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According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century guide for witchhunters, witches could steal men’s penises and keep them as pets.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o... youtu.be/2Nn0-kAE5c0?...

In Forbes today talking about “Requiem for a College.”

Reposting as a reminder. Please share widely! Priority deadline is November 3rd. #teamrhetoric #techcomm

“You don’t look sick”. Chronic illness is often invisible Many disabilities are invisible People can look “fine” on the outside and have devastating disease processes inside their body They can be living in constant pain, fatigue & exhaustion Don’t judge a book by its cover

@ehekkala.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

Got to talk with a few educators today about what makes small colleges so special, and what their closures mean for higher ed. Read more about it in my book, “Requiem for a College.” #academicsky

Tenure committee is deadlocked.

Sobering. My grandparents lived in SW Ohio, so I’ve been to Urbana many times. While I’m sure it’s a tough read, I do love a mix of “memoir and reportage.”

once we had it all

I see we’re already lining up who gets killed by the spiders. #houseofsvengoolie #svengoolie

The purpose of TRON films are the film scores. Idk about anything else.

I once sketched out an idea for these 1950s atomic horror films to all be a shared universe. Ben the cop became a recurring character. #Svengoolie

Not sure how much I’ll be posting during this absolute classic. Atomic horror, crime procedural, and masterful suspense. #Svengoolie

Clear the air lanes! #Svengoolie

My first concern, of course, is that this may not lend itself to high-end streetwear. defence-blog.com/wescom-defen...

It’s #selfpromotionSaturday so here is my interview in Forbes about my book “Requiem for a College,” my own experience in the heartbreaking trend of small college closures. #selfpromoSaturday #academicsky

It’s up! @biblioracle.bsky.social asked me to contribute a guest column to Inside Higher Education on alternative grading and studying it’s efficacy.

This is behind a paywall, so if someone could provide access I’d appreciate it. So many people are working full time and are still homeless.

hello to the few academics that follow me. it’s job market time, so here are the materials that got me a tenure-track job in literature at William & Mary. academic job hunting is like buying a lottery ticket to attend a shit show, but here they are: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yxln6...

Jaxson Dart. Cam Skattebo. Spencer Rattler. Don’t believe what they’re telling you. These are not real names. These are pulp characters.

PEN America congratulates Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai on winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature. A master novelist with a singular style, Krasznahorkai’s novels buffet stories of the apocalypse with profound looks at humanity, art and beauty. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Heard about this on the morning commute. Fascinating!

Physical labor jobs ok for the foreseeable future. “Humanoid robots struggle with basic tasks like walking safely and lack the dexterity needed for complex human-like work.”

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What the Shutdown Is Really About @neeratanden.bsky.social walks through the shutdown’s policy stakes. open.spotify.com/episode/1Twk... youtu.be/EFhq8OcyIz4?...

In Forbes today talking about “Requiem for a College.”

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

🧵 Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful." — #JaneGoodall, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025 #ForeverInspiring #LegacyOfHope 🧪

It delights me that AMC's FearFest horror film series is sponsored by Velveeta

Count Zero Interupt the greatest handle ever!

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

Does anyone with an academic login have access to this study? If so, could you please reach out to me via DM? Thank you. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@puhahubiya.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.

It’s #selfpromotionSaturday My book, “Requiem for a College” is about living through a small college closure, finding out why it happened, and connecting the loss to national trends. #academicsky #selfpromosaturday

I don’t have a smart take on this settlement but I have been following along. My contribution is just to observe that many books by Jacques Derrida are on this list, apparently used to train Anthropic’s AI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway check your works #TeamRhetoric

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

“Requiem for a College” is a combination of institutional elegy and autopsy. I wrote it to warn other colleges so they may change, and as a testimony for all who’ve gone through these awful experiences. #academicsky

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life. open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio... youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...

I no longer blog, but this does compel me to write. Maybe something over on FB.

China recruiting global talent.

But maybe a book about when I was down can help lift others up. #academicsky

That quote hit me. That’s why I hate pimping my accomplishments. The cruel economics of life says that if I’m up, someone else is down.

“On the occasions when I am toasted or applauded, I always feel that someone else, someone quiet, is being beaten in the other room. If you pause to think about it, it’s true, someone is.” -Arundhati Roy on her latest book, “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”

It started in the 1960s, when two couples told a harrowing story about being chased by a large flying creature on a rural road. It grew from there — and now 20,000 people come to celebrate Mothman.

Tony Blair??

I always get nervous when there's a new coffee machine in the office. They never work right in the beginning.

@lecagle.bsky.social as always, thanks for the repost!