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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 5h

It took 4 years! 🤣

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

Of course, you're in a business to make a profit, so you have to sell it for more than you paid. Typical mark-up for a brand is 2x (some can be 2.5x). This will help cover your other costs, such as design, warehousing, worker benefits, etc.

So you sell this shirt to a store for $90.

A bunch of plaid flannel shirts from Gitman Vintage. They were made in the USA.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 6h

Dear AI pushers:

You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.

Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8h

I wrote a paired essay for The Lancet on the politics of care: Is the practice of medicine political? Should it be? What does this even mean?
drive.google.com/file/d/1eDrf...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 7h

I've made about $300 in total in the four years my book has been out. And that book was a top seller on my list.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 14h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 12h

Promotion and tenure denied.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 12h

Our entire plumbing system is being re-done, which means I've been spending my fall break getting up early and going into the office every day instead of catching up on sleep and reading on the porch. I wish my office had a couch, because I could really use a nap.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14h

The thing is: if you study what I study, this makes complete sense. Many eugenicists of the early 20th C. wanted the “right” people to have more babies! Limit or prohibit contraception to ensure more of the “right” babies, and use targeted sterilizations to ensure fewer of the “wrong” babies.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 12h

Omg I love that musical!!!!

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa uses ChatGPT at their universities to run and if ChatGPT was blocked on all university campuses the whole network would fall

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 12h

I really, truly do not understand why people like this don't simply live their lives according to their preferred sociocultural values and just leave the rest of us alone, especially when you know that rich folks like this don't interact with the hoi polloi anyway.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 15h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14h

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13h

The perennial problem with Trump these days is it's hard to tell if he's speaking from dementia or just lying again.

I think that's one reason the press doesn't know how to cover it. It's unclear if he's really this deluded/forgetful, or if he's just lying.

www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Trump Forgets He Was President During Capitol Riot, Blames ‘THE BIDEN FBI’ for Jan. 6 in Dead-of-Night Post

President Donald Trump blamed the Capitol riot on former President Joe Biden, claiming that “THE BIDEN FBI” had placed agents in the crowd that had assembled in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. 2021.

www.mediaite.com

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 19h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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