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Reflection on the degree to which large research universities are Non-Government Organizations (Quangos, in the United Kingdom) or Hedge Funds with a side operation in education.

“Mack the Knife” (original German title: “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer”) seems like a jaunty swing tune, especially in Louis Armstrong’s or Bobby Darin’s famous versions, but its lyrics are actually about a charming, elegant, and utterly ruthless gangster/criminal named Macheath (“Mack the Knife”) from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper).

This popular jazz standard disguises the cynical statement about how money, greed, corruption, robbery, and murder are intertwined — and how the biggest crooks wear suits and are celebrated instead of punished. 

Have a word that’s overstayed its welcome? It’s time to banish it! 🗣️❌

📝 Visit LSSU’s Banished Words entry form to submit a word for consideration: https://t.co/8lKrhomzFq

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— LSSU (@LifeatLSSU) October 25, 2024

I kwestion this decision and reject it.#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicX #AprilFoolDay https://t.co/U472YpF3zO

— Reviewer 2 (@GrumpyReviewer2) April 1, 2025

8th March 2014
Balloons are hard to ignore.
From my book ‘Cambridge – Town & Gown’ available at https://t.co/8I1DoF7Kzw and all bookshops pic.twitter.com/cY9LUeN0uh

— A Cambridge Diary (@acambridgediary) March 8, 2025

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— Coach J (@coachj4592) March 8, 2025

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Power Outlet Wiring

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger

of taking educated people seriously.”

– G.K. Chesterton

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https://twitter.com/evantwedt/status/1676929207119806464?s=20

General Conditions of the Construction Contract

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“…On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(more leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free…

Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium

Wählen ab 16: Jugendliche in Freiburg befragen Europawahl-Kandidaten

This is a simply delightful sketch animation of a ballet dancer. I was trying to get some different effects and style effects than usual.

(Prompt in following tweets.)
#Veo2 pic.twitter.com/fyznNWl3Mt

— Jason Baldridge (@jasonbaldridge) January 17, 2025

“Actors from the Commedia dell’Arte on a Wagon in a Town Square” 1640 Jan Miel

A walk through the status of best practice literature that sets the standard of care for safety and sustainability in the education facilities built for the performance arts.

Readings: The Seven Lively Arts (1924) Glibert Seldes (Oxford Academic review)

https://twitter.com/RoyalBalletSch/status/1651974785490878464?s=20

Happy Friday folks! Spring is springing and the tulips are blooming. Have a lovely weekend. #FridayFeeling #Tulips #weekend #Spring #April pic.twitter.com/vWbUZ8ahqq

— Kate Garner (@KateGarnerMusic) April 4, 2025

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The connection between Deacon Blues by Steely Dan and Wake Forest University comes from a lyric in the song that references the university’s sports team.

In Deacon Blues, there’s a line that goes:

“They got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose / They call Alabama the Crimson Tide / Call me Deacon Blues.”

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the core members of Steely Dan, explained in interviews that the “Deacon Blues” name was inspired by Wake Forest University’s football team, the Demon Deacons. At the time, Wake Forest’s football program was not particularly successful, and Becker and Fagen thought “Deacon Blues” sounded like the perfect name for a poetic, down-on-his-luck character who embraces failure with style.

The song plays with the contrast between Alabama’s powerhouse football team (the Crimson Tide) and the struggling Wake Forest Demon Deacons, using it as a metaphor for a romanticized version of an underdog’s life.

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