ElizabethK

@KathrynPaisner @glukianoff Oah, cumaaahn! Everybiddy knows political achtuhvists are mare pure then frayet broas! So they get more mare accuptahbulity and wuggle rum. Thayets jest a guhven.

@glukianoff I have always felt that many people vastly overcomplicate this issue. If the behavior would be unacceptable from frat bros, it’s also unacceptable from political activists. Equal rights 🤝 equal responsibilities

Every attempt to shut down campus speech should trigger an independent investigation asking two questions: 1) Did administrators do anything to stop the censorship? 2) Did administrators do anything to encourage, excuse, or facilitate it? Students are responsible for their own actions. But the deeper scandal is administrative complicity. In a healthy university, the answer to right-wing demands to fire a professor would be: “No way.” And the answer to left-wing attempts to shut down a speaker would be: “Not on my watch.” Does that sound fanciful? At this point, probably. Because it has become hard to imagine administrators actually acting this way. The dirty little secret is that too many of them have enabled this for years. Some are hired into ideological jobs built around policing speech, running BRTs, and managing “harm” rather than protecting open inquiry. Sometimes the damage comes through omission: refusing to punish obvious censorship. Sometimes it comes through commission, as at Stanford Law School several years ago, when administrators actively helped the shutdown along. Here, it looks like a combination of both. So yes, blame the students. They are adults, not infants or automatons. But look squarely at the administrators who are supposed to defend academic freedom and freedom of speech—and who too often undermine those values instead. We have long since passed the stage where tolerated—and often facilitated—shutdowns and shoutdowns can be treated as somehow distinct from university policy. If campuses allow, and especially if they facilitate, the systematic silencing of locally unpopular points of view, that should not be treated as some weird tragic coincidence. They have the power to stop it. They don’t. Worse, they often train students to think like censors and then protect them when they act that way. Until universities prove otherwise, the systematic shutting down of unpopular voices on campus should be understood as formal—or at least semi-formal—university policy.

@KathrynPaisner @glukianoff Sweet bleeding Jesus, that we even have to point this out.

@vjoshuaadams PP helps me to stay on track during lectures, but when students expect the only things they "need to know" are on the slides, then we have to have a talk.

Never used Canvas. Never use Power Point. It’s just me, you, the text(s), my mid-life crisis, and the occasional pop cultural reference.

@Raven_Kamali Exactly.

Literary agents always claim they want something fresh & original, yet every query letter requires writers to compare their book to someone else’s. So how exactly is that originality? They don't want originality. They want familiarity with a new coat of paint that makes money.

@DrFrancisYoung Whoa, straw man on fire!

I’m reading a book written in the late 80s that confidently alludes to the cult of saints among Catholics as a thing of the past. It’s hard to believe now how far people with Post-Vatican-II-Brain talked themselves into ‘The End of Popular Religion’

@allie__voss and $10 bunches of spinach...

One thing that needs to be studied is how “farmer’s market” used to mean “farmer’s market” …and now it means “open-air pop-up shop with laser cut wood signs, 3D-printed fidget toys, and some lady bedazzling Stanley tumblers

@ProfEricAdler If staff at U of Herts. are using words like "reputational," it would seem clear that the humanities are not holding up their end of the stick.

It’s amazing to me that universities are in a race to ditch the liberal arts, precisely when AI is challenging the value of vocational training for white-collar jobs.

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@mikeroweworks I do love your mother. I mean, you're nice and all, but your mother is just charming.

Not everyone has the ability to celebrate Mother’s Day by putting their mother in a national television commercial, but I do, so I did, and the proof is attached. This ad has only been running for a few days, but dozens of people have already gone out of their way to tell me how charming my mother is, and how much further along I’d be in my own career had I inherited just a small amount of her enormous charm and charisma. People can be frightfully honest.

I am not sure what his "ultimately" is actually--but, I also don't think he's had a single patient or research participant who has had anything like your specific combination of factors. In all of this, I've just been wondering what the ad lib cream might have to do with the flat-lining, but don't mind me. When I eat in between whatever meals I'm eating, I don't lose an ounce, and when I don't I lose steadily and nicely. It also doesn't bug me to fast. So that's me. And, yes, fasting if you refeed with normal SAD is a disaster--or at best, useless. Or, ridiculous, as Dr. Naiman likes to say, but of course he also obv. is into high pruhtein.

I mean, define "ultimately?" Fasting never worked for me, and I fasted more than almost anyone I know. I do suspect that fasting might help deplete LA faster than "just eating low LA" but so far it's speculation. Certainly doesn't seem to work if you refeed with normal SAD levels of LA at all, heh.

After linearly going back down to my old all time low (207lbs), my weight has been flat for 2 weeks. Extra protein didn't help, and neither did a social cheat meal of rice, lentils & meat. 2x ACV hasn't helped so far. 207 seems to be my new settling point. @roythetwit

@exfatloss Those questions of hers are all well and good, but what was the man thinking marrying a woman who says "we're" when she means "were"? Not going to end well. Sad.

Here's a starting list of what I'd ask a potential wife before our first date: 1. Complete adipose lipid profile. LA >2% and she's OUT! 2. LDL must be >200 3. Good child bearing hips 4. Must reject modernity & its consequences 5. Ketones must hit 6.0mmol/l at least once daily (no exogenous esters allowed!) 6. Must be able to milk cows competently for obvious reasons 7. Ability to carry lots of firewood 8. Must not own phone newer than iPhone 3 or equivalent 9. No distros besides Arch

The next person who says "girl boss" to me is going to feel the toe of my boot in their backside.

@WomackPhilip For real.

@ElizabethK21601 Crikey!

Sigh. I have been worrying about this for years. Biblical knowledge, Classical knowledge, of myths and legends, is all fading. Even 10 years ago I couldn't count on my undergrads to know who Orpheus was.

@WhatHoARat I know.

@ElizabethK21601 Rats.

@emmma_camp_ All I know is that if anything is written by a woman or about women, someone, somewhere (man or woman) will find a way to cheapen, scorn, or obliterate it. It remains the most perplexing pheomenon I can think of.

I find this reading of Ballerina Farm so strange. She's a lifestyle influencer. She bakes bread. Nowhere in her content does she tell women to quit their jobs and submit to their husbands or whatever. And there are influencers who do this! She just isn't one of them!

@benryanwriter "As it were, in many ways," as my friend Bill used to sarcastic.

I have never once found that someone’s adding “as it were” to a sentence added to my understanding of what they were saying. British people in particular, I must emphasize to you that you do not need to utter this non-sequitur.