Kris Nohe

New Campus Cartographies – AHA Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

I love this project, created and led by UC Berkeley history grad students, to apply their historical research in campus tours. Andrew Hardy wrote about it for #AHAPerspectives: 🗃️

For years, we've pushed STEM due to the career possibilities, but now it seems like those are the jobs that are more easily replaced by AI. So, are humanities the more AI-proof option? Human is literally in the name. Thoughts? Arguments? Ideas?
#Humanities #History 🗃️

My children no longer check on me when they hear me shouting, "What the actual hell? That is not how that works! That is not how any of this works!" They only remind me later that I chose this life, and I willingly read the things that make stuff like this drive me crazy.

This rant brought to you by a PhD student constructing a class proposal who watched a lecture recorded in 2015 that made her look like an insane person yelling at empty space in her kitchen because she was listening to the lecture through her earbuds.

Mildred Rutherford should not be believed! In my version of heaven, I get to shake that woman until her tiny brain rattles around in her skull like the last peanut in the jar.

The bane of Southern history is wading through so much Lost Cause BS, even stuff written by PhDs. No, you cannot take what was written on Confederate memorials erected in the 20th century as evidentiary proof of what motivated people in 1861. Hey, dude, historical context is a super helpful tool.

If corporations had to pay, maybe they would use their immense lobbying power to push for affordable housing, child care, and medicine so that their employees could actually afford to live on what they are being paid.

Why don't we demand that corporations pay a living wage or pay for the social services required by their employees to make up the difference? Those applying for assistance list their employers, and those employers should foot the bill not taxpayers.

Corporations are subsidized when they create an environment where taxpayers pay for a portion of their employees' compensation package through welfare. This double dipping means that we, the consumers, are putting money in executives' pockets and paying their employees through welfare subsidies.

Why do we filter corporate welfare through their employees? When employees receive welfare, it's because their employer isn't paying them enough to live or providing affordable health care. The stigma then goes to the employees because they are poor and not the corporation for making them that way.

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Tonight's read.