@pluralistic hangs out on Masto and shares his weekly posts and updates.

And he’s right. Corporations enshittified the internet.

Precision and volume are the key metrics. They have precision here, but it looks like they won’t get volume.

“E-beam lithography machines cannot produce chips at a large scale like Dutch company ASML’s DUV and EUV lithography systems, but they excel in the testing stage of production, offering high-precision circuit patterning and design flexibility. Priced lower than imported machines, Xizhi can pattern circuit lines as narrow as 8 nanometres, with a positioning accuracy of 0.6 nanometres – matching international standards.”

This is very true for me. Same for a lot of history museums, which are full of historic arts and crafts.

Like, some native art is just old craft, not actually good art to me, but some ancient cultures had a wild perspective and the art matches.

This is the issue with how this whole thing is framed.

Of course the university doesn’t owe grad students anything besides an education.

But, being a grad student need not involve any teaching or professor research support. That’s labor. It’s customary labor that may be exchanged for education, but it is indeed an exchange of value for labor and subject to everything that entails.

Source: got a real grad degree without any of that BS just paid tuition (partially via my employers tuition reimbursement:)

It’s a picture of misc law enforcement… If you’re ACAB then - OK, but this doesn’t make any other point.

Lobotomy, electroshock and castration are historic treatments for various extreme mental disorders that were, probably mistakenly, considered necessary evils lacking other treatments.

These days prozac, benzos and lithium fall into a similar category.