#kohenari

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 1984. Orwell. https://t.co/krhjePSePt

— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) January 22, 2017

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kohenari replied to your post:hey so I've seen a few posts lately about why tumblr doesn't let you pay to block ads

None of this matters to Red Lobster. They just want me to walk around all day with traif in my pockets and menace people with it while they’re sweetly and innocently taking photos.

Oh right! In Canada we get different ads (mostly for water flavourers and binders for paper, lately) so I've only seen the Red Lobster ads from mocking reblogs. But, I mean, I carry a backpack full of bacon cheeseburgers to ruin photos with anyway, and no one ever gives me free stuff for that.

[jakke]

kohenari replied to your post:trying to figure out which two employers to send my signals to

That is a very odd wrinkle in the academic job world of econ.

The whole economics job market is kind of a fascinating rapidly-evolving ritual. One year, a labour market economist wanted to study the effect of signals by letting each candidate submit three, randomly deleting one, and then measuring whether the probability of an interview with the deleted-signal employer was significantly lower than the non-deleted-signal employers. Fortunately this experiment got vetoed in the end.

[jakke]

kohenari replied to your post: Oh no this is terrifying I do not unde...

"Search for these rabbit eggs, as Jesus commanded you on the day of his resurrection!"

This seems pretty accurate as far as I can tell? Although maybe we're just jealous that their holiday is personified by a cute bunny that leaves chocolate eggs while our holiday is personified by the invisible ghost of a prophet that comes and drinks a bunch of the good wine when everyone is distracted during dinner. 

[jakke]

Mulroney was my PM. Any other PM is for the birds. In color or B&W.

Oh goodness I don't know how I feel about this. I mean, yes to the drunken "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" duet with Reagan, yes to opposing apartheid, and yes to the GST. Not so much with the endless constitutional experiments, the arms dealer with the envelopes of cash, and the rightward feints on abortion and capital punishment. Definitely not the least bad Prime Minister ever, I guess?

[jakke]

kohenari replied to your video “OKAY ABSOLUTE LAST ONE also suggested by nhaler for which thank you so...”

Wasn't Snow also Canadian? From Toronto, I believe. Now *that* was some classic 90s Canadian rap right there.

Yes that very first video I posted was a Snow song which as far as I can tell didn't exist outside Canada. But seeing as I'm from Vancouver I guess I'm more invested in the Moffats and Swollen Members and Nelly Furtado than I am in artists from out east (i.e. anywhere east of the Rockies).

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The best Markdown editor, hands-down

kohenari said: Love the use of Markdown and the immediate preview.

» SFB says: If you do, I very highly recommend the OSX text editor Mou, which I use to write everything that doesn't show up on Tumblr. I've tried a lot of things, and it's the best thing going if you like Markdown. A big reason for that is that so few of its competitors get the keyboard command aspect of the equation down. Ghost's frickin' awesome editor, which is pretty solid, was directly inspired by Mou. — Ernie @ SFB

[jakke]

kohenari replied to your post:oh hey just remembered I start teaching this evening

Aw, c’mon. You know no one’s expecting insight on Day 1.

This is true. Around half of them will never show up on the first day, which is massively suboptimal seeing as we're planning a full semester of presentations and they're going to get stuck with the worst dates.

Ironically in my experience there's basically 100% overlap between the students who can't be bothered to show up except for their own presentation date and students who argue most vigourously for lower tuition? I guess the idea is that public post-secondary education is an essential enough service that it deserves billions more in subsidies, but not essential enough that attending fifteen-student seminars would be worthwhile. I feel like we need to take attendance, if only so that their parents don't call us at the end of the semester demanding to know whether we've been providing competent childcare.

Anyway yeah in conclusion I need to develop some more customer-oriented attitudes if I ever end up with a position where student evaluations matter.