Reposted by Cassie HerbertElin McCready @elinm.bsky.social · 27/10/2023One effect for me of observing the disinformation campaigns and manipulation by governments and institutions around recent events is the conclusion that linguists and philosophers working on meaning need to be better about providing tools not just to identify, but to push back. 192
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 26/10/2023This is long and absolutely horrifying to read. But oh wow is it a phenomenally well done deep dive into online abuse in academia. Content warnings for racism, sexism, hate speech, rape and death threats, online aggression, stalking ... so muchtheverge.comThe obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserableIt didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target. 131
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 27/07/2023So excited for all the fabulous people giving talks at the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm today!!!!bwsah.orgBerlin Workshop on Speech and Harm 130
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 09/07/2023One week into a 6 week trip to Seattle, Portland, Malta, Berlin, and Boston. Duolingo has decided now is the time to teach me how to say “I can’t find my passport,” “I need a new passport,” and “keep looking for your passport, your flight leaves in three hours.” 000
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 08/07/2023Sometimes I forget just how ridiculously happy kayaking makes me. And then I remember. - at Baker Lake, WA 030
Reposted by Cassie HerbertGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/07/2023Always fascinated how pro-natalism leap frogs over policy decisions that make it easier to have and raise children and goes right to forcing and coercing people to have children 1638993
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 01/07/2023Just watched strangers insist on clarifying the gender of this poodle before committing to describing it as “handsome” or “gorgeous” Cishet culture is bizarre 032
Reposted by Cassie HerbertJanet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 01/07/2023My experience to date is that people building something to monetize will only value community as free labor someone else is doing that adds value to the thing to be monetized. They will never value the community in a non-instrumental way, because capitalism. 021
Reposted by Cassie HerbertHane @hane.bsky.social · 01/07/2023a statement by philosophy faculty and graduate students on the attack at University of Waterloo medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statem…medium.comA Statement by Philosophy Faculty and Graduate Students on the Attack at University of WaterlooTo sign onto the below statement, please fill out this form. 2126
Reposted by Cassie HerbertApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 01/07/2023corporate internet certainly seems like it's dying because it can't be trusted with user content and data. The deal was we give that up for convenience and good UX Maybe more users will realize their own value and just stop giving free content to these companies 1569
Reposted by Cassie Herbertorinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 01/07/2023Starting a new social networking site called Vandl and it’s totally offline. Users write their posts on public or private property like bathroom stalls for example 1131054
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 30/06/2023My houseplant looked like it was struggling so I decided to give it a vacation outside for a few days. As a treat!! To encourage it!! 110
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 30/06/2023So much this. ADHD can be my superpower - my brain is great at building bridges between ideas and when I get into smthing I can hyperfocus for hours. But I need a lot of scaffolding to survive. And this job loads SO MUCH onto profs and then gives us zero structure or help. It feels like drowning. 020
Reposted by Cassie HerbertAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/06/2023Now is a great time to plug my paper on this new site, Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure, which will eventually be updated with stories like these: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029 041
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2023Plus universities are allowed to consider gender when “making a balanced incoming class.” If there are over 65% women, prestige drops and men stop applying. But more women apply to college than men. To keep a gender balance, colleges routinely make it easier for men, ESPECIALLY white men, to get in. 100
Reposted by Cassie HerbertDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 29/06/2023People warned the academy and the wider world about this. We said that uncritical support for this bullshit was costing trans and gender non-conforming lives. We said that it was making our courses unsafe. "Academic freedom," they said. Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives. 0325
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2023A prof and two students were stabbed during a philosophy of gender class. A guy came into the class, asked what it was about, and attacked them. I'm trying to come up with words for how terrifying and absolutely unsurprising this violence isdailynous.comThree Stabbed in Philosophy Course at WaterlooThree people were hospitalized following a knife attack that took place this afternoon in a University of Waterloo philosophy course. The suspect was arrested. No fatalities have been reported. The in... 313945
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2023😳🫣🤯 ngl this kinda makes me embarrassed to be a philosopher 000
Cassie Herbert @cassieherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2023Narwhals are the tadpoles of the unicorn lifecycle 1144