“Still, he believes those do not reflect true intent. Rather, chatbots are trained on data largely from the internet — which is full of angst and weird sci-fi ideas. And so the bots parrot it back.” “AIs are very much trained on Reddit and they're very much trained on science fiction.””

Wacky, unrealistic, but still kinda cool.

@estellacreates.bsky.social thank you for the repost!

If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.

Nine years ago this very day, the college I taught at, lived in, announced its closure. I am blessed to have survived, but the trend of small college closures has accelerated. Learn what happened and why it happened in “Requiem for a College.” #academicsky #writer #highered

problem is, there is nothing to stop the student from forwarding the recommendation to a third party, or to add to a resume, without your permission. suddenly the confidential letter is public. this means that other students in the class will read it. hard to prevent jealousy, resentment.

As I could say about many things in the current situation, I was much happier before I knew what Moltbook is. And the Hellsite that is LinkedIn is already offering “10 Ways It Can Benefit You!”

Saw someone complaining yesterday that Lois kept putting herself in danger because she knew Superman would save her. “Like people dependent on the government.” #metvsuperman

Noir gangsters of the world beware. #metvsuperman

The Joker on #metvbatman The Horta on #metvstartrek It’s an embarrassment of riches.

Yes!!! @daveygandthe.bsky.social on #Svengoolie !!!

“Glenn Manning…this is your life!” #Svengoolie

Clear the air lanes. #Svengoolie

Filmmaker Bert I. Gordon again brings a BIG menace to Mexico- that could be the original Amazing Colossal Man- thought to be dead but alive, disfigured and savage! It’s the “War of the Colossal Beast” - and a Fractured Flicker bonus-Saturday night on MeTV- 8 pm eastern/ pacific, 7 central.

If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. #academicsky #writer

Time now again for #selfpromotionsaturday “Requiem for a College” tells the true story of myself and others who survived college closings, while also explaining why this trend of closures is happening. #academicsky #selfpromosaturday #writer

RIP. 😞 apple.news/Arq18UxhNS_y...

Make the future “inevitable” and just surrender your biometric data.

“[But] if we don’t find ET, what we can say is that we established a new sensitivity level. If there were a signal above a certain power, we would have found it.” #SETI

The science fiction future we were promised.

Well when you put it that way… (Not my meme.)

I stopped drinking nearly 10 years ago, but I’ve recently been having dreams about beer. Don’t know if this is a natural occurrence.

Half of English students have noticed an impact from cost-cutting measures at their university, with most saying it was leading to a worse experience than expected, reports @twilliamsthe.bsky.social #edusky #academicsky

@fremarch.bsky.social thank you for the repost!

If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. #academicsky #writer

“Requiem for a College” is my story and the story of other faculty, students, and staff who having gone through a college closure. There are reasons why these closures are happening. I present them here in this book. #academicsky #writer

Are the Raelians on BSky? Asking for a friend.

“Where the Streets had Trees’ Names.”

It’s a tabloid. The pic is obviously a jet aircraft due to the contrail. I’m just hoping they keep the name “the Dorito.”

“Circumsecondary disks happen when a disk of gas and dust forms around a second object in a binary system, which then occults the first, dramatically dropping its brightness over a period of time.”

If you should feel like going underground.

Like I don’t already have enough problems with inadequacy.

#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric

“Some of the objects in these look like pieces of driftwood, bones (Georgia O’Keeffe’s “pelvis” paintings of dried-out animal skeletons come to mind), ragged textile fragments or ectoplasm, that amorphous substance ostensibly secreted during Victorian-era occult seances.”

Were economics not a reality and I could do truly anything with my life, I would do nothing but earn degrees. One of those degrees would be art history.

Guess I’ll go to sleep. It will still be awful in the morning.

Radioactive commies. The worst kind! #metvsuperman

What in those spores made McCoy turn into that “you might be a redneck” guy? #metvstartrek

And…yet again…a young Tim Burton was somewhere taking notes. #metvbatman

Japanese cinema really doesn’t get any better than this. #Svengoolie

So thankful for #Svengoolie Gets my mind off…stuff.

Clear the air lanes! #Svengoolie

Saturday night on MeTV- it’s the original battle of the behemoths- in the epic encounter “King Kong VS Godzilla”! (Note- due to contract stipulations for Kong/Godzilla, “Fiend Without a Face” will air on streaming platforms) 8 pm eastern/pacific,7 central.

It’s #selfpromotionsaturday My book “Requiem for a College” tells my story of surviving a college closure while presenting research explaining why this trend of closures is hitting small colleges everywhere. #selfpromosaturday #academicsky #writer

Notes on the student essay from a classic, Womack, "What Are Essays For?," 1993: The essay is "a culturally specific form of communication which has not always existed, and which depends for its existence now on some quite definite institutional contexts" /1 #writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds

Because it’s art about the present, that’s why.

William Turner of Oxford (1789 – 1862) Donati's Comet painted 1858-59

This is Bell Biv DeVoe. Their manifesto is inspiring my pitch for my next book: “My book is mentally literary, smoothed out on the comp-rhet tip with a pop media studies feel appeal.” #academicsky #literary #comprhet #teamrhetoric #mediastudies #bellbivdevoe

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀 Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024