u/PopCultureNerd

"I used to work on Wall Street, and then I became an academic and earned my Ph.D.

Since I couldn't find a job in academia, I'm now a substitute teacher in North Carolina.

I try not to think about my status in society anymore."

The Great Recession’s missing children are finally bringing college’s financial crisis into sight. Welcome to the ‘enrollment volatility’ era

The #SaveStargate campaign has transformed fan frustration into organised action, proving that the franchise's audience is far from dormant.

"The less than two-year old startup crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue earlier this year. The new fundraise would almost double its valuation."

"Stockholm-based startup Lovable, which develops AI tools that allow people to spin up apps and websites through prompts, is in talks to raise funding at a $12 billion valuation, four sources told Forbes. The fresh cash injection would almost double the fast growing company’s valuation, up from $6.6 billion in December. The round is not final and the valuation could change."

>More than 1,300 faculty members from the University of California are calling for the return of entrance exams like the SAT and ACT for STEM applicants. Douglas Belkin, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who's covered the topic

A blind study led by Stanford Law School professor Julian Nyarko published Monday found AI-generated responses outperformed those written by fellow law professors in 75% of nearly 3,000 head-to-head comparisons—a result the authors themselves called surprising

Well, this seems like a bad idea

I know NIL is new and complicated, but FAU suing over such relatively small amounts makes the university look petty.

>FAU is seeking $30,000 from Waseem, $18,000 from Stolsky, $12,000 fro Paret, and $9,000 from Sands.

Editors and writers at the Valnet-owned site TheGamer will now reportedly not be paid for their work if their articles do not accrue enough views

Valnet, the self-proclaimed “leading digital media investment company” behind the likes of Polygon, GameRant, OpenCritic, Collider, and over a dozen more gaming, technology, and lifestyle websites, isn’t known for paying its freelance writers well. But new “Pay Per Session” contracts issued to writers and editors at TheGamer on May 21 threaten to break new ground when it comes to click-mill-style exploitation.

Shena Grimes Beech is an actress and talks about her time in Scream 4:

>Many moons ago, I landed a role in one of the most iconic horror franchises in Hollywood history — and somehow nobody in my life fully registered what had just happened. Including me.

>In this episode I'm sharing 3 of the best kept secrets from the set of Scream 4. But this is more than a handful of behind-the-scenes spoilers — it's a story about being so deep in the grind that you stop recognising your own wins. About the surprisingly universal experience of achieving something huge and feeling almost nothing until years after the moment has passed.

>I'm also talking about what it was like to work with Wes Craven, what nobody tells you about being a day player on a major franchise, and why this chapter of my career is one I've never really opened up about publicly until now. Hustle culture trains you to keep moving so effectively that you forget to arrive. The win counts even when it doesn't feel like it.