While I agree this is useful context, I think even if people are overworked and underpaid, the absolute lack of integrity means they have no business teaching others in any circumstance.

This is deeply depressing: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

I read zillions of Perry Mason novels and wrote about Erle Stanley Gardner, Cold War ideas of justice, and the War on Crime in the latest issue of Arizona Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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feeling pretty left out that no one has started the "academic twitter lurker" starter pack.

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It's too soon to say if I like this site because there aren't tons of unhinged takes on here to get mad about, but I admit I still check the other site first because that's where the drama thrives.

When I go for an eye exam, I feel like I'm failing calculus all over again. "Can you read the second line?" Absolutely no clue, but I could probably guess incorrectly?

Because I have spent all afternoon writing, deleting, rewriting, and deleting a few sentences, I might as well commit to writing at least one sentence here.