Katherine Lamb-Legrand

🚨🚨 Don’t miss out on your Anthropic claim! The deadline is fast approaching.

Just so people on bluesky are aware…I was very early bluesky and I very much actively followed every dog account I could find that signed up and now when I open bluesky I basically am given pure dog content straight to the brain stream every time. I am proposing everyone else do this. The end.

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

to write in long form is to reckon with yourself

Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.

The new Globe Theatre in Southwark, London.

Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize
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Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature.’

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Three panels showing a bench on a small hill in London on a grey drizzly day. A man in a fedora carrying a suitcase arrives, then he is joined by a woman carrying an umbrella and a man in dark glasses reading a newspaper. They all look shifty and hurriedly converse: "Good." "Very." "Agreed." Then they all walk off down the hill. Caption: Every month, the Espionage Book Club discuss a classic work of spy fiction at a clandestine meeting. To minimise the risk of exposure, infiltration or surveillance by hostile agents, conversation is restricted to the essentials.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

All I'm saying is two maximalist directors rewriting their childhood favorite 19th century novels such that the monster is perfect and also Jacob Elordi within the span of a year is a pretty amusing cinematic coincidence.

Or both!!!

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

Some of you have forgotten humor and shit talking to shit talkers and I need you to remember these things asap.

state-sponsored child trafficking

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

The woman shouting "shame!" was the wife of Renee Nicole Good who had just watched her being murdered by an ICE agent. That reaction was remarkably mild.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

I’m happy the LOTR films are selling out everywhere. I hope new eyes are watching. I’ve seen them so many times now in the theater I’d rather just watch them at home. But theater audiences are hungry for quality movies, and studios ain’t providing. They should be playing older movies every weekend.

i feel like i see a lot of stolen himbo valor online and it pisses me off. you’re not a damn himbo! you’re nothing like the guy i went out with who told me his favorite artist was ‘leonardo the vinci’!

BREAKING:

TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record."

"Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."

I loved my friend.

Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

A split-image composition featuring two panels side by side. On the left, a black-and-white vintage photograph of pioneering ornithologist Florence Merriam Bailey. She stands outdoors in a natural setting, wearing a long, light-colored Edwardian dress with long sleeves and a high neckline. She is gazing calmly toward the camera with a serene expression amid trees and greenery. On the right, the cover of a Classic Reprint Series edition of her book "Birds Through an Opera-Glass" by Florence A. Merriam. The rich red cover features ornate gold decorative borders and flourishes, with the title in large elegant gold serif lettering centered above a gold embossed "F" seal. The author's name appears below in gold script, and "Forgotten Books" is printed at the bottom, evoking a historic and scholarly feel.

On National #Bird Day, meet ornithologist Florence Merriam Bailey.

Her 1889 book, 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢-𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, established the foundation for modern #birdwatching by advocating for observing birds in the wild with an opera glass instead of shooting them for study. #WomenInSTEM

In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance

Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn

Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Comrade Oates understands