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What the fuck just happened today is a great newsletter that does precisely this! Started during the first trump term… whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
So now we are all legally female
Ohhhh noooo (just looked it up).
Ffs, though, yeah, that tracks
Yuppp. I don’t know the interview you are talking about, thank God, but having also subjected myself to reading Yarvin…yup. It’s terrifying and devastating and nauseating x1000 and then some
Money, somehow. Or at least that’s the hope. I hope it tanks the apps.
Cool cool cool. Ugh.
“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”
Oh 1000%! I totally just meant that in an affirming of your awesomeness didn’t see you around way (if that makes any sense, lol)! I hope you had a wonderful weekend, both conference and otherwise!
Ahhh, so bummed I missed you—both at the UVA reception and at AAR in general this year! Hope you had such a lovely conference!
Ha, feel this! Told myself that for about a month and did go through and delete or pull from about .3% of them before giving up and letting them fade into distant memory like the good ol pre-internet days!
RIP to the bazillion bookmarked tweets I lost though.
Finally deactivated twitter/x today. Feels nice.
“about 61% of core tutorial teaching is done by academics on fixed-term contracts or in hourly-paid roles.”
yes, come on journalists, more about adjunctification everywhere. tell people about “elite” institutions.
Here!
Everyone wants to quote Bonhoeffer, but no one wants to die
This game is so stressful! Come on Iowa!! In other news, I finished an admittedly *very* rough draft of my book today! Eeeep.
Hope all is/will be ok!
The latter!
Yes! :))
I LOVE my Blundstones, and they def hold up very well in rain/the elements!
Our four word options this year are barrette, dulcimer, teak, and toque. You can also cast your vote via comment!
Why is Bella not starting?! (Seriously, does anyone know?) #thorns #nwsl
It is so strangely hard to write a response to a book you just fundamentally agree with and really enjoyed and learned from...
An important study, conducted by a fabulous scholar, Kori Pacyniak!
Please pass this along!
www.transgendercatholics.com
Are there certain parts of the writing process that you can't really imagine AI replicating? Or can you just talk a little bit about the kind of labor that goes into writing the work that you do? I'm a writer because I want to write. I don't want a machine to do it for me. I'm a writer because the process of writing is creative in what I do with language, but also in how I understand the subject. I often feel that I don't think hard enough about things until I have to write about them. Often my understanding changes in the process of writing. That's exciting for me. That's my own development, which, ideally, is somehow also something I can share with the readers. I'm engaging in thinking, and what is the point of handing the job of thinking itself over, of understanding something more deeply, seeing the pattern that underlies? Why would I want to give up that profound experience?
This from Rebecca Solnit is my biggest fear about AI. Writing teaches me about myself, and I can't imagine handing that over to a machine whose only incentive is monetizing every aspect of my life. But many people will make that bargain, sacrificing their own self-awareness in the process.
"What has remained...is a feature peculiar to a university career. This is the fact that for a lecturer...to succeed in rising to the position of a full professor...is purely a matter of luck...I know of scarcely any other profession on earth where [luck] plays such a crucial role."
–Max Weber
Going to my first lesbian wedding today! (It just so happens to be my own!:))
everyone saying "you have to convince students of the value of the humanities/higher ed/etc." has not seen what i've been seeing.
the students are not the ones who need convincing.
😳🥴🙈lol