it was the infinite media-sphere censoriousness about the rhetorical framing of climate change as a matter of 'hope' vs 'doom' that ultimately sent me over the edge when I had to finalize the title for my book
Faster than a speeding bullet*
*bc light is the speed limit of the universe
They should invent a Daylight so strong that it doesn't need to be saved every year
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Everything is terrible, but talking with my students today about Kehinde Wiley, Titus Kaphar, Julian Charriére, Just Stop Oil museum protests, and determination in the face of a broken and breaking world was a much needed respite.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
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Big stuck boat week was so much more fun than Strait of Hormuz week
Image from Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham, with new text: I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man. I do not like Your AI scam
The hyperlink was once the definitive form of technoutopianism.
In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story…
…including my newsletter.
The hyperlink is Blueskyism
They got you too!!!!
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
HOLY FUCK. The literal fucking author of Programmed Inequality
Back on your Music Man thesis???
“Can we have class outside” no absolutely not. we are discussing The Yellow Wallpaper under sickly fluorescent lights and please do not open or look out the window.
The Squeal of Peeling Tape, Explained, explained
Great opportunity for Samuel Beckett scholars to work on the Beckett archive at Reading samuelbeckettsociety.org/2026/03/10/c...
A student handed in an empty worksheet at the end of class telling me that although he had read the summary of the story on ChatGPT, he did not realize that he had to read the whole story to do the in-class writing work (close reading of literary devices).
Analog semester's going great
I love that William Herschel wrote symphonies, and Humphrey Davy & Erasmus Darwin published poetry.
so i'm in this zoom faculty workshop on dealing with AI and the person presenting just put up an image of a more upbeat, AI-generated redo of Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," and I'm trying to be a good sport here but sorry I just can't
Same thought 🤔
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They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Incredible
I use this clip every time I teach research methods: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgj...
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You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?
I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
