Notices by brinnbelyea (brinnbelyea@fosstodon.org)

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke

The DNC is just making sure that we choose the right kind of candidate, a neoliberal, who understands that corporate America and investor needs come first instead of the kind of candidate who would help people. The DNC people know more about stuff than the voters do and have the right to do this, just ask them about it.

@inthehands That's surprising. If Graeber's thesis holds water anywhere, it would be academia. It's a very hard case to make that businesses carry multitudes of unproductive employees because management conspires to build fiefdoms despite this lowering profits. In academia, though, the explosive growth of admin and the war on faculty would seem to the the one place where Graeber's thesis is indisputable.

@inthehands David Graeber's book BS Jobs explains why we will have more "productivity" that produces nothing. It's all about the churn that achieves nothing, justifying more churn.

@mekkaokereke

Computer Science Principles classes strive to support rather than weed out. So do the new kinds of physics classes like Eric Mazur runs at Harvard and Paul Cottle at Florida State. Just changing the philosophy of intro classes from weeder to supporter is huge.

@inthehands Where did liberal arts education reach its highest level? English public school to train colonial admin. No timely communication with home so they had to build thinkers.

It's never been valued as anything other than generating money and power.