I still think the most impressive award show performance ever is Neil Patrick Harris's opening number at the 2013 Tonys. like, the ONLY time they were able to successfully complete it was during the live taping. and every celeb in the audience was STUNNED by the end.
here's the video in honor of tonight's Tony Awards lol
During Barack Obama's historic 2009 presidential inauguration, Denzel Washington was one of the first people to arrive & waited hours to see history
Tyler James Williams discusses how he feels about ”Abbott Elementary” reaching 100 episodes—and the fact that this is the first time in 30 years he has worked on a project that has hit this milestone.
“I've been doing this for a very long time. I've been doing this for about 30 years. This will be the first time I hit 100 episodes on a show. To me, it's kind of like doing a marathon. It's like, yeah, anybody can kind of keep a good pace the first mile, maybe the first five, but towards the end of it, That's when you really figure out who you are.
And I think that's more of what that milestone means for us. We did this for what is at least five years, it feels like you have to do in order to get to 100. Maybe four if you're doing it really, really efficiently. And we were still making a good show at episode 100. That's the thing I'll be most proud of when we hit it. That will be, I know that I'll be able to look to my left and to my right when we table read whatever that script is. And everybody sitting there, everybody who worked on that script, everybody who eventually shoot that script will be able to stand on the fact that we did a hundred of the best episodes we possibly could and we didn't phone it in once. That's what I'm proud of.”
Not understanding why people are responding to that Vanderbilt report with philosophical arguments when it’s a bad faith attack on the humanities and social sciences that doesn’t even mention the militarization and privatization of STEM and beyond.
@itaisher I also think it's a great idea to create conditions to shake us out of our biases, inclinations, etc., and this should happen across the social and natural sciences and humanities. But it is laughable to think that there is a special problem in the humanities.
@itaisher I'm also an anti-relativist (I have a piece under review on this), but I'm with Ian Hacking that "objectivity" is an elevator word, one that lifts us away from the more pressing questions of accountability, empirical validity, data, & transparency.
When you are dealing with human affairs (thus often ethics and politics), your work can help you take a stand if you so choose. But to claim this is inherently problematic, or already the norm, w/out qual & quant data to back it up? That claim needs more burden of proof
If this were the only mode of scholarship, that would be a problem but marshaling some of your work this way is fine, as long as you're transparent. Imagine if Franz Boas had remained "neutral" on race science & eugenics. He didn't. He published in Science and The Nation
& Franz Boas was targeted and punished at the time for being so vocal about his research in political terms. He was banned from teaching male students at Columbia for a time, and he ended up teaching a group of women at Barnard, many of whom became quite famous
Breaking News:
For the first time ever, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood has officially launched a YouTube channel.
Full episodes. Classic Clips. 100% wholesome.
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Hey friends. Signed off of @VelshiMSNBC today but I’m not going far. I’m taking the helm of @11thHour Mon through Friday starting June 15. Please join me there.
This city is also very segregated. Dyckman has it's own thing going on, Bushwick will have clubs/bars on the same block where one is almost entirely a white crowd and the next one is almost entirely black, we live in ethnic enclaves...