"critical challenge for scholars & others who take seriously the ideological constructions of everyday life is to understand how individualised & privatised pursuits of wellbeing restrain & limit our commitment to the political work required to bring about a more healthy & just society" Crawford '26
There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.
EXACTLY. I actually used the new pup to justify a robot hoover upgrade, the new one mops and I love him (his name is Pierre. I don’t have an explanation beyond it fits him.)
Sorry I just saw the longer thread chat. I have all sympathy for the jump-to-helpers, my wife is one! One of those things where it’s like putting your head on the other way round to see it from someone else’s perspective I think. You can sort of see the logic but it also seems so wrong to you!
It was a spot wash actually. Embarrassed for her. Which still means total number of hoovers is only four which I think is very reasonable.
Me: I‘m managing any OCD flares very well with the new puppy 😌
My wife: Is this another new hoover??
Always good advice. I’d add that “how can we make you better” can be heard as “I’m intolerable like this and they don’t want to hear how I feel”, another classic misunderstanding route to “but why are you mad when I’m just trying to help”.
New pup is getting an intro to psychology as I explain to her that the cat’s reaction is just due to his anxious-avoidant attachment style and she is still a very good girl.
But in good news, Margot‘s new vet asked if he could take a photo of her for his partner, so I think we’re in there.
Kate leaning over and whispering “it’s actually Sir Sizzle, can you update that please” was not helping my expression.
Amazing scenes at the vet as two cats called Sizzles are booked in 5 minutes apart and each gets the other’s appointment. Receptionist horrified that she’s mixed up the Sizzles. Vets relieved they’ve not lost grasp on reality. One of the owners, aggrieved, mutters “It’s actually just Sizzle, no S”.
She is so far entirely indifferent to the cats which I think is good? Max is annoyed but otherwise sticking to his normal routine, Tilly has retreated upstairs entirely but hopefully will relax with more time!
An exceptionally adorable golden retriever puppy burying her little sandy head in a blanket
New house floof just dropped.
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"It’s good to have a healthy body, but it’s not a moral requirement to be healthy" is such an important sentence
Why is "they're going to use it anyway so we should teach them to use it well" being applied to GenAI in the classroom while a very opposite point is being made about young people and social media. (and in neither case is the existing evidence or critique apparently of concern.)
Exactly! The current “sell it by pushing the AI features” will pivot to “sell it by pushing it’s not using AI features”
this has struck me in calls to make sure inequalities don’t play out through ‘excluding people from AI’. It seems the opposite is much more likely, the inequality with be whether you can afford contact with a person or are given the default mass produced equivalent of a LLM chatbot.
Too many websites are built to look good projected behind a guy talking about the successful redesign of the website, rather than built to actually do the job you visit the website for.
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I didn’t get past “the feminisation of males.” 🙄 weirdos.
Also, MAKE READING HAPPEN AGAIN
and how this is framed as “human in the loop, researcher keeping control” rather than “your job is information assistant to support the AI researcher to make fewer mistakes”
Feel like I’m going round the bend with all the “here are the steps and checks to make best use of AI in user research” advice that surely is just “here’s how any time you might save with AI in user research is lost through need for extra checks and prep.”
The Ghost Map is one of my favourite science reads! How understanding the living day to day reality of people was key progressing the science.
Definitely. I remember also the underlying threat of “your materials must all now be available online and by the way we own them and technically we won’t need you for them later…”
As so often with these things, what I remember of other staff is how kind people were trying to be, and how exhausted everyone was. It‘s at a top tier organisational level and a financial level that the disregard happens.
I‘d started off reflecting on how rubbish it is that the hard work lecturers were doing gets forgotten - didn’t meant to ‘well actually’ as non-teaching staff’! I guess in summary we all struggled and it’s not fair to ignore that for any sector or role.
If I’d known I’d be required to apply for promotion again I would have thought twice. At the time it seemed like a temporary compromise to stay employed.
Well it wasn’t technically an extension as the original post had finished. One of those situations where you’re bouncing across short term funding pots while department tries to get funding for a post. Of course pandemic hit and no new posts were being allowed.
