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Ted McCormick

@mccormick_ted

2 months

a good way to get research ideas is to read until something bothers you

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Ted McCormick

@mccormick_ted

2 years

“everyone wants ice cream until it’s ice cream laced with arsenic”

Meghan McCain

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Everyone wants a woman in power until it's a conservative woman in power.

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

My wife and I never talk to our kids. We ask them to submit all communications anonymously through rigorous and double-blind peer review. My daughter is 5 and has 21 publications in high-impact journals. My daughter can burn holes in furniture using only her eyes

Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist

@AdamLaneSmith

4 years

My wife and I never baby talk to our kids. We use full sentences and a wide vocabulary including complex words. My son is 3 and can carry a full conversation. Adults at family gatherings are shocked at his social aptitude. My daughter isn’t even 2 and she uses 4-syllable words.

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Ted McCormick

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I’ve been losing my mind wondering what a comma would have accomplished here

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Ted McCormick

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7 months

Yeah man what kind of late stage empire would go in for technically accomplished and decadently costly spectacle

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Late stage empires don’t build things this extraordinary.

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Ted McCormick

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5 years

Me, surprised: Why are you in a hurry to get to school? 7yo, matter-of-fact: My enemies are waiting

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

The fact that ChatGPT writes strange and mediocre undergraduate humanities papers but fantastic elite MBA exams suggests it may not have the same implications for every kind of education

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@GRDecter

1 year

ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Time to overhaul education.

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Ted McCormick

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5 years

You know, you never hear about what Triangle Shirtwaist *customers* thought of the fire

New York Times World

@nytimesworld

5 years

Was your flight out of Hong Kong canceled? We want to hear from the thousands affected by demonstrations and flight disruptions at Hong Kong International Airport.

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Ted McCormick

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2 months

The Iliad came out in c. 700BC and was based on c. 1100. A similar epic today would be set in 1624. If you want to feel old

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Ted McCormick

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6 years

Student I ran into: “Oh, hi! I’m taking your class this term. I’d love to see the syllabus.” You and me both, friend.

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

“Look, just give me a minute and I will prove to you that my joke is funny”

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

after 35 years in a secure job, having reached a full professorship and a named chair, and having recently established that I will be able to collect my pension starting immediately, I am deeply saddened to announce that I have been driven out of academia for my views by The Woke

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Ted McCormick

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18 days

crocodiles can’t read

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Ted McCormick

@mccormick_ted

9 months

tfw social mobility is so unimaginable that hereditary status seems like a logical baseline for a story

Alexander Aviña

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um wtf

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

Tfw you can’t imagine getting by without at least a little racism

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Ted McCormick

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6 months

A lot of people who decided to run the university like a business are discovering that they can no longer lead it like a community

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

for too long, cars have not looked like shit

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1 year

For the first time in 100 years, the competition is coming for legacy auto Welcome to the year of the Cybertruck

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

One of the biggest divisions on campus is between students who can afford to focus on academics and students who can’t. It’s considerably more consequential than any distinction between who does and who doesn’t feel comfortable spouting their political views in class.

Lise Olsen

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2 years

This is a real crisis: Some college students are homeless - or forced to leave school - because housing costs even more than tuition, many parents can NOT afford to help (or cosign rental agreements) and universities aren't helping. #highered

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Ted McCormick

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6 years

Every day brings new evidence that while we do not have enough *jobs* for history PhDs, we have more than enough *work* for them.

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

Humans taking horse dewormer for COVID instead of a COVID vaccine is a legitimate position that should be respected and debated with an open mind. Ideally it would be taught in schools in the name of viewpoint diversity. In fact, it should be taught by horses, if at all possible,

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Ted McCormick

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5 years

Thanks to the 85 business students who sat politely through the first slides of my powerpoint on early modern households yesterday before telling me I was in the wrong room. May your forbearance bring you great profit and don't forget what I said about the late marriage pattern

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Ted McCormick

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18 days

server: here’s your dessert, sir me [winking uncontrollably]: commas save lives

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

@ikitorp Tell me she is going into climate science or something related

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

I don't mean to be nihilistic, but Elon's catastrophic difficulty in buying and maintaining a preexisting, fully functional website suggests there may be slight delays in his creation of a new world on another planet

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Ted McCormick

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9 months

I'm a professor of seventeenth-century history. How am I supposed to use PowerPoint when it didn't exist then?

Greg Lukianoff

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9 months

“I’m a professor of chemistry. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” asked Reedley College professor Bill Blanken. “What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?”

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Ted McCormick

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7 months

As an academic historian, I devote Mondays and Wednesday to promoting Marxism and Tuesdays and Thursdays to promoting witchcraft. Fridays alternate between pronouns and CRT. On weekends I work as a priest at the Church of Satan teaching children about 15-minute cities and 5G

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

[regretfully puts arsenic ice cream back in the freezer] us ice cream vendors just can’t get a fair shake

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

I asked the baby what she wants for her first birthday and she said “maximum cultural capital” with such perfect pronunciation

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

the university understands that you feel overwhelmed by work demands and is pleased to announce a new eight-session online course for employees, Navigating Work Demands

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Ted McCormick

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We are choosing to become stupid: everything that isn’t easily taught or immediately profitable is not worth knowing

Ned Richardson-Little

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This is why humanities research that isn't focussed on extremely recent time frames is disapearing institutionally. "How does England feed itself" seems like it's pretty damn relevant, but since it doesn't have immediate policy implications and is the past, it's somehow woke.

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

“Mama what do my inferiors do when I am sleeping” she asked last night. Such a perfect cupcake

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Ted McCormick

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4 months

Imagine that you plagiarized something only to find out years later that your husband has made investigating plagiarism into the central plank of a culture war campaign

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

*Most* Americans 25+ have attended college or university. *Most* professors haven't had secure jobs or high salaries. For 40 years. *Most* students attend public state universities or community colleges. The *biggest* major is business. No current pundit knows any of this.

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

We once merely *thought* about introducing her to some... public school children. Long story short I now have a cauterized wound where my left pinkie used to be

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Ted McCormick

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I think we’re slowly figuring out that students, parents, faculty, administrators all internalizing a vision of higher education as coercive workplace discipline rather than an opportunity to pursue intellectual interests brings out the worst in everybody and has no happy ending

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1 year

From a student at Columbia: “At any given time, I can look around my classroom and find multiple people doing homework with the help of ChatGPT. We’re not being forced to think anymore.”

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

me giving the first lecture/me reading the last exam

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

University PR: Lecturing is OVER we are FLIPPING THE EVER-LOVING SH*T out of the classroom you CANNOT POSSIBLY BE READY for this learning experience University scheduling: Your course will meet in lecture hall 354 B.2, yes the seats are bolted down in fixed rows, why do you ask?

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Ted McCormick

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AI booster: this bot will transform how you teach history Historian: it’s saying lies AI booster: wow great feedback! Enjoy using the bot Historian: I’m not using the bot. It says lies AI booster: what a dangerous attitude. Why, even the internet started out as a soft cheese,

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

Attacking Humanities programs won't save STEM. It won't create good jobs for graduates. It won't make universities more cutting edge or more relevant. Attacking Humanities programs will just make learning about the world beyond the fleeting wants of short-term employers harder.

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

If your history needs to be defended from primary sources, it’s not history you’re defending.

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

I think we have seriously misconstrued the point of education, and seriously misaligned our methods of pursuing it, if a bot that writes essays can even seem like a problem.

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

If you "fall" for this kind of thing (litterboxes for students, toddlers being brainwashed by CRT) it's not because you're horrified by The Excesses of The Left, it's because you want to be

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Ted McCormick

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5 years

Find yourself a university that treats you as carefully as it treats its logo

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

If you think it is historians’ job to unite people in the present rather than to analyze the past, however divisive, you are expressing a preference for propaganda. If you mobilize the state to enforce this view, you are insisting upon it.

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Ted McCormick

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4 years

We go to special theme parks where the height requirement for rides is replaced by an H-index minimum

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

"Jordan Peterson is the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now," a story in four parts

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Ted McCormick

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It is interesting to me that wearing a mask is widely agreed to come with a mental health cost but consciously spreading an illness is not.

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

perfect replies are rare in this world

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

Since pointing out informal logical fallacies is a Thing on here, I'd like to point out some common informal historical fallacies.

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Ted McCormick

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This is something I wrote for my intro-level students in history, as a way to think about how to read the different kinds of text they will encounter.

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

viral history vs accurate history: a visualization

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

Have We Become Too Accepting? my latest for the New York Times — All children deserve the chance to begin life free of persecution. But in a headlong rush towards acceptance, parents, school boards, and state governments may have forgotten a crucial question: do they, though?

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Ted McCormick

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portrait of the cancelled professor

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Ted McCormick

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@ChrystalAshby That part I get; I have no idea how a comma is the solution

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

Oh so you like “a beginning, a middle, and an end”? Well tough luck pal, history is all middle

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Ted McCormick

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1 year

What industry wants is cheap labour. An educator’s job is to make that harder.

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Ted McCormick

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7 months

When I say “economics is a branch of astrology,” I am of course speaking somewhat loosely. Astrology requires deep mastery of large runs of extremely fine-grained quantitative historical data, careful attention to context, and considerable skill in mathematics.

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Ted McCormick

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5 years

Pleased to announce the new University of No Safe Spaces, a place for the honest, unfettered, and open debate of ideas, featuring -total viewpoint diversity and free speech -no postmodernists -no Marxists -no SJWs -no Grievance Studies -no theory -no PC -no picketing -no names

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Ted McCormick

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@BrandonLBradfor but wait a minute if you have really "tricky" colouring then why do you want "normal white" models to judge by and and if you can't tell what exact colour something is on a computer screen then how can you tell whether a model is "normal white" anyw- oh fuck it never mind

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Ted McCormick

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I feel like science departments would attract more students to their classes if they taught more “old fashioned” phrenology and eugenics like you hear on podcasts or see among popular press books. Maybe nobody cares but…

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

in lieu of cash donations (which I am happy to accept; details in bio) I encourage all lovers of freedom to subscribe to my new substack

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

1. Objectivity is not neutrality. Given two conflicting accounts of an event, there is no reason whatever to assume that the truth is in the middle.

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Ted McCormick

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I was in a local coffeeshop with my young daughters and everyone working there insisted on being called "pronoun" and we said "what pronoun" and they said "no, 'pronoun', call us 'pronoun'" so we all screamed and ran away and now my young daughters had to go to bed without coffee

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Ted McCormick

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Faculty! Quarantine is the perfect time to replace old pop culture references that your students don’t understand with new ones that you are too old to use convincingly

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Ted McCormick

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2 years

Yeah, imagine if we started, say, designing highways and buildings to withstand earthquakes, fires or floods. Or even regulating it. That’d be stupid

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Ted McCormick

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7 months

with novels you really have to read to the end

Elon Musk

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Like Gulliver, tied down by thousands of of little strings, we lose our freedom one regulation at a time

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Ted McCormick

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yeah, not really, techbros are characterized precisely by an aggressive lack of interest in the complexities of different domains of knowledge, i.e., stuff nerds care about

suzuha⚡️🌙

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“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

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Ted McCormick

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Democracy Dies Without Ready Access to Lithium Deposits

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The opening sentences of the Washington Post editorial opposing Chile's new constitution ↘️

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I do love the replies, though. A bot passing a B-school exam is a license to reform everything along whatever lines you’ve always wanted

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Yes, if only there had been some thinkers around in the 1920s and 30s

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Ted McCormick

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4 months

Antisemitism at Harvard is approximately 330 years older than DEI

The Daily Beast

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Billionaire Bill Ackman has blasted out a 4,000-word essay on X, saying DEI was the “root cause of antisemitism” at Harvard University following president Claudine Gay’s resignation.

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Ted McCormick

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The fact that ChatGPT can produce a simulacrum of a college essay has exactly the same pedagogical significance as the fact that a paid writer can produce a simulacrum of a college essay. Teaching’s purpose isn’t to produce a stock of essays. It’s not obviated by a new supplier.

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Ted McCormick

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Things that are not censorship -having a publisher turn you down -having an editor turn you down -having a reviewer turn you down -having a journal turn you down -having a campus turn you down -having an audience turn you down -being criticized, dismissed, mocked, and/or ignored

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You never see lists of all the people who didn't die on 9/11

TribLIVE.com

@TribLIVE

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In response to a photo gallery on covid-19, Fred Piccolo wrote, “I’m wondering since 99% (of) Covid patients survive shouldn’t you have 99 photos of survivors for every one fatality? Otherwise you’re just trying to create a narrative that is not reality.”

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Unpopular opinion: leaders of academic institutions should make decisions about working conditions in consultation with the people who do the work.

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Ted McCormick

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3 years

since money is a social construct, how come I can't choose how much I have???

Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone)

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Since race is a made-up, social construct, why can't people choose their race?

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Ted McCormick

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Not only did Quillette run a fabricated story because aligned with their ideology. Not only did they fail in basic due diligence. They *embellished* the hoax *themselves*.

Exclusive: We Found Archie Carter

Quillette ran a hit piece on the DSA by Queens construction worker and

jacobin.com

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Ted McCormick

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I think it’s crossed a lot of professors’ minds that this kind of thing was in the offing. And I think it’s crossed the minds of people like Jordan Peterson, too.

Jeffrey Sachs

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Earlier today, a man burst into a classroom at the University of Waterloo and demanded to know what the course was about. He then drew two knives from his jacket and began to stab the prof. The course was Philosophy of Gender.

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7. Saying something is "socially constructed" is not a way of saying it is not real, or that it is a matter of personal preference, or that it can be ignored without consequence or changed on a whim. My graduate school debt is socially constructed. So is the Enlightenment.

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@MarkHamptonHK raising several questions, not least of jurisprudence

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@BeezyManzell @LingTolls Idk, seems to me that “women” and “fascists” are both groups; the question could simply be which membership we think more consequential in the context of political office

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Apparently the centrist dream is a university where academic ideas can be banned by the state but racial slurs can't be complained about.

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Is ‘Dad Joke’ a Slur? Yes. My latest for nytopinion — My father worked hard all his life to put food on our table, and in my opinion he was also extremely humorous. But in today’s politically correct, theory-obsessed, celebrity-following, TikTok-dominated, always-online world,

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Doing your own research is like doing your own plumbing. It works better if you are a plumber

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4. "You shouldn't judge the past..." Really? Why on earth not? What else are you planning to do with it? Every time you decide what to read (let alone write) about the past, you're judging which parts mattered and which didn't, and making assumptions about why they did or didn't.

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IT HAPPENED. THE THING I HAVE BEEN DREADING FINALLY HAPPENED. 9yo just turned to me at dinner and said: “I have a question. Well, actually, it’s more of a comment”

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3. "Everyone back then was-" Just hush. No they weren't.

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Centrism finally makes the jump from “racism and anti-racism are equally bad” to “anti-racism is worse actually”

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Galileo was infrequently cited and largely unknown outside of radical Copernican activism prior to 1945. The main reason we even know about him today is that the postwar fad of amateur telescopy put him on the map and elevated him into academic prominence.

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"The Rest of Us" here is just so good. The Onion couldn't do better

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Sir, this is an airport bookstore. We don’t grant diplomas

Culture Critic

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25 books that should be on every school curriculum but aren't: Fiction: 1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2. 1984 - George Orwell 3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 4. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien 5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 6. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn…

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As far as academic employment goes, a much, much, much bigger problem than senior faculty members not retiring is universities not replacing faculty when they retire. The problem isn't that the pipeline to secure, senior status is blocked, it's that there is no pipeline.

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5. "...by the standards of the present." I have some bad news for you about your location in spacetime. Yes, try and understand past events and figures in their historical context. But if you think *their* views were inescapably shaped by their time, wait'll you hear about *you*.

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One thing academia has shown very powerfully over the last 25 years or so is that you can talk at great length and in very sophisticated terms about a looming catastrophe and it will still happen even though you were talking about it the whole time

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This exchange is important. What’s so f*cked up about AI boosterism in education is that it treats *not believing in the app’s potential* as “dangerous” but misrepresenting and fabricating history as a minor hiccup. Every gaping flaw is “feedback,” while lies proliferate.

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posting "wow this blew up" when 5 or more of my students watch my recorded lecture on Moodle

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Wow. "Anti-Wokeism" is tearing itself apart with tone policing, ideological purity tests, and cancellation

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There are large numbers of fans out there who take both of these people seriously. That’s the best revenge against God I can think of

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just found out historians in different universities use THE SAME NAMES AND DATES in their lectures lmfao what a scam

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Ted McCormick

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Folks, if your history - predicts the future rather than interpreting the past - prefers mining data to analyzing sources - dismisses historiography in favour of mathematization - is uninterested in "the particular" it's not history, it's prognostication

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