Silicon Valley from the mid 2010s til now has been a long experiment in what happens when you take uncool guys who didn't do drugs when they were young and get them into drugs in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Bad results. bsky.app/profile/jose...

People need to stop generalizing about higher ed based on their experience in one sector. Most academics don't teach at r1 institutions and, full professors or not, they don't have just kind of power. And then when The article generalizes from The sciences to higher ed. 1/2

How about you Switch 2 reading the Holy Bible

As a husband, father, doberman pinscher, certified public accountant, southpaw pitching, double-decker, super saiyan, true centrist, moderate, never-Perot, over-the-roll, only child, eldest daughter, son of Sam, I know that people who use "Democrat" as an adjective are definitely being honest.

At this point, the claims that elections are "rigged" are in the same realm as claims of demonic possession. The people behind this alleged conspiracy are clearly, in the GOP imagining, actual wizards, possessed of dark magic. That and also "rigged" means "they let Black people vote."

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

“It really is a shame with these undergrads these days,” said the 63-year-old Lowell Sterbenz

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead to their conservative families but running a lovely antique shop in vermont

the real question, though: why are you continuing to lionize a horrible misogynist who, by his own admission, loved to harass the women who served him at restaurants? who found it hilarious to make their jobs harder? and who thought women who wouldn't sleep with him were "worse than whores"?

Get you some EL wires in there and birdie, you got yourself a party

All Colleges Are Beautiful

As I said, the link between Everyone Is 12 Theory and Everything Is Gender Theory is that it is traditionally Mom's job to make sure that Bedtime is enforced

Ohh so Trump *doesn’t* love the song just because it’s a gay anthem 🤔

It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere. And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.

if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults

If you thought pro se attorneys had fools for clients, wait’ll you see AI attorneys

this is actually so scary. PLEASE stay educated about bed monsters

@tessasalomone.bsky.social Come collect your boy, he’s in my inbox again

culture war eats strategy war for breakfast

The Laptop From Hell must have contained a copy of Anthony Bourdain's tortured, precious immortal soul

By the way a random nobody on the internet can’t deny free speech. Only governments can do that. Words and concepts mean things.

it’s FINE

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

(Scott Pelley lighting up a fat cigar and pouring a brandy as he dials his legal representation)

picked up a book at the public library then mailed a package at the post office and am about to use public transportation to get to the gym. I love Services

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

This is a travesty. We don't need this & didn't ask for it. Plenty of us asked for other things that cost millions of dollars and were told no. The technology brings NOTHING of value to the university system, and it undermines the basic objectives of learning.

Stay paranoid everyone!

“Grade inflation has made Advanced Placement exams indispensable.”

For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.

He was one of the first friendly voices I remember meeting on Twitter, back when I didn’t even know real academic communities could exist on social media. Truly a generous soul

I am so devastated to learn of the passing of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social, who I just had coffee with a week ago. We met at @repalconference.bsky.social and he was one of the kindest, most genuine people I have ever met in academia. He made me feel like my work mattered.

"Those thousands of kids that I killed in Africa? Vivian's fault." Classic abuser garbage.

Wait, it's all just vice signaling? 🌎 🤔 🔫😞 Always has been

Yeah I'm a huge supporter of Law and Order (Law of Excluded Middle and Ordered Field Axioms)

Florida, eh? You know it's gonna be

U.S. Mutant Ninja Turtles. Every single time I see it.

wow speciesist much

Time to rewatch these masterworks for the umpteenth time. This is the kind of stuff the Internet is supposed to produce. I'd trade every influencer in history for one more video as funny as these.

“What was that boom in Boston” bsky solidifies my belief that the last post on this site will be “hey did anyone else hear that?”

The Bible says, over and over again, to not oppress a foreigner. “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 23:9)

Vice signaling is like presenting an invoice for a costly signal that your audience will cover for you in the unlikely event payment is ever demanded

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises: