Eight by Seven
Timothy BurkeOrganized distractedness: regular doses of history, politics, cooking, academia and geek culture.
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“Automate the mindless tasks,” we’re told by the enthusiasts for generative AI. “Free yourself to do the work that matters, that really requires your skill and creativity”.
This rhetoric drives me nuts because it is frequently offered wit...
Academia: What It Feels Like To Be a Liability
The semester is over, so I am in that space where there are many things that need doing but they’ve lost some of their weekly patterning. I attended an interesting virtual seminar about academic freedom yesterday, and accordingly today I fe...
The News: What Is There Left to Say?
As many people keep pointing out, Donald Trump demonstrated a fairly keen understanding of the politics he was inaugurating in his now-famous January 2016 statement that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone without...
Academia: A Tale of Two Speakers
Derek Peterson, one of the most thoughtful and accomplished historians of Africa in the American academy, made a few remarks at commencement in his role as chair of the faculty senate at the University of Michigan.
Regardless of what he o...
The News: I'm Afraid You Have a Bad Case of Structure. Take Two Contradictions And Call Me In The Morning.
To look into the face of Keir Starmer is to gaze into the deepest well of helplessness imaginable. You know how people say that some folks start to resemble their dogs and vice-versa? Starmer and his many counterparts across the world’s lib...
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