Joseph Rezek

In this sudden 72 degree weather, if you stand on top of a pile of dirty melting snow, the air is actually cooler there, like an ice box.

rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

leland palmer in the black lodge

No one is imposing Sharia Law in America! Thats not how this works!

Many professors spoke of their frustration at having to sift through students’ artificially generated homework. “It creates hours of additional labor,” echoed Danica Savonick, an English professor at the State University of New York Cortland. “And makes me feel like a cop.” Some allow students to use AI for research – to a point. Karl Steel, an English professor at Brooklyn College, said that AI has helped make students’ presentations richer and more interesting – but that while they may use it to prepare, he has them speak from minimal notes and stand in front of a photo of a text they annotated by hand. He also assigns written responses to texts only after the class has discussed them. “I suppose they could use their phones to record the conversation, feed a transcript into a chatbot, and produce a paper that way,” he said. “But that is more trouble, I think, than most students would take.

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I would throw this survey into the lava pit.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Why did they make it so weird!!!!

I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

Huge congratulations!!!

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

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Just the fact that this website doesn’t suppress links makes it the best one. No matter how annoying anyone is. It’s an information powerhouse this here nerdy little website.

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

film people! for teaching purposes, one single good academic article or book chapter exploring the wave of 90s indie cinema as it became industrialized?

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

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60 Minutes. A stopwatch. “Is NBC hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates.”

The Onion’s print ads are the best thing in the newspaper.

If only we had a discipline dedicated to studying tone and diction!

AI could never.

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

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NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century

The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.

I was a Bush 43 appointee at NEH and I am horrified. I know how carefully these projects are put together and peer reviewed. And this comes at a time when the humanities are under attack everywhere. This is a crime. Literally and morally.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers also asked Mr. Fox about some grants flagged in his original ChatGPT search, like one for a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers also noted that Mr. Fox’s original ChatGPT search flagged a number of projects relating to the Holocaust, including the documentary about Jewish women who were slave laborers. Asked if he agreed with ChatGPT, Mr. Fox said: “It’s a Jewish — specifically focused on Jewish culture and amplifying the marginalized voices of the females in that culture. It’s inherently related to D.E.I. for that reason.”

These anecdotes distill the attitude pretty succinctly.

Can't study a Klan massacre because it's "Black history" (this would be news to the Klan!). Can't study labor in Nazi concentration camps, because it would "amplify" Jewish voices.

They should definitely be in textbooks. I just don’t think it’s necessary to casually post them on social media

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️‍🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)

a tan long-haired dachshund with incredibly floofy ears sits with his front paws on a window sill and his nose pressed up against the window. he's accompanied by his stuffed squirrel friend. their reflections stares back at them. Stevie the dachshund does not see the irony in watching for squirrels with his squirrel friend. he's too busy being locked in on the happenings outside his window.

This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)

Arms and the Pamphlet