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@thereriver

very small megafauna, very big potato. a luta continua. organizer @MimbresSchool. black studies at warwick. they/ele

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i am just here to complain
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i mean the real trouble is this is no consolation. our students get good degrees from a respected institution, but that's not the same as harvard's imprimatur, which can be earned apparently by doing very little at all
alírio (@thereriver) profile picturealírio@thereriver12h
looking forward to telling my students who are handling a 4-books-plus-articles/week reading load how superior they are to their peers at harvard
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just not possible to compete with an institution where the bit that matters is getting in
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looking forward to telling my students who are handling a 4-books-plus-articles/week reading load how superior they are to their peers at harvard
David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) profile pictureDavid Luhnow@davidluhnow22h
It’s the most brutal class at Harvard—and suddenly everyone wants in. No AI, no finance. It's a big dose of western civ and classics. Great to see. wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl… via @WSJ
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

wsj.com
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finally mimbres gets some competition
Rory McCarthy (@roryisconfused) profile pictureRory McCarthy@roryisconfusedOct 27
Want to start a reading series where the point is that is not chic, nor edgy, nor sexy, it is a reading series for weird losers by weird losers
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turns out spending four consecutive hours teaching how racialist theories work claim by claim, move by rhetorical move, is fucking soul crushing
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how bad can next week be
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embarrassing for me that i would wear this outfit
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Joãofi@joaofilimasOct 25
Meu pai perdoou a ex dele quando ela tentou matar ele, mas terminou imediatamente no dia que ela falou mal do Lula
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LULA
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assigning my students romanus pontifex 1455 so i never have to read another paragraph-long sentence
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He does not know how the chicago manual of style works
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why do people assume the inclusion of a text on a syllabus is necessarily laudatory
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sometimes i accidentally wander over to threads
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it is payday and i will not buy more books, it is payday and i will not buy more books, it is payday and i will not
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was reading bodin with my undergrads, and he starts talking about galen, using him as a piece of his evidentiary armor. but the galen he's talking about is an artefact of a thousand years of telephone
alírio (@thereriver) profile picturealírio@thereriverOct 23
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and when they spouted hot nonsense, it wasn't with a kind of rigorous attachment to a coherent nonsense theory that preceded them. there was a vibe of a theory that they vibed their own version of
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the difference between galen and bodin's invokation was obvious to my students, who had read galen a week before. but surely bodin had 'mastered' his classics
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maybe its just the early scholars i've read, but 'mastery' is not a concept that i would apply to them. even the foundational big shots spouted hot nonsense all the time
𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 (@rawatthekiid) profile picture𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝@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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and when they spouted hot nonsense, it wasn't with a kind of rigorous attachment to a coherent nonsense theory that preceded them. there was a vibe of a theory that they vibed their own version of
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that's a way of developing authority, sure, but it isn't the same as a rigorously literate understanding of what has come before you
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PROBLEMATIC AGE GAP. MY PARTNER IS STILL MAKING STONE HANDAXES WHILE I AM ADORNED IN BEAUTIFUL BRONZE
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