Posts by Manigarm@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AXju328sY5kwWamCy8 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:56:32Z
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"Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business"From now on, philosophy, language, religion, politics, and culture will be exclusively the purview of the very rich. For everyone else, college is where you will acquire specific skills that you will trade for wages on the capitalist market. Nothing else.
(DIR) Post #AXju32kSINoWP8MDXU by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:56:55Z
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Let's be clear. Those "low value" degrees are all the degrees were you learn how power works. How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. And why all of that is considered "low value" and by whom.
(DIR) Post #AXlOG2gB3SkvjoQlQ8 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T20:45:18Z
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@Aviva_Gary What are you talking about? I never said anything of the sort.
(DIR) Post #AXlPc32aUXBVBSyCP2 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T21:00:24Z
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@Aviva_Gary Ah, I see! Yes, I think it's a pretty safe bet to say "don't copy the US in terms of education' (along with a few other things). (No worries and sorry for the confusion. This thread has brought out some....interesting responses.)
(DIR) Post #AXlQQW24yUyVZznTWa by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T21:01:32Z
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@alexanderhay @SunMcNukes This thread has really brought out the strange, that's for sure.
(DIR) Post #AXr8PuzqyQ3uaTiMTo by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T14:44:05Z
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"Profitability" is now starting to look like microtransactions for completing homework, expensive courseware to replace pedagogy, and paying for surveillance software during tests. My students learn nothing this way. I won't teach like this.https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-homework-tax
(DIR) Post #AXr8PwnAIZ6K9hnFyq by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-19T15:11:10Z
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@Maren_the_great I have a whole thing about not using a textbook even.https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2023/02/27/teaching-textbooks/
(DIR) Post #AY8GnNc4z0EiHpHZaq by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-27T21:31:36Z
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Anthropology isn't so much a profession as it is a pathology.
(DIR) Post #AYEkN3deCCFTppLOqW by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-30T00:26:10Z
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Ok, Mastodon, listen. My debut novel just got out of proofs and we have the cover art. Which means that, pretty soon here, I need to start promoting the book. But, I'm still kinda sorta new here.So, how would you all prefer I natter on about this fantasy, unicorns, and magic thing I wrote?
(DIR) Post #AYIgu8okL3xAGktZYG by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-08-01T22:16:35Z
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Trump did everything wrong and still got rich.Trump did everything wrong and still became President.Trump did everything wrong and is still a 2024 candidate.Trump did everything wrong and still isn't sitting in a prison cell.Still he smiles and waves from his palace.
(DIR) Post #AYdGouo7G64JfLyNVI by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-08-11T20:35:20Z
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It's once again time for #FossilFriday and in honor of my upcoming guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions (out March 2024!) I give you this lovely Lakshmi-Narasimha Shaligram!
(DIR) Post #AZw73UQOXIXjGTzP3w by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-09-19T13:19:39Z
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I am both an American and a Cultural Anthropologist who specializes in semiotics and religion. I do not understand what is going on in this flag. At all.
(DIR) Post #Aaq2dbj4OC86DGC0Uy by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T17:57:06Z
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The inability to imagine how ancient peoples completed highly technical projects without advanced machinery is indicative of worker's alienation, not aliens.
(DIR) Post #Aaq2deOcSgYOUheDXU by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T17:58:02Z
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And for those of you encountering the ideas of Hyperdiffusionism or Unilinealism for the first time, I wrote all about the problem of Ancient Aliens and Pseudoscience here!https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/11/21/victorian-pseudoscience/
(DIR) Post #Abyjz8IKwciQJ9yCKe by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-11-19T14:43:50Z
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(DIR) Post #Abywz5q5NDPu614Ds8 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-11-20T01:14:04Z
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@Aviva_Gary Spread far and wide as needed.
(DIR) Post #Ac5LU9dWrsdChPIVMG by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-11-23T02:04:32Z
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Behold, upon this Thanksgiving Eve, the sum total accomplishment of my attempt to grow pumpkins this year.Four vines. Five months. One pumpkin.
(DIR) Post #Ad6x2icB1WLtLlwnhI by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T19:43:43Z
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Fishing this morning and caught my first barracuda! We've got dinner tonight!
(DIR) Post #AhwzVmT4v97LoA4eYa by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T13:42:05Z
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Well this is cool! The Way By now has a universal book link! When you click on it, it tells you every platform where the book is available, either in print or as an ebook.https://books2read.com/TheWayBy
(DIR) Post #Ao1LJ9PPA4WsG1XwVE by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2024-11-09T15:57:43Z
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Let us now take our inspiration from Judith and Timoclea, who knew precisely how to render an effective counter protest.