I truly hit the jackpot in terms of aligning the end of my masters with finding a full time job but turning in my dissertation two weeks into my new job and packing up to move feels like I’m standing in front of an approaching tsunami
finished the first full draft of my dissertation this morning and i truly did not think i had it in me to write anything that long. I always lowballed word counts for undergrad papers it’s just how i am
But 25 days of hard work later and 17400 words
i did this in grad school and my hair fell out. Don’t ❤️
since I’ve spent the last six years in college and then grad school fall has tended to be a dark and stressful time despite my attempts to romanticize it… this year im forcing the cozy vibes with my first fall in my own apartment with a full time job 🥹🍁🎃
“It is hard to be optimistic for a transcultural, philological and profound study of Islam and Islamic culture as long as senior professional and powerful members of academia still view the heartlands of Islam as being in the Arab world. We thus need “taboo-breakers” 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
hey so the replies on this are insane
(Paging @keithorejel.bsky.social )
Marcus Aurelius has freed me from the obligation of sharing my opinions.
this book is excellent and also at times reads like a horror novel for me 😆
psst... old tw*tter friends .. I got a really good job! so I am going incognito. I'm still here, but I don't want to be a Job Title in Bio person
#BookSky
many people are saying this
and why should they! people who go so far as to imply that the us should be one connected grid-metropolitan area scare me 🫣 what’s a national railway with no views!
Even if you follow his line of thinking I think some people (maybe not him) genuinely can’t handle the possibility that not every promising young person “makes it out”. The truth is too tragic so we believe they couldn’t have done it anyways.
me when i confirm my bias 🥸
“Anyone clever or ambitious leaves for the city” 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
The open contempt is really fascinating though. savage! .. ok
If urban and rural ways of life were not different there would not be so many fetishized narratives about moving from one to the other. (Small town kid moves to the big city, the successful writer retreats “off the grid”).
A post on r/WritingWithAI from yesterday with 11 upvotes and 37 comments. Al has made my writing worse? I have a middlingly successful pen name in a romance niche, and the whole point of using Al was to speed through the commercial work so I could save my real creative energy for the big personal projects I actually care about. But it's taking longer to get a decent book with Al than it would to just write it myself from scratch. The constant editing loop is destroying my writing process. Instead of drafting then editing like every writing guide tells you, I'm trapped in endless tweaking of Al-generated text that isn't even good. I'm spending so much time wrestling with this stuff, editing and re-editing and trying to make it not sound terrible, that by the time I'm done with the commercial stuff I have nothing left for my passion projects. This isn't about the ethics of Al, just the functionality. I feel trapped. The commercial work was supposed to be the income that would buy me time and mental space for the writing that matters to me. Instead, I'm pouring all my energy into fixing bad Al prose while my literary work sits there, untouched. In the end, the commerical work does sell, but when I look at how many hours it takes to get a decent draft I feel like I would be better off drafting manually. The thing that was supposed to free up my creative bandwidth is completely draining it instead. Does anyone know of a tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck? Not full scenes or chapters that change your voice - just enough to get unstuck and keep your momentum going. Everything I've tried either generates way too much or completely derails what I'm writing. Is anyone else dealing with this? Where you thought Al would handle the "grunt work" but it's actually consuming more of your creative resources than doing it the old way? I'm starting to wonder if I should abandon Al entirely and go back to pure manual drafting.
I just
C'mon
The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!
If academics wrote books like substack bros.
“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”
Rise in ‘racist’ online comments by members of unions, says FBU leader
People are getting NEH termination letters saying “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” 1/2
woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.
Two Yale professors are moving to Canada and liberals are suddenly melting down about the collapse of the academy. Where was their outrage in the years and years of contingent faculty having their contracts terminated?
Ballal helped make a work of art that has smashed through the sociopathy and contempt for Palestinian life that runs through ordinary political discourse. That is why Israel is didn’t rely on “discourse” to silence Ballal—it relied on violence.
Journalist accidentally added into White House Yemen war planning group chat
my haft sīn 🌷:
1. strike to divest
2. stock in te$la plunging to $0
3. shared access to kitty cuddles
4. socialised medicine that works
5. sara ahmed _the promise of happiness_
6. save montréal from catholaïcité
7. SO-SO-SO! SOLIDARITÉ! AVEC! AVEC! AVEC LA PALESTINE!
