Visit Japan, discover new allergens in the middle of a tea ceremony.

I dare you to get through 4 paragraphs without egg yoke dribbling from your cloven forehead granta.com/the-serpent-...

We're excited to share a new dataset, The Playboy Fiction Index, by Nora Shaalan. It includes metadata for +1,000 works of fiction that appeared in Playboy between 1953-2020—featuring authors like Joyce Carol Oates, Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, and more. data.post45.org/posts/playbo...

Important update: Lucy Beaumont is my favourite Taskmaster contestant.

"I've always dreamed of not doing something. LLMs made that a reality!"

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Just watched A LEGEND OR WAS IT? (1963) on the Criterion Channel. Chose it for the actors and the 83-minute run time. Packs a wallop: an effective thriller, an unsettling critique of the cowardice that fuels fascism, and a gorgeous work of cinematography. Bit of a downer, though! #filmsky

Maybe it’s time to reread Rancière’s Hatred of Democracy.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky I’m visiting Japan for the first time (next week!), and in the lead up we’ve been watching nothing but Japanese cinema. Three of these four were new to me; all of them are excellent. Sanjuro is perhaps the only one that isn’t extremely dour.

Just watched A LEGEND OR WAS IT? (1963) on the Criterion Channel. Chose it for the actors and the 83-minute run time. Packs a wallop: an effective thriller, an unsettling critique of the cowardice that fuels fascism, and a gorgeous work of cinematography. Bit of a downer, though! #filmsky

Wow, Jacobin has really gone whole hog for Platner.

I dunno maybe edtech was a bad idea and we should be spending university funds on books and scholarships

If the admin expects me to redesign my online class on a different platform, they’re in for a surprise.

As someone else on this site observed, who could have imagined that outsourcing an educational platform to a for-profit company would have any downsides!

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

Prepare for everyone’s university to pay an extra $10 million for new Canvas Hack-Free (TM). Canvas Hack-Free: It’s Canvas, Without the Hacking!

If I applied the logic of authorship from STEM to my own scholarship, the interlibrary loan librarian would be the first author of all of my publications.

If I applied the logic of authorship from STEM to my own scholarship, the interlibrary loan librarian would be the first author of all of my publications.

Due to a number of requests (it is end-of-term!), we have extended the deadline for the American Carnage conference to 1 June 2026. The conference takes place at Dalhousie University, 23-25 October 2026. You can see the #CFP at our new website, below. Please share widely! #AmericanStudies

I never thought much about the fact that the evil tree in LOTR is Old Man Willow, but now that I have an old willow tree in my backyard I realize that Tolkien knew what he was talking about.

Cannot tell where my cold ends and allergies begin.

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

If you’re a middle aged man, now is the time to start subtly adding scarves and ascots into your wardrobe, before your neck makes them a necessity.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

There are things I consider ordinary super powers: not flight or invisibility, but poops once a day at the same time every day, or falls asleep immediately and gets 8 hours of uninterrupted rest.

There are things I consider ordinary super powers: not flight or invisibility, but poops once a day at the same time every day, or falls asleep immediately and gets 8 hours of uninterrupted rest.

If you’re a middle aged man, now is the time to start subtly adding scarves and ascots into your wardrobe, before your neck makes them a necessity.

6/ Prime Minister Carney’s approach is to seed the fund with public money to subsidize big private projects. In other words, Norway uses industry profits to support the public good. Prime Minister Carney’s fund uses public money to support private profits.

MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION is out today! Today marks the culmination of a decade's worth of work on this project: I conducted my first interview in fall of 2016. I'm so thrilled to share it with you.

When I was younger, I didn’t want to get any tattoos, because I wasn’t sure there’d be anything I’d want permanently on my body. Now that I’m older, I don’t want to get any tattoos, because I don’t want to look like a cop.

You’re asking us to essentially help fund large private companies?! Are you out of your mind lol. These should be publicly built and publicly owned projects, not PPP’s where wealthy private interests are getting even more of our money.

Ah, well, nevertheless

Tom Waits has been perfectly cast twice.

Congratulations to DOCTOR Jay Boyes, who successfully defended their doctoral dissertation on April 22nd, 2026! @dalgradstudies.bsky.social

Sometimes, I wish you could just step outside of the ongoing catastrophe and take a moment to appreciate how fucking weird everything is now.

Sometimes, I wish you could just step outside of the ongoing catastrophe and take a moment to appreciate how fucking weird everything is now.

a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Read an article on AI agents yesterday and listened to a podcast about GLP-1s, and I’m honestly not sure what society is going to look like in five years.

Cops been evil forever but something shifted when we let them get full sleeves and hand pieces and go to the gym etc. An ill wind blew that day.

The specifics of this example aside, I find these articles are often written in a way that seeks to discredit the work of anyone working inside of education so to make educators even more subject to the views of those on the outside. The message is that no educator can be trusted with their own work

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL LAUNCHES FILM DISTRIBUTION BRANCH - First Slate of Titles Includes new restorations of Waris Hussein’s MELODY (1971), Bert Deling’s PURE SHIT (1975) and Andrew Horn’s DOOMED LOVE (1984), plus BAFTA Award Winning Documentarian Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD (2023) and more

After House (1977), Obayashi had plans for Godzilla, and they’re as nutty as you’d hope.

After House (1977), Obayashi had plans for Godzilla, and they’re as nutty as you’d hope.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

The blockades will continue until moral increases!