Sean Maguire

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

funny how often academics in the humanities are portrayed as frivolous ivory tower dandies who write poetry by moonlight and have 6 months off a year when all those people are working like 50 hours a week and the academics with the actual cushy jobs are economists

[Albert Gil 📕 @LarryAlbertGil]

I don't think pop history like this is bad because it's bad/wrong history, I think it's bad because it normally provides a fundamentally conservative narrative that enters the average person's mind uncontested and shrouded in "common sense"

[Grace @gracecamille_]

have unfollowed a lot of influencers on instagram recently bc it suddenly hit me.. I’m so exhausted with wanting THINGS.. like this is so boring….

[• يمنى♡• @yumnah_elkhabir]

a question we all need to be asking ourselves.

[Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist @SIUChasmite]

If your university has no philosophy department, then your university is not a real university. Universities are not only for career preparation, but places where the deepest problems can be studied. Philosophy demands the smartest students, and maybe crucial to their recruitment

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

the girls are writing on substack, reading books again, limiting their screen time, making long-form videos analysing different topics and social issues, not taking shit, and looking better and better as they age.

[Zito @_Zeets]

You can tell when books are written with the hopes of being turned into movies / shows and even when the book isn’t bad at all, it’s such a disappointing experience to read a book that wants to be a script

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Watching Gone Girl, awesome movie. Feel like you could only make a movie this transgressive during the Obama years when people felt broadly comfortable enough to make thorny pulp we could talk about. It’s why woke has to come back…

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

Buffet has commissioned no plays, no poems, no symphonies, no operas, no ballets; funded no paintings or sculptures that will outlive him; endowed no theatres, choirs, or orchestras; built no monuments, great homes, museums, churches, monasteries, chantries, baptistries, almshouses, or civic buildings that future generations will marvel at and enjoy.* He has added less to the common stock of civilisation than any man as wealthy before him.

He's right that greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, which is what he is known for, but beyond that it's fortune cookie-level advice. It's not wrong, but that's about it.

* His partner, Charlie Munger's contribution to architecture was to fund factory-like college dorms in which a majority of the apartments don't have windows.

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

The empirical evidence seems quite clear that student evaluations of teaching (SET) mechanically lead to grade inflation and lowering of standards.

https://t.co/prophieIjw

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.

[Doug Campbell @TradeandMoney]

Back when i was a professor, early on I used to get bad reviews occasionally. My institution was extremely critical of this. So, what did I discover was the easy solution? I watered down my course and made everything easier. Magically, I started to get near perfect evaluations in what was a symbiotic hustle.

Teach an easy course, crack a few jokes during lecture, and give everyone an A --> good evaluations from students. And students evals are the only way teaching is judged.

Of course, students learned much back in the days when I hassled them more with hard projects.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

AI companies are posting stealth ads encouraging students not to major in the humanities. More proof, if you need it, that anti-humanities propaganda is being pushed by the tech world in the hopes of creating a world where most people can neither read nor think.

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

I’ve never met anyone in the world in all my travels who has had anything negative to say about Ireland’s neutrality. It’s always been universally positive. Who are these bogeymen that our media constantly invoke? My guess, they don’t exist outside of lobbyists for arms dealers

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

It’s amazing how AI came along with its massive energy needs and in a blink they just dropped ‘climate.’

[Ken Foxe @kenfoxe]

How did the Freedom of Information Act or creation of SIPO curtail the power of politicians to gather information, spend money or control the arms of government?

The amount of people holding up this article by John Collison as some sort of canonical account of what is wrong with Ireland is extraordinary (if not exactly surprising).

Some of it (like the below) doesn’t make a jot of sense:

https://t.co/BzXBol7BDO

[drumm colin (NYC) @drumm_colin]

There's no future for any of us without a general delegitimization of economics as a disciplinary tradition. They're enemies of humanity

[Jeff Morris Jr. @jmj]

Everyone talks about AI slop.
No one talks about PE (private equity) slop.

- restaurants that lost their soul
- medical practices that feel like assembly lines
- apartment buildings designed by an Excel formula

The algorithm didn’t kill culture. The margin model did.

[danny @d4nnytye]

i would vote for anyone who promised to nationalise the employment industry. every job listing should be on a single database and ask for a cv and cover letter at max, and the job centre should actually have to find everyone suitable work rather than shame the unemployed