jeanne ne sais quoi 🍂 retweeted
Any academic who unironically cites "free tuition" as part of a graduate student's compensation package should be instantly disqualified from weighing in on labor issues
A $51,000 annual stipend, combined with free tuition and health insurance, produces a total annual compensation package exceeding $100,000. In exchange, students work approximately 20 hours per week for say four 14-week semesters over five years. This amounts to just 1,120 hours of work over the entire five-year period, yielding an effective hourly compensation of more than $450 -- over 18 times the median hourly wage of an American worker. Even if you write off the free tuition, this wage is around 9x that of the median US worker.
Not to mention that you walk away with a Harvard PhD when all is said and done. Good work if you can get it.
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jeanne ne sais quoi 🍂 retweeted
it is a completely appropriate use of arbitrarily. a partial ordering is possible without quantifying intelligence, and 'large' can simply mean the chain length, or the antichain width
[guy who doesn’t know what arbitrarily means]: you don’t need to read books
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Someone randomly @ me on this thread lol, anyway, I actually don’t care about trans women winning, I care about trans women not being excluded from public life 👍
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Abolishing gender categories in sports is good because it does away with the ideology that men and women are essential biological categories obviously
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jeanne ne sais quoi 🍂 retweeted
i hate this but my job offer fell through at least for now and i have literally $10.07 in my checking account if anybody wants to slip me a fiver
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all this bond casting discussion makes me want to reiterate my take that we should all know much less about the production of films until after they've already been shot, preferably the first information that a movie is being made is when a trailer for it drops.
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Rest in peace Richard Lloyd, Marquee Moon changed my life, his solo on the title track is permanently etched into my brain
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Lack of male protagonists? Where? Where is the lack?
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026/1…
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