Zeb Larson
Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020. Words in Teen Vogue, Smithsonian, Jacobin, BBC.
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- I don't know who needs to hear this, but Apollo 13 holds up pretty well.
- "Afrikaans culture only exists in Africa. Other countries don’t want your apartheid baggage.” - political activist Pieter Kriel. www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/afr...
- They can brace themselves for some really boring food depending on where they're resettled.
- People on Instagram should feel embarrassed when they post pictures of their fancy living rooms and they have these incredible wall-spanning built-in bookshelves that are... nearly devoid of books. Like, at least get *something* to fill that space so you can fake being cultured
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View full threadKept the arts afloat, at least
- Seeing as how I’m kissing ass and getting nothing for it, I should at least have a wealthy patron who funds my work for their own passions and, I dunno, helps me detox from heroin when I’m too strung out
- Christ I hate saying this but maybe we were better off with a patrician class that at least pretended to be cultured.
- The thing about the Afrikaner “refugees” is that the number of people is a rounding error: first report is less than 60. That’s how many people they could find out of a four and a half million whites in South Africa. It tells you a lot about who’s leaving and who’s staying.
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- Exactly. Most white South Africans have it good, and giving it all up to uproot yourself in this country says a hell of a lot. (And they’re being resettled in Idaho apparently? Good luck with that).
- A friend’s piece on Beloved and Toni Morrison went live today, and it is fire.
- On the topic of Millennials giving Gen Zers the ick,
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View full threadIt's the cycle of life, baby!
- Nobody should want to be Matthew McConaughey’s character from Dazed and Confused! That guy is a cautionary tale, and it doesn’t matter which clique of human beings you fall into.
- Guys I’m going to say something difficult… fail them
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View full threadThat actually gets into real concerns around accommodation, and it basically only rewards people who are good at rote memorization, which isn’t actually all that valuable. How would you evaluate somebody’s research skills? It evaluates a very narrow band of learning and knowledge.
- People are doing it and yes it does prevent LLM cheating, but it ignores decades of pedagogy and basically sends us hurtling back to the way people were taught three or four hundred years ago.
- I am almost 37 and a person of no real significance. I would be alarmed if somebody turning 21 this year thought I was cool.
