Everyone share your favorite Chicago flag pics in honor of the flag’s birthday (anniversary of its official adoption)

The vast majority of Bachelor's degree holders do not go into jobs that have any connection to their major (the two exceptions seem to be "education" and healthcare (presumably nursing?)). Only about a quarter of STEM degree holders work in any STEM field, for example.

History people what are some good and fun child focused books on non European history? Something similar to Horrible Histories or the big books of Greek Legends that Collins and others do?

🇹🇼 Tens of thousands of political documents from Taiwan’s years of one-party rule have been fully declassified by its top intelligence agency. All pre-1992 records have been transferred to the National Archives for public view with no redactions. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

“Oh my god… It’s glorious… they should’ve sent a poet…” - Deng Xiaoping

Quick guide for deans to what various departments actually mean when they say “Global Middle Ages”

This thread is a glorious collection of Irish history nerds in consensus on their hatred for Cromwell.

Reading Agatha Christie novels and encountering characters with bespoke 1930s ethnic prejudices such as:

It is supremely infuriating that there are quite literally millions of left-wing Catholics in the United States, but the press only ever wants to hear from the right wing ones

my longest-lasting friendship is with a trans person, and I think if you can see the joy they radiate post-transition from the freedom to be themself and decide that you want to snuff that out, you are a wretched little goblin forsaken by God

The third book in the Three Body Problem series has a scene in which a bunch of literature professors brought in to solve a riddle in a fiction story stand up and say “we literature professors are useless here, bring in in the engineers because they are the true smart guys and can solve literature”

me, sowing: bluebook exam will be great for this me, reaping: what the hell, this sucks

"Ruptures or revolutions, however, are alien to the Chinese awareness of time." Not entirely sure about that, Byung-chul Han.

Scrambling around a less brutally “restored” part of the Great Wall NE of Beijing, at Panlongshan. 蟠龙山长城. Almost no one else there.

“Squid” is used as an antisemitic slur in China because the words for squid and Jew sound similar. In case you didn’t know.

I was one of three Cubs fans I knew on the Southside as a kid, and I remember hearing about the corked bat over the radio the same way my grandparents remember JFK getting shot “This can’t be true, this is all a big mistake, Sammy would never let us down!”

My mother when I called her at work to ask what was for dinner (I wanted McDonald’s)

I know it’s not him, but I would honestly be curious to get his take on the whole situation

Many alt-ac conversations tend to have this character as well. We cannot all run university presses or small specialist museums! There are not that many of those jobs!

This was probably the single most difficult point for students in the Weimar Germany class I TAed last semester German political Catholicism was working on very different logic than what they anticipate - even on just the labor organization plus social conservatism stuff!

She could turn into a bird though, right?

not to sound like a curmudgeon but I literally don’t care if Colbert gets to live his fanboy dream here. the MCUification of middle-earth has to stop

Oh no oh no

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

A common thread in our times. There's a way in which arguing for "classical" education, or using an AI tool with a cartoon Einstein on it, or Jordan Peterson's stupid suits, are all efforts to capture "the appearance of intellectualism without the substance."

Chuck Norris actually died when Bruce Lee killed him on the Way of the Dragon set, he just didn't figure it out till now

"Chinamaxxing" isn't a harmless trend, but an inherently racist concept that perpetuates ethnic stereotypes and cultural appropriation. "Chinese" is not a monolithic identity, and it is a damn shame that embracing ethnic identity is becoming an internet fad for white people (again).

I started telling an absolutely unreal 紅樓夢 joke, b

my job now includes making dank memes for Gen Z

This is genuinely the only characterization ”race science” believers deserve They are incapable of actual productive intellectual work and skate by on the enormous affirmative action afforded to bigots

The “legitimate debate” on this subject is absolutely settled in every field imaginable, but it keeps getting the “it’s never been tried!” or “subversive, inconvenient truth” treatment from media and society Nothing better shows the failures of our systems of information than this

If the test to get into BBQ University in China isn't called either the 高烤 or the 烧考, I will lose all of my remaining faith in humanity.

Are micksploitation movies the St Patrick’s Day equivalent to the “Black History Month” streaming playlists that are all slavery movies? Prime Video suggested playlists as the summation of how your group is understood in US culture

One of those things that shouldn’t even be question. You are a teacher. Not a friend, not a romantic partner. You have specific obligations to your students. Flirting with them is breaking those obligations even if nothing physical happens

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They do not want to have a Free Market of Ideas, they want to have a stage for teaching literal fascist ideology while banning opposing views This has always been the case and anyone who fell for this is a clown

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

What I learned from My Lai was how many of my classmates, no doubt following their parents' lead, were willing to defend the actions of Calley, Medina, and the rest involved. "Just following orders."

Art can be compelling for many reasons, but one important reason is tension between different ideas Propaganda is meant to simplify away tensions and teach formulaic answers Good political art doesnt ‘both sides’ things, but brings out the real and reasonable tensions inherent in a good idea

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

I enjoyed the flawed “Last Voyage of the Demeter” (2023) but this I think has much much higher potential

Was going to post laser-eyes Kongzi but if we’re being honest he didn’t actually get the job done

UW Madison students succeed across a wide variety of industries! (derogatory)

TFW habermas

Genuinely every “man brand” product I have ever seen advertised has conveyed the impression of being made for children Not exactly PC to say, but on a gut-level I feel that guys who fall for this stuff are failing at manhood, by virtue of being children

@brandontbishop.bsky.social analogy with epidemiology and climate science is on point. In a way Trump is the final result of a generations-long deliberate effort by conservatives and the ultra-wealthy to undermine -and now destroy- expertise in the public sector. 1/ via @70sbachchan.bsky.social

you don’t do a phd to get some kind of earnings boost lmao it is a horrible financial decision. even with assistanceships. you do it because you have a mania for a specific field of study and are willing to make monk-like sacrifices dedicating yourself to the endeavor of increasing human knowledge