Forgot UVA.

Northwestern, Brown, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, all of Texas, all of Florida, University of Oklahoma.

We do this a bit in the Netherlands with strict rubrics, regular review together about what we think those rubrics mean, dual ("four-eye") grading of all major assessments, etc. It's easier because it's a small art MFA program, but it does help ensure more uniformity.

I noticed that as well. I wish the artist would respond as I've mentioned it in other places. It puts a very bad taste in my mouth.

There are literally millions of websites around the world that this project could work for. Choosing, out of those millions of websites, Mumsnet, *says something*. And it's not something pretty.

I mean, one just has to visit the feminism forum there to be slapped by tons of virulent anti-trans hate (just did it right now to confirm that indeed Mumsnet continues to hate us), so I have to ask...out of the millions of sites on the web, why choose Mumsnet as part of the project?

Also more info here: lux-magazine.com/article/the-...

Why Mumsnet, of all places? One of the most transphobic sites on the web? (See, eg, www.vice.com/en/article/m... ).

And the dress! The dress 😍

Whoa, didn't know that about Picardo. Legend is criminally underrated. I know it has to compete against Labyrinth, but yeah, Legend is just over-the-top 80s fantasy schmaltz and I'm all there for it.

@erininthemorning.com is it just me, or did they change back to the invalidation language?

archive.is/wEPHt

Searching for media lab prof's names like....sighcry.

People found so far:

* Neil
* Ed

This short story by him is I think the best encapsulation of our times. I remember reading it 30 years ago while wandering through a university library as a teenager, and it has stuck with me ever since: www.jstor.org/stable/44340...

Note that I would be saying the same thing about travel to the US for a conference right now.

As the deadline is upcoming, I feel it incumbent to make a public statement about this, that if you are LGBTQ+ and considering attending ISEA in Dubai, you are putting your life in danger.

I have reached out to a member of the ISEA board for clarification, and to ask if they would consider canceling ISEA in Dubai, or at least advising LGBTQ+ people to not attend. I sent that message a month ago and have not received a response yet.

Transgender people, mostly trans women, have been detained just for traveling through airports in the UAE. To host a "diverse" conference in a nation where LGBTQ+ activity is punishable by death is...just mind-boggingly tone-deaf.

Indeed, depends on the country. In the NL where I live now I pay around €165/mo for the insurance (which is a pretty standard amount) and have a yearly deductible ("eigen risico", or "own risk) of €380/year. I can't overstate how important the lower healthcare costs were to my decision to move here.