Josh Shepperd
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Josh Shepperd
@joshshepperd
Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Currently writing the official history of US public media
Joined November 2015
- Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania just now: “You can’t file a lawsuit against math. You can file a lawsuit against a ham sandwich, it doesn’t mean it’s going to go anywhere.”
- Was in a dive bar tonight in the far western Chicago burbs hanging out with truckers who were fruit shippers. They were talking about how when truck refrigerators break on very hot days, that banana shipments explode. It was the greatest bar conversation that I've ever heard.
- I got one for you: zero of my one hundred students had heard of Depeche Mode today. Zero.
- No one who has asked “will your Zoom talk be be recorded?” has ever watched the recording.
- My university has informed us that we are moving to a “customer service” model. Not a joke.
- That Trump is even competitive after the past four years is in itself already major defeat of a kind.
- Before Twitter is gone I have to say that Dolly Parton is a better songwriter than Bob Dylan.
- A non-academic asked me what “genre” I write in. Granular academic distinctions aside, I think the answer is “non-popular non-fiction.”
- Good news - I got tenure.
- I am really not on board with how expensive conference registration has gotten. We're looking at $300 to $500 per conference at this point, if one includes association membership. This is totally unsustainable in the humanities.
- Despite the great Twitter panic of a couple years ago, I always sign my emails "Best." But what are the most well received academic signages?
- It's not just Georgia. We're already in a crisis of democracy. "Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday."
