Anna Marchi 🌈

hi our next meetings will be: April 14, May 12, June 9. If you have any suggestion for the reading/listening material let us know. We will announce April's reading within a week or so

Here is the link for today's NOSTALGIA reading group meeting teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
See you at 3 p.m. Italian time

William Kentridge – ‘Art Must Defend the Uncertain’ | Artist Interview | TateShots YouTube video by Tate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnwe...

William Kentridge, Blue Rubrics (Starve the Algorithm), 2019

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New York Times headline "US Submarine Launches First Torpedo in Combat Since World War II" Subheader: "Since 1991, Navy subs have launched scores of cruise missiles in combat, but the torpedo attack off Sri Lanka is a return to form after 80 years."

"return to form"?

why is NYT talking about trump's war in iran like he's tiger woods back from a DUI?

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

Representations of obesity in the news Written by Monika Bednarek and Gavin Brookes Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster Univer…

Check out this blog post, co-authored with Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social in which we reflect on our collaboration, between @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and the Sydney Corpus Lab, addressing obesity discourse in the UK and Australia >> sydneycorpuslab.com/representati...

more or less the topic of my first class of the semester today

Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter

Our comeback choice for the #nostalgia reading group is a perhaps unusual and long (but I promise rewarding) listening: an interview (by @veganfuturist.bsky.social) with historian @adapalmer.bsky.social on her book "Inventing the Renaissance" open.spotify.com/episode/58Ku...
Tue 10/03 (link soon)

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Rt. Hon. Michael Foot Sue Lawley's castaway is former leader of the Labour Party the Rt Hon Michael Foot

I read that Kemi's Desert Island Discs was a bit of a train crash and I thought: that's a bit harsh, it can't be that bad... Well, having listened to about 1k episodes, I got to say it is (in both absolute and relative teams). So listen to Micheal Foot's instead www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

2026 Is the New 2016: Why the Internet Is Speedrunning Its Own Nostalgia Why the internet is reviving 2016 energy—nostalgia, soft rebellion, and the viral shifts reshaping digital culture in 2026.

latest on short wave nostalgia rakshathimmaiah213.medium.com/2026-is-the-...

The #nostalgia reading group reprises in March: meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m. UK time. If you'd like to join contact @proftaylor.bsky.social or myself. See you on March 10th. You can also suggest reading (or listening) material; our next reading will be announced on Friday.

Cover of the The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death

First page of the chapter

Excited to see my chapter, “Intersecting Discourses of Death and the Climate Crisis” is now out in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death, edited by @dgalasinski.bsky.social & Justyna Ziółkowska. You'll find the full collection ➡️: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur... @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

for Wim #Berlinale

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

great new article just out on @jcads.bsky.social: "Whodunit? Tracing Culpability in Animal-Killing Constructions" by Emma Franlin

Winter Olympics disrupted by protests and 'sabotage'

The script of #BBC newsreaders is a journalistic disgrace open.spotify.com/episode/3IgE...

A reminder about tomorrow’s lecture by @michamahlberg.bsky.social at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social.

For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

have you browsed the White House's website recently? 😶

Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months

Why I refuse using chatGPT, latest short answer -> Trump Super PAC:
"The biggest donations were $12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife" "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/us/politics/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-fundraising.html

This episode of Word of mouth @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social is a delight to listen to open.spotify.com/episode/7ffj...

In 2026, our CASS Summer Schools offer two free-to-attend courses in corpus linguistics, focused on Language, Discourse and Society, and Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment.
Applications are now open!
wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
#LancsSS26

What gets lost when the first draft is always polished? The emails are clearer, the tone is better, and staff can respond more quickly. Nafisa Baba-Ahmed asks what higher education loses when students no longer struggle through the messy process of finding...

'As sector guidance increasingly frames AI literacy as part of students’ digital capabilities, there is a risk that communication is treated as a technical skill rather than a relational one – something that can be optimised rather than learned through reflection and support.'

Angela Harding

New favourite of mine: Simon Armitage's podcast "The shed" open.spotify.com/episode/3F9J... exquisitely soothing

I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.

Thanks great read!

"Slopaganda" and nostalgia branding www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Deborah Cameron obituary Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Listen now to my BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...