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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5h

Lindsay I ate a can of beans

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 12h

a related phenomenon: expensive LMSes (and now, various AI tools) that are designed by software engineers who don't actually teach and are then bought for universities by administrators who don't actually teach

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 12h

this is absolutely searing and entirely correct. also yet another example of huge financial decisions about the future of universities being made by people who have zero connection to the real work of teaching and researching

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

www.thenation.com

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 14h

If you want nonviolence to work, it has to include a threat

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve posted some version of this many times so i finally decided to make my case for it: taxing the rich is not only good for us. it is good for them. having a billion dollars is like toxic waste for your soul. we can and should remove it from them. it’s the loving thing to do!

A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires

There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.

sojo.net

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 1d

Update: they were SCREAMING at 2am idk what is going on

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a skunk in my front yard a couple weeks ago so I know they been lurking I hope they’re ok 🥺

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

The smell is in; the animal is not (as far as I know???)

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuuuuck is going on here

Who’s in Charge? Northern Seminary Dealing with Confusion Over Whether New President Resigned

Joy Moore’s role at Northern Seminary is in doubt after board members unexpectedly announced her resignation at her installation dinner.

julieroys.com

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

There is a skunk situation unfolding at my home send help

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about an ebook, for me, is that I'm more likely to use it but I'm less likely to read it

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

I play my Wordle the way I live my life: high skill, low luck

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3d

Listening to my brother on a work call and it’s like he’s speaking a different language. Idk what leads and augers configuration is, but I feel confident he is handling it 😌

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 4d

Man fuck me

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 4d

Got myself a water sample from the Great Salt Lake

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5d

It’s just the most current iteration of radical puppetry! There is a documented history of this!!!!

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 7d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5d

This is so kind. Thank you ❤️

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway I fully freaked my brother out by sobbing on his couch for an hour, but I got to hang out with my nephew in a corn pit today

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5d

(To be clear by “super fun” I mean “Feels like shit”)

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 5d

Super fun that my lot in life is to be the emotionally fragile, mentally unstable maiden aunt

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 6d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 6d

Ok wait listen I would not say this about absolutely anyone else but… I think I you could pull it off

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7d

And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales

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Keegan 🎃sinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 7d

Do we need an Oxford comma here, or are the frogs horrific?

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 7d

“With this attempt at a longed-for ‘post-post-postmodern sacralization,’ he has taken apocalypse to its logical conclusion, flooding the narrative with comic megalomania, petty vitriol, horrific crimes and frogs, setting it off with a match and blowing it all sky high.”

Holly Case on Krasznahorkai:

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies - Boston Review

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

www.bostonreview.net

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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