Small purple froggy on a teeny tiny empty and white world.

Beauty repeats itself. like a fractal.

I’m saying your stuff is interesting and we should get that blog setup going so we can be two mentally ill friends blogging at each other.

Get a real blog. there's limit to how many times I'm willing to click read more.

Guess I’ll be trying it out then. Thank you.

Would you say it’s easier and less frustrating than using git? I appreciate the need for version control but gits commands can sometimes be unintuitive (to me) and using it sometimes leaves me stressed and baffled.

now sees itself expressed by mostly neutered senate (representing teaching and research staff) and an overly empowered board (representing business interests). I bang this drum weekly but the best time to get organized was 30 years ago, the second best time is now.

with broader proletariat struggles (this is also part of why many non-academics express such aggressive anti-intellectual tendencies) to ensure that they maintained control of these institutions for and with the broadest segments of the population. This intellectual flight from labour and politics

the red scare policies birthed in America and culturally inherited by the rest of us. It’s part and parcel with the conflation of objectivity and apoliticality. As a result they did not leverage their collective pressure on institutions to stem or reverse their privatization; nor coordinate

Presumptuous to think this was about you (it was ❤️)

real estate model of academia. But there is the possibility of victory here if we use our animus productively. And even if we lose the battle, it will give us the connections and knowledge of how to win the war (and build our own better institutions).

massive boards consisting of non-educator or researcher parties interested more in the real estate profitability of institutions than the educational or research output. Gen AI is a pocket nuke in their arsenal, a gamble to delegitimize the work we do in favour of an increasingly profit oriented

struggle to seize control of the institutions as they exist. To organize peers and put escalating pressure on the existing administration to hand over more control to the faculty, apprenticing researchers and lower level administration. Most academic institutions are currently being dog walked by

infrastructure on the table for your opposition and puts us on the hook for somehow amassing those resources (access to the mass of existing knowledge, facilities and materials, etc). Building anew may be the only available option eventually but at present it is more worthwhile to actually