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One advantage of being a clumsy oaf who frequently tweets without his reading glasses is that no one will ever confuse my typo-ridden missives for AI slop.
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Whenever this Duke economist pops up in my timeline spouting off about the lack of rigor in the humanities, I do a real quick search of his tweets.
Many professors in the humanities keep calling it a packaging problem. Wrong. The real reasons enrollment is collapsing: obsession with identity, speech policing as virtue, and the conversion of entire disciplines into political projects.
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You’d have to be fool to think this theory has much explanatory value, which surely explains why Kuran tweeted it. Even if these things were true of humanities classes, this wouldn’t explain why the movement is almost exclusively *towards* the same majors at every school.
Many professors in the humanities keep calling it a packaging problem. Wrong. The real reasons enrollment is collapsing: obsession with identity, speech policing as virtue, and the conversion of entire disciplines into political projects.
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True story: the designer made only two of the cherry red puffer Peaches is wearing. I own the other.
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It will be telling to watch the brainrotted decide that Sivan is no longer a twink rather than that twinks can top.
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bearistotle retweeted
Thrilling to see my article on whales, whale bodies, and history as the cover story in the latest edition of the AHR. Thanks to my fellow whale guy @RyanTuckerJones for the collaboration and David Biggs for shepherding the special issue on “Nature’s Archives” to publication.
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The mere existence of the woke mind virus has destroyed the ability of conservatives to distinguish between nouns and pronouns.
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You might've heard about the Save Our Bacon Act. Turns out that the main group lobbying for it--Natl. Pork Producers Council--has taken $66M from a farmer fund intended to promote pork, & which legally cannot be used for lobbying. 40% of the $66M hasn't been previously reported.
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The idiotic “body” and “fitness” discourse on the tl this morning. Extra points for “foUcAuLT iS To blAmE”
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On the merits, no, analysis of bodies does not mean individuating subjectivism,
you illiterate dolt. As Michel Henry noted, body is the objectified term and requires a historical explanation, while “flesh” (the sensate that feels outward) is prior and phenomenological.
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Having spent the last year and a half working out at the Hermannplatz American Fitness, this Edgewater LA fitness is relatively palatial and clean.
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Just arrived in Chicago this afternoon. I hit the gym and then the grocery store, and none other than @idreaminviolet spots me at checkout and gives me a welcome hug even tho I was sweaty. ("You're always sweaty.") Unplanned. Serendipitous. I'm going to like this city.
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Once I was the annoyed guy but mostly because instead of sex, he really did want to talk about his poetry.
When I was a baby gay it didn't register to me that a guy coming over to "watch a movie" was really just a pretense for sex & I remember this one guy leaving my apartment visibly annoyed after I made him watch the entirety of Sunset Boulevard
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My final workout in Duke’s Brodie Gym (for at least a while), so I decided to go out on top. I found the two heaviest kettlebells they have (a pair of fifty pounders) and pressed them both in one hand “stacked.” 100 lbs stacked beats my old stacked record of 97lbs (44kg). Fun!
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