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Yet, administrators at US universities and colleges have entered into contracts for these e-bikes and e-scooters as a value-added "feature" for their "customers." #academicsky
Karl Stefanovic sacrificed his job for someone who later laughs about not being able to remember Stefanovic's name. Stefanovic has been Penced.
"After some months he realised that he was by no means her only visitor to the flat. Taxed with infidelity, she laughed impudently. did he suppose she kept all her life for his pleasure? Richard was dumbfounded. Here was something he had bought defying him." —Anne Meredith 💙📚
If the ventriloquist made money off trades & broke the law for insider trading, then the dummy whose mouth moved in sync to the words provided is guilty too, since the dummy made money trading. It's the Law of Reciprocal Stupidity.
Except they have already weaponized bears for your children, and had you buy the bears
The "puppies" of Harvard. A story about how allegedly intelligent people are paralyzed about how to treat people who snuggled up to someone charged with sex trafficking of minors. Maybe they don't teach Goethe at Harvard any more: "Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are."
I take no credit for the timeliness of this quotation from Marnie Riches's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠' 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏: "Oh, do be quiet! Fool!" she says. She takes a swig from her hip flask and gasps. "One is dealing with the serious matter of a murderous pervert in one's midst." 💙📚
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 gets caught up amplifying what should be by now a dated Russian propaganda tactic, which is dividing nations by setting one generation against the next. The headline might have been: "Yale Prof Parrots Russian Propaganda"
A tough lesson for all of us to learn that people with Oxbridge degrees (Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, etc.), like anyone else, can lack the skills and ethics to govern. Instead of standard grades, the posh probably went to schools that used something akin to this method of assessment:
Marina Hyde sizzles, with or without a UK heat wave: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genesis is the presupposition that CEOs always know what they are doing, which is laughable.
This graph from 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 shows that scientists and teachers are doing well, reputation-wise. The article indicates that the lack of trust in science may not be as pervasive as advertised, though it does seem to be greater among the far-right. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Imagine when someone tells Krasnov that he could reduce the US deficit by grabbing your money out of your bank.
Might be thinking nothing to lose (expected pardon from Krasnov), but that might be a misreading of the tea leaves. Do you think RFK has read 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ?
This "fever" will not bring back the Classics departments that have been closed (U of Vermont, Syracuse U, U of Calgary, and others) as administrators persuade themselves that the only worthwhile majors are ones that lead to employment. #academicsky
How you can spot a talented writer after half a page. I am trimming the olive branch crown now for Maria Semple. 💙📚
Let's shift this to the academic world. It's mainly seasoned people who are VPs, Presidents, Deans. For years, they worked at places devoted to DEI programs, & now many of them apparently have no trouble destroying DEI programs because the wind shifted, but self-interest didn't. #academicsky
You want your news agencies to tell it as it is, but with the US saying it bombed Iran, and Iran saying it attacked US targets, CNN clings to illogical neutral ground. The people involved in the attacks were certain what they were doing.
It's not often you can tell people to "Go to Hull" in a beneficent tone.
Some good may come from Clarkson's malady, but don't forget that he made a video on this topic encouraging people, in expected Clarkson fashion, to lie to their doctors. Not prudent counsel to those who might find the people they're lying to standing over them with a scalpel.
Is any institution immune to this warning? What will universities do, if all their outsourced content management systems for courses don't work? If banks go "offline," how will universities pay tenured faculty or anyone? How will you eat, if your bank can't pull up your account? #academicsky
If the news story proves true, America's gift to the international football fans will be something brought about by the plans of the fans themselves — the absence of Krasnov from several matches. Let's hope the chants happen anyway. Krasnov's supporters should hear them.
Kant was able to show how autonomy is possible without cooking the case. #philosophy