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trans woman, disabled, autistic cultural shia ;)

[hamjensgar]

my tags

iran: #irart, #irclips, #farsi

other: #reading

some posts are queued

high-effort asks:

the left and islam in the iranian revolution

islam and religious trauma

[hamjensgar]

lol mamdani saying hed arrest sinwar

[hamjensgar]

and before someone comes in like “what do you expect him to say hes just doing politics blah blah” instead of caping for international law he could have very easily pointed out that theres a reason hamas leaders arent making routine trips to new york but netanyahu is

[hamjensgar]

lol mamdani saying hed arrest sinwar

[hamjensgar]

Trump says US will destroy a bridge or power plant for each Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the U.S. will destroy one bridge or power plant each time Iran shoots at a ship in the Stra

[hamjensgar]

they need to make an eating thats easy

[hamjensgar]

Amid U.S.-Iran war, Houthi rebels threaten to blockade another key strait

The Houthis, a Shiite militia in Yemen, which is aligned with Iran, have announced a naval blockade of a key waterway, the Bab Al-Mandeb Str

[hamjensgar]

from the APOC to the iran-iraq war to now, a great deal of violence has been especially directed at/concentrated in the south of iran. my heart bleeds for my jonoobi compatriots

[hamjensgar]

Iran says 10,000 without water after US attack; fire at Kuwait water site

Intense exchange of fire between US and Iran as US attacks shift further into Iran’s interior.

[communistkenobi]

I had a lot of/still have some vestigial arrogance about quantitative methods over qualitative ones, probably in a combination of scientific misogyny + STEMlord superiority. But doing regression analysis and quant-heavy data analysis makes me realise more and more that you can justify basically any claim with numbers, and that you can construct your research in such a way as to output the numbers you want. which does not mean that all data are made up or that quantitative knowledge is all false. I think stories about scientists straight up inventing numbers or fudging experiments on purpose prove that there is a real difference between fraudulent and non-fraudulent research. but those data must always be narrativised & are always already narrativised. The act of presenting numbers itself is doing some of that narration because you’re already arguing that these numbers are worth presenting

[communistkenobi]

People in the notes are rightfully pointing out common issues with data manipulation and pre-loaded conclusions in scientific research (i.e., the academic version of asking "so, how often do you beat your wife?" and so on), but I should have clarified that I'm not really talking about that. I'm talking about completely legitimate, above-board scientific research.

For example, I've had students ask me (in good faith) how it was possible for international medical bodies to report different counts of COVID-19 cases during the early years of the pandemic. And one of the answers is that you need to first define what you mean by a "COVID-19 case." Do you include self-reported incidences? Waste water data? Geo-fenced social media posts about people complaining about their coronavirus symptoms? Federal estimates? Hospital data? How do you compare countries/territories/substate entities with mandatory reporting mechanisms vs countries/territories/substate entities that rely only on voluntary self-reported cases? And what combination of these do you use? How you construct what you mean by "case" is going to impact the outcomes you report. These different counts of COVID-19 cases can all be true simultaneously, not because numbers are made up, but because they all come out of different methodologies that can be equally valid.

And this is true across all science, not just social science. Bill Clinton said it best lol: "it depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." This feels obvious when you look at scientific research that uses "skull measurements" as their object of analysis - the concept itself is white supremacist, regardless of how "sound" the research is. But even something as apparently self-evident as a COVID-19 case still requires a definition, and how you define your variables is necessarily going to impact how the research goes and what conclusions are drawn.

These definitions are always embedded in political & social assumptions. And again, this does not mean that science is all made up or nonsense or whatever. There is a widespread fetishism of "objective knowledge" that is itself ideological - the idea that knowledge can be divorced from all historical and political contexts, that you can scrub bias from research and simply report the facts. Valuable, well-supported, well-constructed scientific research is always embedded in these contexts. Not just as a result of researcher assumptions, but of the material context it exists in - what research resources are available, how & what research gets funded, the academy's relationship to the state & non-government bodies that both provide data and use that research to inform policy, the historical relationships universities often have with settler-colonialism and imperialism that give them access to "foreign" research subjects, etc etc etc.

So my overall point (which I didn't communicate well) is that data can always say what you want to some extent, for good and for ill. And research results (at least in my experience) tend to surprise you in ways that require explanations, which themselves can be fully justified, but again, exist within many different contexts that influence how you interpret them - and not just the results themselves, but your own surprise at your results

[hamjensgar]

“It is often said that the Renaissance “discovered man,”but that discovery was in effect a psychological reconstruction of European individuality. The accounts of savages by explorers returning from Africa and the New World produced a very different phenomenon15—a man whose kinship to Christian Europeans was highly problematic. Some writers even held that he was not quite human. The eventual solution adopted in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, according to Margaret Hodgen, was a synthesis of two old ideas: the chain of being and the genetic principle. In this way, “a spatial arrangement of forms [was converted] into an historical, developmental, or evolutionary series” (Hodgen 1964, 389–90). A common human nature was thus accorded to all human beings, but one that was assumed to exist in various stages of maturity and enlightenment.

A prehistoric period was added to the historical triad [Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modernity]—the time of “primitive” man. And just as some contemporaneous “local peoples” could be assigned to the prehistoric period, others were placeable in the medieval. The early preoccupation with saving the biblical story of man’s Creation and Fall gave way to a new concern with narrating the secular story of European world hegemony in developmental terms”

Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion

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US strikes bridges and collapses a tower at a key port as its Iran campaign expands

U.S. airstrikes appear to have collapsed a tower at Iran’s Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for Afghanistan. U.S.

[jadedpreschooler]

Learning

[hamjensgar]

Thoughts on the Ahmadinejad mossad agent allegations?

thoughts on big pussy?

[hamjensgar]

sometimes i wanna post but i have nothing to say. then again judging by the average post on here that doesnt seem to be stopping anyone

[r8kirani]

[yekkes]

If Squidward was a woman lesbians would have pfps of Squidward like they do of Lisa Simpson

[nyantara]

the worst part about progressive americans is that they live incredibly close to the source of some of the most interesting movements and works in anti colonial history in latin america but they just invent their own idea of anti colonialism from scratch to just mean whatever. between the monroe doctrine and big ag + mining corps you have a laboratory of imperialism on your borders and migrants from those countries regularly in your neighborhoods. like you'll brag to europeans about access to pupusas but know jackshit about el salvador fr.