Dawson Vosburg

was it chase tibbs?

they are awful if you want to copy a quote, read on mobile (as is pointed out in the OP), or use a screen reader/other assistive technologies. those are all things I want to do with academic articles all the time and get blocked by just how many of them are only easily added to my archive as PDFs

I think frankly the buried lede here is that academia really needs a digital distribution standard other than PDF, because PDFs make all kinds of things difficult for users too. PDFs are great for making print ready files with guaranteed formatting stability, and that’s about it.

it’s shocking to me just how many people read that as a literal description of economic allocation to justify inequality! folks, it’s a PARABLE!

that and taking a selfie at the bean

“is the semester you’re finishing your dissertation the best time to do this dawson” thank you no further questions please

ok so: if you’re a qualitative researcher let me know because I accidentally started building a qualitative data analysis app and i’d love to have some user testers! I plan to have a coding workflow prototype working by the end of the week.

“I am a cynical, protean party operative and I am hitching my wagon to a socialist because he is popular!” “I am a principled leftist and I’m glad a centrist shares one of my principles!” Yes! Like grownups, instead of pretending that cynicism is principled and principles rule out cooperation!

As followers of Jesus Christ it is our responsibility to call for nonviolent and LOUDER THAN HELL resistance to this evil regime. On the last day God in his justice will demand an answer for your silence

I mean bluesky is better just for having approximately zero right wingers actually using it!

oh, there are gangs of the mentally unwell targeting people for nothing and running them off this microblogging platform? unprecedented I say

constant discourse about how bluesky is good or bad makes me wonder if anyone actually remembers pre-Elon twitter. it was bad in all of the ways people complain bluesky is bad, down to the very discourse about its badness!

I also like when apps aren’t ugly, but I’m an academic so I have no choice but to come to terms with hideous-looking software.

Maybe one day I’ll get to know some folks with app development knowledge who can collaborate on it because it would be absolutely awesome to have something that could let me stay in an intellectual flow state when analyzing data.

I spent a probably dumb amount of time today writing out my dreams for a better qualitative data analysis application than the presently available options. I use MaxQDA and while there’s stuff that’s helpful it’s also just massively clunky and takes longer to code data with than my manual methods.

inspired by a clergy friend saying on facebook that it’s ok to look at the situation and admit it’s gone too far. a commenter sarcastically said “I agree, protesters interrupting a church service goes too far.” the left is responsible for random citizens, the right isn’t responsible for its own govt

the right wing obsession with the church interruption really signifies the asymmetry in discourse. nobody vested the church protesters with any power! they’re ordinary citizens that no one else actually has to answer for. ICE agents and the president are literally the government.

It’s insane that “talk of sin is largely absent in Jud’s ministry” and “greed and ambition for power are the only behaviors warranting correction” were written down by someone who saw this movie. How many critical scenes in this movie are, directly, confessions of sin?!

I think it is without question a very helpful tool, especially in high-context applications where the primary aim is reducing tedium. But there are criticisms I believe to be more difficult to dismiss than what Matt addressed in his post.

The degradation of internet experience is perhaps the place where AI is palpably unwelcome to me and a huge proportion of the public. It’s being shoved in your face where it doesn’t make sense (suggested email replies comes to mind) or because it’s a way to dramatically accelerate content farms.

I and everyone I know whose teaching requires writing have found it devastating to that enterprise. Students already had to be convinced that writing is an important skill to spend the time developing. Having a machine that to their eyes does it perfectly makes it an order of magnitude worse.

I’ll confess to not being as generally bearish on AI as some folks on the left. I think, though, that the criticisms that are most compelling to me don’t get addressed in this post. The first is teaching writing and the second is internet experience degradation.

He was a Communist, Elmo.

going into the game I had serious doubts that either of these teams could beat the seahawks. they and the pats are the only ones that feel like they could take the whole thing

no matter how OT goes, my memory of this game will be the most incredible pass I've ever seen

martin buber eats. I and thou are hungry. is this anything

It’s not that they’re perfect politicians with flawless platforms or personnel. I don’t believe they are. It’s that the dem soc side of the party is obviously the only place where like, broad empirical reality and basic morality are acknowledged to a normal degree! That should not be the left edge!

I think what a lot of folks really want is a party where this kind of commitment is the norm: both seeing that better is possible and tirelessly selling it to the public. This is why I find the organizational hostility to Bernie and Zohran so discouraging.

*whether in truth or in exaggeration
**the worldview theorist's particular theological positions and biblical interpretations

anyway the entire premise of the argument is based on "worldview theory" which approaches philosophies as totalizing worldviews that, if they contradict* any part of Christianity**, have to be entirely rejected. collapses when you remember that Aquinas was an Aristotelian.