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Well, not you. But a person of the proper race (which does not exist, but don’t you even think about trying to fake your race because you will be tracked down and ruined), gender, orientation, and politics can.
California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Postdoctoral Instructor in STEM and Inequality
The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Instructorship on the topic of “STEM and Inequality in the Twentieth Century,” beginning Fall 2021. Area of Specialization: We are seeking candidates whose research engages critical theories to analyze the ways that scientific or technical knowledge and practice has been historically implicated in the perpetuation, design, and elaboration of systems of power and inequality. Emphases might include critiques of scientific knowledge, scientific disciplines, scientific processes, technological language, technological systems, STEM educational institutions, STEM industries, and STEM policy.
Scholars working across the humanities and humanistic social science, particularly in interdisciplinary and comparative fields, are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome applications from members of groups historically underrepresented in the academy. The successful candidate will be expected to teach three (ten-week) undergraduate courses during each of the two years. The appointment is contingent upon completion of the Ph.D.
… Applicants should submit a brief diversity and inclusion statement of approximately 500 words that discusses past and/or anticipated contributions to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in the areas of research, teaching, and/or outreach. …
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Didn’t you just say:
“We especially welcome applications from members of groups historically underrepresented”?
How can you then turn around and say:
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law”?
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Don’t worry Steve.
We will be well compensated by all those black computer geniuses creating SkyNet and shit.
Duke prof’s new computer science course will focus on diversity
https://i.ibb.co/1MvYQDv/CRIMSON-PERMANENT-ASSURANCE-8.jpg
To deflect attention away from the fact that the ability of Ms. Washington, et al. in your typical coding course is only slightly better than their skills in the deep end of a swimming pool.
That’s it. The cancer has spread to the vital organs. Our world doesn’t have long to live.
The End of the World predictions are diagnostic of ignorance regarding how the world actually functions. The vast majority of work is make work and this also is true at Cal Tech. As long as the top 20 find it worthwhile to not go Galt things will keep going. Not nearly as well as they could if we had libertopia but we never ever had any real chance at libertopia any way.
Did you know Ayn Rand was an amphetamine freak?Replies: @lavoisier, @Muggles
But we may need serious Emergency Medical Technicians.
https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/QbMbu9p_WUlu6vHWyIe1GrRcXIE=/800x364/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DMDW6UFC7GBFAXBSOYOASCDGKI.jpgReplies: @BenKenobi
https://www.google.com/search?q=charlie+kirk+diversity&rlz=1C1PQHB_enUS905US905&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNwN3EqoTsAhXwc98KHQMzAg8Q_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1163&bih=525
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/09/23/government-media-ridicule-56/
‘Confirmed’ Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/confirmed-has-become-a-meaningless-word-in-mainstream-news-reporting-313848d30dd0
Repeat after me, 6079 Smith, W.:
https://www.google.com/search?q=news+same+everywhere&rlz=1C1PQHB_enUS905US905&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYvryArITsAhVBMt8KHeLJD2wQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1163&bih=525
Yeah, but all that ‘equal opportunity’ stuff is in the last paragraph, and only bad people like you Mr Sailer a) read all the way down- and b) take all those pre-kto/kogo ‘we-are-all-equal-under-the-law’ laws seriously.
Plus, don’t give up hope on a CalTech job!
I believe after the “STEM and Inequality in the Twentieth Century” gig is filled, there will be more available…
STEM and Inequality in the Nineteenth Century
STEM and Inequality in the Eighteenth Century
STEM and Inequality in the…
…
STEM and Inequality in the Twentieth Century BC
See! So many, even a Steve Sailer has a chance! Miracles happen!
Apply* today!
*For the 500 words, Just cut ‘n paste ‘Black lives matter’.
OT:
Revolt against scotus fave Amy Coney Barrett is forming on twitter led by super lawyer Robert Barnes …
He claims she is an authoritarian and says 90% of her decisions are in favor of states or big biz also cites some lockdown case proof. Yikes he makes her sound like the lockdown queen worse than Roberts…
Pareto 20 / 80.
The End of the World predictions are diagnostic of ignorance regarding how the world actually functions. The vast majority of work is make work and this also is true at Cal Tech. As long as the top 20 find it worthwhile to not go Galt things will keep going. Not nearly as well as they could if we had libertopia but we never ever had any real chance at libertopia any way.
Did you know Ayn Rand was an amphetamine freak?
But in areas where bullshit kills people, think front-line work being done by professionals--pilots flying planes, surgeons doing surgery-- there is really no time for sloth or foolishness.
That is why filling low level jobs with incompetents does not really harm the public.
But high level affirmative action for jobs where human lives are at stake and that require critical thinking skills and spot on performance is unwise and very dangerous.
Didn’t they drop the SAT/ACT this year too?
HR rep speaketh with forked tongue.
I mean just get a perm, some hoop earings, practice your BLM lingo and its welcome to the department Ms Hadid-lee.
Whaaaa? You mean the Really Smart people are losing their special set aside from the misery they’ve allowed to be pushed on us? A White guy can’t just say “I score real high on SAT, the problems of proles don’t concern me”?
Golly, I’m sad.
Even if this disease doesn’t actually kill us, there’s no way we’re not losing major organs to this.
Even if we beat this back, how many of our best minds won’t make it to salvation?
Alright, who let in the sociology types?
Hol’ up. Societal cancer can still be eliminated.
But we may need serious Emergency Medical Technicians.
I guess the silver lining is they’re only giving Lysenkoism a two-year trial run for now.
Didn’t you just say:“We especially welcome applications from members of groups historically underrepresented”?
How can you then turn around and say: “We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law”?
Why exactly are you noticing that tovarisch ? Are you some kind of counter-revolutionary wrecker?
How soon before planes fall from the sky, bridges collapse, and skyscrapers fall? I’m serious. “Science and knowledge are Racist” means it is a matter of time before verbally proficient but spatially and mathematically disabled individuals take over the making of all technologies.
Commercial air travel will never return to previous levels.Replies: @paranoid goy
737 MAX: MCAS programmed in India so the Third World market wouldn't need extra training.
Florida International University pedestrian bridge: collapsed due to design flaws from woman-led engineering firm prioritizing aesthetics and built by minority-owned construction firm.
World Trade Center: while it didn't fall from a construction error per se, there was a meta-design error in society at large that it would be good to host alien and hostile foreigners and sell them one-way cash air tickets no questions asked.Replies: @polistra
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/
I know people at JPL, which is managed by Caltech, and the management really pushes the woke BS. Every month seems to be this or that pride/heritage month. The St George event provoked a gusher of communiques about DIE. What the hell does any of this have to do with designing and building better instruments? A mark of a totalitarian society is that everything is hijacked by ideology and politics. Welcome to New America. This is why I will vote Trump, as a mid-finger to the DIE Brigade, not that I expect him to be able to stop it.
Was Caltech one of the elite universities surveyed in the NYT’s Faces of Power article?
Because if so, it would qualify as one of the overepresented 56%… just saying
Good thing they don't have a law school. Or do they?Replies: @John Milton’s Ghost, @Buzz Mohawk, @nebulafox
The arcane symbols at the bottom of that advertisement, which to primitive minds like ours resemble the once-popular “equal opportunity” promise, are not really a series of meaningful words. They are just a ritual adornment, sort of like alternating blessed-crèche and flying-reindeer engravings on Winter-Celebration gift-wrapping paper. When the ad is read aloud to prospective applicants of diminished visual acuity,* that string of inscrutable symbols is pronounced “et-cetera, et-cetera” in the falling tone of a resentful sigh.
*Many handicaps, especially morbid obesity and eccrine bromhidrosis, are good for extra intersectionality points, and applicants for D.I.E.-related jobs who possess any are advised to alert recruiters to that fact. However, recruiters often regard defects of sight with suspicion— “color blindness” sounds dangerously racist, and actual blindness might hinder a candidate’s ability to distinguish Black people from white demons. Currently there is no ADA-compliant “reasonable accommodation” possible for the handicap of being unable to see Black people coming, but one may yet become available: it has been proposed to wire a small video camera to one of those racist Google neural-network AI image-recognition systems, but have the resulting device say “holy person” instead of “gorilla” whenever it sees a Black face. If provided with such a device, a worker of diminished visual acuity might then be able to function in the academic workplace.
Golly, I'm sad.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Hibernian
Maybe we should have a RETARD button here.
In the long run, that's more important. If those people realize there is no safe refuge from the misery that White working and middle class is enduring, you may see change.
We will be well compensated by all those black computer geniuses creating SkyNet and shit.
Duke prof's new computer science course will focus on diversityReplies: @Mr McKenna, @Hypnotoad666, @Richard B
Ahoy there mateys, our future looks bright indeed.
Whoever they hire will get involved in admissions, hiring and promotion (to tenure) committees, ensuring that even real scientists will have to pledge allegiance to wokeness.
Can anyone explain hoop earrings for me? Are they a signalling device like foot binding in China, to let everyone know that you got a man looking out for you? Because otherwise you’d be helpless and/or vulnerable? Not that Rihanna needs to do that…
The Bigger The Hoops, The Bigger The Whore
http://www.therulesrevisited.com/2011/08/bigger-hoops-bigger-whore.html?m=1
And is that tattoo on her shoulder written backwards? Why backwards; is it something she wants to be able to look in a mirror to read?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUa3np4CKC4
Because if so, it would qualify as one of the overepresented 56%... just sayingReplies: @Reg Cæsar
Imagine a Caltech grad on the Supreme Court. Better yet, try not to.
Good thing they don’t have a law school. Or do they?
I think something similar happened to National Review, by the way. Most of their young guns went to Ivy League schools and eventually the entire magazine absorbed the elitist worldview. Reading it now you wouldn’t know that Buckley’s magazine opposed increased legal immigration in the 1990s, or warned against unfettered capitalism and economic growth as not automatically conservative aims.Replies: @Hibernian
They run JPL, the one place on Earth that has done more than any other to explore the planets. They drill rocks on Mars for breakfast.
A crown jewel of Western civilization has been tarnished. Cry for it.
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130722_annotated_earth-moon_from_saturn_1920x1080.jpg
The Earth from Pasadena, via SaturnReplies: @El Dato
Everything being hijacked by ideology and politics is actually the inevitable end result of democracy.
Actual totalitarian societies don’t have politics. And they don’t have ideological debates.
An overrepresentation on applications followed by a strictly meritocratic selection among applicants is possible. It’s also arguably a more reasonable (or at least less unreasonable) method of affirmative action than quotas or a biased choosing.
I am not necessarily saying that job should exist, though.
If they really meant all of this nonsense (which as many note, contradicts the "we especially welcome..." BS), they would announce that all applicants' applications will be first filtered to remove any references to name, age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc. No photos, etc.
Like blind auditions for musicians in large orchestras.
I'm sure someone at this famous home of Smart Folks can figure out how to undertake this. Maybe even turn it into a marketable product for other higher learning institutions.
Okay, the comic minute is over. Please continue as you were ...
Maybe Caltech will finally get a decent basketball team:
I for one am in favor of having someone inside the system charged with attacking and sabotaging STEM. That solution seems more practical and effective than all those vegan “ethics” commissars and committees. It is a courageous initiative to hire a professional Black PhD to criticize the system and its leaders. It reminds me of European Kings that employed full-time jokers in the court to make fun and ridicule the lofty personages.
Good thing they don't have a law school. Or do they?Replies: @John Milton’s Ghost, @Buzz Mohawk, @nebulafox
Might be nice to have a Caltech grad on the Supreme Court. Without a law degree. I don’t care how great your school is, when the entire Supreme Court went to Harvard or Yale law schools, it can’t be good for anyone, except Harvard and Yale. I suspect the regular defection of most so called conservative justices to the side of the statists and make-it-up-as-we-go crowd is due to the cultural rot of the Ivies that they are steeped in. Elite classism is extremely politically correct because elites don’t have to live with the consequences.
I think something similar happened to National Review, by the way. Most of their young guns went to Ivy League schools and eventually the entire magazine absorbed the elitist worldview. Reading it now you wouldn’t know that Buckley’s magazine opposed increased legal immigration in the 1990s, or warned against unfettered capitalism and economic growth as not automatically conservative aims.
*Many handicaps, especially morbid obesity and eccrine bromhidrosis, are good for extra intersectionality points, and applicants for D.I.E.-related jobs who possess any are advised to alert recruiters to that fact. However, recruiters often regard defects of sight with suspicion— “color blindness” sounds dangerously racist, and actual blindness might hinder a candidate’s ability to distinguish Black people from white demons. Currently there is no ADA-compliant “reasonable accommodation” possible for the handicap of being unable to see Black people coming, but one may yet become available: it has been proposed to wire a small video camera to one of those racist Google neural-network AI image-recognition systems, but have the resulting device say “holy person” instead of “gorilla” whenever it sees a Black face. If provided with such a device, a worker of diminished visual acuity might then be able to function in the academic workplace.Replies: @John Milton’s Ghost
Color blindness as a criminal affliction, indeed. That reminds me of the Dave Chapelle skit where he played a Klan leader who was black—but blind, so he didn’t realize it.
Good thing they don't have a law school. Or do they?Replies: @John Milton’s Ghost, @Buzz Mohawk, @nebulafox
Until now, Caltech was one of the last institutions in America — and the most impressive one — free from this BS. Now it has been infected.
They run JPL, the one place on Earth that has done more than any other to explore the planets. They drill rocks on Mars for breakfast.
A crown jewel of Western civilization has been tarnished. Cry for it.
The Earth from Pasadena, via Saturn
China be like "Yo guys. We have cozy base set up with good view on Mons Olympus. Tsing Tao beer is ready. Where are you?"
US be like "Capricorn One: Glorious conquest of Mars by Diverse US - watch it live on CNN (as you shelter in place from Corona-33)"
Revolt against scotus fave Amy Coney Barrett is forming on twitter led by super lawyer Robert Barnes ...
He claims she is an authoritarian and says 90% of her decisions are in favor of states or big biz also cites some lockdown case proof. Yikes he makes her sound like the lockdown queen worse than Roberts...Replies: @El Dato, @anon
So she’s like Kamala?
Also, I thought being for lockdowns is good because Trump didn’t lock down, causing untold millions of dead people to die horribly in gutters, starbucks and dump chutes?
Fear and loathing about Covid-19 links:
BSE Scare, take 2: Scientists think Parkinson’s might be 2 diseases in 1, as fears grow Covid-19 may spark a wave of the disorder
You only die twice: ‘Twindemic’: EU officials warn of flu & coronavirus mix, tell governments to keep their guard up
Realism: Europe’s LOCKDOWN will kill more people worldwide than Covid-19 virus, German minister warns
Peak Rona then, Peak Rona now: The peak wasn’t the peak? UK & France record HIGHEST-EVER daily rises in Covid-19 cases Yeah why not just use the Soviet Vaccine?
Most 1984-ian Citizen Information Display in the UK here: UK Health Secretary refuses to rule out 2nd national lockdown, but it would be ‘last line of defense’ “We are at risk of lockdown – Everyone needs to take action.”. No. YOU at at risk of a Matt Hancock decision. Yes, everyone needs to take action.
Louisville is so hot right now
As a Caltech undergrad over forty years ago, I think I would have enjoyed taking a course from whoever gets the appointment.
You see, ‘Techers are not above having a little mean fun at the expense of idiots — and, oh, I think some ‘Techers are going to have a lot of fun at the expense of the poor fool they hire!
I actually did take a course on “Environmental Economics” while at Caltech, expecting just that kind of fun experience.
Alas, the instructor turned out to be this very bright guy who explained in detail how “externalities” could be dealt with by a proper system of property rights and free-market structures.
So, by the end of the quarter, I was actually helping him explain the key ideas to the duller (or more ideological) members of the class.
Much less fun than I had expected, but, I suppose, more productive.
Schrödinger’s HR Department.
It’s as the fall of Rome.
Uncanny!
STEM and Inequality in the Eighteenth Century
STEM and Inequality in the...
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STEM and Inequality in the Twentieth Century BCSee! So many, even a Steve Sailer has a chance! Miracles happen!Apply* today!*For the 500 words, Just cut 'n paste 'Black lives matter'.Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
“*For the 500 words [diversity statement], just cut ‘n paste ‘Black lives matter.’”
It worked at Stanford (for undergraduate admissions, but still…). And when Stanford sneezes, Caltech typically catches cold.
A few years, tops.
Commercial air travel will never return to previous levels.
1. They start refuelling the plane while I am still disembarking. 10 days later jumbo catches fire on tarmac, while refuelling. Over a hundred people die
2. A bearing in the engine next to my window starts screaming for all hell, until I make enough noise for the pilot to slow down. For that I was called a terrorist by British Airways. Two weeks later they crash the plane taking off. People died.
3. At night, a rookie BBE female learner pilot is given the wheel, and we almost did not land at all.
Now add the Boeing mess, and the general increase in air accidents. I am now afraid of flying, and all because of deferred maintenance and cheap labour. 'They' point at increased flights, I point to the same number of planes doing more flights, it saves money.
"Sustainable" is measured by Management's willingness to spend money on that activity. Maintenance, in a bean-counters addled mind, does not make profit, it is not sustainable, but using that money to speculate or pay dividents are!
Now apply that mentality to education, which has been declared an unsustainable activity by the UN, and you end up with somebody having to write this article.Replies: @JMcG, @The Wild Geese Howard
This is literally the Federal government’s #1 priority for our tax dollars.
https://twitter.com/RaeHodge/status/1309296741183873024Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @polistra
Actually going inside the library: that would have been (how do you say it?)…beyond the pale.
Ask and ye shall receive:
The Bigger The Hoops, The Bigger The Whore
http://www.therulesrevisited.com/2011/08/bigger-hoops-bigger-whore.html?m=1
Already happening.
737 MAX: MCAS programmed in India so the Third World market wouldn’t need extra training.
Florida International University pedestrian bridge: collapsed due to design flaws from woman-led engineering firm prioritizing aesthetics and built by minority-owned construction firm.
World Trade Center: while it didn’t fall from a construction error per se, there was a meta-design error in society at large that it would be good to host alien and hostile foreigners and sell them one-way cash air tickets no questions asked.
https://youtu.be/CMdv2wRaqo4Replies: @Almost Missouri
737 MAX: MCAS programmed in India so the Third World market wouldn't need extra training.
Florida International University pedestrian bridge: collapsed due to design flaws from woman-led engineering firm prioritizing aesthetics and built by minority-owned construction firm.
World Trade Center: while it didn't fall from a construction error per se, there was a meta-design error in society at large that it would be good to host alien and hostile foreigners and sell them one-way cash air tickets no questions asked.Replies: @polistra
The Minneapolis bridge collapse was more spectacular.
https://twitter.com/RaeHodge/status/1309296741183873024Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @polistra
Symbolic as all get-out! Still, I think the flare was simply thrown through the glass.
Sorry, I got distracted. Now what were you saying?
BTW, this is partly an artifact of flash photography. Under normal lighting her shirt would not appear to be transparent but the flash is powerful enough to blast thru the fabric. This happens a lot in paparazzi photos. Of course the starlets know this too so it is a way of being an exhibitionist while preserving deniability.
How can you then turn around and say:
Easy. “White” isn’t a “characteristic protected by law.”
Time to ask Cal Tech the Princeton Question.
“How can you then turn around and say:”
Because its CA, the state of contradictions.
You might as well holster that finger, and stick your thumb someplace else.
The Establishment cares not why you vote for it, only that you do.
Charlie Kirk on die-versity:
https://www.google.com/search?q=charlie+kirk+diversity&rlz=1C1PQHB_enUS905US905&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNwN3EqoTsAhXwc98KHQMzAg8Q_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1163&bih=525
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/09/23/government-media-ridicule-56/
‘Confirmed’ Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/confirmed-has-become-a-meaningless-word-in-mainstream-news-reporting-313848d30dd0
Repeat after me, 6079 Smith, W.:
https://www.google.com/search?q=news+same+everywhere&rlz=1C1PQHB_enUS905US905&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYvryArITsAhVBMt8KHeLJD2wQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1163&bih=525
I am Miranda from the HR office and I will ‘splain this to you:
There are two kinds of discrimination – negative and positive. Negative discrimination is when you discriminate AGAINST someone, generally a person of color. This is bad and illegal. Positive discrimination is when you discriminate IN FAVOR of someone, generally a person of color. This is good and legal. It’s not like there is only one position that is open such that it’s a zero sum game. No, wait, it is. I was never good at math anyway.
Good thing they don't have a law school. Or do they?Replies: @John Milton’s Ghost, @Buzz Mohawk, @nebulafox
The kind of 18 year old who would want to go to Caltech is usually not the lawyer type.
Usually. There is intersectionality.
How soon before planes fall from the sky? Did you miss this, it was in all the papers?
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/
Golly, I'm sad.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Hibernian
When it spreads to the tech schools, we’ve got a problem, Houston.
of technical know how and letting nature reimpose some limits is the best case scenario for all people, not just white ones. I find most pine bros cringe, but in general they're not wrong. They might be right even side from our dead gay country's descent into suicidal madness, but they're obviously correct given this fact.
They run JPL, the one place on Earth that has done more than any other to explore the planets. They drill rocks on Mars for breakfast.
A crown jewel of Western civilization has been tarnished. Cry for it.
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130722_annotated_earth-moon_from_saturn_1920x1080.jpg
The Earth from Pasadena, via SaturnReplies: @El Dato
When the space race comes to Mars:
China be like “Yo guys. We have cozy base set up with good view on Mons Olympus. Tsing Tao beer is ready. Where are you?”
US be like “Capricorn One: Glorious conquest of Mars by Diverse US – watch it live on CNN (as you shelter in place from Corona-33)”
I think something similar happened to National Review, by the way. Most of their young guns went to Ivy League schools and eventually the entire magazine absorbed the elitist worldview. Reading it now you wouldn’t know that Buckley’s magazine opposed increased legal immigration in the 1990s, or warned against unfettered capitalism and economic growth as not automatically conservative aims.Replies: @Hibernian
Alito was Princeton undergrad / Yale Law, and Kavanaugh was Yale/Yale. I believe that appointing Coney-Barrett, of a small Southern college and Notre Dame Law, and a Notre Dame Law professor, is a step away from that elitism, although I have reservations about her on other grounds. Appoint Justices from the top octile of schools (about 25) rather than Harvard and Yale, and occasionally another elite school (seems to be limited to Columbia, Stanford, and Chicago.)
But we may need serious Emergency Medical Technicians.
https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/QbMbu9p_WUlu6vHWyIe1GrRcXIE=/800x364/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DMDW6UFC7GBFAXBSOYOASCDGKI.jpgReplies: @BenKenobi
I’ve said it before — the only counter now to the Long March Through the Institutions is a short march through the institutions.
Tsinghua, we look to you to keep the lamp of science and enlightenment lit through the upcoming dark times.
“Now You Can Get a Job as a Science Denialist Even at Caltech”
i assumed you always could, just not as a professor.
good to see Caltech coming into the 21st century.
Revolt against scotus fave Amy Coney Barrett is forming on twitter led by super lawyer Robert Barnes ...
He claims she is an authoritarian and says 90% of her decisions are in favor of states or big biz also cites some lockdown case proof. Yikes he makes her sound like the lockdown queen worse than Roberts...Replies: @El Dato, @anon
Good. I’m glad she’s facing opposition. I think Amy Barrett is one of those cuckservatives who only cares about abortion, abortion, abortion and go soft on much more important issues like immigration. She adopted two kids from Haiti on top of already having five of her own — one of those Christians with a savior complex. She’s gonna want to let in all the illegals. And being pro big biz, she’ll want to let in more legal immigrants and be weak on antitrust.
Amy Wax would be a much better choice, she is against affirmative action, pro middle class values, and most importantly, against mass immigration especially from the third world. But Trump won’t nominate her because he’s a cuckservative himself, that’s why he’s done virtually nothing on immigration in four years, esp. on legal immigration.
Did any of you people making planes-will-fall-from-the-skies comments notice that the job is in the Humanities and Social Sciences department?
Never mind the hoops, what’s with the large chunk of metal through her nipple? That had to hurt a lot worse than the ear piercing.
And is that tattoo on her shoulder written backwards? Why backwards; is it something she wants to be able to look in a mirror to read?
The kind of 18-year-old who would want to go to Reed College and audit calligraphy is usually not the tech-entrepreneurial type.
Usually. There is intersectionality.
Given our competition with China, sometimes I think that even democrats would doubt about destroying America’s top scientific institutions. But then I realize the idea of foresight or planning for the future is inimical for these folks
The End of the World predictions are diagnostic of ignorance regarding how the world actually functions. The vast majority of work is make work and this also is true at Cal Tech. As long as the top 20 find it worthwhile to not go Galt things will keep going. Not nearly as well as they could if we had libertopia but we never ever had any real chance at libertopia any way.
Did you know Ayn Rand was an amphetamine freak?Replies: @lavoisier, @Muggles
This is generally true.
But in areas where bullshit kills people, think front-line work being done by professionals–pilots flying planes, surgeons doing surgery– there is really no time for sloth or foolishness.
That is why filling low level jobs with incompetents does not really harm the public.
But high level affirmative action for jobs where human lives are at stake and that require critical thinking skills and spot on performance is unwise and very dangerous.
Universities are “vital organs”? It’s “spread” to them? Come on, man – that’s where the cancer started, and very little would change for the worse if all of the universities closed up shop tomorrow.
We will be well compensated by all those black computer geniuses creating SkyNet and shit.
Duke prof's new computer science course will focus on diversityReplies: @Mr McKenna, @Hypnotoad666, @Richard B
My theory is that math is objective and not subject to bullshit. It therefore systematically excludes people who aren’t good at it. Where do I send my grant proposal?
This is all so tiresome. It would more interesting if they could get an AI Bot to spit out this blather. You just have to seed it with the right words – Eli Whitney, cotton gin, slavery, steam engine, interstate highways, redlining, blah, blah, blah.
This entire field violates the most basic maxim of science which is that first you gather and analyze data and then you draw the conclusions from the information that you have gathered. In this field the conclusion (“white men are evil”) comes first and then you go hunting for the data, disregarding anything that doesn’t match your thesis.
You have to remember that the only criterion by which science is judged is how much funding it attracts.
Her earrings are attached to her earlobes. Look up.
BTW, this is partly an artifact of flash photography. Under normal lighting her shirt would not appear to be transparent but the flash is powerful enough to blast thru the fabric. This happens a lot in paparazzi photos. Of course the starlets know this too so it is a way of being an exhibitionist while preserving deniability.
Clearly, they are folded dipole antennas for the CC.
Well, Mohammed Atta was an architect. (And he did improve Manhattan’s skyline.)
At ‘Bama-Birmingham, an Egyptologist gives usefully detailed instructions on how to bring down obelisks. Would they scale to the Washington Monument?
University Professor Hails RBG Over Any ‘MAGA…Bootlicker,’ and Her Location Speaks Volumes
Is Hephaestus safe?
We will be well compensated by all those black computer geniuses creating SkyNet and shit.
Duke prof's new computer science course will focus on diversityReplies: @Mr McKenna, @Hypnotoad666, @Richard B
From the article linked:
No kidding. What makes it different?
Really? What are they doing in a coding course?
To deflect attention away from the fact that the ability of Ms. Washington, et al. in your typical coding course is only slightly better than their skills in the deep end of a swimming pool.
That’s so outdated. Science has moved on. Look at climate science. You start with your conclusion, then look for data that will support it and if you can’t find any you just make it up. The results have been extremely successful. Climate science attracts immense funding and lots of climate scientists have built successful lucrative careers on this new modern enlightened approach.
You have to remember that the only criterion by which science is judged is how much funding it attracts.
You don’t know anything about Caltech, do you?
There are two kinds of discrimination - negative and positive. Negative discrimination is when you discriminate AGAINST someone, generally a person of color. This is bad and illegal. Positive discrimination is when you discriminate IN FAVOR of someone, generally a person of color. This is good and legal. It's not like there is only one position that is open such that it's a zero sum game. No, wait, it is. I was never good at math anyway.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
I won’t complain about how unfair this is, Miranda, because, thanks to you, I know that anything I say can be used against me.
No barristers.
The End of the World predictions are diagnostic of ignorance regarding how the world actually functions. The vast majority of work is make work and this also is true at Cal Tech. As long as the top 20 find it worthwhile to not go Galt things will keep going. Not nearly as well as they could if we had libertopia but we never ever had any real chance at libertopia any way.
Did you know Ayn Rand was an amphetamine freak?Replies: @lavoisier, @Muggles
Evidence please. I’ve read most of the bios of her and failed to note that “fact.”
Of course this boilerplate mantra is just window dressing. Read Huxley’s Animal Farm.
If they really meant all of this nonsense (which as many note, contradicts the “we especially welcome…” BS), they would announce that all applicants’ applications will be first filtered to remove any references to name, age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc. No photos, etc.
Like blind auditions for musicians in large orchestras.
I’m sure someone at this famous home of Smart Folks can figure out how to undertake this. Maybe even turn it into a marketable product for other higher learning institutions.
Okay, the comic minute is over. Please continue as you were …
Yes, and it mocks science which is the lifeblood of Caltech. Sometimes paranoia is justifiable.
https://youtu.be/CMdv2wRaqo4Replies: @Almost Missouri
Was it a DIE/science denialist collapse?
The last Caltech magazine featured a new BLACK HSS hire “dealing with these topics.” She (tzjhe?) was wearing Doc Martens in the picture, so I assume this is her postdoc.
Like most universities the domestic undergraduate students lean heavily left. I think this is because the left is understood to give more money directly to scientists (Obama’s increase in the number of NSF GRF fellowships was a big hit). Plus, big gov is friendly with SV firms that are increasingly influential and increasingly larger employers of Caltech grads.
There are a decent number of gamers though…
As long as some Whites find ways to exempt themselves from the struggles of their people, we have a problem. It remains a problem that certain “elite” Whites secure themselves in nice enclaves from diversity, while actually doing work that empowers the system that is oppressing their race.
In the long run, that’s more important. If those people realize there is no safe refuge from the misery that White working and middle class is enduring, you may see change.
Commercial air travel will never return to previous levels.Replies: @paranoid goy
What you talking about, “few years” for the planes to fall? The last three times I flew, it went like this:
1. They start refuelling the plane while I am still disembarking. 10 days later jumbo catches fire on tarmac, while refuelling. Over a hundred people die
2. A bearing in the engine next to my window starts screaming for all hell, until I make enough noise for the pilot to slow down. For that I was called a terrorist by British Airways. Two weeks later they crash the plane taking off. People died.
3. At night, a rookie BBE female learner pilot is given the wheel, and we almost did not land at all.
Now add the Boeing mess, and the general increase in air accidents. I am now afraid of flying, and all because of deferred maintenance and cheap labour. ‘They’ point at increased flights, I point to the same number of planes doing more flights, it saves money.
“Sustainable” is measured by Management’s willingness to spend money on that activity. Maintenance, in a bean-counters addled mind, does not make profit, it is not sustainable, but using that money to speculate or pay dividents are!
Now apply that mentality to education, which has been declared an unsustainable activity by the UN, and you end up with somebody having to write this article.
I don't care how thorough the overhauls are, there is no recovering a plane that has sat too long.
My main money making opportunity for the next 3 or 4 years is an expat position involving transoceanic flight. This is looking less appetizing by the day.
Thus, I certainly share many of your fears.
Look at the eye behavior in the Mike Wallace interview. Look up dictionary definition for obvious.
Awesome.
1. They start refuelling the plane while I am still disembarking. 10 days later jumbo catches fire on tarmac, while refuelling. Over a hundred people die
2. A bearing in the engine next to my window starts screaming for all hell, until I make enough noise for the pilot to slow down. For that I was called a terrorist by British Airways. Two weeks later they crash the plane taking off. People died.
3. At night, a rookie BBE female learner pilot is given the wheel, and we almost did not land at all.
Now add the Boeing mess, and the general increase in air accidents. I am now afraid of flying, and all because of deferred maintenance and cheap labour. 'They' point at increased flights, I point to the same number of planes doing more flights, it saves money.
"Sustainable" is measured by Management's willingness to spend money on that activity. Maintenance, in a bean-counters addled mind, does not make profit, it is not sustainable, but using that money to speculate or pay dividents are!
Now apply that mentality to education, which has been declared an unsustainable activity by the UN, and you end up with somebody having to write this article.Replies: @JMcG, @The Wild Geese Howard
May I ask where these incidents occurred? Not specifically, but what country or continent?
1. They start refuelling the plane while I am still disembarking. 10 days later jumbo catches fire on tarmac, while refuelling. Over a hundred people die
2. A bearing in the engine next to my window starts screaming for all hell, until I make enough noise for the pilot to slow down. For that I was called a terrorist by British Airways. Two weeks later they crash the plane taking off. People died.
3. At night, a rookie BBE female learner pilot is given the wheel, and we almost did not land at all.
Now add the Boeing mess, and the general increase in air accidents. I am now afraid of flying, and all because of deferred maintenance and cheap labour. 'They' point at increased flights, I point to the same number of planes doing more flights, it saves money.
"Sustainable" is measured by Management's willingness to spend money on that activity. Maintenance, in a bean-counters addled mind, does not make profit, it is not sustainable, but using that money to speculate or pay dividents are!
Now apply that mentality to education, which has been declared an unsustainable activity by the UN, and you end up with somebody having to write this article.Replies: @JMcG, @The Wild Geese Howard
I would only add that the planes sitting around are not a good thing. Planes, like certain makes of foreign car that must be driven, need to be flying in service, not slowly rotting away on the ground.
I don’t care how thorough the overhauls are, there is no recovering a plane that has sat too long.
My main money making opportunity for the next 3 or 4 years is an expat position involving transoceanic flight. This is looking less appetizing by the day.
Thus, I certainly share many of your fears.
On the contrary, burning down repositories
of technical know how and letting nature reimpose some limits is the best case scenario for all people, not just white ones. I find most pine bros cringe, but in general they’re not wrong. They might be right even side from our dead gay country’s descent into suicidal madness, but they’re obviously correct given this fact.