Kris M
@discoursemarker.bsky.social
I’m the same me as everywhere else. MeFite, etc. she/her
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Harvard’s solving its financial challenges on the backs of low-wage, likely largely minority custodial workers would be wrong in any case. But when one considers how Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy has exploded, their treatment looks cruelly hypocritical. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard’s Plan to Freeze Custodian Wages is Cruelly Hypocritical | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s solving its financial challenges on the backs of low-wage, likely largely minority custodial workers would be wrong in any case. But when one considers how Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy ha...
www.thecrimson.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Harvard’s solving its financial challenges on the backs of low-wage, likely largely minority custodial workers would be wrong in any case. But when one considers how Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy has exploded, their treatment looks cruelly hypocritical. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The AI hype feels so much worse (and terrifying effective) than the MOOC bubble of ~2012-13. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The AI hype feels so much worse (and terrifying effective) than the MOOC bubble of ~2012-13. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Extremely Boston
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Extremely Boston
Mmmmmmm cheeeese
October 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Mmmmmmm cheeeese
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October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Somebody “planted” some very unusual seeds in the roots of my patio geranium while I was on vacation.
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Somebody “planted” some very unusual seeds in the roots of my patio geranium while I was on vacation.
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I wrote the blog post. Sorry.
Snakes on a Carriage: in which I muse on getting away with implausibility in historical romance.
Snakes on a Carriage: in which I muse on getting away with implausibility in historical romance.
August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I wrote the blog post. Sorry.
Snakes on a Carriage: in which I muse on getting away with implausibility in historical romance.
Snakes on a Carriage: in which I muse on getting away with implausibility in historical romance.
Highlights from #BarHarbor #Maine so far include puffins, ice cream sundae served with a knife, and lots of gorgeous scenery.
August 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Highlights from #BarHarbor #Maine so far include puffins, ice cream sundae served with a knife, and lots of gorgeous scenery.
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this is horrifying and so sad.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
August 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
this is horrifying and so sad.
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A few months ago there was a TikTok trend of Gen z employees sincerely confused that older customers would ask them product questions. Someone explained that employees used to know things. Then we had to tell them about Radio Shack.
I realized they truly had no idea that things used to…work.
I realized they truly had no idea that things used to…work.
August 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A few months ago there was a TikTok trend of Gen z employees sincerely confused that older customers would ask them product questions. Someone explained that employees used to know things. Then we had to tell them about Radio Shack.
I realized they truly had no idea that things used to…work.
I realized they truly had no idea that things used to…work.
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I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.
The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.
June 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.
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I don’t like to bring work into my BlueSky but I’m proud.
SHM Statement on Firing of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is strongly opposed to the wholesale firing of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
www.hospitalmedicine.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I don’t like to bring work into my BlueSky but I’m proud.
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A thing I find baffling is that anyone now old enough to have kids grew up in a time when it was considered uttterly normal and safe for kids to walk around the neighbornood alone, and yet we seem to have collectively determined the thing we all did as kids is now borderline child abuse.
June 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A thing I find baffling is that anyone now old enough to have kids grew up in a time when it was considered uttterly normal and safe for kids to walk around the neighbornood alone, and yet we seem to have collectively determined the thing we all did as kids is now borderline child abuse.
@metafilter.bsky.social Just started getting an SSL handshake failed error from Cloudflare when I try to load any part of the site. Error code 525.
June 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@metafilter.bsky.social Just started getting an SSL handshake failed error from Cloudflare when I try to load any part of the site. Error code 525.
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A group of librarians is circulating a joint statement condemning the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden for signatures. They plan to deliver the statement to the U.S. Joint Committee on the Library and the U.S. Committee on Rules on May 18, 2025. 📚📜 (Small 🧵)
Statement against Carla Hayden's Firing May 14 2025.docx
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A group of librarians is circulating a joint statement condemning the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden for signatures. They plan to deliver the statement to the U.S. Joint Committee on the Library and the U.S. Committee on Rules on May 18, 2025. 📚📜 (Small 🧵)
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Boomer academics: You should start publishing articles by the second year of grad school, have your monograph ready to go to press the day after you defend your dissertation, and have already won a Guggenheim for your next project before you go on the job market. Tenure requires three books.
The academic job market has changed just a bit
(from an interview with Robert Barro)
(from an interview with Robert Barro)
April 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Boomer academics: You should start publishing articles by the second year of grad school, have your monograph ready to go to press the day after you defend your dissertation, and have already won a Guggenheim for your next project before you go on the job market. Tenure requires three books.
Protest signs and democracy gravestones lining the fence of the Granary Burial Ground. #HandsOff #Boston #FreedomTrail
April 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Protest signs and democracy gravestones lining the fence of the Granary Burial Ground. #HandsOff #Boston #FreedomTrail
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