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dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")

 Fredericton, NB
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For @nytimes, I wrote about how great teaching in the algorithmic age involves getting a little weird: nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opini…

Opinion | I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

nytimes.com
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So, if love is in fact attention, an ability to attend to your kid *at all* feels a lot like hatred
Keith Edwards
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this is so bleak
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In addition to sharing Japan's climate, we also share their sophisticated culture and love of honour
Colin McCarthy
@US_Stormwatch18h
Remade this map with real data. This is fun.
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I wonder if, somehow, this is how Canada gets Cheesecake Factory (which is, btw, the place every Canadian school trip goes to eat)
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 24
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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There's a sign in the gymnastics waiting area that says: "Please no gymnastics in waiting area"
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God willing my last week of broken toe-necessitated fast from running
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Lincoln Michel@TheLincolnOct 24
It’s all happening on Threads, the nothing app.
🎃 herbert von carrion 👻@ragandboneshopOct 24
sometimes i accidentally wander over to threads
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It's amazing how we're ending up with old school Augustine-style heretical minutiae. "On whether my robo-slave can be compelled to plead to the Lord on my behalf"
Guy
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Maybe my most delusional view, but also the one I hold closest and with the most reason, is that the "party of the university," those of us who care about liberal education because we have experienced it and want it for others, will eventually win out.
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I believe this because the other reasons to pursue university life can't justify what it actually takes, and soon won't have enough incentives stacked in their favour to bother. There's more money, prestige, etc., elsewhere.
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Personally, I'll never voluntarily quit in part because I am so grateful to the folks who did it for me, and because I love the students too much, and want for them what I was given
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It will come from faculty who recognize their actual *self-interest* will soon be attached to *actually* educating the next generation in the AI age. But I'm not under any illusions about being anything other than a minority
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalshOct 23
The basic question I have for pro-liberals arts higher ed. reformers is this: where, exactly, is change going to come from? It’s certainly not going to come from administrators. Almost certainly not from faculty, either. And it’s not going to come from students or parents.
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The other issue is that universities (and state legislatures) incentive exemptions from gen. ed. requirements through AP credit, community college credit, etc., meaning that there is a strong social stigma against gen. ed. as something for "unprepared" students.
Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyOct 22
I am going to say something that very few people want to hear, but I think it's true. The only way to "save the Humanities" is through serious gen ed reform that most universities don't want to undertake. The hour is very late.
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I need to be incredibly honest with you: they didn’t have phone
𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝@rawatthekiidOct 22
how did earlier scholars master mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and religious law, while most scholars today struggle with basic academic literacy? when did scholarship become so intellectually impoverished.
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I still remember where I was when it happened
joanna newsom hive@jonewsomhiveOct 23
Happy Divers day!
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I think the problem is that few people in a democracy actually respond to this sort of hauteur, so instead the move is to show why that tradition speaks to live human questions deserving of serious consideration, and to do so with genuine wonder and passion
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperOct 23
Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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Saw the term "great grand fur baby" in a Facebook post this morning
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Wrote for three non-deadline-induced-emergency hours *during the term* today
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Wisdom is knowing why you have to sing a little high to tune the fifth; prudence is knowing that you're actually the one singing the fifth. A great analogy I just thought up that will be more or less meaningless for its intended audience.
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I can't fully explain, but this is what your wide pants have taken away, Zoomers
Music transcends
@ngoclinh62w1Oct 18
God this is so much better than the recorded version
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This is why, despite the relatively good affordability, Canadian higher ed is often bad. More Canadians need to understand that the "primarily undergraduate" universities are, with rare exception, the only places where real undergraduate education happens in this country.
Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyOct 22
Replying to @jennfrey
I'm convinced that the R1 model will always disfavor the humanities and liberal learning and that we need to be very savvy and strategic in how we understand ourselves and our place within that model. Very few humanists agree with me, I've found.
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