A Ken Burns Sepia-Toned Archive of Posts
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Is the NYTimes relevant to anyone but other journalists?
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2022/11/democrats-hold-off-red-wave-and-new.html I use “other” loosely, but pointing back to the NYTimes and not actual journalists. Continue reading
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Looking forward to the “Outliers” episode (there will be one, right?)
This is classic economics-guy thing, where they act like the narratives that they map onto the data, are themselves just as infallible as the data…The idea that there is always something hidden, right, seems to be lurking here… Peter Shamshiri, “Freakonomics,” If Books Could Kill I’ve read enough college composition history to know that there Continue reading
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The non-human animal..
Just finished watching Jordan Peele’s brilliant Nope. I don’t do reviews much. I’m no good at them. But I will say that it wasn’t until I looked through my notes for a quote for this post that I realized how this is a movie about animals. That should have been obvious, but the nonobvious is Continue reading
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Oh, all while working other jobs because you have low pay and no security…
“You must also consider how to balance the work of effective teaching: timely review and grading of student work; creating assessments to gauge student learning; and fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive classroom where students feel they belong” www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/11/07/value-contingent-jobs-phds-seeking-tenure-track-opinion Continue reading
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How I’m going to tell people to f*ck off from now on…
“…you round the argument off by yourself.” Gorgias to Socrates, Gorgias by Plato, Oxford Edition translated by Robin Waterfield. Continue reading
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The future is urban, apparently
One of my areas of interest is how science fiction movies do exposition. So I took a screenshot from Elysium just to save, though I’m only watching this for fun (it’s not on my exam list). I’ve seen it before. I’m sure this isn’t new to anyone who hasn’t been paying attnetion, but so many Continue reading
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Five, Seven, Five
The winning haiku at the top of the article is a cold, hard comment on our current American political environment, yet Sanki’s poems, written on one year after the bombing in Hiroshima, produce a different, deeper chill. Sanki was imprisoned by Japan’s Special Higher Police for writing haiku like the first one. The second was Continue reading
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How am I supposed to perform academia if I don’t have time to Tweet?!?
One of the problems with committing to a new public-facing medium is that you get busy and overwhelmed and it suddenly feels abandoned. Two days since I posted here and my instinct is to just quit. The endless scroll is the problem. It’s always hungry and it’s never sated. As meager contributor, even I’m susceptible. Continue reading
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