Degrees Later
degreeslater.bsky.social
Degrees Later
@degreeslater.bsky.social
Setting up a BlueSky feed to embed here: https://www.uncglibraries.com/degreeslater - wanna follow the path of neoliberalism's detrimental effect on higher ed? Check it out. Especially made for students <3
I deleted my account as soon as muskrat bought it but I do miss literary twitter and DJ twitter though I found a good DJ community on Threads.
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Until they stop a wholesale genocide...
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
No, he wasn't running the UK, but unfortunately the ideas he popularized about higher education, industry and economic competition were taken to heart among many world leaders, so the UK began a similar push at that time that laid the foundation for the lovely thatcher/Reagan disaster to follow.
December 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wish I was better at conveying "tongue in cheek" scott was the only ethical billionaire I could think of off the top of my head.

Liberty is a thousand times larger than Austin, its focus is specifically "Christian" and it derives a large portion of its revenue from govt sources - very different.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sad what happened to/what they have done to New College.
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Well, the conservatives and neoliberals think it is so they started the University of Austin, but it has billionaire backing. So maybe call up Mackenzie Scott.
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's so hard to take a website seriously when it uses a z for an s, and then peppers its website with so many ads it's impossible to read anything.
December 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Gen AI is already fed by a lot of MA/PhD-level educated people. The better companies only hire people with an educational level like this, and with contingent labor and bad pay being the way of academia now, a lot of people are training AI. Historian here, currently making $40/hour doing it.
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This can go back to the Nixon administration...
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM