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Mike Riggs

@MikeRiggs
Editing at @rootsofprogress. Heavily invested in tomorrow being better than today.
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 20
    This is not true for medicine, obviously, but I can see numerous humanities/social science depts/majors dying out through attrition over the next two decades.
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    Nate Silver
    @NateSilver538
    Aug 20
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    It's been coasting on vibes rather than substance for a long time. Fewer and fewer interesting ideas come out of elite higher ed. Close to totally irrelevant on AI. And its vibes are increasingly bad too. Harvard/Stanford/Cambridge Inc etc is increasingly a depreciated brand.
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 19
    My favorite illustration of this point is the relationship between sickle cell and malaria.
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    Megan Fritts
    @freganmitts
    Aug 19
    “Evolution is not an optimizing process” is a point that takes a LONG time to sink in when I cover the topic in my philosophy of science class.
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 17
    The 4yo asked many questions about clowns this morning on the way to school. Is the red nose their actual nose? Why do they paint around their mouths? After explaining how exaggerated features work in live theater, I asked him if he wanted *to be* a clown. His features shifted
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 12
    This is wild. I was an English Lit major at a small liberal arts school, and even the two post-colonial profs assigned actual English lit. I guess I was lucky that the Restoration drama track meant reading Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, and (unfortunately) Congreve, rather than Derrida
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    Liza Libes
    @pensandpoison
    Aug 11
    I found this photo from my sophomore year dorm room at Columbia. Take a look at the authors we read in my English classes: Fanon, Derrida, Said, Foucault, Hegel, Baudrillard, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Barthes, Zizek, Heidegger, Lacan, Benjamin. Then you have your the
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