@briannawu lol. It never ceases to amaze how confident far leftists and IMO, a lot of #academics too refuse to admit that their idea of a good anti-capitalist person applies to like 1% of the population. So then #academia is really disconnected from communities and reality. A new #ivorytower. Now add in the insistence on pc jargon and it’s no wonder Joe MAGA-ts turn to #trumpism. It’s literally a 19th century dead framework. I’m a progressive btw. Cc @anneapplebaum

🎬The upcoming release of #TheCrewMotorfest on September 14 is the opportunity to review the movie telling the creation of #thecrew2 that I had the chance to edit.
Director: Arnaud Ly Van Manh
Client: Ubisoft

https://lnkd.in/e2-gp-ze

✂️#justedit #TheCrew #ivorytower

Les soldes d'été 2023 : 1ère partie
#XboxOne #AgentsOfMayhem #DeepSilverVolition #Volition #DeepSilver #BattleChasersNightwar #Airship Syndicate #THQNordic #Control #RemedyEntertainment #505Games #TheCrew2 #IvoryTower #AsoboStudio #UbisoftReflections #Ubisoft #DarksidersIII #GunfireGames #Microsoft

Just sent my first proper #academic fan mail: In essence, it just says: "I watched a recording your talk from 2021 and thought it was fantastic: thank you!". One of the few silver linings of the pandemic: many recorded conference talks are now accessible to a wider audience. #Academia #IvoryTower

@foreignpolicy
More proof that the #IvoryTower is crumbling:

Steven M. Walt of #Harvard raises this issue "because the Biden administration took office vowing to put diplomacy at the center of U.S. foreign policy, yet it has relatively few diplomatic achievements to show for its first two-plus years."

No recognition of the diplomacy is poised to remove Putrid from power and has kept China from invading Taiwan, but sure he's got no accomplishments. What an ass!

aw... nice to see SMD crack 12,000 citations today. guess that time in the #IvoryTower wasn't ENTIRELY wasted... 😏

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=rZ90pGgAAAAJ&citation_for_view=rZ90pGgAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC

A power beyond the ivory tower. #ivorytower #transcendence

zero summa cum laude
https://www.faroutposts.com/post/zero-summa-cum-laude

#faroutposts #majoki

My boss is the only person I have met in college who epitomizes “ivory tower” arrogance. She’s pathetically vindictive, cannot handle a difference of opinion, thinks we poor know nothing. She’s been avoiding me since she ripped into me for not liking Shakespeare. I suppose she knows I’m going to report her for that, & for holding up local publication of a tech paper I edited & can use for my resume. Oh, and she’s hardcore Evangelical. 🙄 Fun.

#academia #ivorytower #senior #classof2023

meanwhile in Australia 👀 😬
"It seems like everyday consumers are being punished for what is essentially global capitalist corporate greed" #rba #ivorytower https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-11/inflation-price-gauging-are-busiesses-fuelling-inflation/101958480

I will never stop being bitter about the academic authoritarianism that says taking slightly too much time to fully synthesize and react to the entire set of readings makes one a worse grad student than someone who responded in a timely manner but did so off the top of their head and didn’t even mention said readings. Ugh. SO many authoritarians cosplaying as radicals.

#academia #HigherEdPedagogy #ivorytower

#GAMING 🎮 | #Ubisoft et #IvoryTower remettent la gomme ! 🚗💨

Direction Hawaï pied au plancher avec #TheCrewMotorfest qui se dévoile au travers d’un premier teaser.

🗓️ Départ prévu en 2023 sur #PS5, #PS4, #XboxSeries X|S, #XboxOne, #PC et #AmazonLuna.

I should have tagged that #IvoryTower as it’s a complaint about that but it’s also a #Tech complaint too I guess.

I don’t know what the solution is.

This brings me to one of the big issues I see in #academia, which is the abuse of the labor of Asian graduate students, who make up more than half of graduate students. Many professors openly state that they prefer these students because they "don't have a life" so they work a lot. But because of the sheen of the #ivorytower it hides what this actually is, coolie labor.

Ivory Tower Profiles - Community Engagement and Conversations:

I just happened across this post.  This seems to be one of those type of accounts that many complain about.  I’m just the messenger delivering the opinions that I have gathered in countless conversations on the subject but, I’m guessing I still may get flack.  This is not a complaint about this person, follow backs, or follower count, only what I have heard others talking about.

This person, a journalist, is asking for help getting twitter followers to follow here.  The profile already has 106k followers but, only follows 246.  I did the math. That's just under .25 %, less than 1 (one) % of their following.  One of the bio tags on this persons profile is writing about “internet culture”.  I can’t help but wonder how this person can accurately report on a culture they do not seem to engage with 99.75% of it’s members. 

As one said, in one of many discussions,  it seems arrogant to not hear the voice and opinion of those that follow you.  Many I’ve heard tend to agree and again, I’m just the messenger.

The most recent posts from this profile seem to be only about this person and twitter.  I can't find an introduction or a “Hello Fediverse, just concern for follower acquisition and self.

Even an article on why their Twitter account was suspended.  No engagement or conversation with the nearly 19,746  followers this user is reqesting assistance from, to collect more followers here.

When I want the news, I turn it on and can’t recall Lloyd Robertson or Katie Couric seeking out my attention or assistance.  Today, they would probably be focused on gun violence or the plight of Ukraine, rather than the potential of lost adoration.

Two days ago was another such thread refering to another such “user".  The subject account had 20k followers and only one toot was ever posted.  This “user" follows zero of their 20k followers (That’s 0%). Many conversations, and several opinions cite how some big accounts arrogantly expect people to flock but, never engage or acknowledge with those that follow. 

Another post several weeks ago was actually directed at another journalist, scathing them for the same lack of engagement.  I understand the busyness of facing a deadline but, engaging a few is not that hard.  Take a scroll down your follwers list on a Sunday morning and favor,  boost or DM hello to a few.  Its really not that time consuming and the people you get to know, are often amazing.

Me?  I follow and reach out.  If they follow great, if not, I don't really care.  I'm about quality, not quantification.  If I find those I follow seem self absorbed or clog up my feed with irrelevance, I mute or unfollow the source.

The common theme echoing is this:  Mastodon is not a corporation but, is our community.  To be part of any community one generally first must engage.  Those who do not, are often viewed as outsiders with no regard for it’s members.  Think of it like this:  You patronize a shop regularly and the merchant gladly accepts your money. When you see this person on the street, they do not even nod politely, seeming only to avoid you;  would you still shop at that persons business?

What’s your opinion on this? I’d  like to know, as long as you remember, don’t shoot the messenger.  The concern of many is that ivory tower users like this, will turn our commnity into Twitter 2.hole.  A people driven algorithm of elitist exclusion. Again, we are not a target market, we are community of persons.

[After finishing this, I looked at the prpfile of the individual with the 20k to zero followI noticed 3k more followers but, now the person follows two.  One of the followed is the other profile with 106k noted above.]

"Engaging handshake" Artwork below by John Hain:

Buy him a cup?
https://pixabay.com/images/id-1000062/

Don't forget the ALT text.

#community #engagement #interaction #involvement #gratitude #GivingBack #followers #following #mastodon #birdsite #exclusion #aloof #elite #IvoryTower #outsider #opinions #twitter

“Someone leaning back and looking at the ceiling… will not allow the reality around him to disrupt the conception he is building in his brain.”
#IvoryTower #SoftwareArchitect
“Someone talking about real experience leans forward, working or pointing at some representation of what they are talking about.”

The Crew 2 adds hovercraft and shifts gears for a free weekend and sale - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RockPaperShotgun/~3/g5o0GAFdQA4/ #FreePCGames #PCGameNews #IvoryTower #freegames #preload #Ubisoft