I feel like feeding your students’ work into ChatGPT to generate evaluative comments is, among other things, a massive intellectual property violation.

are you just going to do this for every generation

Fairy lady having an apotheosis with her bicycle captures the feeling of riding one of these machines.

For World Bicycle Day: Bicycle advertisements were prolific in the 19th and early 20th century, just as automobile ads are today. Here are a few beautiful ones from the Library of Congress collection.

They were also apprised of his head, his spine, his tail, his depiction in the history of art, his...

I can just imagine the editor's glee at getting a boogeyman trifecta. Democratic socialist Muslim on a bicycle, the horror!

Mapping out my #UKCycleTour2026. First leg will hit up some of the spots from W.G. Sebald's "Rings of Saturn:" Orfordness, Dunwich, the Saints, the bridge over the river Blyth, and Somerleyton. #cycling #litwiss

In spite of the fact that Ishmael says at the beginning that it was all an elaborate suicide attempt.

Curséd autorickshaws now plying the streets of #Delhi.

i don't think anyone should have been allowed to use "hauntology" after derrida. i don't think derrida should have been allowed to use it either.

The New Yorker magazine May 28, 1938 🎨 Victor Bobritsky

It's funny because a lot of content moderation is done by women in the global south who report loss of sexual intimacy due to all the vile imagery they have to sift through! 🙃

Remember in 2001 when some staffer from the outgoing Clinton admin took the W off a keyboard, and it was a scandal for a week? More innocent times, I guess.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

I got on Facebook in 2004 thinking it was just a toy we would all soon forget about. By 2006 its harms were abundantly clear, and they have only compounded since. Now my profile is older than I was when I created it. That experience motivates my radical abstinence from LLM use.

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

Interstellar is one of the most boring films I've ever seen

Now in rotation: Bhuta's Belgian Blonde. The T-58 yeast gives it a wonderful spice. #Homebrewing

On the one hand, the Pope presents a series of carefully structured and persuasive arguments, but on the other hand billionaires keep saying introspection is a scam and that we need to get on a rocket to the future without asking any questions, so it's really difficult to decide which side to choose

A real conversation I had: "How did you know I was Brahmin?" Me: "I can see your thread, and your last name is Chakravarty." And those are just the obvious signs.

Thread. As a transplant to India it took a long time for me to "see" caste, and in many ways it still remains opaque. But caste solidarity is behind so many things, from election results to who gets a table at the restaurant, and it's hard to miss once you know what you're looking at.

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

Wer jetzt kein Buch hat schreibt sich keines mehr.

The kids are alright.

Next year’s NeoLuddite class will be even bigger.

Symbolbild deutsche Wissenschaftsförderung.

Shakes fist at entire Germanophone academic publishing complex.

I just got through another novel I ended up comparing negatively to Tokarczuk. So much for that.

Cate Blanchett als Ingeborg Bachmann und Nicole Kidmann als Marlen Haushofer — eine erwünschte Begegnung

In a more innocent time (2017), am embryonic LLM illustrated this very point with "Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash." mashable.com/article/harr...

Sounds like someone put "Interstellar" and "Arrival" in a blender.

Doing a commencement speech

As a reader of very slow, descriptive fiction, true friends know not to ask me this.

The point of the game is to turn every square of land into an entry on your account books.

Went for a vaccine booster. The nurse got so wrapped up in telling me how to leave her a rating I had to remind her to put a band-aid on the injection site. I hate this century.

Near the Taj Mahal 📷AFP/Getty

Journalists: Bluesky is irrelevant! Also journalists: Let's declare "Middlemarch" the greatest novel ever and see what happens. 😏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m sorry but the doctrine of papal infallibility, which explicitly extends to literary taste, makes such a statement theologically impossible

Me, teaching Marx: "Okay, everybody, this is how a clock works..."

Consul Buddenbrooks's porter from c. 1855 in Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks." #LitWiss

Can I make it dry-eyed through this movie about a cat in danger? Let's find out.

Consul Buddenbrooks's porter from c. 1855 in Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks." #LitWiss

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

I could hit "Play" on my stereo system and it would have no "algorithmic" memory of the thing I had played to pass on to remote data farms and advertisers. My music was owned by me and definitely *for me*.