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This list is incredibly stupid. However, I don’t think this “Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (
by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
This list is incredibly stupid. However, I don’t think this “Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (CIOC) and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group” (using the words off their own website) is some mastermind plot to eventually subvert freethinking in America.
Instead, I think it’s just a group of busywork, incompetent administrators who have been hired to “come up with ideas”. The number of administrators in academia has absolutely exploded in the past few decades, and this is the kind of dumb stuff they do.
- cutemonster 4y agoI think so too. For example, say, the people involved got four weeks to do this -- and they were done in a day, but then continued adding more and more words anyway to fill the time. Or because more words would give a more serious / competent impression. I'd like to assume good intentions or incompetence / laziness / selfishness & don't-care, rather than giant conspiracy theories Don't we have the same problem with in house lawyers and designers, who, if idle, want to sue someone, or want to redesign a "perfect" app and just make it worse Or software devs who add pointless stuff to the tech stack Maybe Parkinsons law should be amended: > "work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion [with pointless things you'd be better off without]"
- puffoflogic 4y ago> some mastermind plot to eventually subvert freethinking in America Hitler did not start off with a mastermind plot to become the sole decisionmaker in Germany either. "There is no conspiracy, they're just acting in typical self-serving ways" is a counterproductive and even subversive objection when the enemy is demonstrably at the gates.