A(n In)Famous Historian
Episcopalian. Patriotic American. Scholar of Russia, Ukraine, Canada, and the people who moved between them. Massive avgeek, hobbyist computer programmer, and committed Slackware user.
Buttigiegism-NCDism (Elizabeth Warren thought)
- It’s darkly funny that a certain segment of the politically radical population has to keep hearkening back to guillotines or Lenin because they have rejected some of the biggest 21st century revolutions - the overthrows of Yanukovych and Assad - as CIA ops
- The American Revolution being the pater revolution, I will go ahead and consider the CIA an extension of that, meaning CIA ops carry the spirit of true revolution. (saying things to make communists mad)
- I hate RFK Jr. with a passion. He is a bad person. But please stop referring to his heroin use as having anything to do with his moral depravity. Addiction is not a moral failing, it is a public health and clinical issue.
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- Refugee status for Afrikaners was a mistake. They meant to extend it to the Afrikakorps but autocorrect got overzealous.
- Has not endorsed a single housing bill yet demands communities do the impossible and eliminate the fruits of his inaction.
- Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new strategy to eliminate the large, long-standing homeless encampments that have been a thorn in his side throughout his administration: Push cities to make them illegal. buff.ly/kqKViFF 📸 Mike Blake, Reuters
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- Box tickers & facilitators & yes, middle managers, are the people who make sure that your organization doesn't suddenly collapse from termites, that you don't leave the sponge inside the patient. Who ensure that when you realize something's gone wrong, there is someone who has time for you.
- This is a big reason government gets its “inefficiency” rep, because they typically can’t afford to have things to fall apart during the busy seasons and so many agencies maintain enough staff to handle that volume year round
- The problem is that none of y'all actually know what you want or need. What you *say* is that you want Dems to Do More, but what you *actually* want/need is for the Bad Things to Stop Happening. Well, sorry, Dems are in the minority. The bad things are getting stopped at the state and judicial lvl
- There's-gotta-be-a-wayism is going to be the death of all of us.
- Weigel's right about this. We thought that people wanted to never hear from their president (possibly true but bad tactics) also Biden wasn't able to make the case for himself and his comms staff had this bunker mentality that only made things worse.
- OK, but have you considered that a big reason Biden won in 2020 was voters were tired of Trump being the center of every story. Maybe Democrats aren't the problem. Maybe the voters are the problem.
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- He will be significantly more radical than US liberals in many ways while being simultaneously more reactionary than the US right. He is situated in a tradition that is upstream of modernity and trying to look at it through a vulgar political lens is pointless and frustrating.
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- Isn’t the point of a degree though that the student goes out of their way to actually learn the material they’re being taught? In the workforce, you can’t expect people to hold your hand on everything. Part of this is people having no interest in STEM going into to STEM because it equals $$$
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- People have been able to cheat their way through a STEM degree for decades, this is a known major problem, and only with the advent of AI has this even been noticed by the humanities, who have decided to melt down and reinvent the wheel instead of just asking their peers how they cope with it.
- The majority of CS graduates cannot write or maintain code at all. This is not an AI issue, it’s been true for decades, that’s why all the tech companies needed to develop interview processes to filter these people out because the degree is not a reliable signal of skill or competence.
- I hire these people and I used to teach these people, and I don't disagree with any of this. but why would humanities people ask CS professors for advice on how to cope with with endemic cheating if the answer is demonstrably "we had no choice but to stop caring"?
- the humanities departments at STEM-heavy schools have been vocally disgusted with their administrations allowing students to cheat or coast their way to engineering degrees bc it allows them to brag about high graduation rates etc for decades
- humanities professor who has been a hobbyist programmer since the 1980s here: I'm willing to believe that some CS majors cannot program as well as you might expect, but most not at all? My bias here is that I do not think programming is very intellectually challenging for the most part.
- and given that you admit people have been and are now cheating their way to STEM degrees for decades, not sure why humanities would turn to their STEM colleagues on how to prevent that
- “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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View full threadI had a PD a couple months ago that was about how to use ChatGPT to make lessons and save time. I tried it just to see what it was like. It was fucking garbage. It superficially looked fine, but actually reading it, and the questions... There's no trajectory to outcomes or essential questions.
- We have students handing in ChatGPT assignments, and teachers using ChatGPT to grade it. There's a [crude] Zizek joke about how he'd like to have the adult toys play with eachother so he can bypass sexual tension and have a nice conversation. That's this.
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- The entire problem with atom bomb discourse is it hinges on hypotheticals; “what if” scenarios that obscure what actually happened. It turns a complex debate into moral guesswork, ignoring all the evidence that drove the decision at the time. It’s hindsight masquerading as clarity.
- This is where I'm at and I don't think no cops is a great answer either so it's rough as a place to be!!
- ACAB isn't a condemnation of all the individual cops, so much as an acknowledgment that, under the current system, with it's steep rake against equity, justice, and fairness, even cops who go into policing for the right reasons are pre-defeated by the system. All Cops Become Bastards Eventually. 7/7
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- a hill i will die on is rumsfelds 'unknown unknowns', divorced from its original context, is a v good quote
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