David Shumway
David Shumway
@nearleft.bsky.social

Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

Art 42%
Communication & Media Studies 10%
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.

Don’t miss it.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com

Primary!

Apparently taking lessons from the NY Times.

His offense is looking pretty good at the end of 3.

No shit?

Replace Schumer now!
Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.

If you haven’t canceled your subscription, now’s the time.
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

Yes, it really died ten years ago.

Scallops with hazelnut brown butter; braised lamb shanks with port and four spice; wild mushroom risotto; chocolate banana bread pudding

I have already given my answer.

1. Triumph of the French Will
2. Ma lutte
3. LePen is Great!
4. Vichy Forever
5. Slavery, Aristocracy, Purity

There would have been fewer car chases.
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

Familiarity breeds contempt. The media are used to the Dems being right, so it’s not news.

Was it ever away?

Before social media technologies, people knew how to read.

This is what they hold theologically, but they don’t believe in kindness to anyone they do not consider a Christian.

Are they learning how to interpret the Times’ sanewashing of Trump?

Can the Times reinvent itself as Fox News?

This is a different but also valid point: sometimes it’s better to mince.

But right on brand at the Atlantic.

Sorry, but you don’t get that studying “digital humanities.” You get by studying the humanities.

Otherwise known as a Nazi.

Reposted by David R. Shumway

“As nearly every business sector adopts artificial intelligence into its core operations, creating a growing demand for workers with basic AI skills, look for more colleges and universities to place a new emphasis on how best to educate students about artificial intelligence tools.”

I favor making this experiment mandatory.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy; The Great Dictator