I'll take a sound 81 year old brain over a 70 year old brain partly eaten by worms. But that's just me.

Exactly: “Administrators have spent much of the recent past recruiting social-justice-minded students and faculty to their campuses under the implicit, and often explicit, promise that activism is not just welcome but encouraged. Now the leaders of those universities are shocked…

Over a 10 year period, the percentage of young adults who said that a college degree is very important fell to 41 percent from 74 percent. Only about 1/3 of Americans say they have a lot of confidence in higher education.

Wait and see what the numbers look like next year.

George Packer may be unpopular for this essay but it is right on the mark in my view. For years some ever-enlarging precincts of university curriculums have indeed created a crisis of our own making on campuses. Read and reflect?
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Just a reminder that we're posting the good stuff--all of our daily culture posts--on the other platforms (Threads, Bluesky, Post, Mastodon, Facebook, etc). Just search for us there at Open Culture

Hey Twitter World

There are a few things I won't pay for in life. One is a blue check mark.

Odd that we suddenly got a blue check mark. We never had one before and we certainly haven't paid for it. Does everyone now have one?

Threads is now integrated into Facebook. X is gonna get smoked.

Fewer people are using X. In February, X had 27 million daily active users in the U.S., down 18% from a year earlier, according to Sensor Tower. Threads is getting about 16 downloads for every one download of X, according to Apptopia.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

Here is the Don Lemon interview that made Elon “ free speech absolutist”
Musk have a tantrum and cancel Twitter’s contract with Lemon. Full Interview youtu.be/hhsfjBpKiTw?si…

I read the now-censored Guernica essay by Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen and it's beautiful and humane and achingly sad. If THIS qualifies as cause for staff resignations and censoring our culture is deeply damaged:

web.archive.org/web/2024030509…

I have a beautiful bottle of wine that I'm saving--saving for the day when this clown is no longer part of our scene.

Holy moly. This is worth every minute.

Jonathan Katz exposes Katie Britt as a lying sack of shit. 👀

Saturday Night Live - SNL Split Screen Senator Katie Boyd Britt

I told you that Katie Britt is an SNL skit. Scarlett Johansson does the honors in SNL's cold open. youtube.com/watch?v=cCfLpu…

Trump endorsed Republican Congressional Candidate Dan Rodimer, who has now been arrested for murder.

X Usage Dropped 30% In Last Year, Study Says forbes.com/sites/antoniop…