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For @the_point_mag I wrote one if the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. My experience teaching great books has been utterly transformative, and I think that if you’re on the left you should be all in on it.
Dan Walden
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Dan Walden
@dwaldenwrites
Philologist, critic, choir geek, opera fiend. Formerly @UTulsa, now job-hunting. Opinions solely my own. Go Blue 〽️
- a goofy zoomer who gets HIV being able to envision a future of getting a few extra tests and taking a couple of daily pills is one of the greatest triumphs of medical science in human history and we should give daily thanks to god that it happenedReplying to @Slatzismyou were born too late to explore the earth, too early to explore the stars, but just in time to see zoomers vlog their HIV diagnosis
00:00 - telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path
- pope leo i am begging you to declare the butlerian jihadPeople are now using AI to depict Biblical stories. Satan didn't have this on his bingo cards.
00:00 - one of the fallout effects of the decline of reading among virtually everyone is that the sense for irony has been completely destroyed. sub-middle-school media literacy like this is now completely normal
- yes it's absurd because it should start in kindergarten and everybody should have at least two under their belt by the time they graduate high school, and should have a working knowledge of Spanish no matter what
- we did it queens, we cyberbullied the Church of EnglandChurch sorry for saying that sex is just for married heterosexuals theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
- this is not “college admissions,” this is “elite college admissions,” and the key to avoiding this kind of outcome is to parent your children like a normal person rather than a spiritually hollow psychopath from park slopeCollege admissions is so competitive, kids are just crashing out
- it is not only possible but extremely likely that the 22-year-olds running DOGE are not aware that all "digital storage" is in fact physical storage. their brains have not made the connection between the data they access and a physical hard drive located in spaceThe @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.Readers added contextDespite its age, magnetic tape is still highly favorable for long-term, static data archives. It offers cost-effectiveness (cheaper than disk/cloud), longevity (outlasts disk drives), offline security (resists cyber threats), and high capacity (up to 50TB per tape). research.ibm.com/blog/tape-dens… corodata.com/tape-backups-s…
- this is how news outlets report that the cops blew up their houseA family who can no longer live at their South Los Angeles home describes the nightmare that comes with being displaced after a horrific incident. foxla.com/news/family-de…
- happy anniversary to this absolutely amazing PR flopThe Chicago bears accidentally making an inflammatory, sectarian statement about Irish politics is maybe the funniest NFL team post since the Raiders Derek Chauvin post.
"Neighbor" in Biblical context means "your people" and "anyone of your kin."- i one hundred percent was not
- children's media was the first area to be really fully overtaken by slop, and it's a sign of the enormous contempt in which our society has long held children. minus a few outliers, nearly all the decent American kids' media of the 20th century was produced by PBSI keep seeing this more and more… yet another sign of declining literacy: all these new children’s books with sing-song rhymes you can’t really perform aloud because there’s no effort to square the meter.
