Derek Sweetman

Resonates

I was just going for the proverb, but the story looks interesting. I'll take a look.

Let's be honest. In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is going to be at a significant disadvantage because one of the ways he interacts with the world is at best ignored and probably actively suppressed. The society is not set up for him.

So the GMU Board of Visitors is giving Pres. Washington a raise? I guess that means he isn't being forced out, for now.

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

“You can unmask with me” says neurotypical who doesn’t realise you’re feral A non-autistic friend who wants you to feel safe to unmask with them has no idea what they’re saying, it has been confirmed.  Eli Port, 44, would like you to be comfortable enough to be your true self...

Eli Port, 44, would like you to be comfortable enough to be your true self – but is reportedly unaware that your true self is an undomesticated bin creature.

Oh my G-d

How are government employees who were laid off and then reinstated by a court counted here?

Imagine being able to laugh at something someone says because in your head you picture a funny side to it which they don't.

That's autistic life for me.

this is how I live my life now and it is both humbling and immeasurably actualizing

Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

Read @jenvictor.bsky.social on the events at at GMU. misofact.substack.com/p/authoritar...

Virginia Education Board Could Oust George Mason’s President

“Florida has been the standout, until now,” said James H. Finkelstein, a professor emeritus of public policy who has studied university governance. “Virginia is becoming the new Florida.”

FWIW, I am proud of the (small) contributions I made to the anti-racism and inclusive education project.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

rashid khalidi, preeminent scholar of palestine: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you think "they were dying anyway" is in any way relevant to making someone die faster, I have real bad news for you about humanity as a whole and you, personally

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Hey, DOJ. Fuck you.

Zotero (or similar) is honestly a must and I don’t see anybody but librarians pushing it towards students. Like. What are we doing? I tell any student I encounter “download Zotero you will not regret it”.

This is not a story about AI being good. It is the story about a lot of people being bad at things like empathy for those who are different.

I am a sucker for humble bundle book deals. I've read some of these and have looked at some others. Good deal!

Feeling extra contingent this semester. I'll be teaching fewer classes than I have in probably 10 years now that I just lost another.

I'm listening to the Faculty Senate meeting on Zoom instead of prepping for my class on race, gender, sexuality, national origin, disability, etc. for the fall semester. I just want someone to tell me the rug isn't going to get pulled out from under us so my (currently) unpaid work isn't wasted.

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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

First time on Metro in a month and the tracks going both ways from Vienna to West Falls Church feel like they are going to shake the train apart - hopefully someone more important than me has noticed

Supreme Court my ass

Supreme Court my ass

Is anyone looking for an online/northern VA adjunct to cover classes in the fall? I'm down two sections so far and teach in the peace/conflict, social science, human rights, justice, and activism spaces. I've previously stretched as far as a class on rhetoric and one on nonprofit fundraising.

US man gets life for beheading father as political statement and posting video Pennsylvania man called for execution of other civil servants in video in which he displayed severed head

I know everything is burning, but I feel like I should have heard about this when it happened. I have no memory of that.

www.wusa9.com/article/news... here’s the news story

That was a much better use of 20 minutes than doomscrolling. In other news, I know what I was doing 40 years ago today. (Nothing cool, just watching all the Live Aid we got on MTV)