Tyler Austin Harper
@Tyler_A_Harper
Staff writer @TheAtlantic. Co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast (@ttsgpod). Gone fishing.
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this is coming for a lot of academic jobs, and the only thing that the academics will be able to do about it is reassure each other about how legitimate and important they are. they have no other leverage and no other constituency.
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Harvard Business School is creating AI clones of its professors to give advice as part of a $699 package. If you’re a professor and still genuinely believe university admins are pushing AI (“Integrate it! Embrace the future!”) for good faith reasons I don’t know what to tell you.
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I can't believe these small city-sized warehouses that hum all day and use massive amounts of energy during an affordability crisis got so unpopular, did we go wrong by saying they needed to be built to take away everyone's jobs or to destroy humanity, let's workshop this again
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The anti-datacenter movement is literally the most rational response imaginable to an industry whose leaders have publicly said the best case scenario for their product is to get everyone fired. If you can’t see this then your brain is in late stage tech rot.
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I bought a gratuitous number of energy drinks at the gas station last week and the cashier who—this is a neutral description of fact—was obviously a drug addict looked at me with such genuine concern that I exclaimed “I need these for fishing!” and that did not quell his alarm.
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I’m so jet lagged a homeless guy on Flatbush just asked if I’m doing okay
A socialist leader is facing criticism for living in a house paid for by his father—but focusing on the contradictions of “rich-kid leftists” ignores “a more interesting and potentially more illuminating question,” @Tyler_A_Harper argues.
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University: “We’re proud to announce our partnership with whatever this is. We’re sure you’re excited to integrate this into your class.”
I don't know what parts of the Sam Kriss take on Arday and higher ed that I agree with (some of it? all of it?) but it's so devastating as a piece of writing that agreement feels largely besides the point. What an essay.
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My view is that the focus on individual frauds is frustrating when there are entire fields of the social sciences that are functionally fake, don’t replicate, have no realistic prospect of shaping up, and yet continue to hoover up resources undeterred like zombie enterprises.
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Put yet another way: I think (and often argued) that the tacit insistence that race is so easy and uncomplicated to teach that a chemist or a astronomer or a geologist could read a couple books and teach a history of science/race course was actually...kinda...a bit...racist?
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A number of people have argued that it is a culture of faculty cowardice, rather than the collapse of the tenure system, that is the real problem leading to endemic academic groupthink. My response to that is: why not both?
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@sfmcguire79 From the comments section
For the cover of the September issue, I wrote about why I left Bates College, the tenure track, and academia entirely. Come for the attempted lynching, stay for the union-busting, decolonial chemistry, and soft rabbits.
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Harvard laid off its writing center director. Faculty and lower-level admins who believe the "AI is a tool" schtick are standing in their own graves with a shovel. This is not about "embracing the future" it's about replacing people with cheap clankers.
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