SethRudy

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Me, ten years ago: I can reach all my students
Me, five years ago: I can reach half my students
Me, two years ago: I can reach some students
Me, now: there’s got to be one body I can pull out of this train wreck

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

If the Feds ever seize my phone they’re going to uncover some seriously damning text messages about certain university press editors and the state of the academic humanities

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Has the groundhog come out, looked around, and suffered a complete mental breakdown yet

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

A whiteboard in the philosophy dept hallway asks weekly open-ended questions and people write their hot takes. This week’s is “what gives a government legitimacy?” so I wrote “farcical aquatic ceremonies.”

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Students: we’re in the midst of a mental health crisis, help us
Admins: students are the midst of a mental health crisis, help them
Me: do I seem mentally healthy to you lunatics?

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Fine, my god, ok, don’t go to college, don’t read, don’t write, enjoy your shitty AI-generated world of misinformation, disinformation, and dumbass fascism, you’re right, you won’t know the difference, but do think of me when your mom sees the deepfake porn some randos made from actual photos of you being run over by the self-driving car you built before being laid off and bankrupted by the same fuckers who told you with a straight face not to know anything in the first place, I feel unwell

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

I wish everyone who ever had a crush on me would let me know. I’m way past the point of temptation or nostalgic crisis but I could still use the ego boost.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Report from Canadian pediatric society urging more risky play for kids and I’m all for it, but you gotta know socialized medicine is the rubber floor and padded everything else for parents. Yeah, you go ahead and climb that, Johnny Mapleaf, a broken arm won’t bankrupt your family.

https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/outdoor-risky-play

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

He’s not as resentful as he looks. But it’s close. #caturday

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

I've been following the defamation trial pretty closely, and though I'm no lawyer, neither is Trump's.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

A student today drew the line between Gen Z and Gen A by saying, “yeah, we’re on TikTok, but at least we remember what it was like before TikTok,” and once again I realized that to them I was born when the earth was first cooling.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

I have to assume there’s some sort of neurological effect on kids of being able to rewatch the same movie or show again and again. You couldn’t do that when I was a kid. Even if you rented it you had to return it.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Telling students they can only use AI to proofread and copy edit their papers is like telling a toddler they can only take one piece of candy from a candy store where there’s no clerk and the candy is free and they never close and there are a ton of other people in there acting like Augustus Gloop in the chocolate river room and you’re at home, upstairs, asleep.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

We don’t talk enough about needing mouth guards because we’ve made a society so stressful that we’re trying to bite through our own heads even in our sleep

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Hmm let’s see here, longest low unemployment in fifty years and tightening labor market coincides with increasingly vocal efforts to dissuade young people from going to college so they can enter the workforce, hmmmm coincidence

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Meanwhile, I’m meant to skip showers to conserve water. #caturday

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Education is increasingly looked at as an inconvenience, and it won’t stop with eliminating college. When that gets renormalized, look for high school to last two years so kids can start their apprenticeships.

SethRudy, 4 months ago to random

Is it possible that the mass psychosis made manifest in American politics is due to the subconscious effects of constantly flickering LED lights?

SethRudy, 5 months ago to memphis

The snows have come to #Memphis; already the cat and child whisper about which parent to eat first.

SethRudy, 5 months ago to random

Lemme see here, there's GOT to be a way I can get the affirmation and validation I crave without going through the whole fuss of deserving them...

SethRudy, 5 months ago to random

So there were five different species of birds on the feeder at once and I was going to make a parable about just getting along with each other despite our differences but then a blue jay showed up and went absolutely feral on everyone, so never mind.

SethRudy, 5 months ago to random

I am not getting older; I’m becoming available in softcover.

SethRudy, 5 months ago to random

Something about the widespread “adapt to AI! Get it into your classroom ASAP!” discourse reminds me of when my school spent a crap-ton of money on laserdisc players

SethRudy, 5 months ago to random

Cozying up Protestants, really tall but with terrible physique, multiple marriages, daughters by different mothers who don’t get along, likes country club sports, difficulty producing viable male heirs—if he somehow dissolves the ivies, Trump is basically our Henry VIII.