Well, there was something of the kind of CANZUK sharing earlier. But that included SA and India in a kind of outer layer with less complete access.
There’s absolutely no incentive to log in to YouTube now that subscriptions and bells do nothing to control your feed. End stage enshittification.
This is very cool. 😎
I do know about the latter. Knew some folks that taught there.
Few courses are taught by tenured faculty at the Ivies. Junior faculty have to justify final grades, PhD students and sessional have to justify any grades lower than B- on any assignment.
Coupling that with the ‘legacy admissions’ where children of alumni have a lower bar to admission, anyone with a B- average has a questionable degree.
No matter how good their programs are, for the lowers tier of students, they’re just institutions of transmitted privilege. Which is why the complaints about DEI mechanisms to balance that are so suspect.
I wasn’t aware whether UPenn was on the same system but it’s a huge thing for private universities reliant on tuition fees and big alumni donations.
It’s interesting how California is shutting down the practice of legacy admissions, and Stanford and USC are feeling the sting.
But Trump was able to graduate?
Is Wharton one of those US schools (like Harvard) where anyone lower than a tenured professor has to write justifications to file anytime they give a student less than a B-?
Both Trump and Musk have degrees from the supposedly reputable Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
If these two are evidence of their quality of graduates, it really raises questions about whether it was another US institution where ‘legacy’ and money buy admissions and it’s impossible not to graduate.
There is a science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold ‘Falling Free’ about a population of genetically engineered ‘quaddies’ and their situation once artificial gravity technology becomes available.
You can join communities on other instances too if you have specific interests.
There’s currently an Redexit of Canadians who are looking to get off US-controlled social media.
Lemmy.ca has had a huge spike in enrolment as it’s the one that was most prominently promoted in r/BuyCanadian. Apparently, it’s had over 9k signups in the past day.
She was on the D at one point, it was name dropped.
And on DS9 when some of the Dominion War stuff went down.
My contribution to the fediverse’ #MakeYourOwnMoopsyMonth challenge.
Be gentle, I’m a novice meme-creator.
It’s October, and Trek’s new adorable horror is being unfairly usurped in trendiness by a character who appeared in all of two TOS episodes (even if the grimness of his personal backstory rivals La’an Noonian-Singh’s).
So, Moopsy + Kevin memes. . . I dare you.
I’ve been enjoying the very short stories by Treklit authors in the recent issues of Titanbooks Star Trek Explorer magazine.
I see that they’re promoting anthologies of short stories, with a new third one due to be released soon. However, it’s not clear if these are just compilations of previously published stories from the magazine, new content or a mix of both.
Anyone have the earlier releases?
Did I miss the actual Protostar announcement?