I love people who love where they live because they’ll be like “no other place in the world like it” and be talking about a coffee shop or convenience store

I agree in part but please stop pretending it’s elitist to read. It’s not.

I strongly agree with this!

leading a study abroad in London and the students just turned in their first assignment - hand-written in a moleskine - where they had to sit somewhere in a public place and just observe for 30 minutes. and boy howdy the kids are alright.

I think it’s bad when reporters try to make themselves the center of the story

Who is suggesting this?

I don’t think you need to accept this premise because his poll numbers started significantly slipping during the wall-to-wall coverage of the sieges of Chicago & Minneapolis There actually are things other than material conditions that impact politics

This is pundit brain nonsense attacking pundit brain nonsense make it stop

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Please post links with screenshots to discourage the spread of (ironically) misinformation

Twitter isn’t that. There are no community norms to be taken advantage of there. The algo is controlled by the nazis. You’re not going to break through, you’re not going to peel anyone off and studies show remaining on it will likely cause *you to drift right.*

With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...

there's gonna be crusade references by the murderers, right?

The interviewee is all in on AI and writes with Noahopinion so it’s all just a big circle jerk

In London and man public transportation is great

Enjoy your blood money!

Don’t sleep on the medievalism of the name either. These guys will hurt people

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I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Listen it’s an uncomfortable truth that the modern university is a select number of academic disciplines in the traditional liberal arts (which of course includes some social sciences & STEM) and then some groups playacting

This article continues the trend of downplaying the sophisticated solutions and ideas of the middle ages. Just because it doesn't look like mid 20th century US institutions doesn't mean it's inherently primitive

So this is a bad piece for saying “superstition” + “crisis of authority” = “middle ages.” But the point isn’t to fact-check the piece; it’s instead important to understand how COWARDLY this equation is. By saying this stuff, the author is doing a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. What can you do? It’s all medieval! 1/2

Journathan holy shit

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

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the kids are alright

Bernie Sanders was a terrible judge of character and that is among the many reasons he lost

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“Why do people hate data centers?”

The softest men

"please put me back in the Mandalorian. i'll get the vaccine."

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listen, the only thing I have to say about the Odyssey is that these fucking asshole right-wing chuds don't fucking own history or literature. their racism and bigotry should be met with scorn and shame. read, instead, as James Baldwin (from an interview in 1963):

Listen my friend Isabel wrote this book and I read it and it’s really smart and great and you will get sucked in immediately and should preorder it

listen, the only thing I have to say about the Odyssey is that these fucking asshole right-wing chuds don't fucking own history or literature. their racism and bigotry should be met with scorn and shame. read, instead, as James Baldwin (from an interview in 1963):

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Finished The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, by David M. Perry & Matthew Gabriele, as a audiobook, last week. I love it so much. Not only is it everything I've wanted in a medieval history for decades, the writing itself is *luscious*!

just read a book review about the abbey of St-Denis that asked the question, well what about Cluny or Sens, and friends you're being a jerk if you do that in a review evaluate the book that's written, not the one that you created in your head

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

I think the hard thing to realize is that there are probably disciplines in the university that aren’t worth saving!

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this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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