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Noah Arney

@ndarney.bsky.social

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Higher Education Policy, Career Development, Student Affairs, and a large amount of geekery. Residing in Secwepemcúl’ecw #highered #cdnpse #edusky #academicsky #sacdn

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · Nov 19

If someone didn't bring pie, they don't get to participate in the pie bringing event.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 1d

Will there be a livestream?

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 1d

Have you read Foxglove King? I'm part way through the series and loving it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 5d

So it's just hoods off racism all the way down. Fun...

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so confused. I thought Bad Bunny was Puerto Rican, wouldn't that make him American?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003: 2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today: 0

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder if future social scientists will think of these survey platforms like we do of the 1950s survey of convenience of their undergrads (80% white male, upper/upper-middle class). 'Sure you got data but I don't think its useful in the way you claim.'

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 7d

If you go back to the 1950s, there were earnest debates around the world re: whether growing public funding of universities was a Good Thing because government might one day try to dictate what univesities could teach.

By the 90s this was considered laughable.

No one is laughing now.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 6d

I assume it's just a list of universities the president has heard of.

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

That's a good point. Its easy to identify the failures of something in practice with the goals of something in concept and I'm probably doing that with my analogy.

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

the difference being that in neoliberalism it's a benefit to the government in abstract, and in authoritarianism it's benefit to the specific people in government.

What do ya'll think about this distinction? Any good articles I should read that connect to this?

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

but authoritarianism is when the government puts their thumbs on the scale for specific people/orgs (think of a poker dealer cheating with a player).

In both the expected win is supposed to provide benefits to the government in exchange...

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

A concept I'm rattling around in my head is how to explain the move from neoliberalism to authoritarianism. I'm considering it as neoliberalism is the government putting their thumbs on the scale for capitalism broadly (think of a casino where even when you win, in general the house wins more)...

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

Yup. It's hitting a bit different seeing the authoritarian + Christian awfulness in history books vs in the news.

Next they'll start complaining about religious groups who are insufficiently patriotic, and it will start with non-Christian faiths but eventually will include us.

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

But he feels he can.

a stuffed animal with the words well i can feel that in my jellies below it

Alt: a stuffed animal (Pikachu) with the words well i can feel that in my jellies below it

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front

Alt: a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front saying Logical

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

I'm curious about the nusing schools. I wonder if it's a matter of required accreditation curriculum filling so much of the programs.

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

I think you had shared a screenshot of the card once so I figured you'd be there, but yeah, no one expects the lawyer to have a card.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

Lol, no, it's from having seen the previous pokemon movies in the 90s-2000s which lowered my expectations 😅

My wife was amused when I saw your name come up and was "hey, I know that guy... sorta..."

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

I really liked the movie, now go finish the book so I can read it 😀

Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, I finally watched it with my kid last week. It's really good, and I was not expecting that.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

A great overview of where postsecondary stands on the TRC recommendations. I especially liked Mark's distinction between Nice Symbolic Things and what was recommend.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and so in the blog I join forces with my colleague Mark Solomon to talk about how universities and colleges are doing with respect to TRC. It's a mixed picture.

Truth and Reconciliation, Ten Years On | HESA

Today is September 30th, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. It has been just over ten … Continued

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

"As history teaches us" oh? Well as the history of the Mennonites teaches us, this rhetoric is usually two steps before declaring pacifist religions enemies of the state.

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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 8d

I seem to recall an article a decade ago showing that the people who chose a major because it inspired them had better career outcomes than those who picked it because they were told it would be a good career.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8d

I have too much to get done today so I gotta nope out of the news but I will say that someone once said we needed to keep a scoreboard of how often pundits/columnists are absolutely wrong and it should be published with all their future work to give proper context

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