I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.

You should write your book now so you can write it without having to write it for the rest of your life after that

Played way to much of this game in middle school. #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou #GenX www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOT...

Today's sign of the apocalypse. #AI

"When academics in more comfortable political climates declare it unethical for the rest of us to remain and to fight, they undercut the solidarity necessary to help move toward the kind of world they want to see." #highered www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Institutions receiving the most federal aid and loans. Would be interested to see what their gainful employment numbers are...#highered

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

the types of podcasts: a guide

What Florida basketball does is none of my concern

Florida continues to create its own "non-Woke" education system that will only erode its reputation. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

9/11 was a mutagenic event leveling up the most potent class of fucking losers this country has ever seen

Throw everyone in this government into a goddamn wood chipper

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

There's a growing worry that AI will break empirical social science -- that agents can p-hack until they find something that "works." We think that worry deserves to be taken seriously. Our new paper shows that is true empirically and makes it precise: njw.fish/static/paper...

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

"The world is entering a post-literate age, with huge implications for societies’ politics & structure. The smartphone’s emphasis on photos & vids has driven a decline in reading, a consequence of which is that a growing number of people are unable to grapple w/ complex ideas and nuanced arguments"

i never fail to be amused at everyone suddenly discovering the pope is catholic

Removing "regional" distinction and making all accreditors "national" is the revenge of for profit colleges. This will lead to unis being required under fed law to accept transfer credits from for profit institutions regardless of academic quality. #highered www.universityherald.com/articles/801...

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

This is the type of thing I keep trying to talk to people about for higher ed. Not conference rooms where I "listen to diverse perspectives" but actually doing work to imagine what strengthening the US higher education system in furtherance of a democracy would look like.

GREEN DAY UNCENSORED! #superbowl

Between Johnny Weir dropping a Game of Thrones reference and Amber Glenn discussing her love of Magic: The Gathering (including showing cards in her promo!) nerds are having an Olympic moment and I'm here for it.

This is why it's very important, believe it or not, to keep doing things that make you happy. Their goal is to immiserate you, me, and everyone remotely like us, and if you retain some joy in your life amid all this misery they're failing.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Reputation has become one of the most powerful and least understood forces shaping higher education today...yet it remains poorly defined & frequently confused with rankings. #highered poetsandquants.com/2026/01/27/w...

Autocrats don’t just attack educational institutions; they seek to turn them into “a place that breeds the values of authoritarianism, suspicion, hostility,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells Anne Applebaum. Listen to the full episode of “Autocracy in America”: theatln.tc/4xDXZcjA

If your job says you’re having an all hands meeting, call in sick or go to the bar

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

AI has upended the received wisdom of "learn to code." College grads w/Comp Sci & Engineering majors have one of the highest unemployment rates. #AI #highered nymag.com/intelligence...

so you should just know, if Indiana can win a national title, there's no reason for you to not have hope about...well, everything and anything

A day that will live in infamy. #football #nfl

If you vote for Gavin Newsom, I will kick you in the fucking dick, if you give a dollar to Matt Yglesias, I will kick you in the fucking dick, there is no negotiation with fascism, you do not need advice on fighting a dragon from someone who’s never even smelled the fire

Percival Everett said that "Deciding to write a book, it never feels like a great idea. It’s always like knowingly entering a bad marriage. If you had any sense, you wouldn’t do it, but you know you’re going to do it." Writers are sick so we might as well embrace the sickness.

Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

Merry Christmas to everyone who took a shot at the title this year. #lethalweapon #80smovies #christmasmovie #Christmas

MOOCs unite! Coursera and Udemy to merge: investor.coursera.com/news/news-de... #highered #edtech #mooc

We keep having these Scooby Doo masks off moments and the same kinds of people keep being revealed. #highered

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Honored to contribute a chapter to Supporting Military-Connected College Students: Applying Theory to Student Affairs Practice, a practical, evidence-based guide to help student veterans & military-connected students thrive in higher ed. Available now! #highered #studentveterans tinyurl.com/dyar847u

Texas is home to a number of world class public universities. Texas politicians seem hell bend on destroying them. You can't have elite postsecondary institutions under a subnational authoritarian system. Period. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This timeline is desperately in need of new Rage Against the Machine.

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