Incredibly small potatoes but: I think SNL just hired its first legit TikToker? https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/snl-ashley-padilla-emil-wakim-jane-wickline-1236139030/ Jane Wickline is really good as a first pick from that realm
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-89/ this week in sentences: the dead, the orb, ambergris, Karl Marx, coke with Oasis
> The Oklahoma City Apple store in Penn Square mall, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), just won their first tentative agreement with the corporation.
WONDERFUL NEWS https://freepressokc.com/okla-city-apple-store-workers-win-union-contract-with-tech-giant/
like: i am not going to get the job i am writing this teaching statement for, and that's fine probably, but it's such a bummer to remember that after getting all excited writing about how cool it is to see students come out the other side of a research rabbit hole
no one told me the worst part of applying for academic jobs is having to admit that I really love teaching!! i want to make spaces for the youth to be brave and curious it's so fucking cool. and also it sucks that most universities are actively disinterested in teaching as the act of making spaces for courage and curiosity bc they are basically hedge funds with a veneer of intellectual credentials