christinekooi.bsky.social
LSU professor, Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
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And before you come for me saying "humanities people are awful, too" Im begging you to understand how power works. We live in an increasingly technocultic, not even technocratic, world. We SHOULD be critical of tech education, Big Tech, and how tech today seeks to reshape/exploit the planet.
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Oder Englisch?
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He's a hotshot statistician/former pollster in the US who now works for crypto.
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Good guess, but no. It's the ruins of my grandparents' home in the Netherlands after it was burned down by the Germans in 1944.
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We academics are perfectly capable of doing both.
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Bravo!
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Not me, but then I'm not a modernist.
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I propose a new law under which politicians are put in the stocks every time they say the word ‘growth’ followed by ‘AI’. Stop betting everyone’s future on slop.
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Um, when has he not shown his true colors?
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Thank you, Senator.
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Imagine if they were all women; the outcry would be very different.
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Perhaps, but I'm well past the point of "surely they wouldn't do this" kind of thinking.
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I agree, but I don't regard this piece as fair criticism.
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That guy was not a Roman Catholic priest but a priest in a conservative Anglican offshoot church. And he has since been ejected from that church.
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If there's no LSU, then there's also no football program to cut.
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I think there many reasons why Trump won, voter apathy among them.
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They were wrong, too.
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📌
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Manchester Guardian.
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Oh, don't get me started on Americanists and their language abilities. 😉
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Thanks for the kind words. I always tell my students, in the end the only that is left of us is stories. They have great power.
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Trump heeft al de Amerikaanse kroon, dus waarom niet.
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Hasn't been announced, but rumors are flying around campus.
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Growing up, I always associated the woody, nutty smell of this piece when its drawers opened up with my grandparents' home, a safe and loving space. But it was also once owned by a damned Nazi. Such are the contradictions we hold in this life.
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After the war they were compensated by the Dutch government with some furniture confiscated from a Dutch Nazi collaborator in Rotterdam. Among the items was a beautiful 1930s walnut secretary. That secretary now stands in my dining room.
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The house when it was built in 1932. That's my dad and his sister in the foreground.
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I hear the provost is out too.
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Blowing with the prevailing wind will backfire on you eventually.
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One could see this coming a mile off.