Mark: "Year Zero of the Golden Obamic Age (The Year of Our Lord 2008 by the outlawed reckoning of the Occupied Liberty Resistance Force Wolverine Squad of the 300, or “Old Republic” adherents clustered in what will soon become Territory Seven of the Global Caliphate)" Mark: wtf? me: it's a secret me: I mean, no me: yo, I got a new place over here by Lorimer stop with ol' Mirna if you want to "hang" some time Mark: lorimer? Mark: moving up in the world me: well, for lack of alternative direction Mark: quite so Mark: but yeah, i'll drop by sometime Mark: mirna is the lawyer? me: yep me: http://www.tengaged.com/blog/Beautiful/189125/russian-sleep-experiment-o me: Russians Mark: ack me: keep in mind that this may come from 4chan me: and not Russia me: and by "may" Mark: yeah, that seems to be the gist from googling the first line me: I mean almost certainly Mark: however, from googling something like that, you get to find out all of the ridiculous places it has been posted Mark: e.g. http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=456010951 me: bodybuilding is actually a surprisingly clever forum me: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/I_got_married_last_weekend me: oh, wait me: wrong forum me: close enough Mark: NSFW Mark: or i guess technically NSFS Mark: i'm in my office at nyu me: OH SORRY PROFESSOR BRAINSHIRE me: lol pwned Mark: no shit me: PROFESSOR MARK COHENBERG OF THE JEWNIVERSITY OF JEWYORK me: double pwned me: in short, you should probably block me at work me: wait, one more me: NYJEW me: (instead of NYU) Mark: ah Mark: i'm sure NO ONE has ever thought of that before me: me too me: I mean me JEW me: lol me: I'm sorry, but that was funny me: anyway, I've got a meeting tomorrow with True/Slant regarding the media project me: they're interested in getting involved in some capacity, perhaps using the software Stein develops and incorporating my ad hoc blogger network into their outlet somehow me: sorry, I mean JEW/Slant Mark: that might not be an exaggeration. do you often feel like your in the middle of a "jews control the media" conspiracy theory? me: more like JEWS control the media me: oh shit me: sorry me: not really Mark: but anyways, that sounds like a good opportunity me: obviously, there's a high proportion of Jews in the media, but there's also a high proportion of Jews in New York, where the media is me: also, Ted Turner alone weighs the scales down like 500 goyim points me: what with him being a crackerjack me: anywho, how's the academics going? Mark: not bad. still a fuckton of reading Mark: and this semester i'm TAing Mark: which means having to deal with the absolutely atrocious writing of the typical undergraduate me: I can imagine me: I'm seeing this girl now me: who works for TED me: and who worked in higher education previously me: and she's had some horror stories Mark: what's TED? me: including about TED me: this big conference series/outlet me: like $5000 tickets me: I didn't know what it was either but all my friends did and so did my fucking mom me: basically, secretive conference with various high-concept ideas being thrown around by movers and shakers in technology, science, art, etc. Mark: hmm Mark: i think that falls under the category of "weird shit that goes on in the u.s. economy for no real good reason" me: It's pretty highly thought-of by the sort of people who would be most sensitive to such a category me: sort of a showcase for developments me: and, of course, marketing those developments Mark: i guess i won't prejudge Mark: i still suspect it's actually an excuse for midlevel executives to travel on the company's money me: everything is Mark: oh, that reminds me Mark: i came across this abstract of an article recently Mark: it is a truly choice example of the gibberish that gets written in academic journals Mark: "From a critical security studies perspective is the concept of human security something which should be taken seriously? Does human security have anything significant to offer security studies? Both human security and critical security studies challenge the state-centric orthodoxy of conventional international security, based upon military defence of territory against threats. Both also challenge neorealist scholarship, and involve broadening and deepening the security agenda. Yet critical security studies have not engaged substantively with human security as a distinct approach to non-traditional security. This article explores the relationship between human security and critical security studies and considers why human security arguments have not made a significant impact in critical security studies. The article suggests a number of ways in which critical and human security studies might engage. In particular, it suggests that human security scholarship must go beyond its (mostly) uncritical conceptual underpinnings if it is to make a lasting impact upon security studies, and this might be envisioned as Critical Human Security Studies (CHSS)." me: I've seen worse me: actually been reading some academic papers for the first time while composing articles on the internet's potential effect on cognition me: and I'm now more confused me: as the studies seem to contradict each other me: so, thought experiment it is! Mark: ha, yeah, it can be tough to get a handle on the literature on a topic Mark: since odds are over half of the articles produced are garbage me: I suppose best way to go is trust the ones that are more often cited and which appear in better journals? Mark: to some extent me: and cross fingers? Mark: it's really hard when you're reading about something very technical that you don't have much background in. so if you're reading cognitive psychology stuff, that might be what you have to do me: the stuff I'm reading isn't particularly nuanced me: just contradictory Mark: huh. Mark: the different researchers must be making different assumptions or employing some kind of different methodology Mark: the trouble is deciding which one is right without being a specialist me: the trouble is that JEWS CONTROL SCIENCE me: I mean, you're right me: read reddit? Mark: no me: don't start me: information addiction and whatnot Mark: yeah, i have too much of that just with blogs i follow on my rss reader Mark: but anyways, speaking of the jews controlling science Mark: i need to get some more reading done before i go home me: very well, adios Mark: later