Seth Largo
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Seth Largo
@SethLargo
California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.
SoCal and High Plains Katılım Kasım 2012
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Second ball game for the boy, first ball game for the favorite cousin.
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@DavidAstinWalsh Did you apply everywhere or just to TT jobs in specific states/regions?
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Again, how the hell can anyone defend *this* system?
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I have no plans to go on the academic job market again—I’ve had enough humiliation in my life, thank you very much—but I have a book and two major journal articles under my belt, a book chapter forthcoming, multiple articles under review, a new book project I’m working on…
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Anthropic with every industry:
Claude@claudeai
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Seeing a lot of clean fights on the TL lately. Keep it up, youth.
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It’s amazing how sticky this cultural trait is, because it’s still a huge part of the lives of Midwesterners of German descent. I’m talking four and five generations later.
Siegvarg@Kranzschwinger
Das echte Deutschland gibt es noch.
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@shagbark_hick During my years in Syracuse, I often rock climbed near Little Falls, hiked plenty in the Dacks, etc. A deeply powerful but mournful energy inhabits that part of the country. Glad you're introducing some baby mirth into the place. It needs it.
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@RodeoProfessor One of the hardest ranges to explore, too. Never developed easy access like other ranges. (A good thing!)
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The largest parcel of public land in Greater Yellowstone is the Bridger Teton Natl Forest. The Wind River Range (one of our oldest mountain ranges) has most of America’s biggest glaciers outside of Alaska. The largest glacier in the Rockies, Gannet Glacier, sits on Gannett Peak, named after the co founder of National Geographic and former USGS chief Henry Gannett.
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@rosejara1 @Empty_America Highly recommend Mari Sandoz's books for the same theme but even MORE extreme. Her dad was freakin nuts (compliment).
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@Empty_America Many other X posters noted that as adults they really came to dislike or outright hate the dad. He was a horrible businessman/farmer/etc who lived to satisfy his wanderlust. Almost killed his family via famine
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The "Little House on the Prairie" series is about radical downward mobility, leading to extreme geographic mobility.
As described in "Farmer Boy" Almonzo Wilder was raised on a good and established farm in NYS, the 4th of 6 children.
Ended up in a series of increasingly harsh situations on the plains, and only regained his childhood standard of living after the success of his wife's books, when they were able to establish a nice landholding in Missouri.
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@PaulSkallas Trump got cocky after Maduro, forgot that Persians and Latinos are different.
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"my horse midnight who was rescued from the glue factory"
getmojo@deltamojoworkin
I rode like that one time as I kid -no flag, but bareback on my horse midnight who was rescued from the glue factory. Galloping up the side of the blacktop road on a turn row that met an older man in a GMC pickup truck alongside me. He shouted I was going 42 mph and I should slow down. Greatest days of my life.
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@Empty_America Looking forward to my great-grandchildren moving back to re-settle California in 2078 after its inevitable collapse.
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Being priced out is seen as new, but it's the oldest thing there is.
Average person being priced out of CA has ancestors that were priced out of somewhere in Europe, then the E. Coast, then somewhere in the Midwest, etc.
Now prices drive them back East agian, some to Europe!
Royal Texas Spreadneck@john_st_helen
@emperorthesteve If you live near the east and your ancestors have stayed in the same general area I truly feel bad if you have been priced out. It’s a shame. But if your ancestors were frontiersmen like mine (all ending up in Texas) then it’s just a part of life I think.
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One of the last moments of shared culture. The smartphone already creeping in.
2000s@PopCulture2000s
14 years ago today, PSY released ‘gangnam style’
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@katrinagulliver @Tyler_A_Harper Bureaucratic bloat has infected lots of industries. I think hospitals/insurance industry and government contractors are probably the better points of comparison.
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@Tyler_A_Harper The financial model argument I question - we are told universities are “neoliberal” (however defined) or “corporate”, yet an actual business run on this model would be broke in 5 mins. The bureaucratic bloat is like a Soviet state not a business.
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I do not disagree with any of this (and have argued versions of the same). I have long said the chief issue with conservative critiques of academia is that they don’t understand the way the political economy of higher ed is the engine of the cultural pathologies they hate. BUT…
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg@Prolapsarian
Here's what actually happened (thread...): Massification of higher education during the final decades of the 20th century and early 21st century, normally attached to a promise of social mobility. The liberal idea, at least, was at the least that this would make society more
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Why is no one promoting this stuff under 40?
HENDO@HendoAi
I’m sick of watching the best AI films in the world on a screen the size of my hand. So I’m doing something about it. Today I’m launching WVLNGTH A new kind of film festival. A giant cinema screen. A packed room. A real audience. Brighton. 26 September. 🌊
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All these Canadians in my mentions telling me their country is too big for them to manage properly.
Kat 🇨🇦@millskat604
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The problem with Picasso and the like is that the first generation to come up in traditional techniques and then "subvert" them can be interesting.
But the 2nd gen who learns from the subverters has no foundation, rapidly hits a dead end.
Museum@DailyClassicArt
Norman Rockwell - "Picasso vs Sargent" (1966)
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