is the right solution for Hungary. What makes US so different from Hungary though?

    1 reply 2 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  11. Oct 18

    I’m a fan of Lee Jussim’s Twitter feed, but I can’t stop laughing at this. “A solution worse than disease.” Ha. Ha. Ha.

    Replying to @ConceptualJames @Locus_of_Ctrl @HPluckrose
    Govt intervention to eliminate (funding for) intellectually corrupt fields is almost surely a solution worse than the disease. IDK what solution is, but "marketplace of ideas" won't work bc there will ALWAYS be a market for political activism in scholarship's clothing.
    1 reply 2 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. Oct 18

    The terror attacks in Europe of 2015-16 (also a few in the US) had clearly the character of an Intifada. Of course, few people have paused to look at them this way because no blucheck journo will frame them as such

    THREAD: I have been thinking about the phenomenology of the European Islamist Intifada of 2015-16. It had such a crazed character that it definitely marked all of our lives. It may have been a ‘red pill’ for some of you. Some Gen Z kids may have ‘come of age’ then.
    Show this thread
    3 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  13. Oct 18

    The argument that universities should be the ultimate arbiters of which fields of knowledge should be funded is insane and I'm surprised to see many people here defending it. It is not because of university ethicists that researchers cannot freely experiment on human subjects.

    1 reply 3 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Oct 17
    Replying to

    As though the baseline is neutral academic freedom, as opposed to a very particular, ideologically limited regime.

    5 replies 3 retweets 65 likes
    Undo
  15. Oct 17

    This scene from "No Country..." was custom-made for people who think that "uninformed" decisions based on a coin toss are always worse than the informed (but potentially biased) decision

    4 likes
    Undo
  16. Retweeted
    Oct 17
    Replying to and

    Administrative independence can only ever go so far. To say "The Federal Reserve should be independent of Congress" (I agree) implicitly means "in normal circumstances", not "Congress should do nothing if the Fed decides on a federal funds rate target of 1,000,000%, lol"

    1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Oct 17
    Replying to

    A random coin may still give a better answer than a biased coin, depending which way the coin is biased.

    2 replies 1 retweet
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Oct 17
    Replying to

    The biggest lesson from the grievance studies debacle (that your own work wonderfully exposes) is that Universities have utterly failed at making appropriate high-level decisions about which fields should be funded.

    1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    Undo
  19. Oct 17

    Academics will hilariously defend academia *even* as its critics. The academic rot will not stop until this attitude is replaced with “academia and scholarship should be considered two different things, and it’s okay to burn down the former.”

    Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @ConceptualJames
    You'd better hope you don't vote in a theocrat or Social Justice loon then.
    3 likes
    Undo
  20. Retweeted
    Oct 15
    Replying to

    As identity becomes politicized, and programs are created to help various identity groups, do you not foresee an enormous problem with graft/corruption that will necessitate more and more of such tests?

    2 retweets 3 likes
    Undo
  21. Oct 14

    Postmodernism does not understand Fisherian runaway selection. But Fisherian runaway selection understands postmodernism.

    1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    Undo

@Locus_of_Ctrl hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·