Another option would be that it’s an utterance that will carry different implicatures for different people due to their background assumptions. At one time I might have called that a dogwhistle but now I am not so sure.
Ok then I think it may be a dogwhistle. Though I wonder if it’s conventionalised enough.
This thought is why I don't think 'religious freedom' and 'protest women' are anti-trans dogwhistles. Those are (usually) said by people openly making an argument that widely accepted values have anti-trans consequences.
I'm not certain that's what he's doing: he might also be calling upon a widely accepted value (privacy) to make a pro-trans argument, without any effort to conceal.
To be a dogwhistle, 'invading student privacy' would need to be a conventionalized way of communicating 'I'm pro-trans' to some people while other people fail to realize this.
I like it but I’m uncertain it’s a dogwhistle….
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
It’s the best
the authors of In Covid's Wake quoted Yoel Roth's statement of the view he was arguing against as if it were his view
jeezum crow
I am terrible at adjusting accents and can barely begin to imagine what life would have been like if I’d done a terrible Sheffield accent for 24 years.
Just from this morning's news. Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening here.
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
🇺🇸🌍 The GOP has proposed yet another unconstitutional bill that, if passed, would strip US citizenship from Americans who also hold another citizenship.
Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Chair of @demsabroad.bsky.social, strongly condemns Moreno's bill: www.democratsabroad.org/da_statement... 🧵 #DemsAbroad
We love this stovetop one, which has temperature gauge on top and pours beautifully.
One of the great titles.
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Yes, do what you can. But the whisper networks are flawed and gappy.
I think a key point is also to emphasise that if it turns out to be bad where they are they can and should go elsewhere.
It’s true. But it’s also not equally true everywhere, which is also worth saying.
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
I now feel very glad that I was never able to accept their invitations.
Yikes
Wow
I didn’t know about the issues with institute for art and ideas. Can you give me a link to them? (I have ignorantly written for them.)
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
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& many others have signed
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