The former. I prefer a quiet life.
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The former. I prefer a quiet life.
For me it was learning a little Middle English in high school and reading a few of The Canterbury Tales. Of course I’ve kind of moved away from medieval studies recently but still.
From the article "Heather Cox Richardson stole my wife," a para reading: "9/11 changed that. The smoke had hardly cleared before, he felt, the mainstream talking heads were suggesting that the US had essentially asked for it. Then, language changed. You weren’t supposed to say the word “terrorist” anymore. “I was just appalled,” he told me."
What universe was this man living in? I remember that year. It was terrorist everything. "Keep shopping/going to school/buying stocks or the terrorists win." You know what we couldn't say? French fries. (Freedom fries.) Conservative pressure groups tried to get The Two Towers film renamed.
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
the left *does* punch relentlessly. the issue is that, in most modern societies, punching from the left is dramatically less effective than punching from the right because the right has, you know, money and power, and the left has dramatically less
“speach”
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
A new report on civic freedoms concludes that "the US is no longer a functional democracy."
Congrats everyone. And a *special* congrats to the Harpers letter signatories, free-speech warriors, and "anti-woke" crusaders. You saved us from woke! Great work.
Old-man-yells-at-modernity dot gif
Yeah, this is going to suck
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
Most of the time when "woke/DEI" get thrown around they're just fig leaves for being annoyed that someone might ask you not to be racist but calling Calibri a "diversity" font is just tipping your hand to the fact that you lack the vocabulary to explain yourself
we really, catastrophically, have failed to convince our children to be engaged in their own education
I say this as a parent of three kids who are *highly* engaged in their own education, especially compared to their chatGPT-using peers, and all along, that's stood out, but now it's so much worse.
Today is Human Rights Day. What a cruel and ghoulish thing to do.
The Baileys again
Ahem, taxes go a long way to pay for more domestic seats a public universities in Canada. Just saying….i mean in case you didn’t know…No foreign students don’t take those spots…oh I see you don’t understand how Canadian universities are funded. But are pissed your kid was rejected…and hate taxes…
to me, I just view “perhaps we should teach more humanities again” as an attempt to regain some balance - which I do think is very important! - and not as an argument for humanities supremacy.
the point is there shouldn’t be supremacy regarding the basis of human knowledge, imo
Water may be wet in those foofy Euro cities, Michael, but that’s no reason to think it’s wet here
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
I can’t prove it, but I wonder if many of the problems we face in the Anglosphere are downstream of the decision, years ago, to stop teaching formal grammar. When you don’t know the rules underlying language (or even that it has rules), maybe you’re more vulnerable to manipulation.
She's had at least three times now where staff have done the, “what you're actually seeing with your own eyes here is not the case”. They said that sidewalks were plowed last year, and then had to admit they lied. How many times is Chow going to get the fell for it again award? Start. Firing. Staff.
"Masculinity," as practiced by the manosphere, is indistinguishable from a simple lack of adequate social & emotional development. It is, in a sense, the explicit *rejection* of social & emotional development.
“DAAAAAAAAA TORIES LOSE”
REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus):
Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
We know, based on loads of comparative evidence, that presidential systems are unstable and prone to clientelism, democratic backsliding, and the like. SCOTUS is doing its best to amplify all the worst aspects of presidential systems. They're cutting the wires that hold the system up.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Students use LLMs because they have never, not just now, had enough time & space for learning.
And they are frequently missing knowledge about how the various resources work. We just skipped right over that to "they're going to use it anyway so we have to integrate it into pedagogy."
FACULTY GREW TOO POWERFUL
excuse me while I laugh myself off this cliff
Okay but hear me out: Vladdy giving the speech from the throne to open Parliament