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Travis
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Libraries, rhetoric, and beans
This is the ideal middle-density body. You may not like it, but this is what peak urban performance looks like.
April 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Fash trying to figure out how to make NIH/NSF cuts kill the humanities, which don't get NIH/NSF funds.
March 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The burrito discourse is really a rare intersection of my love of beans and my interest in rhetoric
January 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I have no idea what distinguishes critical thinking from thinking.
November 13, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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For any eligible voter in Virginia who may be impacted by the purge, please use same-day registration to cast a vote in this election. Or call (866)-OUR-VOTE if you need assistance.
October 30, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.

But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
October 26, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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I know I shouldn't expect better from the big commercial publishers, but explaining to someone who cant afford an APC ways you can make an article OA (waivers, beg etc.) without ever mentioning green is unethical in my eyes.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 2, 2024 at 4:54 PM
While I'm sympathetic to the perspective of "give the garbage ChatGPT paper the grade it deserves," this really gets at the problem with that: writing is thinking and if we're not asking students to write, we're not asking them to think.
We don’t let elementary school kids use a calculator when learning arithmetic; we think they need to understand what’s going on. They eventually use calculators more effectively because they understand what’s going on!

I think that the undergraduate essay is where one learns what’s going on.
August 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Well worth a read to the end.

The big mistake the brittle authoritarian reactionary version of masculinity makes is in believing courage is a physical quality, rather than a moral quality.
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28
July 31, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Not to be corny but this seems like the decision of a lifelong public servant who decided to listen to the guidance of the people around him. It seems admirably humble to know and recognize your limitations.
July 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more
July 13, 2024 at 10:46 PM