Nick Seaver

a red fawn greyhound laying on a couch, draped dramatically in a dark blanket, so her snoot is poking out

this bicycle seat is trying to bring you over to the dark side

Ending Conformity on the Quad There is no issue more important for higher education than ensuring the free exchange of ideas. Acquiring and teaching knowledge requires the ability to expose facts, theories, and beliefs to intense ...

man this is nefarious manhattan.institute/article/how-...

YouTube video by GERMSGEMS Plaste & Elaste - Essig (Acid Techno 1997)

this afternoon's locking in music www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Y3...

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

🚨 anthropology of naming annual review 🚨 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

suadisign

had to be titled that in the end, didn't it

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

how accomplished!

ooh, good old-fashioned plagiarism in the peer review pile

Nich!?

a vibrant intellectual community of génocidaires, uncles, Thiel fellows, podcast hosts, eugenicists, jet ski dealers, and visiting faculty from the University of Austin, unencumbered by disciplinary divides

a vibrant intellectual community of génocidaires, uncles, Thiel fellows, podcast hosts, eugenicists, jet ski dealers, and visiting faculty from the University of Austin, unencumbered by disciplinary divides

can’t wait to learn about all the viewpoints that will be represented through the new Tufts Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, I’m sure they will come from all over the political map and represent very serious thought heterodoxacademy.org/classifieds/...

Anyone have favorite writing about the usefulness of the liberal arts in relation to AI?

it’s very catchy

clankers in the classroom

cannot believe that admin would foist dogballs tech on faculty, inconceivable

oh man I can’t remember hands well enough to do riichi (luckily the children are even worse at it, for now, so we play more or less without points)

the @drewdaniel.bsky.social -ophone

a mahjong set

mahjongle night (play mahjong while listening to jungle)

`I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto Eco,

haha, just passing through, but enough time to learn about a new way to use your phone to get into a shorter line

SFO is always at the vanguard of new forms of technological stratification

(noir detective voice): he had the kind of jorts that went about 2/3s the way down

Trash receptacle
Columbia, AL

hey, nothing wrong with subtweeting the provost

Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement made by Cloud City is an excellent template. First, it keeps the Empire out of here forever. Second, we got our own problems. Third, quibbling aside, I do not expect the terms of the deal to change. This may be the best day we’ve had all year

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the discourse engine is not made to run at these temperatures