So, that’s it for knowledge then, huh? Just shuttering anything which is not immediately instrumentalizable by the coarsest short term metrics? Cool cool cool. I’m sure that won’t have any impact on society or democracy or human relations & capabilities.

DRrachelschine.bsky.socialOct 19, 2024 4:55pm

"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

i literally could not imagine looking at the world today and then axing any program that deals with global communication and contextualization