Summary
This is a master list of topics i have been learning about from reading primarily. Those topics i think about through experiences, conversations and doing are more aggregated in the logs. i hope to tag and sort better but the related notes below are roughly titled with a topic. they also help me learn about myself - self knowledge.
Related notes
- imperfection vs action in coops
- “we are imperfect people building imperfect systems, sharing the honest work of serving our people, softening our hearts to feel it all, and preserving all that is good to carry forth.” (Choy Commons)
- i want my work to combine studies and participation/observation like activist-philosopher Grace Lee Boggs.
- Boggs’ “political path” has been “guided by her study of global and historical change, hand- in- hand with daily participation in and observation of the struggles of people at the grassroots level.
- i am learning to discuss and learn about politics calmly. instead of feeling angry and opinionated when i try to discuss politics, I look up the numbers and information. for example previously I faced these discussions around
- (1) does working as a rocket engineer increase welfare of the japanese mass
- (2) why is trump promoting ceasefire - what are the incentives?
- discussions with Political economics study group volunteer helped me learn about china but also made me scared about political involvement
- i am annoyed by the political economy study group volunteer. i want to know when the program starts and what is the actual structure. he doesn’t tell me and just ask me more “interview” questions about various news topics and my opinion. i am suspecting he is just collecting these information, like maybe a brainwash camp. i don’t understand how their organization works, why they never start the program just keep interviewing. i don’t have to do this. but i am still curious because i do benefit from searching up the terms.
- “调休政策：认同还是反对?”
- application of cybernetics in post WWII china for farm and factory was ineffective Paladium. The Genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics.
- why didn’t the operations work for factories and farms?
- “mathematician Hua Luogeng—who had attended lectures by Norbert Wiener when he visited Tsinghua in 1936—to introduce critical path organizational techniques to factories and farms as part of a short-lived Science of Operations Research and Linear Programming Movement.”
- “from his place at the center, the political structure appeared to have a level of organization and capacity that simply did not play out in the rest of the country.”
- what is the history and present condition of the postdoc profession, and geographically?
- “Postdocs are a career step that was invented in the 1930s to create a longer path between PhDs and professorships to try and balance the mismatch between supply and demand.” (Casey Handmer, Grad School Survival Guide)
- adrienne maree brown et.al. Emergent Strategy: “personal is political.”
- what does this involve: loneliness, pleasure, desire. longing for safety and abundance. what longings, what pleasure, what communities and connections, what philosophies and divinities.
- how personal to political scales or doesn’t scale: a collective-intelligence problem in action and with examples!
- Black mesa solidarity network on ground support guide: “If you are interested in further research on the situation at Big Mountain/Black Mesa, there are many important books and articles that have been published over the decades. Here is a reading list to start with”
- ❖ Malcom Benally, “Bitter Water - Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute”
- ❖ Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West by Judith Nies (320 pages, 2014)
- ❖ Cry Sacred Ground: Big Mountain USA edited by Anita Parlow (212 pages, 1988)—An oral history project with statements from dozens of elders and relocation resisters. Out of print but used copies available.
- ❖ Transcripts from a Forum on Black Mesa (36 page zine, available online, 2005)
- ❖ Geopolitics of the Navajo-Hopi ‘Land Dispute’ by John Redhouse (48 pages, available online, 1985)
- ❖ Revive the Diné Way—Diné Evictees of District Six, Jáditó by Eugene Hasgood (46 pages, available online, 1993)— A history of relocation at BM with focus on Jeddito, written by a Diné resister who still lives there.
- 草甘膦的多重本体与科学知识的不确定性 (an anthropology of science article about the pesticide Glyphosate from tying knots account)
- the law view of hypothesis test anchor on safety
- 在判断农药安全性的问题上，美国环保署借鉴的是“有害证据” （evidence of harm）的方式。但在收集“有害证据”时，机构往往采用还原论的模型，即把草甘膦只当作一个单一的对象进行毒性评估和监管，这使得确定草甘膦在具体情境中的安全性变得不确定。基于此，美国环保署在2020年的报告中称，草甘膦可以安全使用，不会致癌，这与国际癌症机构判定草甘膦为“可能致癌物”的意见相左。
- companies control what can be researched and what can be found by funding the research or the answer 科学资本或者说公司对研究的募资和学界的观点打压。
- 这些科学家所引发的关注，不是他们所提供的反面证据，而是行业对他们的打压。那些对行业的科学共识提出异议或通过研究证明转基因和草甘膦不安全的研究人员其遭遇则十分令人唏嘘。比如，阿根廷的分子生物学家安德拉斯·卡拉斯科（Andras Carrasco），指出草甘膦即使在低剂量的情况下也会导致实验青蛙和小鸡的胚胎畸形，其结论被业界认为会对阿根廷的转基因大豆产业带来毁灭性冲击。在包括美国大使馆在内的多方施压下，他申请终身教职遭大学的拒绝，一年后含恨死于心脏病。
- the law view of hypothesis test anchor on safety
- hexaco personality test
- personality test categorization does help me describe my tendencies and also recognize shifts in my patterns over periods
- i am attracted to black mesa and permaculture farms.
- why? to get to know people, their history, their politics. I want to not just stay in ignorance. i want to learn how to interact with this world, as a chinese and as a scientist