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Philosophy & politics. #Technology, #Edtech, #Linux, & #highereducation policy.♥️📚🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇸
They’ll probably fund a new department of medieval theology and ancient Christian schisms. Soon, they’ll be counting angels on the heads of pins, and finding other ways to tell the public and reality to get fucked. Finally, as in Maoism, former faculty & staff will be sent to harvest crops.
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Politically motivated against climate science?
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Adding a helpful link for any policy makers to read the LF article. Combined with my kids school bathrooms getting vandalized regularly due to some other kids seeing tictoc videos enticing them into that antisocial anti health behavior, SVF deserves some regulation.
psycnet.apa.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Maybe they aren’t reading because they upload the assignment to a chatbot that “follows” the assignment in a single, mindlessly composed prompt that they assume has done a magically wonderful job of writing the thing they are required to turn in.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The question of whether cases are “relevantly similar” is already answered from within the framework itself. Everything takes place within a given & established framework that isn’t easily or normally transcended. A theory of theories harbors a recursion problem that assumes a neutral basis.
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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A “theory of theories” gets me to think about not theory as model but as explanatory system, or something more grounded in the behavior of persons & entities: a system of belief. Less an abstract model, an item to choose, for covering data, & a way of knowing. Is a religion a theory of theories?
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
That’s not arrogant at all. 🙃
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A “theory of theories” gets me to think about not theory as model but as explanatory system, or something more grounded in the behavior of persons & entities: a system of belief. Less an abstract model, an item to choose, for covering data, & a way of knowing. Is a religion a theory of theories?
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I’m never very interested in arguing about definitions even though that was once all that happened in Philosophy. Often (not saying in this case!) insisting on a definition is an attempt to assert power over a discourse. What matters is the underlying idea rather than the name for it.
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The NYT's coverage of higher ed is really largely worthless.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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That would be sweet. The private mutterings, the little grievances, the gossipy bombshells—I bet there’s already enough for an easy hot selling book if only there were recordings, even private ones. After this administration, the tell-alls will be mind-blowing.
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s sickening.
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
That would be sweet. The private mutterings, the little grievances, the gossipy bombshells—I bet there’s already enough for an easy hot selling book if only there were recordings, even private ones. After this administration, the tell-alls will be mind-blowing.
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Dooming is a mode of passivity; standing athwart history and yelling stop has a bad track record of success.

Grab the steering wheel.
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM