The biggest thing I have to explain to normal friends is that I basically have 2 chances for raises over the lifetime of my career (promotion to Associate and promotion to Full). Beyond that, you generally have to have an offer from another university to change your compensation (not a guarantee).

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

This is kinda fab! (And no, it's not AI.)

If you're wondering "who won" in the Senate's bill, here's how you know

Five year old console, now almost 1k usd for the pro version

Winning!

Education? That’s just future job training for all the small incomplete humans running around.

This is a huge part of why education is in such a crisis. There's no one in power willing to fight for it. It's a two-party consensus that a lot of it doesn't matter enough to invest in or protect.

Yup. The effectiveness of the implementation of active learning is critical. I wanted more on that, also. That's one of my concerns with these "AI or something else" studies. That comparison isn't useful without taking into account learning objectives, implementation, etc.

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He fired a Black man who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He fired a woman who was the CNO. I could go on. How much more evidence do we need.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Here’s the thing. When your “cost of living” increase is 3% and inflation peaks at 9%, you’re getting a pay cut, not a raise.

Also the GOP platform

This, but for everything.

What a dipshit.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

I made a papercraft just for this

Our reflection in education shouldn't be at the surface debating whether discussion posts, papers, quizzes, etc are good/bad. It's that everything we ask our students to do in our classes should have an actual purpose--not just actions to resemble a caricature of "school."

Just thinking about how our secretary of defense texted out secret war plans to the group chat and still has a job. Now he's bombing school children, fishermen, and dairy farmers.

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Seems like if one of the most popular games can’t make the numbers work you’re dealing with a fundamentally broken model

But I was told Hollywood was cooked... finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

Just me updating my CV and vacillating between feelings of "wow I'm doing a TON of work" and "this is totally inadequate and I'm a huge loser."

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Get married, move to Chicago, start a PhD program at Northwestern, and dress up as Bret McKenzie for Halloween.

Well I hate this thought

What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can

Imagine going to a liberal arts university and not being able to take classics. What the fuck

"By contrast, social media time would account for a measly 2.4% in the variance in youth mental health, assuming that correlation isn’t just noise (which it may very well be)."

yeah sure man making your murderous goons the face of the entire airport security process so people all over the country can get a taste of what Minnesota went through while flight prices climb because of your stupid war is going to fix your popularity issue great plan, no notes

Teen: “After I finish Man on the Inside, I want to watch Breaking Bad.”

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we can remember that the Trump war is illegal and evil while also remembering that the Iranian regime is evil.

Why haven’t you bought UFO 50 yet? It’s 50 freakin’ games—great games—for $19.

A little messed up to be called a monster for loving cookies. Shoulda called it judgment street

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

As someone who was laid off from Instagram during Meta's big layoffs, I would like to say that Mark Zuckerberg could have given each one of us $10 million as severance and still spent less than he did on the Metaverse, thank you and good night

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Look I’m drinking as much as I possibly can but you can’t expect me to singlehandedly prop up both the Whiskey AND Malbec industries.

0 jobs. But tell me again how the GOP is the party for those that care most about the economy?

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"