Do people even say 'OK boomer' anymore?
― jmm, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:05 (eleven months ago) link
well luckily for young Americans whenever older people lose their jobs they're willing to spend all day online imparting their Ancient Wisdom.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:07 (eleven months ago) link
new borad description
― rob, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:11 (eleven months ago) link
I think many have moved onto "fuck you boomer"
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:35 (eleven months ago) link
listen, old people have a slower response time than younger people. apparently by 2-3 years
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:53 (eleven months ago) link
"Don't trust anyone over 30": the ageist slogan that must be stopped
― jmm, Monday, 9 October 2023 23:39 (eleven months ago) link
don’t trust anyone under 30 or over 45
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:43 (eleven months ago) link
I don't know but I got harrumphed at by several elders on FB for calling Jann Wenner a "prototype of white Boomer male entitlement" — there was a lot of "not all Boomers!" stuff. Boomers are very easily butthurt by this stuff. One guy told me that even using the word "Boomer" was a slur. lol.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:55 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, I don’t see any reason to deny using Boomer as a slur, if it matches your intention
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:11 (eleven months ago) link
the truth is the truth
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
OTOH, I have no problem calling it FaceBoomer
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 05:54 (eleven months ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 08:35 (eleven months ago) link
is the nyt aware of the existence of colleges that aren't elite expensive private institutions?
― rob, Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:49 (ten months ago) link
you mean where the poors go to learn?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:59 (ten months ago) link
Barely, judging by the recent articles written by their higher ed reporters:https://www.nytimes.com/by/anemona-hartocollishttps://www.nytimes.com/by/vimal-patel
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 November 2023 17:58 (ten months ago) link
you mean like Barnard and Sarah Lawrence and stuff?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 November 2023 19:21 (ten months ago) link
lol
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:m34vt2ca7xdvivhgibpxc46r/bafkreiewgp5xh2tojvxb4m4avw5omjshnqripmv43hmzubk77i6lbzhos4@jpeg
― rob, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link
The New York Times needs to expand its reach to include the more modest, mainstream institutions of higher education where most American students go, like Cornell
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:31 (ten months ago) link
Was gonna say, "Whaddya expect them to write about, Brown?"
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:38 (ten months ago) link
heckuva school
― Left, Friday, 10 November 2023 15:04 (ten months ago) link
My first thought was "Stanford is going to be really pissed off about this" until I realized that it's just as plausible that Stanford paid the NYT to be left off.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 November 2023 20:07 (ten months ago) link
Let’s Talk About Biden, Trump and … Taylor Swift
― rob, Monday, 27 November 2023 20:52 (ten months ago) link
jfc: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/business/dealbook/universities-antisemitism-harvard-mit-penn.html
Who Should Run Universities?In the wake of a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard over antisemitism, a debate has arisen over whether academics are best suited to lead big schools.
In the wake of a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard over antisemitism, a debate has arisen over whether academics are best suited to lead big schools.
I probably don't need to remind anyone here that Dealbook just hosted Elon Musk immediately after his public embrace of antisemitism
― rob, Monday, 11 December 2023 18:22 (nine months ago) link
schools should be run LIKE A BUSINESS
oh wait
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 December 2023 18:24 (nine months ago) link
Coming from business doesn’t guarantee success either: Simon Newman, a former financier, resigned as president of a Maryland college after reportedly comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot.
Had to look into this more.
The Mount St. Mary’s campus has been in turmoil since word leaked in January through The Mountain Echo, the student newspaper, that Newman had compared struggling students to bunnies that need to be drowned or killed with a Glock. The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.Newman had proposed to use a survey -- on which freshmen would be told there were no wrong answers -- to identify those at risk of dropping out and to encourage them to do so in the first weeks of the semester. The idea was to raise the university’s retention rate, since those who leave very early in the semester don’t count in the total enrollment figures. Many professors and some administrators protested the plan, saying that the university has an obligation to try to educate those it admits.
Newman had proposed to use a survey -- on which freshmen would be told there were no wrong answers -- to identify those at risk of dropping out and to encourage them to do so in the first weeks of the semester. The idea was to raise the university’s retention rate, since those who leave very early in the semester don’t count in the total enrollment figures. Many professors and some administrators protested the plan, saying that the university has an obligation to try to educate those it admits.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/01/president-quits-mount-st-marys
Like, even without the metaphor, this is deranged.
― jmm, Monday, 11 December 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
this is how colleges see their students
― treeship., Monday, 11 December 2023 19:15 (nine months ago) link
Taylor Swift should run universities, of course
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 11 December 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
The metaphor grabbed attention, but educators said the underlying debate was what really mattered.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2023 19:33 (nine months ago) link
Bret Stephens
Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard
― rob, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 16:27 (nine months ago) link
well yeah
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 16:35 (nine months ago) link
jfc lol
Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
Charles M. BlowThe Persecution of President Gay
Ross DouthatHarvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself
Letters From Our ReadersThe Fallout From a Resignation at Harvard
― rob, Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:19 (nine months ago) link
This story is so far along the discourse/outrage cycle that I really can’t figure out what exactly happened besides “Chris Rufo”
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:54 (nine months ago) link
Lol congrats to the NYT, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic for getting played like a fucking fiddle by this leering dipshit, great job guys pic.twitter.com/3CCJViryiE— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) January 4, 2024
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:01 (nine months ago) link
for all its baseline biases and blind spots i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard - they see themselves as the flagship paper of record of the country and the western world, and harvard as the analogous educational institution. so it's all but irresistible for them to slobber all over it when shit goes down there. doesn't make it any better
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:23 (nine months ago) link
As O said in the other thread, Rufo is a self-promoter and fraud, Gay is out only because billionaire donors (people with actual money) didn’t like her.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:28 (nine months ago) link
they've lost their fucking minds:
Tressie McMillan CottomThe Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit
Charles SeifeThe Problems Only Start With Plagiarism
(the Cottom piece is probably fine, but it's for their own good that we don't click on these things)
― rob, Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:34 (nine months ago) link
Cottom's essay is good
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:51 (nine months ago) link
i think the nyt has a particular thing for harvard
the more petty reason is many of the writers and editors either went to harvard/yale/princeton, wanted to go there and were turned down, and/or know a bunch of dicks that went there.
― that's not my post, Friday, 5 January 2024 00:10 (nine months ago) link
I thought you guys would be talking about this one
Every declining empire for some reason ends up being like just one more invasion of Afghanistan bro I promise bro just one more is all I need pic.twitter.com/nMftzLkXg0— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) January 4, 2024
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 5 January 2024 00:19 (nine months ago) link
I chuckled at the recent headline "Trump Cacophony Hits Differently This Time," imagining a copy editor fastidiously adding the "-ly."
― jaymc, Friday, 5 January 2024 00:29 (nine months ago) link
Abolish Harvard, make everyone happy.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 5 January 2024 00:33 (nine months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=claudine+gay
16 entries in the last three days
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 January 2024 01:52 (nine months ago) link
a 2016 vox article just after jack chick's passing sez:
Chick’s obituary in the New York Times noted that “some people called Mr. Chick the Thomas Pynchon of evangelism"
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 January 2024 02:03 (eight months ago) link
please die Pamela Paul
― rob, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:07 (eight months ago) link
I hate the conservatives in the Op-Ed section, but I reserve special ire for Bret Stephens and Pamela Paul. I hope they both get hit by cars.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:22 (eight months ago) link
surprised but not surprised to find out they were once married
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:26 (eight months ago) link
Stephens is the literal worst. Still LOL at his post-2018 midterm article that he wrote prematurely the day after, saying the results proved Democrats needed to reach across the aisle to the disappointing results, then as the number of House flips started skyrocketing, he just changed the number in his article but left everything else intact, and continued to defend his take on Twitter
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:30 (eight months ago) link
*due to
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:31 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JrtcXTf.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/Y8vcfkJ.jpeg
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:37 (eight months ago) link
(the report PP linked to was retracted)