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“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

also hitting a few bumps with semble but Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges could be a really cool fit here

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Oh here’s a good one: 55% 25% 15% 3% 1.75% 0.25% A pretty good initial breakdown for varied frequency of events that feel genuinely common / uncommon / rare / very rare / epic / legendary. Start here and then nudge around.

“Einstein is symptomatic. I doubt we’ll be talking abt Einstein, as such, in a year. But it’s symptomatic of what’s [descending] on higher ed,’ [Kirschenbaum said]. The attractiveness of agentic AIs is a symptom of a decades-long trend in higher ed. ‘Unis…adopted a transactive model of education.’”

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I kind of question any interview that doesn’t have a follow up to, “You have to show ID to walk in a restaurant.”