The 'Grievance Studies' hoax discourse is gonna be a nightmare. I need to go somewhere without internet for the next... two months?

Some of these actually are top journals. The hoax does show one can master these fields very quickly and in bad faith
I'm on the side of literary history that thinks the Ern Malley poems were great and the Spectra poems good, so I'm not one to go from 'you can learn this quickly and in bad faith' to 'it's worthless'
On the other hand, the fact that three randos who perfectly fit the profile of the kind of centrist who gets mocked for not-getting-it could perform at an expert level in the discourse very quickly is kind of a big deal. And the highest-profile accepts were pure theory so 'fair'
Which, again, only implies so much-- that these conceptual technologies are operationally shallow doesn't mean they're bad -- but bears discussion
My sister got a bunch of quickly-scribbled poems published in an overly hip new literary mag as a hoax once. When a newspaper critic singled them out as especially stupid she got really upset and realized she secretly thought they were good
Which they were
I always wanted to write something on the 'paradox' of shallow operational mechanics in radical intellectual and aesthetic programmes, how it's... sort of what you should expect
Grothendieck thought good mathematical concepts need to make mathematical reasoning 'baby-ish'
More practically, Utilitarianism and Bayesianism are mechanically shallow radical intellectual programs over at the 'other side.' Or rather, like critical theory, they give rise to mechanically shallow niches at the junction of activism, self-help, and the social sciences
If you had fun, maybe you'd also like my work about autoencoding, data-manifolds, poetic thought, and aesthetic meaning: https://t.co/18oVCkhWWa

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1. Mini Thread on Conflicts of Interest involving the authors of the Nature Toilet Paper:
https://t.co/VUYbsKGncx
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew Rambaut
Ian Lipkin
Edward C. Holmes
Robert F. Garry

2. Thanks to @newboxer007 for forwarding the link to the research by an Australian in Taiwan (not on

3. K.Andersen didn't mention "competing interests"
Only Garry listed Zalgen Labs, which we will look at later.
In acknowledgements, Michael Farzan, Wellcome Trust, NIH, ERC & ARC are mentioned.
Author affiliations listed as usual.
Note the 328 Citations!
https://t.co/nmOeohM89Q


4. Kristian Andersen (1)
Andersen worked with USAMRIID & Fort Detrick scientists on research, with Robert Garry, Jens Kuhn & Sina Bavari among


5. Kristian Andersen (2)
Works at Scripps Research Institute, which WAS in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging 20 million $ a year.
But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news.
They issued a press release dated November 27, 2019:

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44 media queries
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50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

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PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

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740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
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The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.