Plus...
youtu.be/9GKyz8DOnkQ?...

Imagine I got pulled over for speeding and the cop asked me for my license and registration. I don't get to say "but the Bible doesn't have any posted speed limits" and then protest the ticket because the officer ignored by precious religious beliefs.

What also gets me is that pretty much every faculty member I know is eager to engage with different viewpoints. You brought real data and interpreted it differently? Hell yes. You’re thinking! It’s the empty baseless slop, all emotion and no thought, that we push back against. That’s the job.

This is what almost every one of my colleagues worries about. You can do everything right. Every bit. And if someone wants to end your career, they likely can. Evidence doesn’t matter. Empty rage fuels them and will keep doing so. As long as admins cower before the wolves, it’s the dark times.

The compassion required to read an essay that asserts your identity is a delusion and then engage with it generously and helpfully is worth noting. It’s exactly what should be done by a great teacher or prof. And now part of this person’s identity—and not proper pedagogy—will be what’s focused on.

Fucking hell, grad students have no power at all and now this poor person has been thrust into the national spotlight for doing their job (seemingly quite well, too) because some apparent asshole felt aggrieved and decided this powerless person was an easy target.

Given how many hundreds of billions of dollars we’re spending on these enterprises, maybe we could just use that money to create a social safety net that incentivizes human flourishing rather than crimes of desperation and armies of prison guards and masked vigilantes? Just spitballing here.

You can watch the ad, obtained by ProPublica, here. 3/3

Consider the ad Noem filmed at Mount Rushmore. The imagery is not exactly subtle, and just look at the transcript.

This is pre-campaign messaging. It's not about persuading undocumented immigrants; it's about raising Noem's profile with conservative voters.

We're funding her candidate ads. 2/3

I’m partial to Henryk Szeryng and Dorati—I feel like Szeryng plays with a poise that the Brahms warrants. Re: live performances—I love Genette Neveu’s energy and phrasing: youtu.be/R6JGv4QVGr4

(I tend to favor old recordings generally)