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I like this article, it's not anything ground breaking, but I think the dude wrote some actually interesting insight.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yikes, he is using IQ to explain cohort of students that are less capable; when it's actually a matter of preparation in K-12. This is not the right take. I'm sorry to say.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's one of the big L's in this whole article unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The other parts are somewhat on point, from my perfunctory reading, he speaks to the uselessness of committees and senates. He forgets to mention that everyone hates doing their job. So even if the Senate as an organizational and executive body didn't suck, everyone is too annoyed at having been assigned this service job to give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Agh I deleted the whole comment I had written up

Basically I'm not a huge fan of the way he invokes general intelligence and IQ in "The Brain drain" section. In terms of ability sure maybe the logic holds up (and that "ability" perceived by teachers is influenced by a lot of outside factors, some of which the author mentions repeatedly, like whether or not they have to work full time outside of class), but I don't think that invoking and reinforcing IQ as a useful or objective measure of "general intelligence" (which isn't even real IMO) is necessary to make the point he's making

Otherwise the article was good. Frankly we can all use a lot of the advice he gives, especially not taking work home, which is increasingly expected of people in almost all sectors.

Edit: side note! Does anyone else have opinions on whether or not lemmy should support less common URL schemes like gemini:// ? Maybe there are issues I'm not considering but I think it's reasonable at least in the case of gemini, maybe other things like magnet links too.

edit 2: waaaait lemme try something: gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lars_the_bear/university.gmi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

He's from academia, despite the pretty good write up it still sucks to see some brainworms seep through. It did give me a similar reaction to yours, but still I don't think it overstays it's welcome as to ruin the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Does anyone remember that video from the George Floyd protests where that antifa supersoldier decked out in full gear was getting interviewed by maybe a unicorn riot person? They asked him what his favorite projects where and he plugged Gemini.

I have been trying to find that video since I saw it but can't seem to. Anyone have it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I appreciate Gemini links.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://gemini.tildeverse.org/ seems to use dark mode or at least reads system settings but have to copy and paste the gemini link manually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks I couldn't find one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

stalin-point Gemini Spotted