@rnd I was trying to come up with a phrase like "cpropaganda recyclonentsist" in the OP, but couldn't quite make it work.

@AccordionBruce

I have a glossy color book about his work -- the photos here are new to me, though! ^.^

@dec23k @mkb @NanoRaptor

@bbuull It sounds like you're on to something, actually; this subject is very new to me.

@vantablack I added that one to our car music stick a couple of years ago ^.^

@bbuull That seems related in that it has to do with diversity in academia (and right-wingers fighting against it by any means possible), but other than that I'm not seeing the connection.

@rnd ...yeah, something like that. Like "well, this paper by Prof. Aldous Whiteguy MD PhD is the one I really want to cite, but the woke university is making me find a replacement, so I guess I'll have to settle for this random inferior paper that happens to be by a nonwhite person."

I could ask him if that's how he imagines the process... :D

...but wait, I found an actual right-wing source explaining how terrible it is! (CW: RW BS) When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System by Denyse O’Leary (a name that feels vaguely famliar to me).

At lunch, my dad mentioned "citation justice" as being this terrible thing that is now debasing academia.

Not having heard of it before, I said I was pretty sure there had to be more to it than that, and then managed to move to another topic.

Searching the webs, what I get is that it's a practice researchers are engaging in voluntarily in order to help improve diversity in the research community, possibly with the encouragement of some instututions, while the Right is of course framing it as valuing diversity over relevance, thereby lowering overall quality (basically the anti-DEI playbook again -- and here I thought they were against recycling).

RationalWiki doesn't seem to have anything about it yet.

Have I discovered a new trope-ical species? 🪱

If anyone has more information, please feel free to send links for me to munch on. (omnomnom)

#lunchWithAConservative #citationJustice

@gannet I actually came across the official City page for this project a week or three ago, when I was poking around various sites about local bike/ped/transit stuff (as one does) ^.^

reasons why I like living in #DurhamNC number whatever -- apparently someone hacked the street-closing sign at the corner of Duke and Buchanan...

(...and I think the closing in question is part of a greenway restoration project now underway...)

For just $10, you too can join the Official Elon Musk is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends Monument Design Committee.

https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/elonhasnofriends

#CardsAgainstHumanity strikes again, and it's wonderful

#ElonMusk

@mkb

Now I want this album.
YOU MUST CREATE IT, @NanoRaptor

...or I could try to create a bunch of music that sounds like it could have been on this album, and we'll release it with that cover... :blobcatthinking:

@splendorr I only ever use it (very occasionally, unpaid account) to answer "how to" sorts of questions when I'm really stuck. It typically will volunteer snippets of code, but I only use them as examples and not as code to be pasted in.

It's been pretty reliably accurate, and at least once I thought I caught it in an error which actually turned out to be me.

I think maybe the reason I've had good results like this is that I'm asking very specific questions phrased very carefully and where the answer doesn't involve any design work.

@mcc Then I feel less iffy about fediblocking them this morning.

So... silverliningyay? :blobcatupsidedown:

@trans_lykanthropie "August 14zh, 1925" -- hey wait, zhis izh from a year agho!

@NanoRaptor [suspicious look] hey waitaminnit......

...is that....

...Photoshopped???

(Gotta get up early in the afternoon to get one past me! Mind like a steel sieve. Ain't never built the man that can bring ol' Johnny down. Etc. :blobcatthinksmart:)

@rnd This has definitely been a part of my thinking for some years now. Whatever system we end up with, it needs to be designed to resist corruption -- it needs to allow for all the ways that we know of in which previous systems have become problematic.

Pretending that any system will work forever without vigilance because it's now "fixed" (much less "perfect") is one of the surest ways to let small bugs grow into huge catastrophes.

@NanoRaptor ...you're named after the group?

(...which I've never heard of... but that definitely looks like Roger Dean lettering... and I am now intrigued.)

@rey Lucky for you, I completely missed it!

[offers hugs]

If whatever-it-was-actually-about is something I should know, please do let me know when you feel up to it.

@riley

• "Well, you know, the races that lack adequate mental capacity to control others were clearly evolved to be subservient to those who have that capacity. It's really quite obvious."
• "We're just trying to help them, the poor dears -- we provide the guidance and wisdom we receive through our broader experience with the minds of others. They can't possibly understand their own needs and wants the way we do."

@catzilla

The Ford government has long maintained removing the bike lanes would improve traffic congestion in the Greater Toronto Area.

...in spite of all the evidence that this is in fact the opposite of reality.

just one more lane, bro™