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Not even a superhero fan & I feel this. Why is that? 🤔 I guess I love the swinging movement, that's cool. And he's relatable. And the extended fight scenes that bore the shit outta me in other Marvel movies don't bother me as much.
Micahanother data point for “spider-man is the best superhero” not even superhero fatigue can keep people from wanting to hang out with our pal pete
Toward the end of my academic career, I had moved all of my courses to either open-source materials or collections of PDFs that I uploaded to the LMS for them. Textbook costs are ridiculous and I know that money isn't going to the authors.
Jennifer N. VictorToday, in middle-aged academics' rage, I learned that a paperback version of the course textbook I've used for 20+ years costs $265!! The electronic version, which requires students to read it through the publisher's proprietary software interface, is $98. RIP books! 😩
Jumping off Jo's point, this is my thinking about the upper bounds of how much AI can actually make us more "efficient." The idea of taking over the many little tasks so we can focus more on the "real work" is appealing, but... there's a limit to how much of that "real work" we can do at a time.
Jo VanEveryFWIW, it is unusual to be able to write for more than 2 or 3 hours a day. Maybe another hour or so of working on the book in a less cognitively demanding way. (I know Rachel is not alone in thinking otherwise)
My post-tenure-bump salary was lower than it would have been had my starting salary merely kept pace with inflation. It's bad out there!
Drug MonkeyI really hope someone checks my math and memory of public university starting salaries. The idea that inflation adjusted numbers reflect starting assistant professors making 20% less now than they did 25 years ago is….. whew.