My institution has even (I assume unironically) dubbed this new aesthetic catastrophe the “simple syllabus”

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The “it’s in the syllabus” paradigm is a distant utopian past. Modern syllabi are 20 pages of institutionally mandated learning objectives and resource directories with the readings and assignment sequences hidden among the dense foliage of boilerplate.

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There's also the issue that "people who can show up to all the meetings and file all the public comments and sue when they don't get their way" rarely overlaps with actually undeserved communities.

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talked to a friend today about how my life is steadily improving over time largely due to hanging out less and less with mentally ill academics. just realized it's directly analogous to how people tell you not to fry your brain on certain realms of social media (including bsky)

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beowulf cluster of family nintendo switches

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