Darren Purcell

OU - geopolitics of popular culture & humor, nationalism. Servant for a dog and 3 cats. RT ≠ endorsement. KY native. Disc golf, gardening…

[Brandon Zicha @ProfBZZZ]

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.

This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.

This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.

What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.

This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.

Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

[CatherineAnne @CatherineAnne42]

Did you see what happened to that Oklahoma family whose house basically exploded with oil? Someone messed up & the house is on an uncapped oil site or something- it’s a prime example of how these people don’t care. If they don’t care about constituents as a commissioner they certainly won’t care as a Congress Rep 🙃

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We believe in meritocracy, as long as merit includes successful parents who make large donations to the foundation.

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Just because a student wasn’t in class all semester doesn’t mean you can’t meet with them over the holiday break to discuss their grade.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Your students are complaining that they don’t know their grade in your class and you keep telling them to just compute the weighted average of test scores and assignments. This is so unfair, I am an associate dean and I can’t compute a weighted average!

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

To say our syllabus policies assume that our very bright student body is in fact very stupid and requires such bureaucracies to guide it, is true. However, you also can’t say that in the syllabus, irrespective of academic freedoms.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

The regents have asked that you quit using ‘School House Rock’ in your 101 class. The ‘No More Kings’ video generated student discomfort that the faculty are Anti-American.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We need you to quit referring to the dean as “The Vandy Pimp.”

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

No, your contract doesn’t have a buyout. But based on your teaching evals, we are apparently paying you for not teaching.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

To teach in this state, you’ll have to pass a test showing you share the values of the governor. And yes, this includes the engineers though if they are bringing in enough overhead they can buy themselves out of the test.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

When governments can shape what you see w/out saying what they’ve done, democracy becomes a puppet show lit by a carefully engineered spotlight.

And if the algorithm is the gatekeeper now, then who holds the keys?

Fight back. Starting now. Starting here. https://t.co/ShkqUamghn

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Let’s be clear: Reverse algorithmic capture isn’t a policy debate about platform bias. It’s a strategy designed & rolled out by the Trump admin to realign the rules of information visibility in favor of those in power, using regulatory levers to reprogram epistemic systems.

[Darren Purcell @profpurcell]

Board members: TV in Ryan Walters’ office displayed nude women during executive session https://t.co/GnfTNUxckc via @nondocmedia

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

We're at the stage where an adjudged rapist is hoping a convicted child sex trafficker can help end allegations of his pedophillia.

[NWS Norman @NWSNorman]

8:45 AM Update: Potential for dangerous storms today! Not everyone will see severe weather, but the ingredients are there for tornadoes, damaging hail and destructive winds. Pay attention. Have a plan. Make sure family, friends and co-workers are aware of the risk. #okwx

[Darren Purcell @profpurcell]

#espn Please work on the editing:
"Williams had 11 of those points on 5-for-5 shooting and all of the sudden, a taught game seemed like a blowout." TAUT.

[Darren Purcell @profpurcell]

@BrilliantMaps Aren't these from a copyrighted book?

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

In all the chaos, it's easy to miss the smaller things, like Trump's CFPB going against Biden's CFPB and siding with banks against a cap on late fees Biden's CFPB set. But populism or something, right?

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Terrorists: meaning of the word

1900: political assassins
2000: guerillas, rebels, militants
2025: non violent dissidents & common criminals
...
2030: any outgroup