Experienced this recently in northern VA. The smell is the same, a real whiff of the 90s

in retrospect, a real moment in the datafication of everything

I would say that this whole vibe (e.g. the craze for posters of rainbow computer visualizations of Julia sets, which we all understood to be pictures of Science at a time when you still had to gesture toward physics, and not just the market, to indicate cosmic reality) extended throughout the 90s

did similar in college, didn't mind the math at all but did mind the code bros

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today.

@campolis.bsky.social

Link to the full piece below:

slow death...

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The

Raging insanity.

If you were born in 2009, there will now be things it's illegal for you to do that it remains perfectly legal for someone born in 2008 to do. Forever, apparently.

Textbook second-class citizenship.

EVEN IF it's "in a good cause".

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a bit less hopeful, a bit more lost in the Swiffer aisle

ah yes, I believe the sense memory for that historical period would be the smell of a Starbucks inside a Target

the cultural penetration was incredible

Still from Jurassic Park (1993). Jeff Goldblum holds Laura Dern's curved hand and pretends to suspend a droplet of water over it as a way of explaining chaos theory. Dern, in profile, gazes at her hand with serious focus as she listens to him.

Remember when "chaos theory" was the hot thing? I'm reading an article from 1991 and it hit me in the face like the smell of a Starbucks inside a Barnes and Noble

Much of Europe privatized mail long ago

This might be the darkest truth about tech fascism

She'd think it was a message from Hermes of the Ways

H.D. would be absolutely freaking out about this

This government sure loves restricting young people

"You can't do your homework unless you have access to a smartphone, which it is totally fine to access outside of school, but don't bring it into school" needs some pretty good cognitive gymnastics to justify. (don't get me wrong, I'd be v happy to see the end of homework apps)

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Transparency in politics matters.

A £36,000 private healthcare-related donation was accepted by Peter Kyle from Faculty AI. As the debate over the NHS continues, these ties must remain under the spotlight.

Donate to help us deepen our research into these connections: link in bio.

It is, but that was not my question!

Expanding on this:
Teach quotation, summary, paraphrase, citation at the beginning of every class, first activity after syllabus overview. Logic of citation, being able to retrace scholarly steps, replicate their work.

Does anyone know what is going on at New Directions? Specifically, why it's literally impossible to get so many books by H.D.?

“Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty. It would weaken a robust tradition of peer review and increase administrative control over University affairs.”

ugh

Melville: anyway, so whales are definitely fish
Poe:
King:
Koontz:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Barker: you sure about that, champ?
Poe: clive
Barker: i'm just askin
Poe: let him have this one, clive

“We call on Emory to make substantive commitments to limit cooperation w/ federal immigration agents to the minimum required by law. We urge Emory to inform the community precisely where ICE may or may not enter without a warrant…”

— Emory AAUP

this is awful for many reasons, but IHE's framing suggests a frictionless market for academic labor where tenured faculty who dislike the terms of their job can leave for "bluer pastures" anytime. This recodes a functionally collapsed market for humanistic expertise in terms of free market fantasy

Cover for the new book is in

Contents Introduction Pioneers of Medicine Part I Women Physicians and the Health Geography of the American West 1 Strangers in a Strange Land 2 Lady Doctors and Wanderlusting Medics 3 A Desire to Cure, Not to Punish 4 Suffragist Cities Part II Reproductive Surveillance 5 Quiet and Loud 6 From the Cradle to the Grave 7 The Judge vs. The Lady Physicians Epilogue Pioneers of Medicine, Revisited Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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