Preben

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.

Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.

Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

AI cracking unsolvable math problems while being kinda mid at writing is a much-needed W for humanities majors after a rough 21st century.

[scientism @mr_scientism]

Schools and universities should be anachronisms. They should teach you ’outdated’ skills and shield you from calculators, computers, and AI. They should teach dead languages and doing things the hard way. They should do what the ‘market’ won’t do (preserve civilization).

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Academics should not settle their scores in The Economist's pages. They should do it in the proper fashion, in the letters pages of the NYRB.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

This is totally tasteless. Jason Arday is dead for less than two days, and Steven Pinker is trying to get some book sales from it.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics were always going to surrender to AI, given our desperate need to hear, “wow, what a smart question!”

[Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1]

The degree to which certain academics—even contingent ones who know firsthand that the university doesn’t love them back—continue to overidentify with the current university project and feel compelled to defend it at all costs and against even very mild critique is embarrassing.

[Chiara Cordelli @chiaracordelli]

Three years in the making, and it’s finally out! https://t.co/R9uDSC5WEa

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

The most well-informed Husserl scholar is the best short story anyone has written in years

[Preben @pdf]

@JamesSurowiecki The idea that Go is more complex than Warhammer is just comically inaccurate.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

If novelists have something to tell us, they should simply say it. Stop hiding behind your so-called "characters"

[Elsie @Meelsie143]

type of shit jordan peterson would say with tears running down his face

[Preben @pdf]

Yes, but the US system is unique among rich countries in that some denials of care are not denials of any existing claim, because some within that system never hold any claim-right to reasonably comprehensive healthcare.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

There isn’t a single country in the world where claims for medical care are not sometimes denied. Not a single one.

[Albert Gil 📕 @LarryAlbertGil]

Everyone knows the main jobs for people with PhDs in philosophy are in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

Finally, employment for people with philosophy Ph.D’s.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We’ve approved an internal grant for Economics to do an ethnographic study of the dismantling of Sociology & Anthropology in the state system.

[Preben @pdf]

@introvertzoomer @Brumairian Medical care didn’t help. There’s no social gradient of health before 1750.