Political scientist @UNOmaha. Previously PhD @PoliticsUVA MA @UABBarcelona BSc @LSEnews. Globalization, parties, & democracy in Europe.
Omaha, NE
Joined April 2009
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I completely agree. Class is largely ignored in DEI efforts, when making it a central focus would enrich not only working class students but also academia as a whole.
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The whole ~whether or not to use “I” in an academic text~ shows us how isolated we are in our tiny scholarly bubbles. Just because the 0.000001% of academic texts you read happen to write in one style doesn’t mean that it’s appropriate for every context.
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i love when someone, in this incredible age of ai, just sends an absolute fucking terrible email. that's rock and roll baby
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Beat cancer, woke up, "AND ANOTHER THING about AI"
Has my genuine respect and is 100% right.
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i want laws passed that restaurants can't use ai photos of food in any way. not only is it hideous and doesn't even look like real food, you shouldnt be allowed to advertise a fucking fake product that you can't deliver. why is this allowed and not counted as false advertising
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Gen Z will never understand how weird and fun the internet used to be. We had personal websites, obscure forums, experimental pages, and bizarre corners of the web. Then Google, Amazon, and Meta turned it into an algorithmic shopping mall packed with ads and commerce.
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Americans have a "revealed preference" for doing less of basically everything except going online and I have serious doubts that this is making us happier.
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Yup. I canceled all my subscriptions bar one, bought a DVD player, thrifted my favorite movies and TV boxsets. Streaming fatigue — the choice paradox + content designed for short attention spans — is real. It feels so nice to own physical media again.
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“Disney+ will now have ads on every plan.”
You know what? Where the hell is my DVD player? I’m ready to go back to buying movies, owning them forever, and watching them in peace.
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Get screens out of schools. Students arrive in my college classroom less prepared than ever and I suspect that this screen obsession plays a large part. We have plenty of research atp that shows how beneficial writing by hand is for retention & analysis.
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Just realized the events of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 in the mask mandate lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts was prophesied by the Simpsons and I am going to run out into the streets screaming I cannot take this
Thanks to Active Learning in Political Science for posting my political economy classroom activity “Playing Out Globalization in the Classroom”. This is a more detailed article describing the simulation I posted on APSA Preprints a couple of weeks ago.
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orientation day for being back in school and the teacher said "you can use ai for your assignments as long as you're okay with not learning anything and then being surprised why you fail every final, which keeps happening" lmao
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The liberal arts and humanities are not about productivity, but rather a model for forming human beings.
I don't deny that AI could be very useful in contexts where only the output matters--but that's not the point of liberal education.
I prepared an in-person simulation for an International Political Economy class last semester. If you teach topics like deindustrialization, offshoring, trade, and/or FDIs, then this might be a useful resource for you, thanks to @APSAtweets Preprints:
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