Luke

@uaustinorg a word's etymology is not its meaning

Here's the brutal truth: Most college students aren't really students. The word student comes from Latin words meaning someone who applies himself with focused intensity and painstaking effort. Does that sound like the average college kid? The average college "student" spends less than two hours a day on schoolwork. Two-thirds admit they're willing to cheat rather than put in the effort. At Ivy colleges, 80% of all grades are A-minus or above. Does that sound intense or painstaking? Here's another uncomfortable truth: most so-called "students" are perfectly content with this. They'll happily go into debt, or let their parents foot the $80,000-a-year bill, for glorified daycare with a diploma at the end -- a diploma, by the way, that no longer signals intelligence or ability. Employers know it. "Students" know it. That's why we started the University of Austin (UATX). We built UATX for those who actually want to learn and be formed. Students who think education should involve effort and challenge. Students who are willing to apply themselves with seriousness and purpose. We don't inflate grades; our average GPA is low by design. We rank students. We reward hard work. Yes, it's demanding. It's also deeply liberating. We take liberal education seriously, in its original sense: education that liberates the mind from lazy conformity to reigning orthodoxies. Our students engage with the great books and the great minds to wrestle with the timeless questions every human must face: what gives life meaning? what is justice? what makes us human? We also train them in science, technology, and the hard skills to build, invent, and tackle the real problems facing our country and our civilization. We realize this isn't for everyone, and certainly not for "students." But if you're actually a student -- if you crave challenge over comfort, if you want your mind sharpened rather than soothed -- then you deserve more. You deserve an education that honors what you are: someone willing to apply himself with focused intensity and painstaking effort in pursuit of truth.

@Timodc feels like an onion article

Wow. The truth about whether Epstein killed himself might be right here in this newly released file. justice.gov/epstein/files/…

@mattyglesias definitely AI?

@McCormickProf I'm a current Amherst student who was at the performance. While this was distasteful, it really was only about being funny. there was no stated goal to promote "respect;" it was one section of a fun orientation tradition. and it was not mandatory, despite reporting.

Lascivious performances, to which attendance by new students is often mandatory, are standard parts of freshman orientation programs at many colleges and universities. Administrators, when challenged about them, claim that their purpose is to "combat date rape" and promote "respect for difference." Their real aim, obviously, is promoting sexual liberationist ideology.

@MattWalshBlog Trump is a coward and you need psychological help

So will Trump also be denounced as a "coward" and "woke right" by all of the people who called me and Megyn Kelly that for refusing to disavow Tucker? Or will you guys admit that you got a bit hysterical and now we can all just move on?

@NolanAnalyst Robbin William's performance here is one of my favorite ever... one of the most evil film characters I'm aware of

Christopher Nolan thinks Insomnia is his most underrated film: “I’m very proud of the film. I think, of all my films, it’s probably the most underrated. The reality is it’s one of my most personal films in terms of what it was to make it. It was a very vivid time in my life. It was my first studio film, I was on location, it was the first time I’d worked with huge movie stars. That’s not really for me to say, but every now and again I meet a filmmaker and that’s actually the film that they’re interested in or want to talk about. Yeah, very proud of the film.”

@SimonSchfe45703 but it's not empirical?

There is no particularly powerful reason not to call academic philosophy a science.

@tszzl AI will try an figure out what you want to hear and tell you that. that is bad therapy.

it’s verboten to say this but frontier models have excellent theories of mind and essentially instantly understand any knot you thought was complex. the only issues are that they may be misaligned (as highly sophisticated sycophants; not dissimilar to many therapists) and they have a tendency to go off the rails when a conversation gets too long but for those who are text inclined this was far more compelling product than a real therapist from the moment 3.5 newsonnet came out (and many models hence)

@SimonSchfe45703 you gotta go for it man. text a bit and if she is somewhat amiable ask her to coffee.

I've decided I'm too scared to text her anything in the next few days. Based?

@SimonSchfe45703 maybe change your name and pfp?

Should I delete my account?

@SimonSchfe45703 do NOT lovebomb

I don't know what this is. But, chat, does this work?

@SimonSchfe45703 "what's good?" or something like that, don't think too hard. something that ends with a question mark is prolly best

She asked me for my number (why is God so good to me?). Now she texted "hi." What do I text back? 🥲

@SimonSchfe45703 !

@SimonSchfe45703 for in the hours after I asked her out, in the hours after she kindly told me she was lesbian, I was the most alive I had been in a long time.

@SimonSchfe45703 no, the opposite of suicide is not murder but life

I'm so sad I don't know what to do. Silly?

@SimonSchfe45703 good lord I meant quite the opposite

@radically_luke No one will tempt me to commit suicide. I am very Catholic.

@drantbradley good example of the danger of "doing something" without thinking too carefully about what that something is

Wow. This is their board’s fault. Out of desperation, they let the CEO, who’s out of touch with CB customers, do this. Ex: Red Lobster is in the midst of a turnaround & their CEO is focussing on food quality & service, not making drastic cosmetic changes. CB should hire him!

@Scott_Wiener you said something that was verifiably not true, he pointed it out, you play the rent free card? Straight up moronic. you aren't very good at this game

Wiener lives rent-free in your head

@SimonSchfe45703 if you asked her to get coffee would you still be an incel?

@radically_luke Idk, maybe

Who knows, maybe I'll dare to ask her if she wants to go to that movie with me. And whenever I'm really scared, she has to hold my hand.