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guyjantic

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Father, partner, teacher, mentor, researcher, data scientist, music maker, photo taker, art dabbler, thing creator, disc hucker.

Social science professor in the US, deeply burned out from trying to be a professor in what our system is becoming.

Formerly religious. Now sweary. Also sometimes drinky. Ask me about my one weird trick (if you want to be disappointed).

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Amos is someone I was immediately drawn to in The Expanse. I was attracted, empathetic, and at one point I realized he started to become an analogue for me.

Even the rugged ops / maker / systems engineer part.

But especially the ruined childhood and the anger.

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18+ guyjantic ,
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@dtauvdiodr @bookstodon amos is, I think, a psychopath. That is, he feels empathy, remorse, etc. very little if at all. However, unlike other fictional psychopaths (e.g. all four main Seinfeld characters), he works to be a good person toward others by a recognizable--if not always comfortable--moral code. This is interesting to me in general, and the way it is revealed and developed on The Expanse is compelling. He's my favorite character.

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@dtauvdiodr @bookstodon I think maybe. It's never clear how much writers of a show truly understand the kinds of characters they're trying to write (see: all the "multiple personality" characters since the 70s), but I agree that Amos--at least sometimes--shows some perspective taking, a precursor to empathy, toward children. It's also possible, however, that he simply decided at some point that that is something he is: a person who protects children in need.

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This is what an inclusive class looks like, bravo Mike Hoerger

Follow the bird makeup link and you can read a screenshot from the syllabus with more detail: https://bird.makeup/



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I'm about to start classes. This is amazing, and at my university it would get me a disciplinary hearing with my Dean.

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Anyone who was in doubt about how university administrators work just needs to look at how quickly most of them switched from "We must protect everyone in this unprecedented pandemic" to "Get back in the classroom and don't make the antivaxxers feel bad, no matter what the risk."

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