Ted McCormick

It’s only anti-wokisme if it comes from the Anti-Wokisme region of Quebec. Otherwise it’s just sparkling MAGA

people will sell jars full of bits of the White House ballroom like they did with the Berlin Wall

there are going to be a whole lot of cathartic demolitions when he’s gone

ah. Tbh I’m impressed by how many used bookstores are still going concerns here

for my second book: two pencils

that’s right I’m taking the global turn

I am going to create [a reading] that is so [against the grain]

a group of people sitting in a theater with the words so hot right now written on the bottom Alt: Zoolander gif with the words “so hot right now”

talking *about* things

got all kinds of time for mezzohistories

It’s 2026. Oceans rise. Storms descend. War looms. Every history is a microhistory. Every book is a novel

Law and Order: Tactical Bibliography Unit

Is it new? It’s been here longer than I have, that’s all I know

The Universe: a microhistory

A table of books advertised as “microhistories,” which are in fact just books with a specific subject

A table of books advertised as “microhistories,” which are in fact just books with a specific subject

I am losing my mind

the correct thing to do is to respond to the first event of a given type when it happens and then remind others that you did so with each new iteration. granted this is tricky to get right. standing as we are in the ceaseless flow of time. but the rewards are also entirely online and intensely small

oh, so you’re *just noticing* this event that happened today? I assume without either looking or asking that you have never noticed earlier events of a similar type, as I have

what. so it’s academic fraud to have friends now?

Don’t think of generative AI as a plagiarism tool. Think of it as a knowledgeable friend!

❌ “The plagiarism tool researched and wrote this paper for me”

✅ “My friend researched and wrote this paper for me”

👍👍👍

I don’t know if anyone’s written on this but, particularly in light of generative AI, it would be interesting to look at the effects on learning, pedagogy, shared governance, and institutional transparency of that much older enemy among us, the PowerPoint slide

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s bad enough being run by people who mean you harm, but what’s worse is that they can’t even be adults about it

I want to make a joke about how the future of academia is stored in the balls but I’m too sad

The second part of the document discusses a separate meeting on May 24, 2024, named the Strategy Session for Senior Leaders. At this session, there was an activity in which participants were given balls that represented university resources and were asked to allocate their balls across bins corresponding to different disciplines, including social sciences, health, science and engineering, and arts and humanities. The exercise showed a shift in prioritization away from the social sciences and arts and humanities towards health, while allocations to science and engineering remained unchanged. During this exercise, two of the groups declined to participate, putting their balls to the side and not into any of the bins.

I am extremely not kidding

Leaked consultant document details proposed restructuring at Queen’s - The Queen's Journal As Queen’s unveiled its Bicentennial Vision for 2041, a leaked consultant document obtained by The Journal outlined specific structural changes on a similar timeline. Announced in the Queen’s Gazette ...

On the use of balls in academic leadership

I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.

if I’m not mistaken, it evolved into the 2023 film Five Nights at Freddy’s

it’s all just fodder for future iconoclasts, may as well pile it on

have to admit 250 is a nice round number, v user-friendly periodization

I hope it includes an allegorical figure for each of the wars he’s stopped and also each of the wars he’s threatened to start. Maybe throw an angel weeping over the Bowling Green Massacre in there someplace

Washington-a-Lago intensifies

perhaps we as a society have simply transcended the need to be good at things