SNJ

The sectarian US left has allowed social media to make too much of its activity into influencer wars. That's deepened huge issues like projection and copy/paste rhetoric. Without more self-awareness, expect a lot of these people to shift right and/or be absorbed by fascism (in the name of leftism).

Like this basically more or less creates an illusion which you felt that you know so much about everything but in reality you just don't

I think one issue with our current low-attention-span Internet is that you get to know bits and pieces of so many different things, but due to the nature of the short form, everything has to be simplified to a degree, which makes them straight-up misinformation

Literally still one of the most expensive income-to-housing cost countries in the world even after the (slow) burst of housing bubble

Can't believe I even have to say this, but like, there are many things China is actually doing quite well compared to Western countries, but housing affordability is absolutely not one of them...

Finished CLR James' Black Jacobin and damn what a great book. Yall Marxist historians needs to write like that again

Like how do you not just include any actual Chinese prospectives...

For most Chinese post-COVID, not just the actual job prospect but even the vibes are still... very bad. there's a reason why terms like 躺平 and 后红利 are now big terms...

Definitely much better than most but still quite navel-gazing, tbh. Also the article don't really addresses that despite whatever white tiktok lady having a "Chinese time" or some Silicon Valley guys envy how much data center their Chinese peer can build..

Extremely tempted to just doing some random european language classes in the summer on top of classes in my research language just for the sake of it

...My opinion is you shouldn't trust anyone who claims to have special insights into the inner workings of the Chinese communist party circles, and especially espeically...not Tooze...

Obviously happy to be convinced otherwise but I really feel that there's just not a good theory of imperialism for the present at the current moment

oh cmon bro

Reading Luxemburg's writing of imperialism for a class and ngl she absolutely knocked Lenin out of the woods

STS scholars be like
- overwhelmingly anti-Ai
- Yet somehow 80% of the stuff you see at those academic spaces is all about AI now
- hmm

just some of the most borning and lamest shit out there

We rly need to kill Techno-orientalism as a framework analysis man

They will be making more money than I ever would though.

Being a grad student at one of those Universities means realizing that the promising undergrads u encounter with passion for radical whatever will just end up sitting in an office 40 hr a week making PowerPoints on new tech growth strategies in 3 years

speaking of Land, it's funny that his wife is just some tenured media studies prof who published like 2 monographs on Chinese urban media but is otherwise not known for much else

Awful that they're trying to smear Mamdani and the entire DSA with this, but the international committee has been a tankie haven for ages. Just disgraceful that they're taking state-organized junkets to the Uyghur region

Can we have actual material analysis instead of "material analysis" (conspiracism)?

ok why does nordic ppl looks wasian

def not at a dept or school that has the support could make this work tho, but its not like anyone gets jobs nowdays so...

After finishing like 8 narrative games in a row I genuinely feels like fully pivoting to videogames studies lol

Xinjiang whistleblower faces deportation to China — lawyer After documenting Xinjiang's Uyghur detention network, a Chinese dissident faces deportation to China, his lawyer says. His case highlights the clash between US immigration policy and human rights con...

Like many other folks targeted by ICE, Guan is in a lot of danger if he’s sent back www.dw.com/en/xinjiang-...

Props for the courage tho (or rip if it was uploaded by the school)

Bruh Google Scholar search results really do just include some absolutely dogshit undergrad paper huh

yeah as someone who did doordash full time I can totally see it as real but oh well...

“For a typical job we’d get a couple hundred applications, probably at least 80 from white guys,” the hiring editor recalled. “It was a given that we weren’t gonna hire the best person… It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.” The pipeline hadn’t changed much—white men were still nearly half the applicants—but they were now filling closer to 10 percent of open positions.

Goldberg was candid about another, less comfortable reality. “It’s really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story,” he said in that same interview. “There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it. The journalists in America who do it are almost exclusively white males.”

Sometimes it implicitly or explicitly assumes that the Old Days wherein white men were a very high proportion of hires were the times of Meritocracy, while the diversification push post-2014 was the end thereof. But that's just bias: you cannae assume it was meritocratic when your group was winning!