It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

RIP, Einstein bot? companion.ai/einstein

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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The booke of love ys long & boringe No folk kan lyft the damned thinge Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics And ynstructiouns for daunsing - But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me; And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge. ("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

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I second this! Today colleagues received messages purporting to share files from their Department Head (me!) which I did not send. Be careful!

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

Today marks six months since nearly 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities were fired without cause. If you do nothing else today, please read and *share* this recent article outlining what this year, mostly without us, has looked like at #NEH. archived: archive.is/LgVyh

Upcoming Margaret Cavendish Society Conference! Call For Papers: www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

If you’re in the Deep South and you want EC on hand, we’ve got you. Discreet, free, and delivered with the kind of care our state refuses to provide.

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...

The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Y'all, It's TOMORROW. Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork, "Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn" Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST Online, Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica... #Lit #OctaviaEButler

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??

At this point, it seems all too quaint to call AI a bubble; it's a black hole. It's all you're allowed to think or talk about, when you're allowed to think or talk at all. Students whose entire lives will be poorer and sadder because of AI have learned to praise it instinctively, imagine […]

This week:

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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Story here: www.huntington.org/news/hunting...

which English or literature/ language departments around the country have the strongest insta accounts?

I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.

All together now:

i do think a simple answer is right there for us guys

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model. "When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

CFP: Cavendish and Politics. www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

“ A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. […] 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up. ” calmatters.org/economy/tech... #GenAILies

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Major yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Oh man I just realized why I kept seeing the same AHA link shared every time I glanced at my feed today and I will say that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would be happy to read a pitch responding to that.

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

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