The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."
I'm 37, I'm not old.
This is the last day I can quote this.
I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe
“What is this class? Why do we keep going out on fishing boats? What was with the thing where we had to sort out goats from sheep? Why did we have to shove a camel through the eye of a needle? What is this class?”
Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.
Max Rebo emerges from the blue.
#ReboRepost "The Pianist," oil on panel, 10 inches by 10 inches, 2022.
It's efficient and economical to have AI write drafts of of a news story or, god forbid, something longer. After all, people just want the info, right? Wrong. If this is the wave of the future, I'd rather drown. www.wired.com/story/backch...
This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.
1. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 886, fol. 17v.
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I joined Facebook when it was just for college students. Used it just as a update of latest thoughts. Then they opened it to everyone, and, well we know what happened.
I know this makes me sound like an old man yearning for the good old days. But sometimes things really were better back in the day.
I really liked Tumblr back in the day doing exactly that. It was impressive how badly they tanked it, all through censorship. If only there was a lesson there for people to learn, but apparently none of these idiot companies are capable of learning.
I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.
Pinker’s shtick is eloquently projecting mischaracterizations of topics that knows nothing about into the public sphere. He masquerades as an expert, despite never seriously engaging with the fields he critiques. He’s the Trump of popular science writing. www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...
“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
CHILD 1 (moving Mon Mothma figure around): The Chandrilan arranged marriage is an outmoded social compact. The galaxy has moved on, and Chandrila must join it
Child 2 (attaching Perrin's magnetic cocktail glass to his action grip hand): Certainly hasn't done us any favors
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
Truly great to see a leader show what a functional government can do. This is why you vote Democratic Socialist. Imagine what we can accomplish if do nothing neoliberals get out of the damn way. I hope more candidates are inspired by him.
Also is that music from Succession?
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
Great. The company that made the shoes (that I quite like) that I bought in November is now making AI bullshit or something. Definitely feel less good about wearing them now.
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
Oh man, Kedi is so good. Shocking that I love it, I know haha.
Finally you know I have to get multispecies with it and show Kedi (2016), which details the social lives of stray (or semi-stray) cats in Istanbul
bsky.app/profile/song...
"Poets of Mongolia" (1999) is the other half of my Coalture Double Feature (along with Harlan County USA). It traces the lifespan of coal in Ulaanbaatar during Neoliberal Shock Treatment from mine, to power station, to light, pausing at each stage for a song from the workers
bsky.app/profile/song...
“A lot of people say that the national forest system itself is where the real meat and potatoes is, and I think that’s a misrepresentation...You can’t manage wildfire, whether it’s fuel reductions or climate, weather, invasive species, if you don’t know what changes are occurring in those dynamics.”
A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.
Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.
Do you see how this works?
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.
With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
Mongolian nomad in traditional attire holding a bird of prey beside a saddled horse in a vast, mountainous landscape, with a quote below from AAS Vice President Christopher Atwood: "What does studying Mongolian nomads tell us about the world? It tells us about how our relations with the animals we hunt and we raise are at the basis of our history. Horses, dogs, cows, and sheep: the modern world was made on their backs, and the stories of Mongolian nomads show us how."
AAS is proud to #TalkAboutHumanities and #TalkAboutSocialSciences this week as we join American Council of Learned Societies in stating loudly and clearly: we need MORE humanities and social sciences scholars and research. We'll share our thoughts on #AsianStudies throughout the week!
Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.
