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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:03:08 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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   Also the practices themselves are a huge part of what makes the fields what they are. Learning the humanities just from reading the books makes about as much sense as learning programming by just reading programming books and not doing any coding.

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:03:09 JST Baldur Bjarnason

     Undecided on how annoying I find the mini-trend of tech people doing a “crash course in humanities” or “year long immersion in the humanities” by, basically, just plowing through a half-assed reading list

     It’s definitely annoying, but does it rise to the level of fucking annoying is my question?

     If you don’t know why it’s annoying, the “humanities” is a collection of related fields connected by similarities in practices and approaches. It’s not a single field.

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