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18 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What's more fun than a faculty meeting?
A FACULTY MEETING ON ZOOM
#YoureOnMute #StillOnMute #NoOneDidTheReading #WhatAreWeVotingOnAgain #IsThatAnAmendment #IsThatAQuestion #CheckSectionKOnPage5
We believe shared governance is a sacred right
*sees work involved in actual shared governance*
not like that
I'm just watching the cat vibing video on repeat at this point

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19 Feb
They're saving 500K by doing this, which is a sliver of the overall budget of several hundred million. It's not a cost-savings measure so much a statement of priorities. If they were serious about cutting costs long term they'd look at administrative bloat ksnt.com/news/local-new…
This is the equivalent of me facing a several thousand dollar deficit at the end of the month and cancelling Hulu instead of the lease on the Lamborghini in the driveway.
Every university admin should read @cnewf's The Great Mistake. Let's staple a copy to their foreheads if need be.
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17 Feb
Failing infrastructure, failing state, failing institutions...it didn't have to be like this. But insanity, as they say, is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. (That is also, by the way, how "American Exceptionalism" functions.)
But hey, at least a few dozen really rich dudes in Texas got even more money
When I was a junior high/high schooler in the Reagan years, I was told socialism would never work because look at the USSR--they can't feed their people, necessary goods are never available in the stores, the infrastructure is crumbling, the legal system was a farce...
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16 Feb
The weekly Chronicle Review newsletter highlighted this excellent essay by Sumana Roy, where they observe "decolonizing your syllabus" is often "a form otf atonement," where the "guilt tax" is paid. I've been sitting with this all day. A brief🧵if you care
chronicle.com/article/the-pr…
Also in the email digest was a link to this even more challenging essay by Blake Stimson, who identifies a "colonial narcissism" inherent in the mainstreamed sense of "decolonize your syllabus," adding an even sharper edge to the critique Roy makes. /2

nonsite.org/deneocolonize-…
As Stimson points out: "The “you” in the slogan “decolonize your syllabus” is not addressed to those existentially threatened by police violence and the like but instead to those—the professional managerial class, we might call us—who are its beneficiaries." I mean...yeah. /3
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10 Feb
"As the Dark One commands..."
HWÆT!
Alright alright alright
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9 Feb
"Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is entitled to a mulligan." -Gavrilo Princip
"Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is entitled to a mulligan." -Plant manager, Chernobyl
"Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is entitled to a mulligan." -John Wilkes Booth
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27 Jan
This thread gets it. Details and context are important; stop falling for clickbait headlines and listen to teachers.
Again, the upshot is that there are no great options right now. That horse left the barn last spring. What we have left is the least-worst option. We are approaching *half a million dead* in this country. To fully reopen schools would be murder, full stop.
If you think we should fully reopen schools, I want you to give me your number. Fully reopening means people *will* get sick and some *will* die. So go on record with your number: how many of those deaths are you willing to accept to reopen? Tell us how many lives you'd trade.
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