There’s also something rather dark that I noticed at Uni, which is that, academically, you are required to use recent sources, generally things published in the last 5 years, or a decade at most…
What this means, therefore, is that actual books are heavily discouraged…
Sure, fine, online journals are generally “legit”, I get that, but they have to conform to woke “standards”, and my most recent Uni got rid of all its physical journal copies, because they weren’t “up to date”, and the Uni wanted “more study space”, i.e. purely armchairs and desks, for students to sit on their own laptops…
At the same time, they sold off all the good hardware in the campus libraries, because “students can just use their own devices, and get a grant if they need to buy better gear”… Yeah, I’m not making that up.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that no womder academia is fucked.
My “college” (i.e. science) does not even require that all sources be peer-reviewed, only that they be “up to date”, meaning that they must be off the internet, not print. Unless you want to buy the latest print version yourself, of course.
Oh that’s right, they closed the specialist campus bookshops, so you can’t even easily do that, anymore… 🤦🏻♂️
I should add, this is a university known for its science (first environmental science degrees in Aus! Lol…), this is not some private humanities college…
What I describe absolutely should not be the case, but here we are… 😕
That's what destroyed Google's search algo. It's not so much the political bias (though there is that), but that they heavily favor news sites and "recent" in their calculation of what's "relevant". It wasn't always that way. Search for some obscure video that you know is on YouTube, and the top results will always be news stories that only tangentially relate to the keywords entered. Your video will be past the 3rd page of results, if it comes up at all.
Brave Search seems to do the same fucking thing. DuckDuckGo is actually better in this regard.
There’s also something rather dark that I noticed at Uni, which is that, academically, you are required to use recent sources, generally things published in the last 5 years, or a decade at most…
What this means, therefore, is that actual books are heavily discouraged…
Sure, fine, online journals are generally “legit”, I get that, but they have to conform to woke “standards”, and my most recent Uni got rid of all its physical journal copies, because they weren’t “up to date”, and the Uni wanted “more study space”, i.e. purely armchairs and desks, for students to sit on their own laptops…
At the same time, they sold off all the good hardware in the campus libraries, because “students can just use their own devices, and get a grant if they need to buy better gear”… Yeah, I’m not making that up.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that no womder academia is fucked.
My “college” (i.e. science) does not even require that all sources be peer-reviewed, only that they be “up to date”, meaning that they must be off the internet, not print. Unless you want to buy the latest print version yourself, of course.
Oh that’s right, they closed the specialist campus bookshops, so you can’t even easily do that, anymore… 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah, shit’s bad, man… 😑
I should add, this is a university known for its science (first environmental science degrees in Aus! Lol…), this is not some private humanities college…
What I describe absolutely should not be the case, but here we are… 😕
That's what destroyed Google's search algo. It's not so much the political bias (though there is that), but that they heavily favor news sites and "recent" in their calculation of what's "relevant". It wasn't always that way. Search for some obscure video that you know is on YouTube, and the top results will always be news stories that only tangentially relate to the keywords entered. Your video will be past the 3rd page of results, if it comes up at all.
Brave Search seems to do the same fucking thing. DuckDuckGo is actually better in this regard.