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dave karpf (parody account)

@davekarpf

Alright, I got annoyed enough by her column to write up a reaction piece: Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters

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Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters

It's 2023. How is this possibly still a thing?

Analysis? Of what? Different ways to glorify a frickin' monarchy? The Emperor has no clothes yet you pretend otherwise

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to the list of southern elite schools (Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, etc) that may have a lower number of applicants this coming year (of course not just the privates but do attract more out of state students in general) because of slashing of abortion and trans rights.

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The News & Observer

@newsobserver

The NC GOP’s 12-week abortion ban passed the Senate after a late-night House vote. The bill now goes to the Democratic governor’s desk, where an unsuccessful veto is expected. newsobserver.com/news/politics-

Is this really a headline? Does this mean that student health fees generally don't cover it?

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Inside Higher Ed

@insidehighered

.@Wesleyan_U to Cover Abortion Costs #HigherEd bit.ly/3ATrBdZ

Daytime view of College Row on the campus of Wesleyan University along High Street

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costrike

@costrike

At this point, it might be easier to have Clarence Thomas provide receipts for anything he's actually paid for since joining the court.

Jenna Burrell, PhD

@jennaburrell

I'm sure someone posted this already, but the part of the Writers Guild of America proposal about AI is very interesting -- the want agreement that "MBA-covered material can't be used to train AI." Short section on AI on page 2: wga.org/uploadedfiles/

Michelle Richmond

@michellerichmon

We need to talk about who trained Google's scarily "creative" Bard AI & OpenAI's ChatGPT. What copyrighted books did they use without permission? WHOSE books? What online writing did they scrape to train their lucrative AI? What about royalties for human creators?

@AuthorsGuild

Dr. Something or other.

@matthieuchapman

May 3

And this is what the academy does to black folx. It drops us into these toxic cesspools and leaves us struggling to breathe. And because we're so in it, we start to drown in it and wonder if we are all the things they try to make us into...6/

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Jenna Burrell, PhD

@jennaburrell

I was in a STEM-adjacent part of UC-Berkeley, but spent more time in the anthropology library than any other. It was critical to writing my book. Closing this library is a loss to the whole campus. It's a loss to the humanities AND the broader enrichment of curious folks in STEM.

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Marshall Steinbaum

@Econ_Marshall

A quiet place where you can sit in a comfortable chair and read, surrounded by other books, will soon be the kind of status symbol that you only find in real estate section spreads about the secluded abodes of the ultra-rich. nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/

Ashley Nicole Black

@ashleyn1cole

The companies (through the trades) will tell you that they offered writers a bit more money and we are striking anyway. The truth is, that money was conditioned on keeping open the loopholes they will use to not actually ever give us the money.

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Quoting Tracy Chapman today: Don't you know They're talkin' 'bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they're standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time in the unemployment lines Sitting around waitin' for a promotion

I won spelling bees as a kid but damn, in my last book I had to think every time I wrote the word "bureaucracy" and with my current book I need to write "entrepreneur" six million times and I need more caffeine

May 1

This🧵is on 🔥

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

Apr 30

I don’t usually buy into hype cycles, but I am shaken after having a brief chat with this AI. The unsettling part was that it felt like it knew everything & it was asking *me* the questions. If this technology advances as expected, every professor—little or big—will suffer (1/42)

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Image of the little professor calculator game from the 1980s. The computer gives you a math problem and you have to type in the answer, the opposite of how one would use a regular calculator. The calculator is shaped like a man with glasses wearing a mortarboard and reading a book.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

I hate the fact that the end line of this ad is a pitch to interest girls in computing by saying “boys will be there!” If history has taught us little else it’s that the opposite dynamic usually occurs.

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Pulp Librarian

@PulpLibrarian

Why do girls like Atari Computer Camps?* 1983. (*6502 assembly language and no parents - what's NOT to like!)

Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd

Apr 30

Comment when you see it.

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OnPageLeads AI

@OnPageLeads

Apr 30

Replying to @Scobleizer

I have discovered that young children are fascinated by the process of turning their drawings into photorealistic AI art. They'll then occupy themselves voluntarily drawing more. I bet this will soon be used in art classes to introduce them to generative AI.

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This type of thread is what I will miss about Twitter if it continues to implode

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Wendell Pierce

@WendellPierce

I have lost my life’s work. Last night in NYC, I misplaced my journal from DEATH OF A SALESMAN on Broadway. This distillation of all I have ever experienced on my creative journey culminated in this production. A document of all the defining moments of critical self reflection

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Variety

@Variety

An R-rated series about Christopher Robin is in development. The show features him as “a disillusioned New Yorker navigating his quarter-life crisis with the help of the weird talking animals who live beyond a drug-induced portal.” bit.ly/3Nlf5LU

"But you learn on the ground and in life...life teaches you that it does not work like that. It’s not a question of a diploma. You can be brilliant, but it’s not enough,” she sighed. She said again even more emphatically, “It’s not enough.” 4/n

"They teach you that you have to network, that you have to have this network, but when you come from...” She hesitated before continuing, “When you come from nothing, you don’t know it. You think that you'll be a great student, you will be brilliant, and that it’s gonna work" 3/n

She grew up in a town dominated by tourism in southwestern France. Her mother was a secretary and her father was an itinerant worker in the cultural sector, declining to give any more details. “When you have parents from a higher class,” she reflected... 2/n

I just finished admin work and meetings and am now getting back to working on working on my book on the Startup Gap in France. This is what I just wrote about one woman I interviewed. She was the first person in her family to go to college... 1/n

what's the word for worldwide monopoly?

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Zoe Kleinman

@zsk

Meta says that 3.02 billion people now use at least one of its apps every day (Meta apps include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger)

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The French History Podcast

il n'y a pas de quoi fouetter un chat

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@FrenchHist

In the 1960s French scientists launched the first cat into space, Félicette. During flight she had electrodes connected to her heads to study brain activity. Félicette made it back to Earth safely. Then the scientists killed her to study her brain. twitter.com/CormacFrederic…

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Stop Cop City

@JoshuaPHilll

This is an absolutely glorious speech given in the Irish Parliament

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Meanwhile in France...

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POLITICOEurope

@POLITICOEurope

France is coming for porn websites again. The French government wants to give new powers to its media regulator to block adult websites that don't comply with age verification requirements. bit.ly/3VcfF0y

Mike Savage

@MikeSav47032563

Really looking forward to chairing this terrific event on Marx & Bourdieu on 18 May.

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LSE Sociology

@LSEsociology

Join us to mark the launch of Dr Gabriella Paolucci's edited book Bourdieu and Marx, chaired by @MikeSav47032563

Thursday May 18th, 2023,6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, in-person at LSE and online. #LSEBourdieuAndMarx bit.ly/3Hg5i5R

The Holy War Against One Pro-Abortion-Rights Professor

Apr 25

When I was a masters student at Harvard w/ 2 young kids, Tamara was so supportive when I was considering getting my doctorate. She was a safe space for me then and is now for her students, but she doesn't have a safe workplace herself

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Tamara Kay has endured a vicious harassment campaign that she says Notre Dame won’t help curb.

Apr 24

For everyone celebrating Tucker's departure, you do realize they could easily hire someone...worse

Apr 24

#ProTip If you ask me to be on a panel < 2 months before an event, it's most likely b/c the other woman on your panel dropped out (best case scenario). Be honest, rather than pretend otherwise. It's insulting, especially when an invite comes very last minute w/out acknowledging.

The conservative campaign to rewrite child labor laws

Steven Greenhouse

@greenhousenyt

Apr 23

A secretive group backed by right-wing billionaires is behind the push to roll back child-labor laws. The group, the Foundation for Government Accountability, is lobbying to reduce government accountability & oversight & let children do dangerous jobs.

washingtonpost.com

The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based think tank and lobbying group, drafted state legislation to strip child workplace protections, emails show.

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Stuart Leavenworth

@sleavenworth

Apr 22

When I lost my blue check yesterday, I tried to add a black check to the end of my name, but Elon would not allow it. So in honor of SpaceX, I added an explosion.

Deen Freelon

@dfreelon

Apr 21

The end of free API access effectively makes this impossible. Coincidence?

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kang

@jaycaspiankang

Apr 21

Has anyone written a bot that blocks every blue check yet. Seems like a fun gag that would then cause Elon to block to bot which then might break parts of the site. All in all a fun 12 hour cycle

Chris O'Brien

@obrien

frenchcrossroads.substack.com

Breaking news: 1. We are looking for an apartment in Paris, so here are some postcards of Pigalle. Send me your tips and recommendations. 2. People are still mad at Macron about the whole retirement thing. His appeasement speech was not appeasing.

Retirement Reform: It's All Over But The Shouting

...and the protesting, the political calculations, and the pot banging.

Apr 20

Because of the rapid unscheduled disassembly of my writing due to today's bureaucratic beast I'm making scones for our last class tomorrow Nothing exploded in the oven

Dr Elodie Chabrol

@EloScicomm

Apr 20

Pint of Science = the world's largest festival of public science talks 🤩🥰😍

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University of Leicester

@uniofleicester

Apr 20

Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues across Leicester. Find out more

le.ac.uk/news/2023/apri #Pint23 | @pintofscience

CJ Pascoe

@c_j_pascoe

For those who have expressed some interest in Nice is Not Enough, I'm giving a zoom talk on some of the findings about gendered and sexual inequalities that I document in the book this coming Thursday. DM me for the registration link!

Apr 19

It really is, and it's really obvious

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SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN

@sivavaid

Busting soooo many students for using dumb AI to generate ridiculous fake essays. I keep telling them this is the worst way to cheat ever.

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Retirement Reform: It's All Over But The Shouting

...and the protesting, the political calculations, and the pot banging.