America degenerated to the point that we’re sharing samizdat shockingly fast

Yep

(A) modern storage media are nowhere near as durable as paper

(B) digital media cannot be read or viewed or listened to without the accompanying devices

(C) digital media requires ongoing maintenance just to exist

Incidentally only 2% of the photo archives owned by Getty Images have been digitized.

I once got rejected from a TT job, and the department accidentally CCed everyone they were rejecting so that we could see each other's email address/names. it was ~200 people, from all the fancy Ivies, and all the name brand state schools, and everywhere else.

You two know what I think about this.
We need to build other places for academic inquiry to flourish. I understand that most people have to make a living and so bend to the insane demands of the university, but we need to find another way.

And of course if Brooks' defense, as it is likely to be, is that his only connection with Epstein was being in the same room as him at one or more public events, well…

Here's the thing, David. Most of us have never done that. Because we're not part of the Epstein Class.

Plus once all your processes are entangled in these systems, untangling them or even switching to another enterprise software product becomes extremely expensive and difficult.

I should make a “best of” mashup.

youtu.be/7ZdrLArLGl8?...

Wait, is co-star the extremely feminine and immensely successful astrology startup?

Another aspect of all this New School chaos: when 87% of your classes are taught by adjuncts – already a culture of overwhelming precarity – these 🪓 just exacerbate an already pervasive instability. I have friends directing pgms who have no idea how to respond to + care for their adjunct colleagues.