Jonathan A Neufeld

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Step 1: arugula

Step 2: ???

Step 3: dictator dumps diarrhea bombs on protestors

Or arugula. Yeech. Can even IMAGINE what that would portend?

On the one hand, 21 individual meetings with students about papers in one day is a lot. On the other, it is A LOT.

New issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly is out, and it's a symposium on Katharine Jenkins's book 'Ontology and Oppression', guest edited by Susan Brison and @jennysaul.bsky.social:

I have your address...

My mom sends me peach preserves, and habanero peach preserves. I want to tell her to please not pollute the peach preserves. But my mom sends me preserves, ffs. So.

Poussin's Adoration of the Golden Calf

But they're so rosy cheeked and happy!

Impossible.

a man in a bowling shirt says yeah let me stop you right there pal . ALT: a man in a bowling shirt says yeah let me stop you right there pal .

NYT: "How are the very rich feeling about..."

AMAZING. So satisfying. Nicely done.

Hattie's difficult life continues...

I used to love grading papers on NJT and LIRR. It provides almost the perfect level of din to concentrate.

Slightly diminish a band: The Off-White Stripes

Hattie doesn't mind if you doomscroll, just don't stop the skritches

Slightly diminish a band: They're Probably Not Giants

Slightly diminish a band: Affordable Trick

Pierogola

The f*&%ing library.

Remembering that time in 2006 when I invited someone to come give a philosophy talk, offered our normal $500 honorarium, & got a polite reply if, "Because you are a friend, I will only ask for $5000." We had never met. We never did meet. But that's how we became friends.

If ever there was someone who really believed that reality just IS appearance, it's this guy.

Of the three software or tech services grads I know about from off the top of my head, only one was not a double (one was computing and the arts, another was neuroscience)

Not sure. Next step is to look at double majors, minors, etc. experience is tough to track, and I'm not sure what kind of granularity we have from the survey data. Double majors are quite common) and encouraged) though.

But don't worry. All the bathrooms can also be used for document storage.

I did the double "somehow" just so you'd believe me that I need it, I swear.

I really need to do this, too. Is there maybe something like a cake mold but that just somehow straps onto your brain somehow?

Strategic National Arts Alumni Project snaap is a national survey of alumni of art and design departments, schools and colleges. The survey collects feedback on alumni educational satisfaction and outcomes in their professional, creative a...

🤷Our internal data are a bit better anyway.

If you find better national data, I'd love to see them. They are notoriously hard to collect reliably, of course--it needs the kind of persistent multi-year effort that the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project has made for the arts. snaaparts.org

A wide variety of places. The largest single occupation is "Chief executive" surprisingly. Second largest is "Lawyer." But there are a variety of teachers, managers, software developers, environmental and medical service people (ethics and compliance), editors, administrators of various stripes...

Our internal numbers were similar to (slightly better than, actually) these national numbers from the World Economic Forum and Payscale.

Lol. EXACTLY