Posts by sarcozona
A letter that I did not send to my dear uncle, who sent me a climate change denial article from a right-wing copypasta content farm
Dear Uncle, I guess you sent me this article because you see how worried I am about climate change on twitter and you don’t believe it’s happening. I remember you talking about the emails hacked from the Climate Research Unit at UEA several years ago, but I didn’t realize you were skeptical about the effects of […]
Botox is not a treatment for anxiety and depression and do not fucking tell me to meditate my migraine away
People act like I get migraines because I’m pissed off and sad and don’t exercise enough, but I actually am pissed off and sad and don’t exercise enough because I get too many fucking migraines. The framing of research on migraine co-morbidities kills me. People with migraine, especially chronic migraine, tend to have a bunch […]
Music for filling out your planner and thinking about how cool your friends are
via Terrestrial FM | Vancouver Co-op Radio
Music for editing something you’re terrified of submitting
Music for watching the planes land on the water on a cloudy day
If voting changed anything they’d abolish it
I’m really enjoying Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad samaritans: the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism. In a chapter discussing some serious tension between free markets and democracy, he discusses typical neoliberal policies and how they actually undermine democracy. He’s talking about developing countries and writing from 2008, but I’d argue that neoliberalism […]
The university hybridized with business and kept only the worst of both
On the one hand, the authors are clearly concerned about the fate of their younger colleagues. On the other hand, I could not avoid the impression that the report considers young scientists not as unique creative individuals with “brains and character, strength and health, happiness and spiritual vitality, interest and motivation, and no one knows […]