gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lars_the_bear/university.gmi
I like this article, it's not anything ground breaking, but I think the dude wrote some actually interesting insight.
Yes it's a gemini capsule, deal with it B)
Here's my preffered browser; Kristall
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"Why didn't you put in the URL thingy when creating the post?"
Yikes, he is using IQ to explain cohort of students that are less capable; when it's actually a matter of preparation in K-12. This is not the right take. I'm sorry to say.
It's one of the big L's in this whole article unfortunately
The other parts are somewhat on point, from my perfunctory reading, he speaks to the uselessness of committees and senates. He forgets to mention that everyone hates doing their job. So even if the Senate as an organizational and executive body didn't suck, everyone is too annoyed at having been assigned this service job to give a shit.
Agh I deleted the whole comment I had written up
Basically I'm not a huge fan of the way he invokes general intelligence and IQ in "The Brain drain" section. In terms of ability sure maybe the logic holds up (and that "ability" perceived by teachers is influenced by a lot of outside factors, some of which the author mentions repeatedly, like whether or not they have to work full time outside of class), but I don't think that invoking and reinforcing IQ as a useful or objective measure of "general intelligence" (which isn't even real IMO) is necessary to make the point he's making
Otherwise the article was good. Frankly we can all use a lot of the advice he gives, especially not taking work home, which is increasingly expected of people in almost all sectors.
Edit: side note! Does anyone else have opinions on whether or not lemmy should support less common URL schemes like gemini:// ? Maybe there are issues I'm not considering but I think it's reasonable at least in the case of gemini, maybe other things like magnet links too.
edit 2: waaaait lemme try something: gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lars_the_bear/university.gmi
He's from academia, despite the pretty good write up it still sucks to see some brainworms seep through. It did give me a similar reaction to yours, but still I don't think it overstays it's welcome as to ruin the whole thing.
Does anyone remember that video from the George Floyd protests where that antifa supersoldier decked out in full gear was getting interviewed by maybe a unicorn riot person? They asked him what his favorite projects where and he plugged Gemini.
I have been trying to find that video since I saw it but can't seem to. Anyone have it?
another option is link to proxy url or archive
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lars_the_bear/university.gmi
https://archive.is/HmhAShttps://gemini.tildeverse.org/ seems to use dark mode or at least reads system settings but have to copy and paste the gemini link manually
https://gemini.tildeverse.org/?gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lars_the_bear/university.gmi
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