he's done it again

just hearing that MEMORIA won best picture for the fifth year in a row

this one goes crazy

okay

When I tell my students we’re going to discuss the ethics of AI in class, they often assume we’ll be talking about plagiarism and academic integrity. And we do, eventually. But we start here: the illusion of seamless computer magic is built on worker exploitation.

chicago friends! favorite day trip destinations? hiking, record stores & bookstores, good restaurants, good art museums……?

with an index by yours truly

feeling sad

columbia strawberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

I was a VAP at New College for a few years; they were among the most exciting of my teaching career. It still breaks my heart that the place that once nurtured bright, adventurous and committed minds (many from working class homes) is gone.

okay

can you believe

how it's going

best examples of criticism conveying wonder / surprise / discovery on the page?

mr survived bathtime

saw jen fleissner (I think?) at the yoko show 🐐🐐

climan strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1902

how perfect that the text on the Obama library can only be read by drones

I know the internet is basically in agreement on this but it really is crazy how much worse everything has become in the last 20 years

Excited to read this share.google/STKJgHop3FVm...

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FYI the boys are back in town

you can teach one text (novel, poem, film) about loneliness, you teach:

reread this morning to prepare for class & teared up at “harm / will not fall, his perfect hand”

Incredible, horrific piece. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

favorite theorists & practitioners of irony?

does everyone know about heating pad on pillow, neck and shoulders on heat

can you believe it

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

This book will change the way you understand our current juncture and it's available for pre-order www.zonebooks.org/books/293-be...

6:14 pm, bedtime

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

student using Poisson distribution to read a line in a Roberson poem, fuck you nerd!!!!!

so much depends upon

this one's for the cloud heads and atmosphere freaks

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

favorite examples of performative speech? please nothing corny

lots of grading to finish so of course I am craving the 19-ingredient lula caesar dressing

need a t shirt with this wonderful state tourism campaign ty

today, at the end of my last seminar on The Waste Land, a student revealed that he grew up in Eliot's childhood home (??) and when I told another class about it a kid said "that's crazy, Plato was my landlord"

you get the editor you pay for

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

fb marketplace is great, last night someone was selling a seinfeld script for $1500

seeking recommendations for most soothing and nourishing booze-free hot beverages —broths teas tinctures whatever

the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution