Does anyone have a rec for a good short form text (any media) from the last 5 years that grapples with either 1. The impact of how we anthropomorphize LLMs (ex "thinking" model, chat "said") 2. How machines harnessing language unsettles our ideas about humanity and human production

I live off NYT slow cooker tomato lentils in the summer, as my partner doesn't like raw tomatoes and I can't not want summer tomatoes. It takes me 5 mins to dump in the crock pot and is greater than the sum of its parts. Add an hour if you keep stock in the freezer. Add goat cheese bc why not.

I have watched the tarp come on and off this field 3 times and we have had 4 different start times but I will be WATCHING some baseball despite rain and wildfire smoke 😤

I got a new keyboard after dealing with sticky and unresponsive keys for a few years, and it's as life-changing as a great night's sleep. I try so hard to limit ewaste, but when I hit the number 4 a 4 appears on screen and it's amazing 😍

I'm having a bad anxiety day. I'm lucky these are a rarity. It took me years to admit I am deserving of care and I dont need to just ignore it (psst leads to burnout). So I took today off. I cleaned my house, built a shelf, and catalogued. I smooched a dog. May you all give yourself the same care 💚

Still decluttering the office. Found my degree. Idk I guess I'll keep this one 🤷🏻‍♀️

I worked at a grocery store PT for four years at a chain that trained its minimum wage workers at a dedicated facility in what is clearly a bygone era. Graduating to checker meant passing a produce code memorization test, and our managers audited our bagging regularly. Here's how you bag groceries.

"It isnt their fault. They dont train them" I say to myself as I repack my groceries every single week when I get back to the car.

Not ALL of them are about white men, to clarify. The authors on here who write about women became my casual and frequent collaborators. This is the part I would tell myself 12 years ago: girl, keep going and you'll coedit with @lmaruca.bsky.social and be on panels with @lesliehowsam.bsky.social

Im weeding my research files, which I am somehow midcareer enough to have to do. I have a folder with my prelims exam in it, somehow 12 years ago. These book history texts formed a foundation I still use. They were also exhaustingly white and male, and that experience became my first major article.

I made a pollinator garden, and every time one shows up, I feel so blessed. These two visited the kobold, echinacea, bee balm, and butterfly bush.

Today's chapter of me going to sporting events I don't understand: vintage baseball with 1860s rules. The Bay Villagers vs the Whiskey Island Shamrocks. A man in ye olde carnival barker getup is umping. The stakes are high, as winner gets first hot dogs.

My therapist deserves an award for me getting through half of 2026 without self-sabotaging my way out of necessary discomfort because oh man have I felt like a little self sabotage as a treat.

They scored while I was in the team store and according to my husband we live in the team store now.

This ticket was $25. I got dollar dogs, $2 beers, and a tshirt that says Where My Dogs At featuring all four specifically gendered hot dogs that will be asked to ritualistically compete in the sixth inning. Its 90 degrees F and no one is hydrating. Let's go.

David Walker mutual aid prints, just dropped in the shop: www.etsy.com/listing/4532...

Side story: wore this shirt to my pickup and was asked if I could have my photo taken for promotional reasons. In this tshirt and a cap with a hotdog on it. So let's hope they have a more normal middle aged white lady to use 😅

My weekly CSA has been a fun challenge so far this year. We have grated zucchini into everything, and I've had 15 different salads. But help. I am not a mushroom person. What do I do with this 🫣

Im feeling so lazy lately, and I realized why. In 2 months, I've given 4 talks on 4 topics, reviewed a monograph and an article, got my own manuscript to the finish line, and worked on a lot of data. Which wouldn't be bad if I was still a professor, but I'm not. None of that is my current staff job.

Persuasion is the best full-length Austen novel, and I think it's criminally underrated by the Emma crowd.

I've started Gideon the Ninth and Im 1/4 of the way through. I haven't been this grabbed by an SFF title since the Broken Earth trilogy, and I'm starting to get hopeful for once the book "everyone" is reading is actually my cup of tea. Does it stick the landing??

There's more of them. THE MEN YEARN FOR MEANING.

I have had several $2 beers and no desire to analyze society at a baseball game but ONLY the Cleveland Guardians hotdog mascots that are male presenting are hanging out with the Tarps Off shirtless boys congregating in the cheap seats and come on this is catnip for gender scholars

I planted one daylily two years ago, and now I have an embarrassment of riches

ACH is the antidote to both the breathless AI adoption and breathless AI rejection. I feel so inspired and excited by the ways people are experimenting with open source and small and medium models. No vendor pitches; just humanists and librarians actually figuring this out, curious and skeptical.

One of the youths in the student union just used the phrase "historically accurate late 1900s low rise jeans" and

I requested a copy of Paradise Lost and got a different one. Look at this 👀 The fact I have an actual job and can't spend all my time disciphering this is a tragedy.

It's my favorite time of year 🍓

You will pry my affordable midsize Midwestern city out of my cold dead hands, crappy politics or no. This is 10 minutes from my house. The airport is 20. LA could never.

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The small child told me her tummy hurt every time I stopped rubbing her back and reading Ella Enchanted. Which meant I had to keep rubbing her back and reading Ella Enchanted. I am now suspicious the tummy didnt hurt 🤔

I love some of the comments. Like I would tell two adorable children I would die for "no" to their pizza whimsies! I don't have children because they smell the weakness on me immediately, not because I don't adore them.

Im a childless adult responsible for two children for the next 72 hours. They have ordered dinner to be two half cheese half pepperoni pizzas. Not a cheese pizza and a pepperoni pizza. Two half cheese half pepperoni pizzas.

Update: muscles I was not aware of are sore, and I have been lifting for a year. The other skaters told me gleefully about losing toenails during their first month. I get it now.

I left my job as a librarian today to go to roller derby practice, where I go by Dewey Decimator. We listened to chappel and exchanged gay stickers for our helmets. I have a massive bruise, and I truly think I've peaked.

Summer prep: teaching my Frankenstein course that compares the Industrial Revolution to ... whatever it is we are doing right now. We've got Luddites. We've got analysis of anthromorphizing machines (spinning jenny; thinking models). We've got existential grappling with what it means to be human ✨️

I made an herb, baby leek, and goat cheese dutch baby and I love her

UNESCO reports 15% of the world's cultural heritage objects are digitized. That number doesn't capture those that are digitized but not machine readable. I think about this every time I prepare more open access data to be eventually scraped and reused by others. But especially today.

I worked on this along with many other folks, and I hope the AI skeptical and curious alike will give it a read. It includes questions to ask yourself as you think about AI's role in your research process, ranging from accidental use to open engagement. We also have scenarios to work through.

It took me 3 months, cleaning records and cataloguing for at least 4 hours a day, to create a corpus of 1100 records for Anne Dodd. The time sink was identifying unknown tradespeople on the imprints. So when a reader asked why I didnt also do Cooper (2300 records) I about cried. But I am. Slowly.

It's going to take me about a year to input all 2300 ESTC records for London publisher Mary Cooper, imagining 10 a day during lunch every workday (lol 🥲). Cataloguing and data entry calm anxiety, so I dont mind a midday reset BUT the monotony does get to me. Sooo stats thread!

I found a new-to-me woman publisher this morning, so that means going back through all the records attached to the publisher when we didn't know who they were and reconfiguring them with the extra care we give women in the WPHP. She's in the archived BBTI: bbti.grubstreetproject.net/details_trad...

I haven't had a great yoga class since before the pandemic. This evening, I did a rooftop class as the sun set on a perfect 68 degree day. I have no anxiety, it cured my depression, and I solved a mystery by figuring out Jane Austen dumped Harris Bigg-Wither because he had poor table manners.

May love like this never find me.

Im on a plane and have started the new Wuthering Heights, and, I do not say this lightly, what the actual fuck is this.

17th century playwright Aphra Behn said in an authorial address she writes for fame (recognition) not money. I love late career Behn for how few shts she seems to give anymore. I think I'm entering my late Behn era, but I am not getting fame or money. I'm writing for the approval of dead people 🫠

The Women's Print History Project is somehow 11 years old, and we are celebrating the end* of this resource with an exhibit in special collections, letterpress printing, data creation, and public programming. womensprinthistoryproject.com *It's never ending; I'm adding records every week

If I can find the time in one semester: Sense and Sensibility, Middlemarch, and Sorrows of Satan. 1. Austen: Excelling in the 3 vol novel; published as 'by a lady' 2. Elliot: goes 4 vols with intention; uses male pseudonym 3. Corelli: first modern hit as a 1 vol novel; published as own name

Ive read a lot of Elliot this year, and nothing holds a candle to Middlemarch. But that might be true of most novels in English until we hit... Morrison? So I guess a love of the genre is saying I'm teaching Middlemarch next year.

A nice man behind me explained in detail what offsides is to his friend, and I now know what offsides is against my will. In exchange, I have to give up the brain space for the produce code for green beans or the lyrics of the first verse of Ice Ice Baby 😭