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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:27:54 JST Aral Balkan

   I can’t even… Was an MA in NFTs already taken?

   BA? More like BS.

   #ireland #SETU #academia #BigTech #bullshit

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:45:53 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @aral 😳

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:53:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cheerios de Bergerac

     @sexybenfranklin Haha, true. But this is the other kind :)

     💩

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     Cheerios de Bergerac (sexybenfranklin@smores.town)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:53:51 JST Cheerios de Bergerac

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     @aral Sadly BS is already a degree

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:54:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear Yeah, I did a communications degree too. Thankfully, we got a bunch of critical media theorists to teach it though, which has made all the difference :)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 17:54:34 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @aral Reading the details, it looks like this is going to be a variant media and communications qualification, with the usual video and audio editing, scripting, presentation, law and production modules, plus some extra marketing modules and some specific cultural studies stuff.

     I'm probably biased because I took media and comms as a vocational qualification back in the dark ages, but they're usually very practical hands-on degrees, and they always get vaguely dismissive headlines about "oh, a degree in watching TV, is it?" (or uploading to TikTok, in this case).

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 03:19:35 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     • GNU Too

     @gnu2 Education for its own sake, even in something others may not approve of, is always worthwhile. The entire problem with education in much of Europe is the insistence that students be trained to be compliant members of the workforce.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 03:24:40 JST GNU Too

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
     education for its own sake is fine, but don't take food out of babies mouths for it.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 03:27:54 JST GNU Too

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
     @HauntedOwlbear @aral @sexybenfranklin @pfefferle this is what happens when the feds subsidize student loans, regardless of the chances of being employed afterward #SeperationOfSchoolAndState
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     Cheerios de Bergerac (sexybenfranklin@smores.town)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 03:31:40 JST Cheerios de Bergerac

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     • GNU Too

     @gnu2 @aral You didn't need to tag me in this my guy.