Matthew H. Young
@matthenryyoung
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Asst professor of pol theory at @elonuniversity. Husband & father thinking about toleration and the apocalypse. What to do? Stay green. Never mind the machine
North Carolina, USA
Joined August 2012
Yeah I teach STEM Socrates Thucydides Epictetus Machiavelli
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@NickJHiggins Pictured: an overworked faculty member attempts to each lunch during office hours
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"A modern black glass house with warm lighting, nestled among tall trees beside a tranquil river in a misty forest." Create images and videos in seconds with Grok Imagine.
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I guess "The $200M Press" didn't have the same ring to it.
Paramount to buy Bari Weiss’ Free Press for up to $200M, give her senior editorial role at CBS News https://t.co/9RNlpiNdCs
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This is what my toddlers look like before they go play in the snow
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I'll readily admit to being a tech skeptic. I am, however, open to being convinced. What exactly are the benefits of AI/AGI? How will these technologies serve to enrich human life?
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@natchjourneyman August Reading Update: Slowed back down a bit, but not a bad month. I finished: John McPhee, The Control of Nature. Three provocative essays on mankind's relationship with Nature, when it seems to have a mind of its own. Suitable for August, when it feels like the weeds are
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August Reading Update: Slowed back down a bit, but not a bad month. I finished: John McPhee, The Control of Nature. Three provocative essays on mankind's relationship with Nature, when it seems to have a mind of its own. Suitable for August, when it feels like the weeds are
2025 Reading 🧵 I'm trying to keep better track of my reading this year, so here's an end-of-June update. Included: any book that I read, with some attention, cover to cover. Not included: books I skimmed or sampled for research, books I re-read for teaching purposes, legal
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Did a mosquito write this post?
ok yes brutalism is an abomination in our world, and I think — literally — evil. but *tropical* brutalism? this is acceptable.
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Surely she is the teacher of America, but you must also know that only so much of poetry as is hymns to gods or celebration of good men should be admitted into a city.
🚨 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce they are engaged: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨”
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Me, a cultured individual, reading about Achilles and Patroclus sharing a hut in the Illiad.
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Trying to get into Faulkner and I don't know much about it. Could this guy not afford periods or something?
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The Xerox machine will transform the entire way companies do business. Every class needs to include a module or assignment relating the topic of the class to photocopying. To do otherwise fails to prepare our students for their role in a changing job market.
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If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs (me drinking coffee out of this during faculty meeting)
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Now more than ever faculty and administrators need to present a compelling vision for humane liberal education. If a college education is nothing more than job training, skills-building, technological faddism, or a venue for social clubbing, it is hard to justify the price tag
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My therapist said to me, and it hit me like a brick, "you fool. you absolute buffoon. you think you can challenge me in my own realm? you think you can rebel against my authority? you dare come into my house and upturn my dining chairs and spill coffee grounds in my Keurig? you
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As a 12th generation North Carolinian, here's the map of states I would willingly live in.
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Me, packing for a weekend at the lake: "Should I bring the long book about the polis or the short book about the polis?" My wife: "What is wrong with you?" Indeed.
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It's kind of crazy that we decided to turn every website into either TikTok or Alibaba.
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I might be burying the lede here, but she named the duck (a runt) Glizzy. Truly unhinged name for a duck.
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