Seth Largo
@SethLargo
California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape"
This is true - humanities would have a much better reputation if Phil 101 was a weed-out course like O Chem. I think it doesn't happen because humanities rely on enrollment for funding, whereas STEM gets lots of federal research grants. Can't scare away the golden geese.
one of my minor crank takes that will never get anywhere is that humanities classes should be culturally allowed to fail students. humanities don’t have weeding or filter classes the way stem gets to. it’s not that the matter is less difficult but the standards to pass are lower
Kicking someone in the head as hard as you can while they are on the ground should be considered attempted murder
This is still one of the funniest frames in the history of prestige TV.
My son will play with these flight radar maps for hours. Just loves to find the whackiest or most old school aircraft up there, like this one that almost hit a Southwest passenger plane.
ABC News: About 6 min after SWA1496 took off from Hollywood Burbank Airport, it abruptly descended 475 feet, per to Flightradar24. The other plane ascended. Preliminary data shows the planes were several miles apart when the pilots received their alerts. This happened today.
"He began to see that his country's cowboys, outlaws, mountain men, Indians and cavalry officers had the makings of a genuine American Mythology... One with the grandeur and complexity of the Greek tragedies, every bit as fertile ground for exploring human experience."
Now reading this biography of Hollywood maniac Sam Peckinpah.
A registered sex offender who has been arrested multiple times for sniffing women’s rear ends while in public was arrested again this week for the same crime. ktla.com/news/californi…
You'll ask people for proof that culture isn't stuck, and this is the best they can do.
Watch "Hitch" (2005) and ask if those clothes look cool
looking good irl + for a professional camera versus looking good for mobile video 🫠
Theo Huxtable, Ozzy, and Hulk. Always comes in threes. Aging celebs, you can relax for another year or two.
Why do mainstream entertainment corporations keep trying to start race wars?
The reporters have stupid NIMBY sympathies but the photo editor did a solid here with this caption. nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-…
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Books! The cozy image of a “reader culture” where the average person might own a bookshelf full of mass print novels dates to late 19th/early 20th, when radio was already being developed. The mass literacy that Bradbury celebrated basically came and went in his lifetime…
The only thing that makes me recoil on a deep intuitive level more than far-left identity politics is "muh property rights" politics on oceans and forests.
Private marinas have very strict rules & will not hesitate to enforce them.
You know things are bad when U of Chicago starts cutting languages and the humanities.
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Fair point for Google. The internet is not forever. We are searching for pages long since 404'd
partly google's fault for sure, but also a lot of information has just vanished due to lawyer takedowns