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Professor of English literature at Wilmington College, lover of Victorian things, mother of two
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
3 days ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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News you can use!!
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Sarah Tolcser
13 days ago
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
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karl rove knausgård
15 days ago
It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
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Molly Jong-Fast
19 days ago
Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this
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Iron Spike
22 days ago
Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
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Chris Hayes
25 days ago
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
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Bill Barnwell
2 months ago
I'm at the combination
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derek guy
3 months ago
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Kids! They give the worst course evals!
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Joshua Gooch
3 months ago
Week thirteen of the semester, every time
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Wile E Coyote Falls Off Cliff
YouTube video by Frankie Allen
https://youtu.be/SmkC949I1es
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CHOAM Nomsky
3 months ago
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Rose Ruane
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
Once again,
@mcsweeneys.net
does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
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Microplastics Sommelier
3 months ago
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Ketan Joshi
4 months ago
"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was" The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
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Restaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stop
He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-boss-saw-two-people-195803498.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMheQdoxpD540wWM7Q9IAHMEPaiBvULYn0UcJBKhludjgXwleudDd_cl9pmfeqWE6_MMXWKBC4QJrAvY-9gixa8SwrlFQxa42Yb4_AqCmkNOLs055YCsr0tAsSDIvQ9NBpe0HT97let9mOF5kqUOtW3Hq1lfLp9jKCzqUROMs15i
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Mark Jacob
4 months ago
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Marc Watkins
4 months ago
Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education. 👇 in comments
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Michele
5 months ago
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ryan cooper
5 months ago
“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
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In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/
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Governor JB Pritzker
5 months ago
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Richard Mirabella 🐝
5 months ago
Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?
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Radley Balko
5 months ago
I hate it here.
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Lupita Nihongo
5 months ago
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Brian Groom
6 months ago
Peterloo Massacre happened
#OTD
1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
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Thiago Krause
6 months ago
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Carl Quintanilla
6 months ago
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.
@nytimes.com
#CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
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Ygrene
7 months ago
i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane
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Jerry Chen
7 months ago
TIMELINE: ok i hear what you're saying. but what if things got dumber
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
7 months ago
"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power." Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/liberal-arts-college-students-administration.html?smid=tw-share
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Marcus Luther
7 months ago
Thinking a lot lately about how we have for some time treated the reading of books as a means to an end in school rather than the books themselves as a worthwhile end. Lots of complicated thoughts on this but it's definitely something I've been wrestling with.
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Jon Cooper
7 months ago
What’s true for Putin’s Russia is equally true for Trump’s Amerika.
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Ken Klippenstein
8 months ago
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
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Yes, this the problem, especially since this gendered dynamic is hard to change
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jamelle
8 months ago
hell yeah
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Still We Rise
8 months ago
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
8 months ago
This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
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Elizabeth Warren
9 months ago
When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
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Michael Derby
9 months ago
Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
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s. e. smith
9 months ago
The fact that we are debating things like 'is preventative dental care good' is a truly dismal state of affairs.
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I’m a dentist from India. The fluoride debate in the U.S. horrifies me
While debates in the U.S. rage about potential overexposure to fluoride, people worldwide still lack basic access to it.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/24/fluoride-ban-florida-dentist-public-health-cavities/
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Ketan Joshi
9 months ago
"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"
gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
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Pavel
9 months ago
Oh, you're a people pleaser? Then name 3 people who are pleased with you
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John Warner
9 months ago
At one of the talks I was giving to college faculty last week I mused off the top of my head that the first handful of institutions that pivot AWAY from AI and promise a human/bespoke experience in their marketing will have a positioning advantage. Not everyone is looking for the AI-forward place.
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