A second nap has hit the body

it took me two tries to see the error. Club/clud I make that dysgraphic error all the time.

submitted the final allowed revision of my Dune/Peripheral paper. Hopefully this gets it over the finish line, as I have no idea where to send it to next.

I am 100% behind robots kicking their programmers in the nads.

One thing that I’ve become increasingly certain of over the course of this year: As an academic, I do not have (and never will have) a responsibility to teach students to use Gen AI ‘ethically’ (as if that were possible). The idea that academics should be doing this is a blight on the sector.

Pitt is doing things. Poorly. Badly. But things.

I think the term "Heritage-American" demonstrates an inability to assimilate. Why do these people insist on hyphenating themselves!

Ødegaard!

Cmon Forrest. You had one job!

Have these mediocre white dudes thought about not being mediocre writers? DFW was one of one; trying to bite his style is a recipe for disaster. Same with HST. Originality is real, real hard. As another one of one said, "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Got a hoodie and an oxford for a gift card. Thanks, Dad.

Started ‘Pluribus’ and ok, I’m in. But maybe don’t sequence a genome beaming in from deep space. I wouldn’t anyway. Built different.

Witnail & I

mashed, Robuchon-style

“I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.” Lloyd Dobler’s h8rs can keep on h8tin.

True Romance (1993)

Went the Humane Society to volunteer, and we walked six dogs and came home with none. That's a win all around. I walked Dolly, a tank of a pittie mix but so sweet, and then Ghost Pepper, who was all business on the walk--let's go, slappy. We are so not getting a puppy next time.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

"You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the fucking morning, on October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.".

💥 💥 💥

Prosciutto for breakfast is top-tier

Been saying for years that they should release the theatrical cut of 'Amadeus' as the longer cut Foreman did was worse. $4.99 today! It's a Boxing Day miracle.

I hate LLMs for plagiarism as much as the next reasonable person, but even if they actually worked the way propagandists say they do, that doesn’t address the environmental impact or the fact that the data centers are consistently built in minority communities. It’s all immoral. Every part.

Go Birds

The world hungers for more ‘Scrubs.’

People in the kitchen cleaning up (aka snacking), I’m watching hoop alone and dropping ass. Bliss.

So my family knows me: five bags of coffee.

Merry Christmas and goodwill to all men. Except That Guy.

christ the family group texts are already starting. It's not even 7 here, save your damn tree emojis for when everyone is awake.

Speyside vs Islay? Wheated or rye?

My eye round has been in the slow cooker for eight hours. Should be falling apart right about now.

So I can’t watch any NFL game tomorrow without two different subscriptions? Y’all gonna kill that golden goose, Goddell

My blood pressure is cratering. Maybe I should eat something.

“We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Albert Finney’s Scrooge

Sacred: Silent Night Secular: Yul B Swinging Contemporary: Christmas in Hollis

God jul and Merry Christmas from Harry

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat

No joke, my MA thesis was overseen by a Spencer scholar who looked EXACTLY like this.

Stately, plump Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

As a descendent of Swedes, I wish y’all a God Jul! 🎄🎅 Wish my grandmother was still here for korv, limpa, picked herring, aquavit, and meatballs. She and her two sisters-in-laws did it up on Christmas Eve.

I guess I need to blow the leaves off the deck and get wrapping if I'm going to be ready for the in-laws tomorrow.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

Slept from 12-7, then 9-11. I feel like a tyranosaur. It’s a Christmas miracle.

Wonderful news! Our NJ friend Karim has been released from ICE detention after 9.5 months of being locked up for no reason whatsoever. I'm so happy he's back with his family in Jersey, and so angry that he had to go through that at all. #FreeKarim

All the kids are doing heroin, so it only makes sense that teachers do it too

Every single victims’ survivors should sue his ass for wrongful death then. Bankrupt him.