Too real

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Goldfinger: Schumann's hand injury revisited

But I was enjoying transgender for everyone...

The replies are a delight.

A good read. --A Jew who has always celebrated a secular Christmas.

Oh please oh please oh please

Extremely proud to have my name alongside these incredible scholars.

Last year I saw an argument that Die Hard is about winning a miraculous victory, against insurmountable odds, to defend a hilltop fortress from invaders—so it is actually a Hanukkah movie

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Samesies

Augmented Tom and Diminished Tom

Celebrate any time of the year with #AlbanBerg's #Wozzeck...on ICE! 'Weh! Weh! ich wasche mich mit Blut! Das Wasser ist Blut...'

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

from a state party director

Curious if @mgraber1.bsky.social has thoughts

This entire administration is just this meme

I was Dark Academia before it was cool. I will probably be Dark Academia after it's cool.

"genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism" is such a word the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"

Okay, one more response to this stupid article. If ~20-35% of students need accomodations, perhaps the problem is the educational environment itself, not the accomodations.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

An article that wasn't focused on elite colleges might be capable of considering that disability accommodations are about a student getting a good education for themselves rather than framing things in terms of a hunger games competition for who gets to be elite in society

Because timed test-taking is vital real-world skill that we must cultivate in our students and evaluate accurately, as any good educator knows. 🙄

Racist fuck

Can confirm that ChatGPT does this all the time.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Reposting this…for reasons.

I'm adding "feel" to my list of banned words in undergraduate writing (as in "this movement has a x feel").

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

My xp in classes for majors and grad students. Less so in gen ed.

Isn't this just... Obamacare?

Gentle request to put trigger warnings on posts about suicide. Thanks.

That, and DEATH TO ADVERBS.

Thinking about Mel Brooks (as I often do), and realizing to my dismay that "The Producers" hits really differently now.

When generative AI can take a PDF of a mediocre scan of some lengthy old musical score and give it back with the measures accurately numbered, I will be grudgingly impressed. I don't think I'll have to be grudgingly impressed any time soon.

Happy Halloween

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

If you've never been to any kind of community music making event, I guarentee it will restore your faith in humanity. (And maybe inspire you to fairly compensate music educators 🙃)

It's paying off though. Most of the students who chose my medium/heavy AI track are discovering that the technology is extremely limited.

It's funny to me that this has basically led to a search for "is there a culture group that does not do this?" and so far the answer seems genuinely to be "no".

Jesus Christ if you don’t want to live next to people who speak a different language why on earth is it incumbent on those people and not you to go somewhere else

I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation. Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.

The amount of time I've spent trying to at least semi-ethically account for LLMs in my classes with minimal support is soul-crushing.

It drives me absolutely mad when people say the way to get elected is to … take popular positions. This is the genius of people who ran for class president on a platform of longer recess. Unless being elected is an end in itself, this answers nothing.

Two pieces of advice to aspiring academics: -Be specific. -Write in a straight line. Once you've mastered that, you're 80% of the way there.

My gut feeling is that "people overworked and tired" accounts for 90% of what appears to be apathy.

I’m not a Trekkie but I’ve done enough basic research into the Star Trek fandom to know women basically invented it, and are why the show even continued to exist. This kind of writing is part of institutional sexism that denies women’s accomplishments and role in history and it infuriates me

I knew Busby Berkeley was due to make a comeback! youtu.be/IsXf6a_X7Lo?...

Seriously. It becomes at least 50% funnier in fullscreen.