Unwanted follow-up: After talking to my credit card company for a few weeks, I am proud to announce that my girlfriend and I were able to get fully refunded for our 'experience' at @DiaBeacon. Glad they put as much effort into fighting chargeback requests as they do curating art!
@LeanderAlphabet The modern addiction to performance and consumption really intersect at sports gambling. Unfortunately it’s undermined how high the stakes are with suicide rates being so high amongst gambling addicts. It’s insidious
@LeanderAlphabet Unfortunately the only places you could avoid this are select parts of Miami, Orlando and Tampa (and Tallahassee if you can find the cool folks)
@bbirdbPhD The most alienating people on the planet are experiencing loneliness issues. What can we do about it?
More on this and the latest breaking news about disaffected white, independent (def not Republican!!!) voters coming to a 'news outlet' near you.
It's WWE levels of scripting
The similarities are even more striking when you consider the resemblance between SAW's repurposing of sonic templates for each individual artist and the researcher's tendency to reuse datasets within individual topical niches
WRT the state of academic research, nothing rings truer than this quote from Neil Tennant. In a way, Stock Aitken Waterman feel like the perfect metaphor for the influx of 'mixed-methods' research (aka watered down quantified-qualitative work) dominating the academy since the 80s