I love the community service your reporting is doing here. Big up!

CND: Paradox of patriarchy:

"If men have all the poewr, why do I feel powerless?"

= patriarchy does NOT benefit all men, but promises working class men symbolic proximity to power, while provoking anxiety and a sense of insufficiency

*raising

I strongly recommend against it, obviously, but it also blocks ads on Spotify. Never used it ofc, but if I wanted to listen to a podcast for instance, one could use it..

People will really be like "Oh you believe in Land Acknowledgements? That pales in comparison to my strategy of reaping the benefits of settler colonialism and doing nothing about it"--Though to be fair they never actually do anything about it.

ok, fair. But does that distinction cover the diff between acknowledgements made by glencore actively pushing people off their lands, and that made by some white joe living in a canadian city? One case is meaningless, if not outright false. Thinking out (too) loud here maybe

The example of an Australian mining executive (glencore, rio tinto, can't recall) that ended his mails with a indigenous land acknowl, made me question whether they are so benign. If they work for the company, in the sense of fooling some ppl into thinking 'good company', then maybe not good overall

I forgot irony doesn't work well in writing

No, it must be green backlash. It can only be

Back on track:

Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.

Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.

Funders are the consumers.

8/n

I thought rising demand predictions were based on fossil fuels as material feedstock rather than energy feedstock?

I should try out vivaldi then. Its my impression they are actually privacy first, unlike e.g. duckduckgo. Its simple and clean. I get cleaner search results than google, which is always full of scam webpages. But I haven't made a comprehensive comparison

A recommendation for startpage.com as default search engine!