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The perfect prepper for The Social Reckoning is obviously this episode featuring @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who is destined to be referred to henceforth as “the Jeremy Allen White character.”
Surprise, surprise! The Vanderbilt report decrying the state of scholarship in the humanities is itself a terrible work of “scholarship“:
Matt Seybold
How Musk can shift the burden of risk on to millions of 'little people' and pensioners.... ig.ft.com/spacex-ipo/
The world’s richest man is shooting for Mars. Ordinary investors may have no choice but to come along for the ride
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
Yet ACTA has engaged in a quiet campaign to subdue faculty authority and shared governance and urge trustees to overpower presidents and faculty governing bodies when conflicts arise. ACTA is explicit about its strategy: “Trustees are the key to changing public higher education.”
From @aaup.org
"It's time to read the CliffsNotes, study the AP exam, and work alongside our high school colleagues"
I am extremely enthusiastic about the work @manshel.bsky.social is doing here. Also, he's a lot of fun to read.
Part of a crucial new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
Oh, Lord, Sorkin strikes again. Jeremy Strong certainly is villain casting.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...
Cited Professors Say the Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work
The report on the state of humanities scholarship has generated a lot of debate in academic circles and received backlash from the leading anthropology association. https://bit.ly/4aoW45U
#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
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Enjoying @patrickmccray.bsky.social’s new book on books about computers in a hammock as Stewart Brand intended
