hey! Former researcher at Cornell on GMOs and pesticides here, now I write fiction instead. all "hard science" departments lose money and most humanities/"soft science" departments make money. it is an open secret in academia that the humanities cover the shortfall for our scientist colleagues

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · last yr.

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities. “scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will devastate the New york bodega business. The tax cuts are nice, but the cost-push inflation isn't

this is so powerful

rest in peace to the worm in robert f kennedy's brain, you would have loved second novel kanojo no natsu, 15-fun no kioku

"YIMBY mixed-use he/him" bitch you attended a 90k/year private high school and live in a "hipster" part of town that used to be am immigrant community until a highway razed half the land using redlining and now you can walk to whole foods from your 2 million dollar condo with social justice shirts

"Oh nooo, the NYT Opinion pub trivia group and Yale's Endowed Chair of Smug Centrism aren't coming over here, what will we do?" Thank fuck, lock yourselves in the Nazi bar, I hope it burns down with you inside.

you dont know how much this shit means to me

Bruno de Figueiredo@dieubussy.bsky.social · last yr.

After a long search, uncertain that it even existed, I finally located the CD-ROM TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the elusive sequel to the legendary Cosmology of Kyoto. Here is the ISO for your emulational pleasure. archive.org/details/trip...

After a long search, uncertain that it even existed, I finally located the CD-ROM TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the elusive sequel to the legendary Cosmology of Kyoto. Here is the ISO for your emulational pleasure. archive.org/details/trip...

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Dual Macintosh-Windows ISO CD image of TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅 (Xuanzang Sanzo's Dharma-Seeking Journey), the sequel to Cosmology of Kyoto and...

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writing an alt lit vn parody of tao lin's richard yates called "richard rusczyk" about a trans girl getting groomed on the aops forums

was looking at rice commodity prices and went "thank god I don't live in japan anymore" before remembering I paid 10 dollars for a carton of eggs two months ago

holy shit my japanese language ability has become completely shot, 8 yrs living in america has destroyed my brain

most nimby leftist "death to the anthropocene" types are one francis parker yockey book away from donning a muv luv black sun pfp

a thousand bowls of oatmeal???? sounds delicious

remember when ppl were hating on the ejmr paper

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · last yr.

Fed's Kashkari: "I used to go to Google for search and now I go to Grok for basic questions and it gives me much more thoughtful, directed answers, knowing the actual question I'm asking."

something tells me he probably shouldn't have eaten that seven eleven taco

but i don't think you can have a society filled with valerie solanases without personal experience informing that vitriol again it's something close to gender apartheid, but gender and race are different, i don't know how to explain why, but this isn't generalizable

I want to get better out of programming and math not out of any practical reason but bc I don't want to feel compeltely ostracized when all my friends start talking about it

I want to own a beehive one day

a year into visual novel retirement. been getting into bread lately.

my parents bought 7 of these giant teddy bears for 10 dollars each from target during black friday many years ago and to this day it might be the single best purchasing decision we ever made. they're really cute lol

palantir founder karp = phd, social theory. thiel = ba, philosophy. zuckerberg = classics at elite prep school. altman reads american founders’ writings. many others consume literary science fiction

Was an adjunct for four years, and yes, the proliferation of AI use in college is sudden and bad, but this is simply the culmination of the long-term devaluation of college from a place for great intellectual growth to a transactional punch-ticket accreditation program for "please give job".

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Honestly yudkowsky and all of lesswrong/rstionalwiki is just milquetoast elite pedigree neolib shit "b...but don't they believe in race science????" yeah I said what I said and

it’s astounding how twitter has quite possibly the dumbest user base of any social media these days

"light years better at language translation than google translate" 1.) no its not 2.) ai translation is contributing to the englishization of the world and actively killing off indigenous languages, everyone needs to read minae mizumura's the fall of language in the age of english

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

The sad thing is, I think there are use cases for AI. I couldn’t tell you the number of times I’ve been able to find obscure studies and articles that Google just no longer is good for finding. It’s also light years better at language translation than google translate. But that’s not how it’s used.

the solution is universal pass/fail with grades based on weekly in-class exams and small-group discussion sections. no electronics, no textbooks, no notes. lectures and discussion sections should be at least 2 hrs long and 3 times a week, minimum. and cap number of classes at 3 per semester.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

in regards to that nymag article I will say I tried to cheat w/ it in freshman fall but quickly stopped after I realized most of the answers it gave were wrong

reminder that george henry shaft is italian which makes his gekkou translation the most culturally accurate way to read the vn

I know absolutely nothing about horse race test but the creator is apparently NYUGC faculty which makes the whole thing both deeply hilarious and 100x more pretentious than I initially imagined

when I first started using social media I thought MDNI meant "men do not interact" because all the people with it in their bios were always women so I changed my twitter pronouns to she/her just so I could follow all of those accounts and kept getting surprised when I got blocked