I can’t count how many campuses seem to be running on the model of “this is the last generation of professors”

A drum I keep banging is that full training of an academic worker (from undergrad through tenure) is about 16 years. We may JUST NOW be beginning to feel the full first wave effects of the 2008 austerity. The ability of our fields to reproduce themselves has not been addressed as any point.

History bsky, who should I read about the history of colonial Mauritius post-WWII? Society, politics, British policy during decolonization, etc. ??

If I found out that the architect dad I’d been using to criticise her had died when she was 16, I’d spontaneously combust from embarrassment and shame. Not these dipshits though.

This person’s experience working is completely irrelevant to understanding working people, you must come from an ancient lineage of servers to speak on such matters

Let's not forget why this White House, especially Stephen Miller, hates SPLC.

It helped expose Miller as connected and collaborating with white supremacists in the media to spread the white supremacism he learned from the internet.

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If all the discourse about antisemitism at Harvard had actually been about antisemitism at Harvard (as opposed to pro-Palestine protesters -- many of them Jews), it would probably matter to more people that Harvard is decimating the study of Yiddish on its campus. (1)

saveharvardyiddish.org

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

Yup. Bet 5 grand on Taylor Swift showing up, then threw an extra $50 at Taylor to make it worth her while.

This feels like one of those rules that has a ... very specific ... genesis.

Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.”

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

He’s getting so much done that I was eager to finish the sentence to find out what we are celebrating

Beyond it being exciting to see an important policy being made real in NYC, the other groundbreaking thing about Mamdani loudly and doggedly supporting universal childcare is that it's not coming from a woman or even a parent. It's being championed by a childless man.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

In the last fourish years, it's gotten harder and harder to get my admin students to think about human flourishing as both the experience and outcome of school. It is demoralizing.

it’s my belief too, and it’s not just that it’s ignored, it’s discouraged

Suspicions? *Dame Edith Evans voice* SUSPICIONS?

Our family's enslaver was one of the delegates who fought in the Seminole Wars, signed the South Carolina Declaration of Secession in 1860, all while bringing my ancestors down to Florida.

There is just so much to know and learn here.

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Things to Know
#1. Commercially available DNA tests don't mean what you think they mean. You might as well be asking a Magic 8 Ball if you're looking at ethnicity.
#2. Your high school civics/government/history teacher 9 times out of 10 was teaching propaganda
# 3. Companies don't care about you.

The Higher Education We Can Afford Hampshire College closes and an institute without faculty arises.

The same week Hampshire College (a place predicated on community between faculty and students) closes, the Khan TED Academy (an institution without faculty) rises. Academic freedom depends on the shape and kind of our institutions. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

John is absolutely right to see the “infinite patience” for Khan’s failed EdTech creative destruction & the closure of Hampshire as linked.

EdTech has always been dependent on using grades as the foundation for A/B testing, behavioral modification (which they pretend is learning), & tokenization.

County Kerry, Ireland, 1952, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Oh, I get it... you mean "guys who think they deserve slaves."

John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR

he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable

the court as it exists today must be broken

Brand is presumably also doing this bc he thinks it will help with his upcoming rape trial. (By “this,” I mean both pretending to get religion, and integrating himself into the US far-right power structure.)