The Artist Formerly Known

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[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@jk_rowling

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@DillowTalk2 Congratulations! You’ve contracted the AIDS virus!

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@Saba37391772580 @gocamilova59027 @tifastarr ive been defeated

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

always better to have your drama blow up right after Halloween. would have made an easy costume and amplified it

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Jensen Huang departure odds soar after 5 former Nvidia employees allege he had a second extramarital affair, this time with a senior executive.

73% chance he's out by end of year.

🔗 https://t.co/AoNYKaglBS

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

is catlover1111 aware cats have an irresistible urge to lick their assholes every 5 minutes?

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

I honestly find the vibes to be potentially the worst part. Of course discrimination is terrible... but even for women and non-Asian minorities, the suspicion of being impostors might be made worse. And most importantly the vibe of free and open minded exploration of ideas seems like something you do in small groups of trusted people, which is just weird to me in a university setting. I hate the tension.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

I get it. I too am ashamed of McGill, but surely this case is 1 of a thousand insanely pathetic and shameful things every western university has allowed to happen.

The entire university culture is a woke Left anti-intellectual shitshow that breeds racism and sexism.

[Christine Peterson @lifeext]

Fix this @MIT I’m ashamed to be an alum

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@Saba37391772580 @gocamilova59027 @tifastarr i read about women's bodies on the internet so i just compared that to all the penises I sucked

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

Well exaggerated to those who have never been involved in academia. I know first hand how my university had entire departments essentially dismissing white male applicants. There were networks of students and teachers creating black lists for people who were anti-woke.

The rot in STEM is overestimated by the Right. The rot everywhere else is not that far from what the Right believes. And the insidiousness of the people involved is frightening. It is no joke a bunch of adults acting like deranged pre-teen bullies.

I lived it. My department at my school might have been bad, but I know very well that UQAM and Concordia are known to be worse, which is unfathomable.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

We might also have different standards for what counts as woke. Also, I'm in Montreal and here it's very extreme and even in STEM, it's clear certain false ideas coming from the Humanities shall not be questioned, or else.

I'm pretty extreme. I don't believe in any discrimination whatsoever based on race or gender, so all this DEI stuff to me is automatic insanity.

It might also be my background. I have a Jewish sounding middle name and I'm Romanian, so I don't enjoy hearing communist propaganda and mocking its victims and I have been harassed a lot for having a Jewish sounding name, and this was decades before things got more divisive in regards to Jews and Israel.

So all this stuff might bias me.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

Honestly not sure why you're so focused on Jordan. It's an example of an academic who spoke up... just like Pinker and Dawkins did, but they did years earlier and seemingly gave up realising there was nothing you could do about the Humanities.

If Philip Goff argues with a Flat Earther, my disdain for him will be irrelevant in that context.

Either way, were just disagreeing about the institution as a whole. You're playing D and I'm playing O, but we're seemingly not disagreeing about the Humanities, so it's honestly pretty irrelevant, no?

I mean, I enjoy thinking out-loud with smart people, but you can't seriously get stuck on something as irrelevant as whether Jordan is smart.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@DeivonDrago something something ideas something something events something something people

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@CburgesCliff @DeivonDrago I literally left academics to escape the cancel culture. Believe me no such thing on a construction site, in a start up or in a sports organisation. In fact, so many people I met in those areas are there to avoid the woke politics.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

But see, that to me is part of the problem. Jordan's bad ideas do not negate his correct ones. Jordan loves ideas that I despise and are the dumbest ideas in cog sci, but that's completely irrelevant. I'm not a fan of the average academic. I'm a fan of truth.

No offense, but this hair-trigger to distance yourself from the idiots in a context where I don't see the relevance is born out of this culture.

Half the people who shit on Jordan have as dumb or dumber ideas than Jordan, but it's socially toxic to mock them. I want everyone to be able to simply speak their mind, call people idiots or not, regardless of what it might signal about what team you're on.

Be like Richard Dawkins. Call him out. He's drunk on symbols. He doesn't understand basic philosophy. But congratulate him for having the balls to stand up to the deranged mob actually having a terrible impact on academic culture.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

Well yeah, they're indispensable. But you don't get to ride the wealth creation and cultural impact of STEM to defend harboring pseudointellectuals and terrorist sympathisers. It's still shameful. Someone who helps cancer research is still a bad person if he rapes a child. No utilitarian analysis will cancel that out.

The universities were unequivocally the institutions making the US, the west and humanity as a whole great... 30 years ago. 20 years ago a dent start forming. Now it's actually debatable because while we can measure its direct impact, we do not have any formalised way of measuring the 2nd and 3rd order effects of creating unnecessary social division and distrust in those very institutions.

Shouldn't have academics stood behind Jordan Peterson when he called this out in the early 2010s? Or Steven Pinker in the 2000s? Or Camille Paglia in the 90s?

Some academics tried raising hell and what happened? Cowardice.

You can think whatever you like about something so hard to measure... whether on a whole its bad or good. But the Humanities are right now unarguably bad and anyone playing D for them, as far as I'm concerned, is being immoral or stupid.

I might be wrong, but I'm almost certain I'm right and I'll stand behind it til someone convinces me I've deluded myself.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@TheSixthManLAL @Ziaire @Lakers @LakersNation One of the most annoying things watching the NBA is how much a team is forced to play players they pay. For example, it's blatantly obvious Shead is a superior player to IQ and its not really close.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@SwellTakes @PAHoyeck Wait, you don't buy multiple used copies of every book you love?

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

Yeah, I'm well aware of the divide. But the Humanities are the source of this infection and there's no reason to shy away from the obvious, aside from avoiding the woke who are always happy to smear anyone who gets in their way.

McGill is an embarrassment and so is every university that allowed this hysteria to proliferate. The fact that you can't point fingers at one person doesn't make it any less embarrassing. I take morality seriously. An institutions achievements don't mean much to me if the same institution is allowing thousands of students to be lied, miseducated and gaslit by pseudointellectual activists who are doing nothing good for society, and the main reason there's a growing far right throughout the West. The Far Left, in my estimation, is a stain on western history and it all came from the universities.

You know, some of us killed our career paths to stand up against this cancerous growth, because all of this was predictable, both the growth of the far left and the reactive growth of the far right. So yes, I do hold The Institutions accountable, and that means everyone involved who didn't fight this every step of the way.

So I wouldn't just dismiss the Humanities as trivial. That, to me, feels like a cope to avoid dealing with them, which is understandable; people have more enjoyable things to do which will serve their personal interests more, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. That's a sort of Tragedy of the Commons mixed with a Bystander Effect leading to everything gradually getting shittier for everyone.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

Saving the institutions just seems crazy at this point. Eventually we gotta cut our losses and try rebuilding. The Woke are a cult and the only people remaining in academia are either part of it or too scared to confront it. I think we just need to let the market realise Humanities degrees are a negative signal.

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@miearii what if Reaves aint playing? play Luka straight up or blitz? or both? id definitely test the blitz

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

come again?

[Variety @Variety]

Russell Brand’s Pubic Hair Removed From London Museum After Rape Conviction, Curator Says 'I Have No Desire to Hear His Name Again' https://t.co/TgwiYU9eR6

[The Artist Formerly Known @aresteanu]

@Jimmy4192989532 @Jacobtheclipper hey, fair enough. i dont like blocking people if they're just having a bad day and acting stupid, but i guess you've confirmed this is actually standard for you. cheers