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My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up.
tinyurl.com/y39crkzp
As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors.
Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Vanderbilt & Wash U both have massive investments in SpaceX; they provided working capital for DOGE's attacks on science, academia, and humanity as a whole. Their admins believe the fascists will do them favors and make them rich, and that's the entire explanation for the chancellors' "report."
PDF here: bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....
So they asked Claude to find “evidence,” and the LLM — trained to please — did what it was made to do. 🤦♂️ The admission of confirmation bias is so brazen it’s almost impressive
A basic fact, but worth affirming: The existence of the scholars who wrote this report invalidates the conclusion of the report.
Everything sucks about the humanities except its sorting functions. 😏
Watching my alma mater, which made so many things possible for me via a scholarship a kid like me would never get today, devolve into a vassal of SpaceX has not been great. Do not recommend.
wow, just…wow
This reminds me of that scene in The Big Short when Steve Eisman asks, “Why are they confessing?” and Vinny Daniel says, “They’re not. They’re bragging.”
Incredible turnout tonight. One of our hosts kept saying, “The crowd was so young. And so smart. And SO Marxist!”
@mckenziewark.bsky.social has a superpower.
On June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has
