I really love opening LinkedIn job emails and finding excellent suggestions for roles similar to mine… like “general dentist.” And they say PhDs in English aren’t versatile!
4) the shared delusion here is the tech-market driven pitch that value lies in data and machines, when in truth value lies in people and only profit (for the tech market) lies in the techno-futuristic model. I dream of the places that go tech-minimalistic and demonstrate actual value.
3) yet the industry-wide solution to this problem is not hiring back and retaining the people doing the work (staff and faculty) but to buy more EdTech dashboards and create new admin roles reading the dashboards and crowing about being “data-driven…”
2) which makes me think of recent higher ed belt tightening that has quietly (to people not in higher ed) significantly hobbled univ’s ability to function smoothly, because it turns out the people doing the work had knowledge and skills worth a lot more than what was saved in the jettisoning…
Interesting in the current economics of gig work (which I do both as a writer and musician): current costs, as reflected in IRS travel rates, mean any gig an hour away costs $100 in travel alone. Which means most of the time, you work for free...or less
Quite possibly! We should ask AI
😵💫🤖so annoying
The fetid irony of AI scammers using the tech built by stealing author’s work in the effort to steal money from those same authors. It’s a closed loop, this AI revolution. Scammers all the way down. (Got two fresh scam emails in my inbox this a.m.)
To add: a not insignificant chunk of the scams arrive as fake scam messages sent by IT to test our ability to see scams, thus making our digital tools even less useful!
I am enjoying this stage of civilization where every phone call is probably a scam, as is every email, and the social media feeds, and now scam GoogleCal appointments show up out of nowhere. So fun!
It defies explanation, really. Or perhaps reinforces that politics is a shadowy projection of a distorted simulacrum built from leftover shards of nostalgia and pop cultural imagery.
Wow
So excellent.
How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today?
@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
Take your pick for a 60 mile trip in rural PA: walk it or take public transport. Same diff.
Yours sound apt. Fetterman is as much a politician as I have even seen, with strategic image curation a big part of the deal. Up close, you could/can see the costume for what it was.
For a hot minute, I felt bad about writing an honest - thus unflattering - chunk about the guy in my last book (essentially, a scene that shows his opportunistic foundation, directly contrary to his curated image). Feeling bad didn’t last long, to say the least.
I misread a headline of “New Carnegie Classifications…” as “New Carnage Classifications,” and it feels quite apt. #highered
It has taken me a full year after the *publication* of my last book (so, closer to 1.5 yrs after revisions were done) to recover my writing muscles enough to start again. Don’t know if that’s laziness, new interests, middle age, day job issues, or appropriate cycles of fallow restfulness.
Of course, the hard part is learning how to make good sentences.
Morning oversimplification: more or less every "rule" of writing reduces to "make good sentences and it will work."
We should collectively put Ed tech out of business
I do enjoy when an office messes up your appointment time, and then acts like you're the biggest a#@+-$ in the world when you show up at the time they told you to show up.
Today's sketch: this fabulous tree. Drawing trees and rocks are two of my most cathartic, satisfying topics. #oseiarts
Looks like pizza on the lawn, but is a cool fungi #ganoderma #mushroom
made a giant mushroom
Just, y'know, thinking about how physical media like paper books are stable artifacts that can't be deleted or changed mysteriously overnight. And can be shared easily in non data-tracked ways. And are also fun and enjoyable to simply hold.
We oughta resist the shallow desires inherent in AI's withered vision of human (anti)flourishment and focus, instead, on the things of vibrancy. Curiosity. Creativity. Nerdiness. Compassion.
Becoming educated, and continually seeking one’s own deepening of the mind, is (imho) most valuable as a practice of liberation. The Profit First folks have lampreyed themselves onto everything though: edu-tech, assessment, outcomes metrics, job readyness, “innovation.”
to places that have been hollowed out again and again by other waves of economic development) is to make themselves richer while making the rest of us drones of limited capacity.
So:
