Toph3r
chaosopher.bsky.social
Toph3r
@chaosopher.bsky.social
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Class population manager at public-private sports entertainment “non-profit.”
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Last week I had at least three discussions with students who INSISTED they are “reading” when they clearly aren’t. They missed the entire main and explicit point of the readings. www.newyorker.com/culture/open... #college #performativestudents #education
Should College Get Harder?
A.I. is coming for knowledge work, and yet college seems to be getting easier. Does something need to change?
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It might be more than workplace values. Perhaps educational values as well. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Dems should shut down the government until unredacted Epstein files are made public.
I'm considering responding to student emails only during my designated office hours, as that's the time I'm to set aside for being available to them. I don't get paid enough for all these emails from digital natives who all of a sudden can't work on an online platform.
Bronze Age Bad Nietzsche Interpretation
I feel like there’s high probability a conspiracy theory is the best explanation of Trump’s wish for everyone to move on from Epstein
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If you had a time machine would you kill baby Heidegger?
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New studies on the ordinary concept of disease (from Varga, Latham & @edouardmachery.bsky.social)

The surprising result: People are more inclined to think that what you have counts as “disease” if you are a morally bad person

philpapers.org/archive/VART...
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MSNBC @msnbc.com · Jun 12
BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks out after being forcibly removed and cuffed from DHS Sec. Noem's press conference.
I propose putting an asterisk by all online classes listed on college transcripts.
I've been reduced to a proctor, an academic cop. The cheating appears to be widespread in all my online classes and many in-person classes. So much so, you have to wonder whether a college degree will have ANY social capital beyond a participation trophy in the next few years.