Adrian Daub

@adriandaub

"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com

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Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 13d

Ralph Wiggum was a fan tho

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 14d

What a pairing 😂

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

Wo siehst Du das? Unterscheiden die zwischen Household und Family Structure? Das wäre doch seltsam…

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

Allerdings ist diese Tabelle vielleicht interessant: die meisten der befragten Leihmütter hatten bereits mehrere Kinder. (2/2)

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

In einer kleineren Studie von Susan Imrie (Imrie, Jadva, 2016) unter britischen Leihmüttern war der häufigste Beweggrund für Leihmutterschaft der „Wunsch, einem kinderlosen Paar zu helfen“ (59%), kombiniert mit „Spaß an Schwangerschaft“ (15%), einem Verwandten (9%) oder Freund helfen (6%).

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

Die Gründe, die sie den Forschern für ihre Entscheidung nannten, waren auch einigermaßen eindeutig: weniger als 10 Prozent führten finanzielle Gründe an. Das müsst Ihr ihnen nicht abnehmen, aber es gibt ähnliche Daten in anderen Studien in anderen (westlichen) Ländern.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

Das Einkommensniveau in der Studie war nicht prekär ( Armutsgrenze in den USA liegt bei 15k Dollar für eine Einzelperson und ugf 35k für eine Familie). Nur knapp über 20 Prozent der Leihmütter hatten ein Individualeinkommen von unter 40k, wobei die meisten Leihmütter keine Alleinverdiener waren.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

In dieser Studie zumindest hatten die Hälfte der Leihmütter einen Bachelor- oder Masterabschluss, über 80 Prozent hatten einen Job. (Zum Vergleich, 35% der Amerikaner haben einen Bachelor, 13% einen Master -- diese Frauen sind einigermaßen durchschnittlich, nur beim PhD hinken sie hinterher).

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 18d

Wüsste schon gerne, auf welche Daten sich so ein Statement bezieht. Das wird alles seit Jahren erforscht, aber von der Forschung scheint in der aktuellen deutschen Debatte so gut wie nichts anzukommen...

SIgrid Graumann im Freitag: "In Kalifornien sind es vielfach prekär lebende Latinas, die sich als Leihmütter verdingen...:

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 19d

Out in SHU having the worst time with a bunch of cannibals. They're all just out of frame, posting too.

Nathan Fielder out on the town having the time of his life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 19d

The rw “defense of the classics” in a nutshell

Tweet from noted dipshit Matt Walsh: “Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 23d

Alfred Lord Tennyson watching Nolan's Odyssey

Wait is this whole fucking movie against me?

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 24d

First copies!!! It’s real!!!

First copies of WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING, out August 18!!!

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· 25d

This piece from @gabrielh.bsky.social is SO good on the way methodological sloppiness and anti-intellectual framing inform one another in this entire misbegotten project

What we are shown about the "classification" of the American
Comparative Literature Association and MLA prize data in Appendix 1 is almost a parody of motivated reasoning in data analysis. If you ask a chatbot to determine whether "the primary scholarly orientation" of a book is "identity-group" and/or "social-justice-oriented" rather than
"primarily literary-formal, aesthetic, philological, or period-defined," based solely on the book's title and publisher description, the chatbot will reproduce the implied premise you already hold: Identity and political orientation must be separated from formal and aesthetic concerns that are "really" literary. But since formal, aesthetic, historical, and also racial concerns are inseparable in the history of African American art and aesthetics, for example, what the classifier will give you back as "data" when run over recent work in African American literary studies is just the bad binary distinction built into the prompt.

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his would be trivial if the potential actions recommended by the larger report — administrative receivership for epistemologically suspect disciplines — were not so serious, and the failures in basic academic protocols were not so
glaring. The actual epistemological crisis we are entering now is one better exemplified by the Vanderbilt report's AI-generated analyses: automated data collection, sloppy analysis, and a growing sprawl of LLM-generated pseudo-evidence. Meanwhile, the Al ensloppification of the entire academic publishing enterprise continues apace, mostly outside the humanities, as the authors of the report seem to have failed to notice.
The use of such tools adds to long-running concerns about reproducibility across the social sciences as well as the biomedical and physical sciences. LLMs can be powerful tools for textual analysis when they are paired with deep field knowledge and methodological sophistication. When they are used to provide specious data analysis for a series of exercises in motivated reasoning, as here, they are worse than useless.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· Jul 11

Anything else happen during Democrat‘s trip to the Middle East, Fox News, or nah?

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Adrian Daub@adriandaub· Jul 8

I didn't even have to see the byline before I knew which zip code this drivel originated from

WaPo Opinion: Abolish the NIH
By Scott Atlas

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· Jul 8

The discourse really seems to depend on an online/offline disjuncture. Like: TV/print keeps litigating what preoccupied mumsnet/twitter circa 2017.

Graham Linehan proffering an iron-clad definition of "chair"

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· Jul 8

It's this endless ouroboros of media reporting on media, all the while never bothering to define the terms or inform the public about any underlying facts. It's this endless proliferation of "concerns" and "questions" (puberty blockers!), which then lead to further "concerns" (a junior minister!)...

CAMILLA TOMINEY: It suggests that there’s a degree of dissent within the Department of Health over this puberty blocker trial. Why are you having it? The Cass Review found that there were safeguarding concerns around children being put on puberty blockers. Is it because you are pro-trans?

Adrian Daub@adriandaub· Jul 8

Like, part of why we've found it surprisingly hard to research our TERF Island series on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social is that every single intervention, incident or term is just this endless rabbit hole. There's always a victim (invariably cis, btw), there's always rumors of suppressed speech...