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A farewell to academia

There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, [...]
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Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)

So, I somehow “volunteered” to create a new course at the undergraduate level, to be offered (mainly) as a service course–i.e., not to our majors, but as part of a humanities breadth requirement. I’ve appropriated the term “cyberculture,” though I probably mean cyberpunkish. This is a very rough draft–I’ve just shared it with my colleagues, [...]
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Fake America

This, from St. Mark’s street on election night…
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Let’s do the time warp

Google has a search engine warped back to 2001. Even though they don’t have page caches of these sites, a little ego-searching sends me back pretty quickly.
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Daisy, 2008

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Sedaris on undecideds

David Sedaris in the Shouts & Murmurs column of the New Yorker, entitled Undecided. On undecideds: I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on [...]
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Yarrrr.

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    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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