Andy Halterman
@ahalterman.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at MSU. NLP, text, and conflict.
![A McSweeney's style parody.
TREADSTONE RECRUITMENT OR YOUR PHD PROGRAM?
Can you tell whether each quote is discussing a top-secret CIA black ops program or your department's graduate program?
1. “We'd hoped it might build into a good training platform, but quite honestly, for a strictly theoretical exercise, we thought it was far too expensive."
2. “You came to us. You volunteered. You said you'd do anything it takes."
3. "You haven't slept for a long time, have you? Have you made a decision? This can't go on, you know. You have to decide."
4. "The details? No. I mean, I was told it was voluntary. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what I was told."
5. "Stop running from the truth. You chose to come here! You chose to stay! And no matter how much you want to forget it... eventually you're going to have to face how you chose to become [who you are]."
6. "You could have left at any time. And you knew exactly what it meant for you if you chose to stay."
7. "You're not a liar are you? Or too weak to see this through?"
8. “Look, they took vulnerable subjects, okay? You mix that with the right pharmacology and some serious behavior modification..."
9. “You made yourself into who you are."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfmnjv7qui2bdpudo7rbudop/bafkreib27vdya7cyhgyq5ket2z7yipnnsodv3ndxe6hffde2g3l5wyqwie@jpeg)
The optimal amount of dad joke cringe when teaching undergrads is > 0.
October 17, 2023 at 12:46 PM
The optimal amount of dad joke cringe when teaching undergrads is > 0.