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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

If non-whitemen have a higher rate of novelty overall, but whitemen have a higher rate of *impactful* novelty, doesn't that rather suggest that non-whitemen generate more ideas that are useless and unworkable?

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I think that trying to parse the logic of shit is a poor use of time, and so I've taken up day-drinking.

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I lap up 74 bowls of GET DOWN every day.

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Ah, but you see... because the novel ideas are useless and unworkable, it just proves structural racism!

It's all whitey's fault, of course.

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That's what I took from it.

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Dr. Lysenko . . . Dr. Trofim Lysenko . . . please call your office.

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I’m a professional engineer. All this shit has already completely infested my professional regulatory body and every engineering firm. Remember what Pete Bootyjudge (sp?...ah who cares!) said: roads are racist.

It’s not just racist roads. Photons and electrons are racist. Moments of inertia are racist. The conservation of momentum is sexist. And thermodynamics is transphobic. None of this can be made right unless far more of my professional peers are brown skinned uterus owning people-kinds.

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Wasn’t it wokeness that built that bridge that collapsed in Florida?

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How DARE you!?!?! I AM TRIGGERED.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I can't speak for all STEM jobs, but I want my surgeons and pilots to be big on "novelty".

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"I've just thought of the most wonderfully creative thing to do to your kidneys!"

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LIVER LET LIVE!

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Yeah, I mean checklists, standard procedures and following ATC guidance is just so oppressive. We need truly intersectional pilots and structural freedom in our flight operations.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

DEFUND DC, today.

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Yeah, it is our tax dollars. Easy to forget we pay for this garbage.

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Hmmm. Maybe we could stop PAYING...

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Right up there with this bullshit. Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study.

https://journals.aps.org/prper/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119

I can't believe people get grants for sh*t like this.

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That was painful.

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Do you fink if I send them a box of dog logs, they will send me a check?

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

It's called "the long march through the institutions". Weaponizing the Peter Principle is just for starters.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

“Hey, I just discovered a cure for this awful disease”.

“Sir, you’re white. Please go away”

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Now the "alphabet" people have invaded science - not that NSF funding was not political before - it was. The upshot of this escalation of wokeness is that only conformists to this notion of BIPOC will want to enter the academic research world which in turn will exponentially expand that concept to keep sane people out. Try to propose a study of the beneficial effects of carbon dioxide on health and growth and see if you can get funded. Are tall plants discriminating against small plants and are fires preferring trees with less water? Chris - I don't know where this ends - but it's not in a good place. I refused two academic appointments in teaching science in the 70s because funding was biased toward favorite projects of the people with connections to the funders. Thank for highlighting this.

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perhaps "their novel contributions are discounted” because novelty alone doesn't make a piece of work relevant or important

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"Gravity is caused by orange cheese." A novel concept in physics!

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I’ve got a novel idea… lead airplanes

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you can't use the color "orange" anymore because of it's association with a certain ex (and possibly future) president

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How DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am TRIGGERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How DARE you!?!?!?! I am TRIGGERED!!!!!!

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The paper seemed to hint at some kind of bigotry was why the ideas were discounted. Which I doubt.

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of course. anything that doesn't go in your favor MUST be due to racism

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I can’t think of any comment that is printable.

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I know that feeling.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

They put the jedi in BAJEDI. The Force Be With You, Chris!

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022

Jedi dignifies it too much. In my head, it's pronounced "bajeddy" and rhymes with spaghetti. This allows such constructs as:

- BAJEDIOs

- Flying BAJEDI Monster

- Mom's BAJEDI

- Throwing the policy at the wall and hoping something sticks

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Soon US academia will be left to stew in its own juices, as bright foreigners learn to stay away.

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Oct 4, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Two alternate acronyms:

IDEA BJ

JAB DIE

Both seem oddly appropriate.

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It has taken me a few days to comment after reading this, because my mind cannot process that anyone at NSF actually and unironically deployed the ridiculous acronym “BAJEDI.” It sounds vaguely like it has something to do with Star Wars and baccalaureates to me. Absurd.

Call the code already: science as we once knew it is dead. What this thing is in its place, I don’t ever want to know.

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GIGO

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