Alison Marie Air
@alisonair.bsky.social
she/her
Philosophy MA student at Simon Fraser University
Epistemology/Metaphysics/Ethics
"The wicked do not know what love and trust, for example, can do for people, and couldn't set about using the knowledge if they had it." - Rosalind Hursthouse
Philosophy MA student at Simon Fraser University
Epistemology/Metaphysics/Ethics
"The wicked do not know what love and trust, for example, can do for people, and couldn't set about using the knowledge if they had it." - Rosalind Hursthouse
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I'll be attending Simon Fraser's Philosophy MA program in the fall! 🥳 Super excited - their department is very strong and seems like a great fit for me.
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I'll be attending Simon Fraser's Philosophy MA program in the fall! 🥳 Super excited - their department is very strong and seems like a great fit for me.
As a side hobby, I've been slowly collecting a list of sentences that are logical tautologies but still meaningful in natural language. "It is what it is" and "if I die, I die" are my favorites so far.
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
As a side hobby, I've been slowly collecting a list of sentences that are logical tautologies but still meaningful in natural language. "It is what it is" and "if I die, I die" are my favorites so far.
I've got it - we should all transfer our debt to a single child, thereby freeing us all from debt and creating a utopia. What are the banks going to do, get the kid to pay? He's a kid. We'll be free of the yoke of capitalism forevermore.
February 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've got it - we should all transfer our debt to a single child, thereby freeing us all from debt and creating a utopia. What are the banks going to do, get the kid to pay? He's a kid. We'll be free of the yoke of capitalism forevermore.
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Check out this great lineup for the @theaapt.bsky.social Talking/Teaching series!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
February 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Check out this great lineup for the @theaapt.bsky.social Talking/Teaching series!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
Not sure how I snuck in there, but if you’re free April 9, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to teach students about the importance of citations and epistemic communities!
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anyway as i've argued before any class politics worth its name is not going to treat identity as an obstacle to solidarity but as an asset. "we all suffer in different ways under capitalism and the only way to relieve your particular suffering is to help me relieve mine and vice versa."
February 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
anyway as i've argued before any class politics worth its name is not going to treat identity as an obstacle to solidarity but as an asset. "we all suffer in different ways under capitalism and the only way to relieve your particular suffering is to help me relieve mine and vice versa."
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kind of feels like the people who went on and on about the need to tax billionaires out of existence had a good point
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
kind of feels like the people who went on and on about the need to tax billionaires out of existence had a good point
Neera Badhwar's understandable but hilarious-in-hindsight decision to use Greek letters as the names of example people sometimes makes it sound like she's explaining sigma male theory.
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Neera Badhwar's understandable but hilarious-in-hindsight decision to use Greek letters as the names of example people sometimes makes it sound like she's explaining sigma male theory.
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One of the great after effects of Mean Girls is that everyone gets the “fetch” reference. She did it. She made fetch happen.
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
One of the great after effects of Mean Girls is that everyone gets the “fetch” reference. She did it. She made fetch happen.
I love that the slang for a helpful tip is "pro tip". Like "pro tip: the door on Yonge Street is sticky, so you might have to wiggle it a bit before it opens". I love how it implies the existence of a professional door opener, sharing the wisdom they've learned through decades of opening doors.
February 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I love that the slang for a helpful tip is "pro tip". Like "pro tip: the door on Yonge Street is sticky, so you might have to wiggle it a bit before it opens". I love how it implies the existence of a professional door opener, sharing the wisdom they've learned through decades of opening doors.
Solidarity works. So glad the Nazis got shown the door.
On Friday, up to a thousand students at #Arizona State University (ASU) marched on an attempted rally by neo-Nazis who were calling on students to report undocumented people to #ICE. The crowd surrounded the Nazis + flipped their table. itsgoingdown.org/students-shu...
Students Shut Down Pro-ICE Neo-Nazi Demonstration on ASU Campus
On Friday, January 31st, up to a thousand students and community members mobilized against four neo-Nazis involved in College Republicans United, a group known for sponsoring numerous events featuring...
itsgoingdown.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Solidarity works. So glad the Nazis got shown the door.
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So, a quick reminder ...
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So, a quick reminder ...
Thoroughly enjoyed reading philarchive.org/rec/ELGTGO, a paper by Samuel Elgin. I went from thinking the subject matter was arcane to becoming interested in it myself. He works off an irreflexive model of grounding, though, and I'm interested in exploring reflexive ones next.
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed reading philarchive.org/rec/ELGTGO, a paper by Samuel Elgin. I went from thinking the subject matter was arcane to becoming interested in it myself. He works off an irreflexive model of grounding, though, and I'm interested in exploring reflexive ones next.
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Abuse of disabled persons is not okay. Suggesting we harm disabled kids & adults because of their genetic difference and behavioral divergence from the norms was a common theme in the US and Germany's past. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nazi-persecu...
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Abuse of disabled persons is not okay. Suggesting we harm disabled kids & adults because of their genetic difference and behavioral divergence from the norms was a common theme in the US and Germany's past. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nazi-persecu...
Coming from social media sites with no word/character limits or extremely forgiving ones (I've never used Twitter), the character restriction this site is brutal. I feel like I'm forced to practice concision, which isn't such a bad thing. But I do get exasperated when the circle turns red sometimes.
January 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Coming from social media sites with no word/character limits or extremely forgiving ones (I've never used Twitter), the character restriction this site is brutal. I feel like I'm forced to practice concision, which isn't such a bad thing. But I do get exasperated when the circle turns red sometimes.
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Spectrum 10k has been permanently halted. A historic win for autistic communities, which will likely have a significant impact on how research funding is allocated in the future. Nothing about us without us! (ht/ @drstevenkapp.bsky.social) www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/spe...
Spectrum 10K - Autism Research Centre
Statement from the Spectrum 10K research team, 30th January 2025 Today we are publishing the Spectrum 10K consultation report and announcing the next steps for the project. We know this announcement h...
www.autismresearchcentre.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Spectrum 10k has been permanently halted. A historic win for autistic communities, which will likely have a significant impact on how research funding is allocated in the future. Nothing about us without us! (ht/ @drstevenkapp.bsky.social) www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/spe...
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I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.
Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
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I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework
medium.com/space-anthro...
medium.com/space-anthro...
Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up
Recreational antiracism won’t change anything: a review of Jonathan Kahn’s critique of implicit bias discourse.
medium.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework
medium.com/space-anthro...
medium.com/space-anthro...
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
www.w3.org
January 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...